Reinhold Viehoff

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Reinhold Viehoff (born January 22, 1948 in Viersen ) is a German literary scholar , media scientist and media theorist .

Life

Reinhold Viehoff studied German , Catholic theology , sociology , political science and communication science , mainly in Bonn , but also in Cologne and Siegen . He completed his studies in 1971/72 with the first state examination for teaching. After an internship at the radio station WDR in Cologne, he took up a (short) study of psychology . In 1976, after a legal clerkship , he passed the second state examination and worked for several years as a teacher for German, Catholic religion and social sciences in Bonn.

In Siegen he received his PhD in 1979, and there began his work on a concept for an empirical literary study . In Siegen he came into contact with Siegfried J. Schmidt , where he worked at the special research area for screen media, where he completed his habilitation in 1989.

Then he was awarded the venia legendi (teaching license) for modern German literary studies and general literary studies in Siegen. At that time he was the editor of the magazine " SPIEL " (Siegen Periodical for Empirical Literature). In 1995 he was offered the chair for media and communication studies at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (Uni Halle (MLU)). There he was significantly involved in setting up a corresponding course of study. This is mainly based on the cultural studies direction of the discipline. In 1996 he was involved in the founding of the media culture science course, in which the master’s degree has been awarded as a major since 2000; the course is now a bachelor’s and master’s degree.

In addition, he took numerous engagements in the research landscape. B. in 1996 founding member and board member of ZEUS, the Center for European Studies at the MLU Halle. Reinhold Viehoff has been Dean of the Philosophical Faculty II at MLU since 2005 . The special tasks in his current term of office arise from the various reforms of the degree programs at German universities. Viehoff is also a committed founding member of the Broadcasting and History Study Group and has led various research projects in Halle. A major project on GDR television history (DFG research group at the universities of Halle, Leipzig, HU Berlin and HFF Potsdam) was last completed in 2008. The volume "Deutsches Fernsehen Ost" (ed. Viehoff / Steinmetz) can be considered the first comprehensive representation of GDR television based on the book by Hickethier and Hoff (History of German Television).

Important more up-to-date functions

  • 2002 Director of the Institute for Media and Communication Studies
  • 2003 director of the affiliated institute HIM. Hall Institute for Media
  • 2003 research stay at OISE, University of Toronto
  • 2005–2010 Dean of the Philosophical Faculty II of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

research

  • 1998ff. The Literature System of the GDR - Aesthetic Autonomy and Political External Determination, Individual Project DFG, (April 1, 1998 to March 30, 1999)
  • 1998ff. The mediation of fiction literature in the literary system of the GDR 1965–1973, individual project DFG (March 1, 1998 to February 28, 2000)
  • 1999 museum as a media place of remembrance. Project on behalf of the State Office for Archeology Saxony-Anhalt, State Museum for Prehistory. (with Cordula Günther)
  • 2000-2001. Saxony-Anhalt cultural industry report. Project for the Ministry of Economics of the State of Saxony-Anhalt (together with Center for Cultural Research, Bonn - Berlin) (with Ingrid Brück)
  • 2000ff. DFG project Structural-historical, cultural-political, organizational and technical aspects of program development. SP1: Research group program history of GDR television - comparative. (in cooperation with J. Stiehler and R. Steinmetz)
  • 2000ff. DFG project family series on television in the GDR. Development of the genre and function v family models. SP 8: Research group program history of GDR television - comparative
  • 2002ff. BLK project authorship and multimedia. Development of a new course. Research program KUBIM. Cultural Education in the Media Age (October 15, 2002 to October 15, 2004) (with Gerhard Lampe)

Fonts

  • 1972 literary criticism in the program of the West German Radio in Cologne. (State thesis on the 1st state examination for the teaching post at grammar school), Bonn: mimeo 140 pp.
  • 1977 husband and wife. Gender-specific role differentiation and identity formation as a topic of religious education in secondary level I (= state work on the second state examination for teaching at the grammar school), Bonn: mimeo, 140 pp.
  • 1980 literary criticism on the radio. An empirical study of series of broadcasts from Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln 1971–1973. (= Phil.Diss. University of Siegen: unv. Manuscript, 658 pp. + Appendix 124 pp.).
  • 1981 literary criticism on the radio. An empirical investigation of the production conditions of literary aesthetic evaluations using the example of series of the Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln 1971–1973. Tübingen: Niemeyer (= media in research and teaching, series A, vol. 5), 418 p. (Revised and abridged version of the dissertation).
  • 1985 Inference and elaboration types in literary comprehension of texts: On the influence of reading and utterance situations on aesthetic and polyvalent acts of understanding. Siegen: Lumis (= LUMIS-Schriften 7), 20 p. (With D. Meutsch).
  • 1986 Literary Understanding. From an Empirical Point of View. Siegen: Lumis (= LUMIS-Schriften 14), 59 p. (With H. Hauptmeier and D. Meutsch).
  • 1989 Aspects of the literary critical change in value. Literary criticism 1973–1988. Siegen: Lumis (= LUMIS-Schriften 22), 41 pp.
  • 1990 Structures of declarative knowledge studies on "fairy tales" and "crime novels". Siegen: Lumis (= LUMIS-Schriften 23), 87 p. (With M. Burgert, M. Kavsek, B. Kreuzer).
  • 1991 Literary socialization as a self-thematization of the literary system - investigations into intra-literary models. Karl Philipp Moritz's »Anton Reiser« as a paradigm in the 18th century. (Habilitation thesis University of Siegen)
  • 1991 Process of communication education 2. Structures and functions of declarative and procedural knowledge in understanding texts. Investigations into "fairy tales" and "crime novels". Siegen: LUMIS (= LUMIS-Schriften 27), 89 p. (With Martin Burgert).
  • 1994 Writer and radio: some systematic considerations and an example (Ed .: LUMIS, Institute for Empirical Literature and Media Research)
  • 1999 Culture, Identity, Europe: on the difficulties and possibilities of a construction. (Ed. together with Rien T. Segers) Frankfurt a. M.
  • 2001 Without a wall. Literary interactions between FRG and GDR across the border. Based on the literary discussion about Heiner Müller and Christa Wolf. (together with W. Hartinger).
  • "The lovability of everyday life" The family series Retirees never have time. With a contribution to the family model in the GDR and a conversation with Horst-Uwe Wendler and Ursula Damm-Wendler. Leipzig. (Editorship)
  • 2007 history on television. Berlin. (in cooperation with Edgar Lersch)
  • 2008 Media rituals: ritual performance in film, television and new media. Wiesbaden. Festschrift for the 60th birthday of Reinholf Viehoff. (Eds. Kathrin Fahlenbrach, Ingrid Brück, Anne Bartsch) Wiesbaden.
  • 2008 Deutsches Fernsehen Ost: A program history of GDR television. Berlin, publishing house for Berlin-Brandenburg . (Ed. Together with Rüdiger Steinmetz)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 1991 Literary socialization as a self-thematicization of the literary system - investigations into internal literary models. Karl Philipp Moritz's »Anton Reiser« as a paradigm in the 18th century. (Habilitation thesis University of Siegen) 256 pages.
  2. ↑ Project page on the DFG project Comparative program history of GDR television at www.deutsches-fernsehen-ost.de, accessed May 25, 2009 ( Memento from November 14, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Viehoff, Reinhold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary and media scholar
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Viersen