Wolfgang R. Langenbucher

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Wolfgang Rudolf Langenbucher (born April 24, 1938 in Pforzheim in Baden-Württemberg , Germany ) is a German-Austrian communication scientist . Until the end of September 2006 he was head of the Institute for Journalism and Communication Studies at the University of Vienna .

academic career

After graduating from high school, Langenbucher studied economics , philosophy , German and newspaper studies in Stuttgart and Munich . During his studies he worked as a freelance journalist, mainly for various radio editors. He received his doctorate from Hanns Braun in 1963 with a thesis on the "History and theory of entertainment literature".

Then he was assistant to Otto B. Roegele at the Institute for Newspaper Studies at the University of Munich . The joint publications with Peter Glotz date from this time . In 1968 he and Glotz received the ARD Kurt Magnus Prize for the series 'Presse und Demokratie'.

His habilitation thesis “Communication as a Profession” (1973) can be seen as the theoretical foundation of his efforts to reform journalist training, which found their institutional expression in the Munich model experiment of a profession-related course (since 1979 diploma course in journalism ). From 1975 to 1983 Langenbucher was a professor at the now renamed Institute for Communication Studies (newspaper studies) at the University of Munich.

In the 1970s , he was repeatedly committed beyond the boundaries of the subject, for example as co-author of the memorandum of the German Press Council on journalist training, which had a significant impact on communication policy, as a member of the commission for the expansion of the technical communication system (KtK) and the local journalists project team (conception a further education model), as head of the Scientific Commission for Reading, as a consultant for the field test screen text in Düsseldorf / Neuss and finally as a representative of the State of Berlin for a project design for cable communication Berlin. With these activities he ensured that future-oriented telecommunications policy became an object of his discipline.

In May 1982 he was offered a professorship for journalism and communication studies at the University of Vienna, which he accepted in April 1984. On September 30, 2006, Univ.-Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Langenbucher.

membership

  • German Society for Media and Communication Studies (DGPUK)
  • Chairman of the Austrian Ethics Council for Public Relations, organ of the voluntary self-regulation of PR experts in Austria

Work (selection)

The first selection bibliography with over 160 independent writings, book publications and essays was compiled by Walter Hömberg in 1988 and is part of an internet bibliography of the Institute for Media and Communication Studies at the University of Vienna. On the occasion of the 60th birthday of Wolfgang R. Langenbucher, Hömberg produced another selection bibliography.

For Wolfgang Langenbucher's retirement, Hömberg updated the catalog raisonné, striving for completeness with the exception of prefaces, interviews and reprints. In addition to 46 articles in editions, 168 articles in books and collective publications, 136 articles in magazines and newspapers and 85 reviews, the following 21 independent writings and book publications are listed:

  • The current entertainment novel. Contributions to the history and theory of mass literature. Bonn: Bouvier 1964 (= Bonn contributions to library and book studies 9), 292 pages; 2nd edition 1974
  • The disregarded reader. To the criticism of the German press. Cologne and Berlin: Kiepenheuer & Witsch 1969 (= Information 22), 204 pages (together with Peter Glotz); 3rd edition 1970
  • German Press Council: Memorandum on training for journalists, presented by the "Mixed Commission for Questions on Training and Further Education" in accordance with the resolution at the meeting on January 18, 1971 in Düsseldorf. Bonn-Bad Godesberg o. J. (1971), 8 pages (together with Günter Kieslich )
  • Communication as a job. Approaches to career research in communication science. Habilitation thesis. Munich 1973 (mach.), 239 pages
  • Entertainment as a job? Origin, previous education, career path and self-image of a professional group. Berlin: Spiess 1974, 21975 (= AfK studies 1), 158 pages (together with Walter A. Mahle)
  • New reader book market. Studies on the range of programs offered by book clubs (1962-1971). Berlin: Spiess 1974 (= AfK studies 2), 199 pages (together with Wolfhard F. Truchseß)
  • Press concentration and freedom of journalists. On the development of the work and employment situation of journalists in the daily newspapers in the Federal Republic of Germany. Berlin: Spiess 1976 (= AfK studies 4), 341 pages (together with Otto B. Roegele and Frank Schumacher)
  • The mass media in post-industrial society. Consequences of new technical and economic developments for tasks and structures of the mass media in the Federal Republic of Germany. Göttingen: Schwartz 1976 (= Commission for Economic and Social Change 111), VII, 475 pages (together with Horst Decker and Günter Nahr)
  • Communication manager. The role of the editor-in-chief in the field of tension between publisher, editor and reader. Berlin: Spiess 1977 (= AfK studies 3), 346 pages (together with Ursula Jacobi and others)
  • Reading promotion and book policy. An expertise of the Scientific Commission for Reading. Bonn: Deutsche Lesegesellschaft 1977, 34 pages (together with Dieter Baacke and others); at the same time “Bertelsmann Briefe”, issue 89/1977
  • Cable communication and diversity of information. A problem analysis for the design of pilot projects under the aspect of the effect on the press. Munich and Vienna: Oldenbourg 1978, 248 pages (together with Wolfgang Kaiser and others)
  • Better information in politics. Lecture on the occasion of the symposium “Better information. In the market and in politics ”. Bern: Dieter Jäggi AG undated [1978], 22 pages
  • Book clubs and reading culture. Study of the programs offered by six book clubs (1972-1977). Berlin: Spiess 1980 (= AfK studies 16), 193 pages (together with Martin Hutter)
  • Project design cable communication Berlin: Design report. Berlin: VDE-Verlag 1981, XII, 321 pages (together with Christian Hardtke and others)
  • Knowledge through communication without wastage. The social function of the target group media. Vienna: Österreichischer Wirtschaftsverlag 1985, 14 pages.
  • Communication behavior and media. Reading in modern society. A study by the Bertelsmann Foundation. Gütersloh: Verlag Bertelsmann Stiftung 1989, 288 pages (together with Ulrich Saxer and Angela Fritz)
  • The daily newspaper in the Rhine-Ruhr area. Editorial concepts for the 90s. An expertise for the Foundation Pressehaus NRZ. Düsseldorf, Vienna and New York: Econ 1989, 48 pages
  • The media person. Munich: Burda 1991 (= in medias res), 24 pages (together with Holger Rust)
  • World media market. Munich: Burda 1993 (= in medias res), 42 pages (together with Holger Rust)
  • The disregarded reader. To the criticism of the German press. Unabridged reprint of the 1969 edition with a foreword to the new edition. Munich: Reinhard Fischer 1993 (= ex libris kommunikation 1), 217 pages (together with Peter Glotz)
  • Public and traffic. A research project by the Institute for Media and Communication Studies at the University of Vienna. Vienna: WUV-Universitätsverlag 1995, 218 pages (collaboration: Christa Blümlinger et al.).

Web links

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  1. ↑ See Curriculum Vitae . Institute for Media and Communication Studies at the University of Vienna. Archive link ( Memento from February 22, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), July 10, 2006.
  2. ↑ http://web.ard.de/ard-chronik/index/4408?year=1968&month=3
  3. ↑ Walter Hömberg . Selected bibliography 1964-88. In: Publizistik, 33/1988, Issue 1, pp. 127-136.
  4. ↑ Walter Hömberg . Selected bibliography Wolfgang R. Langenbucher (1988-1998). A list of writings for the 60th birthday. In: Publizistik, 43/1998, Issue 2, pp. 195–199.
  5. ^ Walter Hömberg : Bibliography Wolfgang R. Langenbucher. 1964-2006. A list of publications on retirement. In: Medien & Zeit, 3/2007, pp. 33–54.
personal data
SURNAME Langenbucher, Wolfgang R.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Langenbucher, Wolfgang Rudolf (full name); Langenbucher, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German communication scientist, professor of journalism
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Pforzheim