Roland Seim

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Roland Seim (* 1965 in Münster ) is a German media scientist , journalist , author and publisher . The main focus of his work is research into censorship in German popular culture .

Life

Roland Seim graduated from the Johann-Conrad-Schlaun-Gymnasium in Münster in 1984 . From 1984 to 1993 he studied art history , philosophy and sociology at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster, at the Free University of Berlin and at the Technical University of Berlin . He passed his master's degree on January 21, 1993 with a major in art history with a grade of good from Jürg Meyer zur Capellen in Münster. On July 2, 1997, he was at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Horst Herrmann in sociology with a minor in art history and philosophy magna cum laude for Dr. phil. PhD .

In addition to regular journalistic activities such as for Telepolis , Seim founded Telos, a publishing house for cultural studies, in 1997. He was a lecturer in media sociology at the Institute for Sociology at the University of Münster. He is working with Daniel Bettermann and others on the German Censorship Museum project. Seim is the author of several standard works on the history of censorship and lives in Münster.

Fonts (selection)

  • The depiction of Eros and Thanatos in the early work of Alfred Kubin . Unpublished master's thesis at the Institute for Art History of the University of Münster, Münster 1992
  • Between media freedom and censorship. A media and legal sociological investigation of the influence of censors on German popular culture . Dissertation, University of Münster. Telos, Münster 1997, ISBN 3-933060-00-1 .
  • The abstraction of the scapegoats . In: NOVO - Politics, Society, Science . No. 45, March / April 2000, pp. 45-47.
  • as editor together with Josef Spiegel: The annotated illustrated book on “Ab 18” - censored, discussed, suppressed. Censorship in German cultural history . 2. improved new edition. Telos-Verlag, Münster 2001, ISBN 3-93306005-2 .
  • as editor together with Josef Spiegel: “From 18” - censored, discussed, suppressed. Examples from the cultural history of the Federal Republic of Germany . Telos Verlag, Münster 2002, ISBN 3-93306001-X .
  • “That should be forbidden!” Culture and censorship between zeitgeist and changing values . In: Wolfgang R. Langenbucher (Ed.): The freedom of communication in society. The democratic functions of a fundamental right . Journalism special issue 4/2003. Westdeutscher Verlag, Wiesbaden 2003, pp. 323–339.
  • together with Josef Spiegel: "Only for adults". Rock and pop music: censored, discussed, suppressed . Telos Verlag, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-933060-16-8 .
  • 50 years against "dirt and trash" . In: Telepolis of May 10, 2004.
  • as editor: “My milieu didn't master me” - Festschrift Horst Herrmann . Münster 2005, ISBN 3-933060-19-2 .
  • as editor together with Josef Spiegel: "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore" - Death and Dying in Rock Music . Münster 2009, ISBN 978-3-933060-26-6 .

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SURNAME Seim, Roland
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German media scientist, journalist, book author and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Muenster