Walter Hömberg

Walter Hömberg (born August 11, 1944 in Meschede ) is a German communication scientist . From 1988 until his retirement in 2010 he headed the journalism I chair at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt . Since then he has been teaching as a visiting professor at the University of Vienna .

Life

academic career

After graduating from high school, Walter Hömberg studied humanities and social sciences in Kiel , Berlin , Tübingen and Salzburg . He passed his state examination in German and political science at the University of Tübingen in 1970 . He received his doctorate in 1973 in Salzburg in the subjects of journalism and communication theory .

Afterwards he was a member of the study group “Science and Journalism” at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research at Bielefeld University. He also carried out teaching and research activities at the universities of Salzburg, Munich , Zurich and also at the University of Philosophy in Munich.

Hömberg accepted his first professorship for communication studies in 1986 at the University of Bamberg . Two years later he moved to the Catholic University of Eichstätt and has held the Chair of Journalism I ever since . In 1997 he was appointed dean of the Literature and Language Sciences Faculty elected and has held this position until 1999. His main research interests are journalism research, communication theory, cultural and scientific communication , media and communication history, and Marginalistik .

From 1992 to 1995 Hömberg was chairman of the German Society for Journalism and Communication Studies . He taught as a visiting professor at the University of Friborg and for two decades also at the University of Vienna. In basic empirical studies he has with the situation of science journalism and the profession of lecturer involved in book publishing.

Journalistic activities

During his studies, Walter Hömberg worked as a freelancer for the press and radio. From 1990 to 1996 he was editor of the information service "Aviso". In 1996 he became spokesman for the “Munich Working Group for Public Broadcasting” (MAR) - a role that he held for 16 years. From 2003 to 2010 he was co-editor of the magazine “ Communicatio Socialis ”, which he was also temporarily editor-in-chief .

Walter Hömberg was a member of the jury for several journalism awards. He has published various book series and the almanac “Marginalistics”.

Publications (selection)

• Zeitgeist and ideas smuggling. The communication strategy of Junge Deutschland. Stuttgart 1975, ISBN 3-476-00302-7 .
• The belated department. The situation of science journalism. Constance 1989, ISBN 3-89669-082-5
• Time, newspaper, time awareness. Mass media and temporal structures. In: Journalism. 35th year 1990, H. 1, pp. 5-17. ISSN  0033-4006
• Jahrbuch für Marginalistik I. Münster 2000, ISBN 3-8258-2385-7 (publisher together with Eckart Klaus Roloff ).
• Broadcasting culture and cultural broadcasting. Münster 2000, ISBN 3-8258-4839-6 (editor).
• Journalist training for a changed media world. Diagnoses, institutions, projects. Wiesbaden 2002, ISBN 3-531-13637-2 (joint editor with Klaus-Dieter Altmeppen).
• Germany - united media country? Experience and Analysis. Münster 2002, ISBN 3-8258-4889-2 . (Editor)
• Study guide journalism, media, communication. 3rd edition, Konstanz 2005, ISBN 3-8252-2711-1 (editor together with Renate Hackel-de Latour).
• Knowledge is power!? Media - communication - knowledge. In: Johannes Raabe et al .: Media and Communication in the Knowledge Society. Konstanz 2008, ISBN 978-3-86764-063-3 , pp. 25-45.
• Lecturer in a book publisher. Representative study on an unknown communication profession. 2nd edition Konstanz 2011, ISBN 978-3-86764-338-2 (with the collaboration of Susanne Pypke and Christian Klenk).
• Yearbook for Marginalistics II. Münster 2011, ISBN 978-3-8258-6052-3 (publisher together with Eckart Roloff).
• Communication and understanding. Theory - empiricism - practice. Festschrift for Roland Burkart . 2nd edition Wiesbaden 2012, ISBN 978-3-531-18600-9 (joint editor with Daniela Hahn and Timon B. Schaffer)
• History journalism. Between information and staging. 2nd edition, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-643-10420-5 (publisher together with Klaus Arnold and Susanne Kinnebrock).
• Dieter Paul Baumert: The emergence of German journalism. A socio-historical study. Edited and introduced by Walter Hömberg. Nomos, Baden-Baden 2013, ISBN 978-3-8487-0154-4 .
• Communication theories. An introduction text book. 8th edition Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-7003-1943-6 (publisher together with Roland Burkart).
• Between politics, poetry and journalism. Karl Gutzkow as a journalist. In: Arnulf Kutsch et al. (Ed.): Communication across borders. Studies by German-speaking communication scientists in honor of Prof. Dr. Joan Hemels. Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-643-12563-7 , pp. 161-187.
• Catholic journalism in the 20th century. Positions, problems, profiles. Freiburg i. Br./Wien 2014, ISBN 978-3-7930-9766-2 (editor together with Thomas Pittrof).
• Yearbook for marginalistics III. Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-643-99840-8 (publisher together with Eckart Roloff).
• “Last words.” In: Universitas. 70th year 2015, No. 830, pp. 28-39. ISSN  0041-9079
• Yearbook for marginalistics IV. LIT-Verlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-643-99793-7 . (Publisher together with Eckart Roloff)
• (Ed.): Marginalistics, almanac for friends of happy science. Allitera-Verlag, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-96233-179-5 .
• Carrion vultures, newspapers, line flayers. Journalists scolding and insulting colleagues in front of Donald Trump. In: Universitas. 73rd year 2018, No. 869, pp. 92-95. ISSN 0041-9079
• (Editor, with Michael Haller): “I won't let my mouth shut down!” Journalists as pioneers of freedom of the press and democracy. Reclam-Verlag, Ditzingen 2020, ISBN 978-3-15-011277-9 .

literature

• Renate Hackel-de Latour, Christian Klenk, Michael Schmolke and Ute Stenert (eds.): From the foreword to the cemetery talk. The margins of social communication. Festschrift for Walter Hömberg. Supplement 11 of the journal Communicatio Socialis , 177 pages, Matthias-Grünewald-Verlag, Ostfildern-Ruit 2010 (for the biography see above all Eckart Klaus Roloff : "What is not in Wikipedia. Research on Walter Hömberg from 65 years")
• Klaus Meier: Walter Hömberg 75 years. In: Publizistik, 64/3, 2019, pp. 382–384

Web links

• Literature by and about Walter Hömberg in the catalog of the German National Library