Michael Schornstheimer

Michael Schornstheimer (* 1956 in Mainz ) is a German sociologist and journalist .

Life

Michael Schornstheimer studied sociology, economics, politics and psychology at the Free University of Berlin . After graduating in 1985, he did his doctorate in 1988 with a work on contemporary history in the Federal Republic of the 1950s, using the example of the magazines Quick and Stern . The abridged but illustrated new edition of Bomb Mood and Katzenjammer - The Processing of the National Socialist Era in the Fifties (1989) was published in 1995 under the title The shining eyes of the soldiers at the front - National Socialism and War in the Illustrated Novels of the Fifties by Metropol Verlag .

In 1989/1990 Michael Schornstheimer completed an editorial traineeship at Sender Freie Berlin . Since then he has been a freelance culture and science journalist in Berlin, mainly for ARD radio and DKultur. With the winter semester 2009/10 he also became a research assistant in the journalism department at the Institute for Communication and Media Studies at the University of Leipzig. He teaches budding radio and print journalists and heads the radio teaching staff.

Works

Books

• Bomb mood and shame. Coming to terms with the past: Quick and Stern in the 50s . Dissertation. Pahl-Rugenstein, Cologne 1989, ISBN 3-7609-1278-8 .
• The shining eyes of the soldiers at the front. National Socialism and War in the Illustrated Novels of the 1950s . Metropol , Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-926893-05-2 .

Essays

• How the "Operation Barbarossa" became an adventure vacation In: Cicero - Magazine for Political Culture . 6/2011
• Epitaph of an era. Leonardo Padura's novel about the assassination of Trotsky In: New Society. Frankfurter Hefte . 4/2011 ( PDF )
• Education Despiser In: New Society. Frankfurter Hefte . 10/2009 ( PDF )
• The clash of journalism . In: New Society. Frankfurter Hefte . 6/2008 ( PDF )
• The abolition of journalism in the media age . In: New Society. Frankfurter Hefte . 5/2008 ( PDF )
• Harmless idealists and daring soldiers . In: War of Extermination - Catalog for the exhibition "Crimes of the Wehrmacht" . Hamburg 1995
• Adversary to resignation: the economist Albert O. Hirschman . In: exile . No. 2, 1994.
• What to do with memories of a dirty time? . In: Mittelweg . Hamburg 1993.

CDs

• Sebastian Haffner: Story of a German - in conversation with M. Schornstheimer .

ARD radio

Since 1990 about 2500 radio contributions.

Documentation / features

• Social putty at a high price? The dark side of the "third sector" (RBB, Kulturradio)
• Recycling instead of research? How PR agencies and internet are changing journalism (DLR, from research and society)
• The crisis in the British news industry On an empirical study by Cardiff University , (RBB Kulturradio)
• With children and new momentum. On the family picture of the 30-year-olds (RBB, Kulturradio, Perspektiven)
• The ignored departure: dying and death in the individualized society (DLR, time travel)
• Familiar stranger, elusive friend: on creativity - the art of the New Philosophers' Congress at TUB (DLR)
• The philosopher's murmur - does Giorgio Agamben become a cult? (DLR / RBB)
• The artists are kings - the wealth of Cape Verdean culture (RBB)
• Complete idiot with a couch? - Psychotherapists in entertainment films (RBB)
• The Panama hat - or what makes a good therapist (SFB / SWR)
• Gala with Gauguin - Celebrations in the Museum (SFB / Gulliver)
• How cool is violence? - on the social readiness to use violence in our society (SFB / Perspektiven)
• The Fabricator - Miracle Machine or Harbinger of Post-Industrial Society? New concepts of work (RBB / Kulturradio, science)
• Eveline Goodman-Thau - Portrait of the First Orthodox Rabbi (SFB / Kulturtermin)
• Stories of an exhibition - for the opening of the Jewish Museum in Berlin (NDR)
• I did it because I was obsessed - For the Holocaust researcher Raul Hilberg on his 75th birthday (NDR / SFB / BR)
• Never too old - a portrait of the dancer Lotte Goslar (ORB, ORF)
• I never felt afraid. The expelled German Jew Felix Posen remembers (ORB / DW)
• The shadow jumper - the life of cabaret artist Georg Kreisler (ORB / WDR)
• Will Schaber - a portrait of a German in New York (DW, SWF).
• 60 years of "reconstruction": Aufbau - a German-Jewish magazine in New York (NDR / SFB / DW / WDR)
• Edgar Hilsenrath - A portrait for his seventieth birthday (BR, SR, WDR)
• A German in New York: Leo Glückselig (SDR)
• The art story teller - portrait of Ernst Gombrich (WDR / BR / SFB)
• The German Academy and the American Guild for German Cultural Freedom (DW / WDR)
• Lehmann, Winter, March - but not an April Fool's joke - a portrait of the writer and physiotherapist Konrad Merz (DW, WDR)
• A guest quietly takes his hat and leaves - A portrait on the death of Hans Sahl (ORF)
• "What did we learn from it?" - The "Final Solution to the Jewish Question" and the 50th anniversary of the Wannsee Conference (SR)
• Poet, Doctor, Scientist - A Portrait by Hans Keilson . ORB / ORF / WDR / SWF.
• A passionate polemicist - A portrait of the biochemist and writer Erwin Chargaff (DW / WDR / ORB / SFB / MDR)
• Professional alarmist - Günther Anders on his 90th birthday (RB / NDR / WDR)
• Skull base lessons - inventory of young German poetry (MDR, SFB, NDR)
• German self-image after Demark and gold medals (DW)
• The Laughing of Fear - New Brazilian Metropolitan Literature (MDR)
• 400 years of the Berlin Academies of Arts and Sciences (DW)
• Perpetrator, victim, spectator - Raul Hilberg (DS-Kultur)
• Hated, loved or tolerated - literary agents in the international publishing business (WDR, DW, DS-Kultur)
• Mexico - Angels, Eagles and Feathered Serpents - A Panorama of Contemporary Mexican Literature (DS Culture)
• It depends on changing them - promises and dangers of utopian thinking (DS culture)
• Emigrant in emigration - On the 90th birthday of the writer Hans Sahl (DLF / DS-Kultur / WDR)
• Stalinism and the Renegades (WDR)
• We only flag at half mast - for the 500th anniversary of the discovery of America (SFB)
• The solar eclipse of the GDR - the rise and fall of German communism (SFB)
• Ernst Bloch and Stalinism (SFB)
• The human being is not a workhorse, but a must - a technologized society and ethical action (SFB)
• Relics of State Socialism? - or what will become of the Eastern European cultural centers? (NDR, SFB)
• Paris-Ravensbrück-Berlin (GDR): A German born in 1914 remembers ... (SFB / Kulturtermin)

Web links

• Literature by and about Michael Schornstheimer in the catalog of the German National Library