Personal Data

 

Office

Dresden University of Technology
Department of Communication
01062 Dresden
Voice: +49.351.463.33308
Fax: +49.351.463.37067
Email: wolfgang.donsbach@tu-dresden.de

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Arndtstrasse 8
01099 Dresden

Voice: +49.351.6568946
Fax: +49.351.8104699

Marital Status: married to Eva Donsbach, Child: Tom Donsbach (2001)

 
 
 

Education and Academic Degrees

  1989 Dr. habil. (post-doctoral dissertation and qualification for full professorship in communications), University of Mainz  
  1981 Dr. phil (PhD) in communications, University of Mainz  
  1975 M.A. in communications, political science, cultural anthropology, University of Mainz  
  1960-68 Lina Hilger-High School, Bad Kreuznach, Baccalaureate 1968  
  1956-60 Elementary School Bad Kreuznach  
 
 

Professional Career

  1999 Lombard Visiting professor, Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, Harvard University  
  1993-2006 Director of the Department  
  1993- Full professor of Communication  
  1993 Founding Director of the Department of Communication, Dresden University of Technology  
  1991- Permanent visiting professor, Facultad de Ciencias de la Informacion, Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain  
  1999 Lombard visiting professor, Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, Harvard University  
  1991-1993 Visiting professor, Department of Communication, Free University Berlin  
  1990 Visiting professor, Department of Political Science, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York  
  1989-90 Fellow, Gannett Center for Media Studies, and visiting scholar, Department of Sociology, Columbia University, New York  
  1978-91 Assistant professor, Department of Communication, University of Mainz (tenured since 1984)  
  1977 Assistant professor, Department of Journalism, University of Dortmund, Germany  
  1977 Free lance journalist for a weekly and a regional radio station  
  1976-77 Research assistant, Department of Communication, University of Mainz  
  1972, 1975 Internship at Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF),