Stefan Westphal

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Stefan Westphal during an appearance at the Reeperbahn Festival 2011 in Hamburg.

Stefan Westphal (* 1970 in Celle ) is a German journalist , author, media manager, entrepreneur and former radio host .

Life

Westphal grew up in Celle, Lower Saxony . During his school days at Hölty-Gymnasium he already worked as a DJ and presenter. In 1989 he was one of the founding members of the Celle hospital radio "Radio Celle 1 eV". He acquired his basic journalistic training as a trainee at the Celler Kurier in Celle. From 1994 to 2000 he studied media planning, development and consulting at the University of Siegen .

Today Westphal works as a consultant for digital business models and innovative communication and lives in Potsdam . He writes regularly in his blog “ New Digital Media World ” about media change and the effects on corporate communication and journalism.

Career

After completing his traineeship, Westphal first worked as an editor and presenter at Radio Kiepenkerl in the Coesfeld district under the then editor-in-chief Georg Rose . At the same time he founds a concert and event agency. After completing his studies, he worked at radio ffn in Hanover from 2000 . Westphal was a news editor at first. Later he moderated changing programs in the daytime and evening programs, including the chart show " The Yellow from the Egg " in 2002 and the afternoon show for several months. In 2003 Westphal moved to NDR 2 in Hamburg . He initially moderated evening and weekend programs there. From 2005 he could be heard regularly in the special music programs "NDR 2 Soundcheck". In 2007 he took over the afternoon and evening programs together with the moderators Christian Blecken, Stefan Vogt and Jens Vogt.

In 2012 Westphal left the NDR and founded the company "my mediaguide". In 2015 he moved to the Marketing Communication department at Bosch Car Multimedia in Hildesheim . In 2017 he took over the management of the Medieninnovationszentrum Babelsberg (MIZ), which he left at the beginning of 2018 after strategic differences.

Interactive narrative formats

Between 2012 and 2013 Westphal developed an interactive narrative format for his diploma thesis with Rainer Leschke , which converts the classic radio feature into a digital, media-convergent form. Essential features of this narrative form are the non-linearity, the individualization of the content in terms of content depth and narrative speed as well as the cross-media, multimodal presentation and production. Westphal considers the further development of narrative formats to be necessary in order to adapt to the reception expectations of users, which are shaped by smartphones. In 2014, his concept was published as a book entitled " How radio can survive on the Internet: Development of a new storytelling format based on the feature ".

Together with the Berlin media artist Florian Thalhofer and the filmmaker Felix Pauschinger, Westphal began work in 2018 on an interactive, non-linear and predominantly film-based form of representation on the subject of artificial intelligence under the project name " Codonaut ".

Trivia

  • In 1989 Westphal won the title of "German Moderator Master" in a competition organized by the youth magazine BRAVO .
  • Westphal speaks the role of the know-it-all in the installation “ Talking Lanterns ” in Celle.
  • Westphal has occasionally moderated programs on Radio Hannover since 2017 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Temporarily closing time: Radio Celle 1 is moving to new rooms . In: CELLEHEUTE . October 16, 2014 ( celleheute.de [accessed September 3, 2018]).
  2. ↑ Stephan Westphal. Retrieved September 5, 2018 .
  3. ↑ The dream of the perfect radio . In: VOCER . February 27, 2014 ( vocer.org [accessed September 5, 2018]).
  4. ↑ New management of the Babelsberg Media Innovation Center (MIZ) - Berlin-Brandenburg Media Authority. Retrieved September 5, 2018 .
  5. ↑ media: net berlinbrandenburg eV: media.connect in conversation with Stefan Westphal | media: net berlinbrandenburg eV In: media: net berlinbrandenburg eV ( medianet-bb.de [accessed on September 5, 2018]).
  6. ↑ mabb is restructuring its media competence and media innovation funding - Medienanstalt Berlin-Brandenburg. Retrieved September 5, 2018 .
  7. ^ MedienCampus Bayern eV: Medientage Munich 2014 - Crossmedia. November 10, 2014, accessed September 5, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Cross-media conference: Why nobody can avoid multi-media narration . In: MedienNetzwerk Bayern . July 22, 2014 ( mediennetzwerk-bayern.de [accessed September 5, 2018]).
  9. ↑ codonaut - Where do we program to? Retrieved September 5, 2018 (German).
  10. ^ Celle Tourismus und Marketing GmbH: Talking lanterns. Retrieved September 5, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Radio Hannover 87.6 or: How long will it take for Energy Hannover to start? Retrieved September 5, 2018 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Westphal, Stefan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, author, media manager, entrepreneur and former radio host
DATE OF BIRTH 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Celle