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Whereas in the past it was retouched photos that made unpleasant people “disappear”, such as Leon Trotsky, who fell out of favour with Stalin, or Liebknecht on the balcony of the Berlin Palace, today we are downright lied to by fake films, news and images. Reality is being distorted and narratives are being created along ideological and political lines of conflict. Disinformation campaigns, fake images and invented stories are part of the “modern warfare” of hybrid warfare and political historiography. The aim is to unsettle societies, destabilise political institutions or individuals and influence their decisions and perceptions of history.
In Images that lie – how we are lied to by propaganda, “One Hour of History” discusses a seemingly new phenomenon that is currently being used on a massive scale by Russia and whose roots go far back into the past.
The following experts are invited:
Prof. Dr. Steffen Siegel, Folkwang Universität der Künste Essen
Dr. Benno Nietzel, Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt/Oder
Prof. Dr. Annette Vowinckel, Leibniz-Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam
Jochen Spangenberg, Deutsche Welle
Steffi Orbach will moderate the discussion, Dr Matthias von Hellfeld will co-moderate.
Participants
Dr Benno Nietzel is a historian whose research interests include communication and media history. He studied Modern and Contemporary History, Theatre Studies and Communication Studies in Berlin and Moscow. After working as a research assistant at the Humboldt University of Berlin and the University of Cologne, he completed his doctorate at the Ruhr University Bochum in 2010. In 2019, he completed his habilitation at Bielefeld University on the topic of “Die Massen lenken. Propaganda, experts and communication research in the age of extremes”. After working in Bochum as a deputy professor of contemporary history, among other things, he now works at the Chair of Civil Law and Modern Legal History at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt an der Oder.
Prof Dr Steffen Siegel is an art and media scholar, critic and curator. After studying in Constance and Lyon, he completed his doctorate at the Institute for Cultural Studies at Humboldt University in Berlin in 2008. After working as a research assistant at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, he was Junior Professor of Aesthetics of Knowledge at Friedrich Schiller University Jena from 2009 to 2015. In 2014, he was honoured for his research with the Research Award for the History of Photography from the German Photographic Society. Today, he teaches as Professor of Theory and History of Photography at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen.
Jochen Spangenberg works for Deutsche Welle in the area of research and cooperation projects. He specialises in the collection and verification of digital content from social networks. He also teaches at the Institute for Journalism and Communication Studies at the Free University of Berlin. Previously, he worked for BBC News & Current Affairs in radio and television and as Chief Operating Officer and Editor-in-Chief at a new media company. Spangenberg is also involved with various monitoring centres in the fight against disinformation. Since 2018, he has supported the non-governmental organisation Lie Detectors, which works with journalists to teach news skills to children and young people in schools.
Prof Dr Annette Vowinckel is a historian with a research focus on cultural and media history. After studying history, Spanish and art education in Bielefeld, Jerusalem and Cologne, she completed her doctorate in 1999 at the Faculty of History at the University of Essen and habilitated in 2006 at the Department of Cultural Studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Since 2009, she has been working in the field of 20th century cultural and media history at the Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam, where she has headed the “Contemporary History of the Media and Information Society” department since 2014. She has also been teaching modern and contemporary history at Humboldt University in Berlin since 2013, where she has been an adjunct professor at the Institute of History since 2021.
Dr Matthias von Hellfeld, born in 1954, has been a freelance journalist and historian since 1978. He works as a presenter and editor at ARD and is currently the editor in charge of the magazine “One Hour of History” at Deutschlandfunk Nova. Von Hellfeld has contributed to numerous radio features and TV documentaries. He is also a lecturer at various universities and training academies and the author of more than 25 non-fiction books on European and German history. In 1984, he won the Carl von Ossietzky Award of the city of Oldenburg, was nominated for the German Radio Award in 2017, and received the German Podcast Award in 2019.
Steffi Orbach was lucky enough to realise early on that she wanted to work as a journalist. After starting out in print journalism, she worked in various positions in radio and television before joining WDR as a trainee. She worked for ZDF’s children’s news programme “logo!” for several years, has been writing and broadcasting news for all WDR channels for more than 20 years and presents the media magazine “Töne, Texte, Bilder” (sounds, texts, images) on WDR 5. She was a presenter on Deutschlandfunk Nova’s daily programme for many years. Today she presents “Deutschland heute” (Germany today) on DLF and has hosted the podcast “Eine Stunde History” (One hour of history) since 2023.
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