Walter Nutz

Walter Nutz (born December 11, 1924 ; † March 3, 2000 ) was a German journalist, author and communication scientist who researched mainly on trivial literature and everyday culture .

Grave in the Melaten cemetery (October 2017)

Life

Nutz initially worked for various newspapers, press agencies and broadcasters (WDR, ZDF) and joined Deutsche Welle in 1966 as head of the French-language Africa program . From 1977 to 1987 he was in charge of listening research . He was a lecturer at the University of Cologne and gave scriptwriting seminars at the University of Göttingen . From 1990 to 2000 he was Alphons Silbermann's successor as chairman of the German Society for Communication Research in Cologne.

His grave is located in the Melaten cemetery in Cologne (hall 34).

Works (selection)

• A cultural analysis of Kei. Contributions to the comparative ethnology of East Indonesia. in: Ethnologica Beiheft 2 (1959). Simultaneously published as a dissertation from the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Cologne, reference number D 39.
• The trivial novel, its forms and its makers. A contribution to the sociology of literature , 1962.
• Sociology of trivial painting , 1975.
• From the myth of freedom: from Plato to Nietzsche. Decline and Fall of Democracies at the End of the 20th Century , 1995.
• Trivial literature and popular culture , 1999.
• Art, communication, culture. Festschrift for the 80th birthday of Alphons Silbermann . 1989. (As editor).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Walter Nutz in the catalog of the German National Library . Retrieved January 5, 2017
2. ^ Ekkehard Mochmann: In memoriam Walter Nutz (1924-2000). In: Communications Vol. 25, 2000, accessed January 5, 2017 . 
3. ↑ German Society for Communication Research. Accessed January 5, 2017 .