Hans-Bredow-Institut

The Hans Bredow Institute for Media Research at the University of Hamburg ( HBI) is an independent non-profit foundation with the goal of media research, the exploration of the topic of public communication, in particular in the field of radio and television and other electronic media, in an interdisciplinary manner to operate and provide the results of science, practice, and public.

The institute was founded on 30 May 1950 by the then North West German Broadcasting ( NWDR ) and the University of Hamburg as a foundation under civil law. The institute was named after the Secretary of State and Broadcasting Commissioner in the Reich Postal Ministry of the Weimar Republic, Hans Bredow (1879-1959), who in the Weimar Republic as a pioneer of the technical development of broadcasting made ​​a name and the year 1954 for his contribution in building the organizational structures of the broadcasting in the Federal Republic, the Federal Cross of Merit was awarded.

The Research Perspectives of the Institute are reflected in five core areas of work:

  • Media system and politics,
  • Media and telecommunications law,
  • Media industry and media organization,
  • Media services and media culture
  • Media use and media effects.

The interdisciplinary orientation of the operated by the Institute for Media Research has also found expression in the professional orientation of the respective Directors: From 1950 to 1967, with Egmont Zechlin a historian from 1968 to 1970 Hans Wenke an educationist, 1971-1979 with Janpeter Kob a sociologist Head of the Institute. From 1979 to 1995, the Institute was headed by legal scholar Wolfgang Hoffmann- Riem, 1995 to 1998 of the political and media studies Otfried Jarren. Since the summer of 1998, the scientific management and administration of the Institute is a board of directors in which are represented the two main pillars of the Institute's work, communication research and the right Media Research. The Executive Wolfgang Hoffmann- Riem were initially (until December 1999), Otfried Jarren (until July 2001) and the communication scientist and director of the Institute, Uwe Hasebrink on. Since July 2001, the Executive Board from Uwe Hasebrink (Chair ) and the legal scholar Wolfgang Schulz.

Owner of the joint Professor of Media Studies at the University of Hamburg is Joan Kristin Bleicher.

The Institute operates an academic library. In the catalog essay also magazines and books are evaluated. He represents one of the most important research tools of communication science

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