Instytut Badań Informacji i Komunikacji UMK zaprasza na kolejne spotkanie z cyklu „Komunikatoria IBIK“. Wykład zatytułowany “Post-Socialist Media Culture? Journalism and Popular Music in East Germany past 1989” wygłosi prof. dr Frank Bӧsch, profesor Uniwersytetu w Poczdamie oraz Dyrektor Centrum Badań nad Historią Najnowszą im. Leibniza, wybitny badacz historii mediów oraz niemieckiej historii XX wieku. Po wykładzie zaplanowana będzie dyskusja, w której głównym dyskutantem-koreferentem będzie prof. Wiesław Wacławczyk. Spotkanie odbędzie się w języku angielskim 20 listopada 2023 r. (poniedziałek) o godz. 11.30 w budynku Collegium Minus (Harmonijka) przy ul. Fosa Staromiejska 1a, w sali IX (1 piętro).
Prof. Dr. Frank Bösch, born in 1969 in Lübeck, is professor of European 20th Century History at the University of Potsdam and director of the Leibniz-Center for Contempo-rary History (ZZF) in Potsdam since 2011, one of the biggest institutes in this field. His main fields of research are German contemporary history from a global perspective, media history, and the history of divided and united Germany. He is the author of seven monographs, including “Media and Historical Change. Germany in International Perspective. 1400 to the present” (2015) [Polish edition: “Media a przemiany historyczne. Od druku do Internetu”, Warszawa: Scholar 2021]. His monograph on global changes in the late 1970s “Zeitenwende 1979. Als die Welt von heute began” (2019) was on the German list of bestselling books for two months. His latest book called “Deals with Dictatorship. A different history of the Federal Republic of Germany” (“Deals mit Diktaturen. Eine andere Geschichte der Bundesrepublik“) will come out in February 2024. He is the editor of the peer-reviewed journal “Zeithistorische Forschungen/Studies in Contemporary History” and editor of several books including “A History Shared and Divided. East and West Germany since the 1970s, New York/Oxford 2018”.
Wybór prac prof. dr Franka Bӧscha:
„Media a przemiany historyczne. Od druku do internetu” (Warszawa Scholar, 2021)
„A History Shared and Divided: East and West Germany Since the 1970s” (red.) (Berghahn Books, 2018)
“Mass Media and Historical Change: Germany in International Perspective, 1400 to the Present” (z F. Buechter) (Berghahn Books, 2015)
“Geteilte Geschichte: Ost- und Westdeutschland 1970-2000” (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2015)
“Mediengeschichte: Vom asiatischen Buchdruck zum Fernsehen” (Campus Verlag, 2011)
“Post-Socialist Media Culture? Journalism and Popular Music in East Germany past 1989”
Past 1989, former socialist societies changed in many respects, also concerning their media systems and media content. Media influenced the transformation of societies and were part of the structural changes at the same time. Western media companies and popular culture gained a new influence. The lecture will analyze this general change for the very interesting special case of East Germany, the former GDR. I will show, how East German media took a different path in unified Germany than their West German counterparts. Both in the press and in music, a unique East German culture lingered on and promoted the formation of an East German identity. The economic and cultural crisis precipitated by Germany’s societal transformation strengthened the role of media operators, who wanted to distinguish themselves “from below” from contemporary culture, which was global and dominated by the West. The awakening of East German culture, especially in music, was dynamic and unexpected. But the price for this success was its marginalisation in the West.