Volker Lilienthal

Volker Lilienthal (born April 24, 1959 in Minden , Westphalia ) is a German university professor and journalist . Since July 2009 he has been professor for “Quality Journalism Practice” at the University of Hamburg .

Life

Lilienthal studied journalism and modern German literature. He graduated in 1983 from the University of Dortmund with a degree in journalism. At the University of Siegen , he was at Helmut Kreuzer 1987 Dr. phil. PhD in German Studies; his topic was literary criticism as political reading , i.e. the question of how political sympathies or antipathies influence the value judgment of literary criticism.

From 1989 Lilienthal worked as an editor for the Evangelical Press Service (epd). Since 1997 he has been deputy head of the news service "epd medien" and since 2005 also the editor in charge. From 1996 to 1998 he also wrote columns for the Hamburg weekly newspaper “ Die Zeit ”.

Between 1999 and 2004 he was active as a lecturer in media criticism and media journalism at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University . Lilienthal is a member of the jury for the Adolf Grimme Prize , the Robert Geisendörfer Prize and the Otto Brenner Prize and has been a member of the jury for the Hessischer Rundfunk audio book top list since 1997 .

In 2005 he covered surreptitious advertising in the ZDF series “ Sabine! "And in the ARD series" Marienhof ".

In the 2007/08 winter semester he represented the Rudolf Augstein Endowed Professorship for Quality Journalism at the University of Hamburg, to which he was appointed for the 2009/10 winter semester.

He lives in Berlin and Hamburg.

Works

• Lügenpresse - Anatomy of a political battle term (as ed., Together with Irene Neverla), Cologne: Kiepenheuer & Witsch 2017.
• Digital journalism. Dynamics - Participation - Technology (together with Stephan Weichert et al.) (Series of publications by the State Institute for Media North Rhine-Westphalia, Vol. 74), Leipzig: VISTAS 2014 (together with Stephan Weichert / Dennis Reineck / Annika Sehl / Silvia Worm).
• Quality in health journalism. Perspectives from science and practice, Wiesbaden: SpringerVS 2014 (as publisher, together with Dennis Reineck and Thomas Schnedler).
• Research (Journalism Guide, Vol. 7), Konstanz: UVK 2014.
• Professionalization of media supervision. New tasks for broadcasting councils - The committee debate in epd medien, Wiesbaden: VS 2009 (as editor, also author of the introduction: Between honorary office and profession, pp. 11–24).
• Dispatched ready to send. ZDF, SAT.1 and the Lebach soldier murder. Berlin: Vistas, 2001.
• TV documentary "The poison cabinet of German television" 1994 on VOX / dctp .
• Literary criticism as political reading. Using the example of the reception of the 'Aesthetics of Resistance' by Peter Weiss . Berlin: Spiess, 1988.

Awards

• 1991 - German Prize for Media Journalism from the Friends of the Adolf Grimme Prize
• 1997 - Hans-Bausch-Media Prize of the Süddeutscher Rundfunk Stuttgart
• 2002 - "Special honor" at the Bert Donnepp ​​Prize for media journalism
• 2004 - Lighthouse Prize for special journalistic achievements by the journalists' association Netzwerk Recherche ; second prize in the "Best Scientific Journal Article" category of the German Society for Journalism and Communication Studies (DGPuK)
• 2005 - Reporter of the year and specialist journalist of the year
• 2006 - Leipzig Prize for the Freedom and Future of the Media and nomination for the Henri Nannen Prize in the category "Best investigative piece"

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1. ↑ Article by Volker Lilienthal. The time , accessed June 14, 2009 . 
2. ^ Lecturers. (No longer available online.) University of Frankfurt, archived from the original on February 28, 2009 ; Retrieved June 14, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Surreptitious advertising, sports corruption, lawsuits for fees: ARD is tumbling through the darkest year in its history. ( Memento of the original from October 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , CUT, 8/2005 
4. ^ The scandal surrounding surreptitious advertising ( memento of September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), NDR media magazine ZAPP, July 17, 2005
5. ↑ Volker Lilienthal: Just don't be naked. (No longer available online.) Medienskandale.de, archived from the original on October 30, 2010 ; Retrieved June 14, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ↑ Prof. Dr. Volker Lilienthal. University of Hamburg, accessed on July 4, 2017 . 

Web links

• Literature by and about Volker Lilienthal in the catalog of the German National Library
• Volker Lilienthal in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Website of Volker Lilienthal at the University of Hamburg