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Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Steinmetz

Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Steinmetz

Emeritus

Institute of Communication and Media Studies
Zeppelinhaus
Nikolaistraße 27-29
04109 Leipzig

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Prof. Dr. phil. habil. Rüdiger Steinmetz (Göttingen 1952). 1992-2018 Chair Media Studies&Media Culture: Institute for Communication and Media Studies, now Emeritus. Founding director: Institute KMW&local radio station Leipzig Univ.: "mephisto 97.6". Established international research&teaching networks: Universities of Athens&Penn State (USA); Univ. of Otago, Dunedin, NZ, &U Florida& Roanoke U (USA). 2010-2023 expert Media Council of the Saxon Media Authority (SLM). Member board of trustees House of Doc. Film, Stuttgart. Research&teaching: history of GDR TV (DFG/ GRF), Bavarian TV; media policy: "Adenauer Television", dual broadcast. system, digitisation, new media, social media; film history: DEFA feature&doc. film, DVD film aesthetics, 3D film; Leipzig Doc. Film Festival; film theory (Münsterberg); local TV; television journalism; media literacy, Transformation Research; Memory Culture.1979-92 Ass. Prof. HFF Munich. Project "Two Germanies in mass media". 1978/79 Newspaper editor.

Professional career

  • since 04/2018
    Emeritus
  • 10/1992 - 03/2018
    Chair Media Studies and Media Culture at the Department of Communication and Media Studies at the University of Leipzig
  • 03/1993 - 03/1995
    Founding and first executive director of the Institute for Communication and Media Studies (IfKMW). 1999 again.
  • 10/1979 - 09/1992
    Research Assistant University of Television and Film (HFF), Munich: Department of Communication Studies and Complementary Studies.
  • 04/1976 - 03/1977
    Teaching in undergraduate studies as a research assistant at the Institute for Journalism and Communication Studies at the Georg-August-University of Göttingen (Prof. Dr. Jörg Aufermann).
  • 04/1972 - 10/1977
    Freelancer for local editions of the "Hessisch-Niedersächsische Allgemeine" (HNA) and "Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung" (HAZ); contributions to "Süddeutsche Zeitung", NDR.
  • 12/1977 - 09/1979
    Journalistic traineeship "Braunschweiger Zeitung" and newspaper editor in Osterode am Harz.

Education

  • 04/1977 - 10/1977
    State Examination Georg-August-University of Göttingen.
  • 04/1972 - 10/1977
    Studium der Wissenschaft von der Politik, Kommunikationswissenschaft und Germanistik an der Georg-August-Universität zu Göttingen
  • 01/1981 - 04/1983
    Doctorate (Dr. phil.) at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich (Prof. Dr. Dr. Otto-B. Roegele, Prof. Dr. Dieter Grosser).
  • 05/1986 - 11/1991
    Habilitation an der Philipps-Universität, Marburg (Prof. Dr. Knut Hickethier).

Panel Memberships

  • 11/1983 - 12/1996
    1983ff. in the Broadcasting and History Study Group (now UT: Network for Media History and Audiovisual Heritage): Co-director of doctoral colloquium/media history forum. Member of the board, (deputy) chairman.
  • 01/2010 - 06/2023
    Expert in the Media Council of the Saxon State Media Authority (SLM).Jury member: Award committee for supplementary cultural film funding of the Saxon State Media Authority (SLM).Jury member: Central-German Radio AwardJury member: Int. film festival "Schlingel", Chemnitz
  • 12/1986 - 12/2016
    Member of the Editorial Board of the Historical Journal of Film, Radio&Television of the International Association for Media and History (IAMHIST/ Carfax Publishers, Abingdon/UK).
  • 05/2008 - 07/2017
    Responsible for the master's program "New Media Journalism" at the Leipzig School of Media (LSoM).
  • 03/2015 - 07/2016
    Head of the Center for Media and Communication (ZMK) at the University of Leipzig, new anchoring and structuring.
  • 03/2005 - 12/2010
    Head of project group for the promotion of the student Internet television project "NetTV", today "hochschultv.de".
  • 03/2002 - 12/2017
    2002 - 2017 Development and testing of KMW bachelor's and master's degree programs at the University of Leipzig.
  • 01/2011 - 06/2017
    PROMOS evaluator at the University of Leipzig for DAAD scholarships abroad.
  • 03/2007 - 07/2009
    Member of the Award Committee of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for international Magister, Diploma, BA and MA scholarships.
  • 01/2007 - 12/2013
    2007/2009/2013 Significantly involved in the development of the Master's program in Radio Broadcasting (start: 2007) or the elective subject Radio Broadcasting in the BA program KMW (since 2013) and the Master's program in Communication and Media Studies (KMW), focus on Film/Television (start: 2009).
  • 03/2007 - 08/2009
    Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of UNICATO, the student film magazine of Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (MDR).
  • 06/2006 - 06/2020
    Expert for the (re-)accreditation of media programs at universities/colleges: University of Trier (2006). Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn (2007). University of Otago, Dunedin/New Zealand (2018). University of Film and Television (HFF), "Konrad Wolf" Potsdam (2020).
  • since 01/1995
    Publisher series "Media Studien" / "Media Studies) in the Leipzig University Publishing House; 19 volumes to date.
  • 04/1994 - 12/2009
    Co-founder and program director of "mephisto 97.6 - the local radio of the University of Leipzig" (start of broadcasting: 31.5.1995).
  • 06/1994 - 06/2017
    1994 - 1997 Founding member of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Philosophy and member of the Faculty Council; since 2002 again member of the Faculty Council.
  • 05/1994 - 07/2017
    1994 - 1998 and 2003-2017 Member of the Council of the University of Leipzig.
  • 01/1993 - 12/1998
    Chairman of the Examination Board Magister.
  • 01/1993 - 12/1997
    Member of the Board of Trustees "Haus des Buches", Leipzig.
  • 01/1993 - 12/1995
    Member and partial chairman of six appointment committees at the newly founded Institute for Communication and Media Studies (IfKMW).
  • 04/1993 - 05/1995
    Head of an initiative group consisting of students and lecturers of the Institute of Communication and Media Studies for the preparation of a university radio station.

Research 

on the program and institutional history of television in the GDR and Bavarian television 

on media policy: "Adenauer Television", "free television", dual broadcasting system, digitalization, "new media" and "social media

on film history: DEFA, DEFA documentaries, film aesthetics, digital dispositif (3D)

on the history of the Leipzig Documentary Film Festival (now DOK Leipzig)

on the history of film theory (Hugo Münsterberg)

on local television (in Saxony)

on film/television journalism

on application-oriented media education and media literacy (media competence)

on the culture of remembrance with the help of audio-visual media


Methods:

historical

qualitative

quantitative


Publications in media: Films, a TV series

  • App-Entwicklung für Lehr- und Lernzwecke. Filme sehen lernen
    Steinmetz, Rüdiger
    Duration: 08/2015 – ongoing
    Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaft
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  • Heimat today - or: Everyone has his / her Nest in his / her Head. Transformations into United Germany in the Mirror of Saxon Local Television Programmes (1990-1995), and their Current Relevance
    Steinmetz, Rüdiger
    Duration: 08/2019 – 01/2023
    Funded by: Andere öffentliche Bereiche
    Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaft
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  • Programme History of GDR Television
    Steinmetz, Rüdiger
    Duration: 01/2001 – 12/2011
    Funded by: DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
    Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Institut für Kommunikations- und Medienwissenschaft; Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaft
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more projects

  • Steinmetz, R.; Viehoff, R. (Eds.)
    Deutsches Fernsehen Ost : eine Programmgeschichte des DDR-Fernsehens
    Berlin: Verl. für Berlin-Brandenburg. 2008.
    ISBN: 978-3-86650-488-2
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  • Steinmetz, R.; Franke, S.; Langer, E.; Blatter, J.
    The first Film Theory. Hugo Münsterberg’s “The Photoplay” (1916) – Its Roots and Context in Psychological Experiment and Theory
    In: Steinmetz, R. (Ed.)
    Film - Theorie - Ästhektik - Experiment. Über Hugo Münsterbergs "The Photoplay - A psychological Study" (1916). Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag. 2016.
    ISBN: 978-3-96023-044-1
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  • Steinmetz, R.; Steinmann, K.; Uhlig, S.; Blümel, R.
    Filmmusik mit Originalsequenzen von Eisenstein bis Hitchcock und Wenders: Filme sehen lernen 3. Buch und DVD (2011)
    ISBN: 978-3-86150-968-4
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  • Steinmetz, R.; Kretzschmar, J.
    Abbruch, Umbruch, Aufbruch: Programme des sächsischen Lokalfernsehens in der Nachwendezeit 1990–1995.
    In: Krüger, U.; Borchers, N. (Eds.)
    Transformation der Medien - Medien der Transformation. Frankfurt/M.: Westend . 2021.
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more publications

  • Internationale Tagung
    A Hundred Years of Film Theory. Münsterberg and Beyond: Concepts, Applications, Perspectives
    Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaft
    Event Organiser: Steinmetz, Rüdiger; Kretzschmar, Judith
    29/06/2016 – 02/07/2016
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more events

  • Teaching 2023

    03-06 2023: Media Ananalysis. Module Media Studies. Ostfalia Hochschule Salzgitter/WF/BS.

    05 2023: Psychology and Culture in Europe. The First Film Theory Worldwide by Hugo Münsterberg&his Acdademic Roots in Leipzig. Carson-Newman University, USA (in L.)

  • Teaching 2021 - 2023

    05-07 2023: Intermediate/Advanced German Abroad. University of Florida, USA (in L.)

    07/08 2022: Intermediate German Abroad. University of Florida, USA (in L.)

    10-12 2021: Changes in Life Post '89. Roanoke University, USA (in L.)

    12 2021: East Germany (DDR/GDR) in DEFA Films in the 1980s. Film Analysis. Roanoke University, USA (in Leipzig).