Susanne Fengler

Susanne Fengler (born October 10, 1971 in Dortmund ) is a German communication scientist and author .

Life

After graduating from high school, Fengler first went to Lee Strasberg's drama school in New York and then studied communication science in Berlin . She then received a scholarship from the FAZIT Foundation of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . She did her PhD on the history of media journalism in the USA from the 18th century to the present. From 2001 to 2003 she worked in the party headquarters of the CDU . From 2004 she worked as a communication scientist in Switzerland.

In 2008 her novel “Heidiland” was published about Germans in Switzerland. With “Fräulein Schröder” in 2004 she brought out a book with autobiographical elements about the work in the party headquarters. Both books are published by Aufbau-Verlag / Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag . In addition to this book, Fengler has published two historical novels and books on communication science topics.

Since spring 2008 Fengler has been professor for international journalism at the Institute for Journalism at the Technical University of Dortmund and head of the Erich Brost Institute .

From 2018, Fengler was a nominated member of the ORF Board of Trustees from the Pilz list , and Sigrid Pilz succeeded her in 2020 .

She lives with her husband in Berlin and is the mother of one son.

literature

• Journalists and media accountability. An international study of news people in the digital age (ed. With Tobias Eberwein, Gianpietro Mazzoleni, Colin Porlezza and Stephan Ruß-Mohl), Peter Lang, New York etc. 2014, ISBN 978-1-4539-1247-8
• Theoretically practical !? Application options and social relevance of communication and media research (Ed. With Tobias Eberwein and Julia Jorch). UVK, Konstanz 2012, ISBN 978-3-7445-0448-5
• Mapping media accountability - in Europe and beyond (Ed. With Tobias Eberwein, Epp Lauk and Tanja Leppik-Bork). Herbert von Halem Verlag, Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-86962-038-1
• Political journalism (with Bettina Vestring). Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2009, ISBN 978-3-531-15403-9
• Heidiland. Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-378-00684-3
• The journalist as Homo oeconomicus. Konstanz 2005, ISBN 3-89669-466-9
• Miss Schröder , Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-378-00655-2
• Media journalism in the USA. Konstanz 2002, ISBN 3-89669-347-6
• The portrait painter. Munich 1999, ISBN 3-548-60077-8
• The ballerina. Düsseldorf 1997, ISBN 3-7466-2172-0

Web links

• Literature by and about Susanne Fengler in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage of Susanne Fengler
• Article about Susanne Fengler and the CDU in ZEIT
• Article by Susanne Fengler
• Vita on the website of the Institute for Journalism

Individual evidence

1. ^ The members of the ORF Board of Trustees. In: ORF.at . Retrieved April 9, 2020 . 
2. ↑ The government appointed new ORF board members. In: orf.at. March 11, 2020, accessed April 9, 2020 .