Pop journalism

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Pop journalism is a form of journalism that emerged in Germany in the mid-1960s under the influence of American New Journalism and is characterized by a novel mix of literary and journalistic spelling and a pronounced first-person narrator position.

Concept history

In print, the term pop journalism appears , alternating with the term pop criticism, first used in 1971 in an essay by Natias Neutert and is defined as follows: "Pop journalism: entertainment art - without that invisible line that so often separates entertainment and art." Not only is the onomatopoeic “bang” of the word pop praised, but also the “variety of meanings, non-normativity, openness” inherent in the term.

Intercultural requirements

If the term pop journalism is also of purely German origin, the phenomenon it describes goes back to intercultural reception processes, which the French cultural scientist Michel Espagne summarizes under the heading of cultural transfer . Culture transfer takes place as soon as any cultural asset is transferred from a source culture to a target culture and is absorbed by it. This is done by intermediaries of a personal or institutional nature: tourists, exchange students, development workers , translators, foreign language teachers , foreign correspondents, state foreign departments. The respective cultural assets are not only taken over passively , as is the case with fashion that has been adopted 'uncritically', but rather actively , in a form of appropriation tailored to the specific needs of the target culture. What is created is an innovative hybrid. Culture transfer becomes possible, as the philosopher Wolfgang Welsch argues plausibly, since "the separating idea of ​​culture is in fact outdated by the external networking of cultures". This enables radical changes in the zeitgeist . The following influencing factors of global networking contributed to the emergence of pop journalism :

Influencing factor new journalism

The New Journalism from America, which no longer hid behind 'objectivity' with its cheeky texts written from a self-confident first-person narrator position, was assessed as progressive. In addition, journalistic texts by Gay Talese , Truman Capote , Michael Herr , Norman Mailer and Tom Wolfe were characterized by literary quality, which means nothing other than that they were “dominated by the poetic function”, which only increased the pleasure of reading fiction . For this, the 'new' journalists also resorted to the literary stylistic devices of their own tradition, which span from the build-up of tension in the short stories of a narrator like O. Henry to the sensuality of rhapsodic texts by the beatniks . Events that actually took place are structured narrative and thus become a story that is more than a mere report. Tom Wolfe was of great influence for the development of pop journalism in Germany . His work The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby , published in 1965, is considered one of the most important “cornerstones of New Journalism” and was read by early English-speaking protagonists of pop journalism before it was translated. It was translated by the neo- Dadaist Lil Picard , it was published in 1968. From an economic point of view, the German edition, both in the hardcover and in the paperback edition, was a huge bestseller success , and ideologically , the work is still considered the epitome of pop writing. With the new journalism as a cultural import, a paradigm shift in journalistic forms of representation went hand in hand in this country.

Reception, forgery maneuvers and criticism

The development away from fact-based news journalism towards a subjective pop journalism, which not only blurs the boundaries between "U" and "E", between literary and daily journalistic style, but occasionally also between fiction and reality, brings with it the danger, however, to let the narrative pendulum swing so far in the direction of fiction that the truth falls by the wayside. This is what happened in what is probably the biggest media scandal in pop journalism, when the Swiss Tom Kummer supplied newspapers such as Süddeutsche Zeitung , Stern and Spiegel for four years with extremely well-written, but completely out of thin, thought-out interviews, until he in 2000 by the magazine FOCUS . His interviews with stars such as Sharon Stone , Courtney Love , Mike Tyson and Charles Bronson , which have become legendary, were "simply too good to be true," as Jenny Hoch states.

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literature

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Books

  • Joan Kristin Bleicher (Ed.): Border Crossers. Forms of New Journalism. Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-531-14096-5 .
  • Jochen Bonz, Michael Büscher, Johannes Springer (eds.): Pop journalism . Ventil Verlag, Mainz 2005, ISBN 3-931555-89-5 .
  • Karl Bruckmaier The Story of Pop . Murmann Publishers, 2014, ISBN 978-3-86774-338-9 .
  • Max Dax , Anne Waak (Ed.): Spex- 33 1/3 years of Pop . Metrolit, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-8493-0033-3 .
  • Marc Fischer : The thing with the self . Reports. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2012, ISBN 978-3-462-04426-3 .
  • Walter Grasskamp , Michaela Krützen , Stephan Schmitt (Eds.): What is Pop? Ten attempts. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-596-16392-7 .
  • Thomas Hecken: Theories of Popular Culture. Thirty positions from Schiller to Cultural Studies . Transcript, Bielefeld 2007, ISBN 978-3-89942-544-4 .
  • Thomas Hecken: Pop. History of a concept 1955–2009 . transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2009, ISBN 978-3-89942-982-4 .
  • Ralf Hinz: Kid P .: Pop life. In: Ralf Hinz: Cultural Studies and Pop. On the critique of the judgment of scientific and journalistic speech about popular culture. Opladen, Wiesbaden 1998, ISBN 3-531-13199-0 , pp. 210-218.
  • Hans-Otto Hügel: Handbook: Popular Culture. Terms, theories and discussions . Metzler, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-476-01759-1 .
  • Michael L. Johnson: The new journalism: the underground press, the artists of nonfiction, and changes in the established media. University Press of Kansas, Lawrence 1971, ISBN 0-7006-0083-3 .
  • Thomas Leif (Ed.): New Journalism. From cultural asset to economic asset. Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Bonn 2002, ISBN 3-89892-095-X .
  • Jürgen Legath (Hrsg.): Sounds - Platten 66-77 . 1827 reviews. Frankfurt am Main 1979.
  • Bodo Mrozek, Alexa Geisthövel, Jürgen Danyel (eds.): Popgeschichte . Volume 2: Case studies of contemporary history 1958–1988 . (= Histoire. Volume 49). transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2014, ISBN 978-3-8376-2529-5 .
  • Uwe Nettelbeck : No idea about art and little about business. Film review 1963–1968. (= Fundus 196). Edited by Sandra Nettelbeck . Philo Fine Arts, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-86572-660-5 .
  • Natias Neutert : Adorno is dead. The philosopher different from us . Pozzo Press, Hamburg 1971.
  • Ulf Poschardt : DJ Culture. Disc jockeys and pop culture. Rogner et al. Bernhard bei Zweiausendeins, Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-8077-0334-9 .
  • Christoph Rauen: Pop and Irony: Pop Discourse and Pop Literature around 1980 and 2000 . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-11-023465-7 .
  • Wolfgang Rumpf: Stairway to Heaven - A short history of pop music from rock'n'roll to techno. 1st edition. CH Beck Verlag, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-406-39280-6 .
  • Helmut Salzinger : Rock Power or How Musical is the Revolution? Fischer Tb, Frankfurt am Main 1972, ISBN 3-436-01531-8 .
  • Denis check : King Kong, Spock & Drella. Everything you always wanted to know about American pop culture. Droemer Knaur, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-426-77164-0 .
  • Rolf Schwendter : Theory of Subculture. 1st edition. Kiepenheuer & Witsch Verlag, Cologne 1971, ISBN 3-462-00807-2 .
  • Thomas Steinfeld : Reef. Soundtracks of life. DuMont, Cologne 2000, ISBN 3-7701-4986-6 .
  • Franziska Walser : Pop literature and pop journalism. Grin Publishing House. Munich, ISBN 978-3-638-65837-9 .
  • Harry Walter: She said yes. I said pop. A lecture with photographs. In: Walter Grasskamp, ​​Michaela Krützen, Stephan Schmitt (eds.): What is Pop? Ten attempts. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-596-16392-7 .
  • Peter Wilcke: Soundtracks. Pop music and pop discourse. In: Walter Grasskamp, ​​Michaela Krützen, Stephan Schmitt (eds.): What is Pop? Ten attempts. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-596-16392-7 .
  • Tom Wolfe , EW Johnson (Ed.): The New Journalism . Harper & Row, New York 1973, ISBN 0-06-047183-2 .
  • Beat Wyss : Pop between regionalism and globality. in: Walter Grasskamp, ​​Michaela Krützen, Stephan Schmitt (Eds.): What is Pop? Ten attempts. Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-596-16392-7 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Bernd Blöbaum , Stefan Neuhaus (ed.): Literature and Journalism. Theory, contexts, case studies. 1st edition. Westdeutscher Verlag, Wiesbaden 2003, p. 11.
  2. ↑ See the review by Kristina Rauschan: Journalists as storytellers: Use and application of established storytelling techniques in news production http://kult-online.uni-giessen.de/archiv/2014/ausgabe-37/rezensions/journalisten-als-geschichtenerzaehler -Use-and-use-of-established-storytelling-techniques-in-news-production
  3. ↑ Natias Neutert : Adorno is dead. The philosopher different from us . Pozzo Press, Hamburg 1971, p. 23.
  4. ↑ Natias Neutert: Adorno is dead. The philosopher different from us . Pozzo Press, Hamburg 1971, p. 23.
  5. ↑ Michel Espagne, Werner Greiling (Ed.): France friends. Mediator of Franco-German cultural transfer (1750–1850). (= German-French Culture Library. Volume 7). Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 1996, ISBN 3-929031-94-9 and Michel Espagne / Michael Werner: Transferts. Relations interculturelles dans l'Espace franco-allemand (XVIIIe et XIXe Siecle) . Recherche sur les Civilizations Paris, 1988, ISBN 2-86538-188-9 .
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  8. ↑ Wolfgang Welsch : On the way to transcultural societies. In: Britta Kallscheuer, Lars Allollio-Näcke (Ed.): Thinking differently about differences. Building blocks for a cultural theory of transdifference . Frankfurt am Main 2005, pp. 314–341, here: p. 323.
  9. ↑ Cf. Heiner Bus: The American New Journalism of the 60s and 70s. Truman Capote, Michael Herr, Norman Mailer and Tom Wolfe. In: Bernd Blöbaum, Stefan Neuhaus (ed.): Literature and journalism. Theory, contexts, case studies . Retrieved on April 5, 2015 http://www.uni-koblenz-landau.de/de/koblenz/fb2/inst-germanistik/mitarbeiter/stefan-neuhaus/vontextenmenschenundmedien
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  12. ^ Dennis Chase, From Lippmann to Irving to New Journalism. In: Quill. August 1972, pp. 19-21.
  13. ↑ Irmela Erckenbrecht: The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby In: Kindler new literature lexicon , Volume 17, ISBN 3-463-43200-5 , p. 797.
  14. ↑ Tom Wolfe The candy-colored tangerine-red sprayed streamlined baby . From the American by Lil Picard . Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek near Hamburg. 1st edition. 1968-10. 1988 edition, ISBN 3-499-11094-6 .
  15. ↑ See Hannes Haas, Gian-Luca Wallisch: Literary journalism or journalistic literature? A contribution to the concept, representatives and philosophy of «New Journalism». In: Journalism. 1991, vol. 36, issue 3, pp. 298-314.
  16. ↑ Alexandra Klausmann: When Tom Kummer fooled the world In: FOCUS . October 25, 2010.
  17. ↑ Jenny Hoch: Scandal author Tom Kummer: An inventor does not give up. In: http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/literatur/skandal-autor-tom-kummer-ein-erfinder-gibt-nicht-auf-a-472979.html