Michael Giesecke

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Michael Giesecke (born June 25, 1949 in Hanover ) is a German communication and media theorist . From 1999 to 2010 he taught as a professor at the University of Erfurt .

Life

Between 1970 and 1976 he studied German , politics and sociology at the Technical University of Hanover and the Free University of Berlin .

After graduating from 1976 to 1979, under the direction of Reinhart Koselleck, he conducted studies on the history of language and culture in the early modern period at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research at Bielefeld University and as a scholarship holder from the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel. This was followed by a position as a research assistant at the Department of Social Affairs at the University of Kassel , where he did research on individual and group therapies as well as on supervision and Balint groups .

In 1981 he joined the faculty for linguistics and literary studies in the linguistics department at Bielefeld University , where he received his doctorate in the methodology of communicative social research and then taught as a university lecturer.

In 1989 Giesecke completed his habilitation in linguistics and communication studies on the upheaval in media and communication history in Europe in the 15th and 16th centuries; The monograph The book printing in the early modern period emerged from the habilitation thesis . In 1993 he followed a call to the University of Hanover , where he held a professorship for communication studies at the Institute for Horticultural Economics . In 1996 Giesecke received the Aby Warburg Foundation's Science Prize .

Since 1999 he has been researching and teaching at the chair for comparative literary studies with a focus on culture and media theory as well as media history at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Erfurt . In 2010 he retired .

Fonts

  • 2007: The discovery of the communicative world. Studies on comparative cultural media history . 534 pages. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp. ISBN 3-518-29388-5
  • 2002: From the myths of book culture to the visions of the information society . 456 pages. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp. ISBN 3-518-29143-2
  • 1998: Change of senses, change of language, change of culture . 374 pages. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp. ISBN 3-518-28597-1
  • 1998: Book printing in the early modern period . A historical case study on the implementation of new information and communication technologies (stw; 1357). 957 pages. Frankfurt am Main. ISBN 3-518-28957-8 (paperback edition)
  • 1997: Supervision as a medium of communicative social research . 882 pages. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp. ISBN 3-518-28705-2 (with Kornelia Rappe-Giesecke )
  • 1992: Change of senses, language change, cultural change: studies on the prehistory of the information society . Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp ISBN 3-518-28597-1
  • 1991: Book printing in the early modern period. A historical case study of the implementation of new information and communication technologies . Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp (hardcover)
  • 1983: Communication in Balint groups. Results of interdisciplinary research . Munich: Urban & Fischer. ISBN 3-437-10825-5 (with Kornelia Rappe-Giesecke)

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SURNAME Giesecke, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German communication and media theorist
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover