Wolfgang Hagen

Wolfgang Hagen (born February 28, 1950 in Bedburg-Hau ) is a German radio employee, publishing editor , media scientist and university professor at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg .

The doctor's son Hagen studied after graduating from high school in 1968 at the Freiherr-vom-Stein-Gymnasium (Kleve) German, philosophy, musicology, economics, comparative literature in Vienna (for draft evasion) and Berlin and received his doctorate in 1977 in philosophy at Margherita von Brentano . In 2001 he completed his habilitation at the University of Basel . From 1970 to 1972 he worked at the Merve Verlag Berlin, 1978, he was cultural editor at Radio Bremen , 1979-1984 editor and host of the program SFBeat of Radio Free Berlin . From 1985 to 2002 he worked as head of the Kultur Aktuell department , in 1986 as a presenter from 3 to 9 , then as the founding and programming director of Radio Bremen Vier , the first youth program on ARD . From 2002 to 2012 he was head of the culture and music departments and head of media research at Deutschlandradio Kultur . From 2003 he taught as a private lecturer in media studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin . From 2012 to 2013 Wolfgang Hagen was Professor of Rhetoric at Leuphana University Lüneburg , and since 2013 he has been a media scientist at Leuphana University.

The versatile competent author deals in his studies z. B. with the history of radio since 1920 in the USA and Germany. The state-run German radio and the American commercial radio mainly differ in the "modalities of program design", which often relate to different technical developments (e.g. radio telephony, formats such as › Serials ‹, › DeeJays ‹, ›Top Forty‹) let back. It was only with the establishment of the FRG that the state's omnipotence over the radio receded; the era of the mass medium began in Europe too, which became dominant in the 1980s.

The Princeton Radio Research Project in 1938 began media-oriented social research. There was a discussion between project leader Paul Lazarsfeld and Theodor W. Adorno , head of Music Studies, about the possibility of such a science of mass media in general. The term comes from advertising and was only analyzed by Harold A. Innis and Marshall McLuhan since around 1950 . They create “oblivion of the present” (Innis) when it is true with Niklas Luhmann that we only know about the world what we know through the mass media. Each medium occurs only through another, a medium can only ever observe another, but never itself, its own apparatus: it is thus forgotten about itself or the present.

Hagen is married to the journalist Nathalie Wappler .

Fonts

• Abitur speech in Kleve , 1968
• The adoration of Schiller in social democracy before 1914. On the ideological formation of proletarian cultural policy before 1914 , Metzler, Stuttgart 1977 [= dissertation at the Free University of Berlin], ISBN 978-3476003720
• Oblivion of the present. Studies on Lazarsfeld , Adorno , Innis and Luhmann , Berlin 2003, ISBN 978-3883961927
• The radio. On the history and theory of radio - Germany / USA , Fink, Munich 2005, ISBN 978-3-7705-4025-9
• What to do, Mr. Luhmann? Last but one conversation with Niklas Luhmann , Kulturverlag Kadmos, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-931659-98-1
• Why don't you have a television set, Mr. Luhmann ?: Last conversations with Niklas Luhmann (branch) , Kulturverlag Kadmos, Berlin 201, ISBN 978-3865990709

Web links

• resume
• Website at the Leuphana
• Deutschlandfunk cultural issues. Debates and documents from April 21, 2019: 30 years of the World Wide Web and the downsides - media historian Wolfgang Hagen in conversation with Karin Fischer

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Claudia Blumer: New SRF Director: From East Germany back to Zurich. In: Tages-Anzeiger from November 6, 2018, accessed on November 11, 2018.