Christoph Classen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3768152 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christoph Classen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christoph |
| FAMILY NAME | Classen |
| SIGNATURE | CLASSEN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leibniz-Centre for Contemporary History |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Captive audience? GDR radio in the mirror of listeners' mail
According to the rise of totalitarian theories after 1990 research on broadcasting in the former socialist states emphasised its propagandistic character and political overstretch. This cannot be dismissed out of hand, but a closer look to listeners' mail show, that the praxis of Radio in the GDR didn't simply merge in political persuasion. In fact it results even in dictatorship in the long run from a dynamic negotiation process between audience…
Truth and Authenticity in Contemporary Historical Culture
Balanced Truth
Looking at the public reaction to it, one might say that Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List is undoubtedly the most successful film about the Holocaust. The film's success in the U.S. and other Western countries can be traced back mainly to the fact that it creates the impression of telling a true, apparently authentic, story.This essay investigates how this impression of historical truth and authenticity emerges in a fiction film. For this purp…
Thoughts on the Significance of Mass‐media Communications in the Third Reich and the GDR
The article investigates the nature of propaganda on the basis of a comparison between propaganda in Nazi‐Germany and under the GDR. The starting point for discussion is the definitional imprecision and overwhelmingly pejorative use of the term found within the classic totalitarianism theories of Arendt and Friedrich/Brzezinski. This leads to the proposal of a more historicised and culture‐oriented concept of ‘persuasive communication’ as the pre…
Dictatorship As Experience
Balanced Truth
Looking at the public reaction to it, one might say that Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List is undoubtedly the most successful film about the Holocaust. The film's success in the U.S. and other Western countries can be traced back mainly to the fact that it creates the impression of telling a true, apparently authentic, story.This essay investigates how this impression of historical truth and authenticity emerges in a fiction film. For this purp…
Captive audience? GDR radio in the mirror of listeners' mail
According to the rise of totalitarian theories after 1990 research on broadcasting in the former socialist states emphasised its propagandistic character and political overstretch. This cannot be dismissed out of hand, but a closer look to listeners' mail show, that the praxis of Radio in the GDR didn't simply merge in political persuasion. In fact it results even in dictatorship in the long run from a dynamic negotiation process between audience…
Truth and Authenticity in Contemporary Historical Culture
Dictatorship As Experience
Thoughts on the Significance of Mass‐media Communications in the Third Reich and the GDR
The article investigates the nature of propaganda on the basis of a comparison between propaganda in Nazi‐Germany and under the GDR. The starting point for discussion is the definitional imprecision and overwhelmingly pejorative use of the term found within the classic totalitarianism theories of Arendt and Friedrich/Brzezinski. This leads to the proposal of a more historicised and culture‐oriented concept of ‘persuasive communication’ as the pre…
Truth and Authenticity in Contemporary Historical Culture
Balanced Truth
Looking at the public reaction to it, one might say that Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List is undoubtedly the most successful film about the Holocaust. The film's success in the U.S. and other Western countries can be traced back mainly to the fact that it creates the impression of telling a true, apparently authentic, story.This essay investigates how this impression of historical truth and authenticity emerges in a fiction film. For this purp…
Captive audience? GDR radio in the mirror of listeners' mail
According to the rise of totalitarian theories after 1990 research on broadcasting in the former socialist states emphasised its propagandistic character and political overstretch. This cannot be dismissed out of hand, but a closer look to listeners' mail show, that the praxis of Radio in the GDR didn't simply merge in political persuasion. In fact it results even in dictatorship in the long run from a dynamic negotiation process between audience…
Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · German History and Society (3 works) · History (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Communism (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Democracy (2 works)