Mass Media, Culture and Society in Twentieth-Century Germany

This volume is the first wide-ranging study of the rise of the mass media in Germany from a social and cultural-historical perspective. Going far beyond the conventional focus on the organizational structures or aesthetic content of the media, it investigates the impact they have had on twentieth-century German society under widely varying political systems, and how in turn the media and their uses were shaped by the wider social, political and cultural context.

KARL CHRISTIAN FÜHRER is Professor of History at the University of Hamburg, Germany. He has published widely on the history of social policy, media history, and the cultural history of twentieth-century Germany.

COREY ROSS is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Birmingham, UK. He has published widely on the history of the German Democratic Republic, and is currently writing a social history of the mass media in Germany from the late nineteenth century to the Second World War.