Hans-Ulrich Wagner has been working at the Research Centre Media History (previously: Research Center History of Broadcasting in Northern Germany) since December 2000 and has been its head since August 2005. His research interests include all areas of mediated public communication history. He focuses on historical research into media effects and the media-mediated culture of remembrance, the relationship between broadcasting and literature, sound studies and overarching issues relating to the history of media, programs and mentalities in the 20th century.
At Universität Hamburg he is responsible for teaching and examining in the subject area “Language, Literature, Media I”. Since 1996 he has been a member of the jury for the “Hörspielpreis der Kriegsblinden – Preis für Radiokunst” [Blind War Veterans’ Prize for Radio Plays. Prize for Radio Arts]. He is a member of the board of the “Studienkreis Rundfunk und Geschichte” [Broadcasting and History] , serving as its first chairman from 2007 to 2011.
Hans-Ulrich Wagner studied German and theology at the universities of Bamberg and Münster and worked as a freelance literary critic and journalist. He received his doctorate in Bamberg in 1996 with a thesis on the radio play program of the immediate post-war period 1945-1949. He then worked as a research assistant at the German Broadcasting Archive in Frankfurt am Main, with a DFG project on Günter Eich’s broadcasting work and as curator of the exhibition “Remigranten und Rundfunk 1945-1955” [Remigrants and Broadcasting 1945-1955].
List of publications by Dr. Hans-Ulrich Wagner (pdf) (as of 2/2022)
