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- Title
Die Leipziger Journalistenausbildung in der Ära Ulbricht.
- Authors
Schemmert, Christian; Siemens, Daniel
- Abstract
Immediately after its foundation, the University of Leipzig Faculty for Journalism developed into the central academic training centre for journalists in the GDR. However many aspects of its history have hardly been researched so far. To date, the faculty has mostly been described as a propaganda institute which trained by drill, with a squad of Stalinist hard-liners at its pinnacle who drummed the communist classics into the cadre of students. The present article, which concentrates on the early history of Leipzig journalism till the end of the 1960s, takes a different route: The authors advocate a double contextualisation which takes into account both the different degrees of leeway available to functionaries, lecturers and students within the walls of the faculty as well as considering their interdependency with other relevant institutions such as the Stasi and the Agitation and Propaganda departments of the Central Committee of the SED. In this way, the article analyses the genesis of the cognitive control system which contributed to the formation of the thought patterns and behaviour routines required in later daily editorial work. In accordance with the wishes of the SED to bring all communication in society under unified control, the primary goal of this form of education was the disciplining of the consciousness of future journalists.
- Subjects
GERMANY; GERMANY (East); JOURNALISM education (Higher); EDUCATION of journalists; JOURNALISM; COMMUNISM &; journalism; UNIVERSITAT Leipzig; COMMUNISM; JOURNALISM students; EAST German politics &; government; TWENTIETH century; ATTITUDE (Psychology); HISTORY
- Publication
Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte, 2013, Vol 61, Issue 2, p201
- ISSN
0042-5702
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1524/vfzg.2013.0010