Fernsehen, Revolution und das Ende der DDR
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11480000 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alina Laura Tiews (Hans-Bredow-Institute, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 525-526 |
| Publication date | 2016-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | German History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0266-3554 • E-ISSN: 1477-089X |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/gerhis/ghw053 |
| OpenAlex | W2471289954 |
| Language | DE |
| Citations received | 4 |
In the light of the current crisis in Ukraine and the refugee crisis in Europe, Thomas Großmann’s book could not be timelier. In his PhD thesis, recently published as Fernsehen, Revolution und das Ende der DDR , Großmann provides stunning historical answers to the issues raised in political crises, in terms of the essential importance of the media during such events. In our media-driven world, politics are heavily media-driven as well, so media history has become part of a whole new research field within contemporary history. The aim of Großmann’s study is to investigate television’s discursive function in the revolutionary development that led up to the Fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989. Großmann shows that both East and West German television news—but especially West German news—were key actors in the GDR revolution that began in 1988/89 and rapidly picked up speed after the local elections in May 1989. Television images heavily influenced the turn of events, sometimes even anticipating revolutionary incidents. It was also crucial that West German broadcasting journalists reported events in a dramatic and emotional way, whereas, for a long time, GDR news deliberately ignored them. All in all, Großmann’s portrait of television as a ‘catalyst’ that ‘accelerated the revolution’ in times of ‘medially condensed communication’ is thoroughly convincing and a significant contribution to medial historical research.
Art · Art history · Berlin wall · Economic history · Fall of man · German · Humanities · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Refugee crisis · Sociology · European history and politics · German History and Society · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics · History · Law
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2020 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |