Prof. Dr. Andreas Fickers
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Faculté ou Centre | Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History | ||||
Department | Digital History and Historiography | ||||
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Université du Luxembourg Maison des Sciences Humaines 11, Porte des Sciences L-4366 Esch-sur-Alzette |
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Bureau sur le campus | MSH, E04 15-060 | ||||
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Téléphone | (+352) 46 66 44 9324 | ||||
Current Position:
- Director of the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH)
- Professor for Contemporary and Digital History
- Head of the Digital History Laboratory
Research areas:
- Digital History
- Contemporary History
- European and Transnational History
- Media History
- History of Technology
- Cultural History
Also visit my Academia.edu Profile
Personal assistant: Brigitte Melchior-Dolenc
E-mail: brigitte.melchior@uni.lu,
Tel. (+352) 46 66 44 6247
Last updated on: jeudi 08 avril 2021
Studies and professional career:
- Since Sept. 2016: Director of the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH) (L)
- Since Sept. 2013: Professor for Contemporary and Digital History at the University of Luxembourg (L)
- Oct. 2007 – Aug. 2013: Associate Professor for Comparative Media History at the Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences at Maastricht University (NL)
- Jan. 2003 – Sept. 2007: Assistant Professor for Television History at the Institute for Media and Re/Presentation, University of Utrecht (NL)
- Dec. 2002: PhD with the grade “summa cum laude”
- Jan. 2000 - Dec. 2002: Assistant at the Chair for Contemporary History, RWTH Aachen University (G)
- Apr. 1998 - Dec. 1999: Assistant at the Chair for the History of Technology, RWTH Aachen University (G)
- July 1994 - Nov. 1995: Practical course at Deutsches Museum Munich (G)
- Nov. 1995 - Apr.1998: Free scientific associate at the Deutsches Museum Bonn (G)
- Sep. 1992 - July 1993: Erasmus student at the University of Reims (F)
- 1989 - 1997: Study of History / Philosophy / Sociology at the RWTH Aachen University (G),
- 1989: High School diploma at the Episcopal Institute St.Vith (B)
Last updated on: 04 fév 2021
Interdisciplinary scholarly profile and research interests:
- Theory and Methods of Historiography (digital history; audiovisual historiography)
- Cultural History of Media (press, film, especially radio and television)
- History of Technology (especially communication an information technologies)
- Transnational and European history (of technology and media)
- Material and Cultural Studies (museology, biographies of artefacts)
- Regional history (Euregio, especially German speaking part of Belgium)
Main research projects and performances
- Coordinator of FNR PRIDE Doctoral Training Unit "Digital History and Hermeneutics" (starting January 1, 2017). Mission statement: As a trading zone for the negotiation of new knowledge, the DH-LAB promotes a hands-on approach to new digital tools and technologies in the field of history. In training students and researchers in using new methods of doing historical research with digital datasets and in exploring new forms of historical storytelling online, the DH-Lab aims to be a place of critical reflection on both the epistemological and methodological challenges of doing history in the age of big data and digital meta-sources (see also the DH-Lab webpage).
- Supervisor of Postdoc project "A digital platform for source criticism" by Dr. Stef Scagliola
- Supervisor of PhD project "Digital History as Trading Zone" by Max Kemman (visit his research blog www.maxkemman.nl)
- Supervisor of the FNR AFR PhD project "Shaping a digital memory platform on migration narratives: a public history project on Italian and Portuguese migration memories in Luxembourg" by Anita Lucchesi (visit her research blog historiografianarede.wordpress.com)
- Supervisor of the FNR AFR PDR project "Failure and Success of Dummy Head Recording: An Innovation History of 3D Listening" by Dr. Stefan Krebs (visit the project blog binauralrecording.wordpress.com)
- Member of the European (FP 7) research projects „VIDEO ACTIVE – Opening Up Europe’s Televisual Heritage“ (2005-2008) and “EU SCREEN. Best Practice Network” (2009-2012) within the eContentplus-programme of the European Commission (see www.euscreen.eu ). In both projects I acted as mediator between the scholarly and the archival community. Important scholarly outputs of this engagement are the special issue on “Transnational Television History: A European Comparative Perspective” in Media History and the setting up of the open access e-journal VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture (see www.viewjournal.eu).
- Main applicant and leader of the NWO research project “Changing Platforms of Ritualized Memory Practices: The Cultural Dynamics of Home Movies” (including 2 PhD and 1 Post-Doc position; 2012-2015). The project aims at analyzing the impact of new technologies for home movie making and screening (from 8mm to video and digital) on the production of family narratives in a long term historical perspective (see homemoviesproject.wordpress.com/)
- Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies / NIAS (February – June 2011). Member of the NIAS theme-group “The Making of Europe“ which prepares a 6 volume European history of technology (1850-2000) to be published with Palgrave/McMillan in 2015/2016. In the series edited by Johan Schot and Phil Scranton I am co-authoring the volume entitled 'Communicating Europe: Technologies, Information, Events' (1850-2000) together with Prof. Pascal Griset (Paris IV/ Sorbonne). For details on the series and related projects see www.makingeurope.eu
- Leader of the European research group “Transmitting and Receiving Europe” (TRANS) aiming at promoting a comparative European history of broadcasting technologies. Since 2007 regular workshops and conference panels. Forthcoming in autumn 2012: A. Badenoch / A. Fickers / C. Henrich-Franke (eds.), Airy Curtains. European broadcasting during the Cold War (Baden-Baden, Nomos-Verlag).
- Participation in the ESF-EUROCORE-programme “Inventing Europe” and member of the management committee of the Tensions of Europe research network (www.tensionsofeurope.eu). An essential outcome of my engagement in the ToE network is A. Badenoch / A. Fickers (eds.),Materializing Europe. Transnational Infrastructures and the Project of Europe (Palgrave/McMillan, Basingstoke 2010).
- With Karin Bijsterveld (main applicant) responsible for the research project “Soundscapes of the Urban Past: Staged Sound as Mediated Cultural Heritage” (2009-2012), funded by the NWO-Cultural Dynamics programme
- Four year research grant (VENI) of the "Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek" (NWO) in the Innovational Research Incentives Scheme on "Television as a conservative revolution? A comparative study in the history of European media 1945-1975" (2005 – 2009). One important output was A. Bignell / A. Fickers (eds.), A European Television History (Blackwell-Wiley, Malden 2008) (see cms.hum.uu.nl/ethn/)
- Initiator and responsible manager of a regional history research project on the inventarization and historical analysis of the newspaper „Malmedyer Kreisblatt / St. Vither Volkszeitung (1866-1945)” in cooperation with the Historical Institute of the RWTH Aachen and the Belgian State Archives in Eupen, financed by the government of the German Speaking Community in Belgium. A full digitization of the collection has been realized in collaboration with the Bibliothèque Royale in Brussels and the State Archives in Eupen. The scholarly findings are published in: A. Fickers (ed.), Zwischen den Zeilen. Die Geschichte des Kreisblattes Malmedy und der St.Vither Volkszeitung 1866-1940. Belgische Staatsarchive: Bruxelles 2008.
For a complete list of projects, see c2dh.uni.lu.
Last updated on: 04 fév 2021

2023
2022

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Conference given outside the academic context (2022)

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in Journal of Digital History (2022), 2(1),

Presentation (2022, July)

in Karoline, Döring; Stefan, Haas; Mareike, König; Jörg, Wettlaufer (Eds.) Digital History Konzepte, Methoden und Kritiken Digitaler Geschichtswissenschaft (2022)

in Pauly, Michel (Ed.) Die Geschichte der Stadt Luxemburg in 99 Objekten (2022)

in Zaagsma, Gerben; Noiret, Serge; Tabeau, Mark (Eds.) Handbook of Digital Public History (2022)

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in Fickers, Andreas; Tatarinov, Juliane (Eds.) Digital History and Hermeneutics. Between Theory and Practice. (2022)

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Presentation (2022, July 13)
2021

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Article for general public (2021)

in Balbi, Gabriele; Ribeiro, Nelson; Schafer, Valerie; Schwarzenegger, Christian (Eds.) Digital Roots. Historicizing Media and Communication Concepts of the Digital Age (2021)

in Tore, Gian Maria; Colas-Blaise (Eds.) "RE-" Répétition et reproduction dans les arts et les médias (2021)

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in Dörfling, Christina; Jost, Christofer; Pfleiderer, Martin (Eds.) Musikobjektgeschichten: Populäre Musik und materielle Kultur (2021)
2020

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in Digital Humanities Quarterly (2020), 14(3),

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Computer development (2020)

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Speeches/Talks (2020)

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Speeches/Talks (2020)

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E-print/Working paper (2020)

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Speeches/Talks (2020)

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Book published by Grenz-Echo Verlag (2020)

Article for general public (2020)

in Ziegler, Volker (Ed.) Das Europe 1 Sendezentrum im Saarland / Berus Überherrn (2020)

in Zeithistorische Forschungen (2020), 17(1), 157-168

in Contemporanea: Rivista di Storia dell'800 e del '900 (2020), 23(1), 122-128

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in Wagner, Hedwig (Ed.) Europäische Medienwissenschaft. Zur Programmatik eines Fachs (2020)

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Book published by De Gruyter (2020)

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in Fickers, Andreas; Balbi, Gabriele (Eds.) History of the International Telecoommunication Union (ITU): Transnational Techno-Diplomacy from the Telegraph to the Internet (2020)

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in Digital Humanities Quarterly (2020), 14(3),

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in Arnold, Klaus; Preschton, Pascal; Kinnebrock, Susanne (Eds.) The Handbook of European Communication History (2020)

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in Internet Histories: Digital Technology, Culture and Society (2020), (2),

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in Internet Histories: Digital Technology, Culture and Society (2020), (2),
2019

Presentation (2019, October 25)

Presentation (2019, June 17)

in Cornelissen, Christoph; D'Ottavio, Gabriele (Eds.) Germania e Italia. Sguardi incrociati sulla storiografia (2019)

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in Quadflieg, Peter M.; Lejeune, Carlo; Brüll, Christoph (Eds.) Grenzerfahrungen. Eine Geschichte der Deutschsprachigen Gemeinschaft Belgiens. Vol. 4: Staatenwechsel, Identitätskonflikte, Kriegserfahrungen (1919-1945) (2019)

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in Laux, Stephan; Fickers, Andreas; Franz, Norbert (Eds.) Repression, Reform und Neuordnung im Zeitalter der Revolutionen. Die Folgen des Wiener Kongresses für Westeuropa (2019)

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Book published by Peter Lang (2019)

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Book published by Palgrave MacMillan (2019)

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in VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture (2019), 7(14), 1-4

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in Hall, Nick; Ellis, John (Eds.) Hands-On Media History: A New Methodology in the Humanities and Social Sciences (2019)

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in Blandin, Claire; Robinet, Francois; Schafer, Valerie (Eds.) Penser l'histoire des médias (2019)
2018

Presentation (2018, October 12)

Presentation (2018, September 28)

Presentation (2018, April 10)

in Zeithistorische Forschungen (2018), 15

in Fickers, Andreas; Aasman, Susan; Wachelder, Joseph (Eds.) Materializing Memories. Dispositifs, Generations, Technologies (2018)

in Annali dell'Istituto Storico Italo-Germanico in Trento = Jahrbuch des Italienisch-Deutschen Historischen Instituts in Trient (2018), 44(1), 117-132

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in Fickers, Andreas; Aasman, Susan; Wachelder, Joseph (Eds.) Materializing Memories. Dispositifs, Generations, Technologies (2018)

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in Journal of European Television History and Culture (2018), 8(13),

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in Brüll, Christoph; Lejeune, Carlo; Quadflieg, Peter (Eds.) Staatenwechsel, Identitätskonflikte, Kriegserfahrungen (1919-1945). (2018)

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in Fidotta, Guiseppe; Mariani, Andrea (Eds.) Plexus 1: Archeologia dei media Temporalità, materia, tecnologia. (2018)

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in Goodall, Mark; Roberts, Ben (Eds.) New Media Archaeologies (2018)

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Scientific Conference (2018, October 12)

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Presentation (2018, October 26)

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in Lejeune, Carlo; Brüll, Christoph; Quadflieg, Peter M. (Eds.) Grenzerfahrungen. Eine Geschichte der Deutschsprachigen Gemeinschaft Belgiens (Band 4). Staatenwechsel, Identitätskonflikte, Kriegserfahrungen (1919-1945) (2018)
2017

in Venken, Machteld (Ed.) Borderland Studies Meets Child Studies. A European Encounter (2017)

Presentation (2017, November 23)

in Fickers, Andreas (Ed.) Jeux sans frontières? Grenzgänge der Geschichtswissenschaft (2017)

Presentation (2017, October 12)

Presentation (2017, October 06)

Presentation (2017, September 21)

Presentation (2017, February 03)

Presentation (2017, January 20)

in Z Cultural : Revista do programa avanca de cultura contemporanea (2017), 1(2),

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in Fickers, Andreas; Haude, Rüdiger; Krebs, Stefan; Tschacher, Werner (Eds.) Jeux sans Frontières? - Grenzgänge der Geschichtswissenschaft (2017)

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Book published by transcript (2017)
2016

in Bönker, Kirsten; Obertreis, Julia; Grampp, Sven (Eds.) Television Beyond and Across the Iron Curtain (2016)

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in Lejeune, Carlo (Ed.) Code Civil, beschleunigte Moderne und Dynamiken des Beharrens im langen 19. Jahrhundert (2016)

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in Lejeune, Carlo (Ed.) Code Civil, beschleunigte Moderne und Dynamiken des Beharrens im langen 19. Jahrhundert (2016)
2015

in Kinnebrock, Susanne; Schwarzenegger, Christian; Birkner, Thomas (Eds.) Theorien des Medienwandels (2015)

in Technikgeschichte (2015), 82(1), 67-85

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in Journal of European Television History and Culture (2015), 4(7), 1-6
2014

Article for general public (2014)

in Schreiber, Martin; Zimmermann, Clemens (Eds.) Journalism and Technological Change. Historical Perspectives, Contemporary Trends (2014)

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Article for general public (2014)
2013

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in Badenoch, Alexander; Fickers, Andreas; Henrich-Franke, Christian (Eds.) Airy Curtains in the European Ether: Broadcasting and the Cold War (2013)

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in Bijsterveld, Karin (Ed.) Soundscapes of the Urban Past: Staged Sound as Mediated Cultural Heritage (2013)

in BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review (2013), 128(4), 155-163

in Gabbard, Krin (Ed.) Oxford Bibliography Online: Cinema and Media Studies (2013)

in Arapostathis, Stathis; Dutfield, Graham (Eds.) Knowlegde Management and Intellectual Property. Concepts, Actors and Practices from the Past to the Present (2013)

in Simonson, Peter; Peck, Janice; Craig, Robert; Jackson, Johan (Eds.) The Handbook of Communication History (2013)

in Lejeune, Carlo; Brüll, Christoph (Eds.) Grenzerfahrungen. Eine Geschichte der Deutschsprachigen Gemeinschaft Belgiens. Band 5: Säuberung, Wiederaufbau, Autonomiediskussionen (1945-1973) (2013)

in Lejeune, Carlo; Brüll, Christoph (Eds.) Grenzerfahrungen. Eine Geschichte der Deutschsprachigen Gemeinschaft Belgiens. Band 5: Säuberung, Wiederaufbau, Autonomiediskussionen (1945-1973) (2013)

in Comunicazioni Sociali: Journal of Media, Performing Arts and Cultural Sciences (2013), (1), 6-19

in Badenoch, Alexander; Fickers, Andreas; Henrich-Franke, Christian (Eds.) Airy Curtains in the European Ether: Broadcasting and the Cold War (2013)

in Bijdragen en Mededelingen betreffende de Geschiedenis der Nederlanden = BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review (2013), 128(4), 155-163

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in Bijsterveld, Karin (Ed.) Soundscapes of the Urban Past: Staged Sound as Mediated Cultural Heritage (2013)

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in Lévy, Marie-Francoise (Ed.) Jean d'Arcy. Penser la communication au xxe siècle (2013)

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in Van den Oever, Annie (Ed.) Techné / Technology. Researching Cinema and Media Technologies - Their development, Use, and Impact (2013)
2012

in Roder, Jan (Ed.) Ik woon in duizend kamers tegelijk. Opstellen voor en over Wiel Kusters (2012)

in Lugon, Olivier (Ed.) Expositions et Médias: Photograhie, Cinéma, Télévision (2012)

in Bijsterveld, Karin; Pinch, Trevor (Eds.) Oxford Handbook of Sound Studies (2012)

in Fickers, Andreas; Johnson, Cathy (Eds.) Transnational Television History. A Comparative Approach (2012)

in Een Eeuw van Beeld en Geluid. Cultuurgeschiedenis van Radio en Televisie in Nederland. (2012)

in Journal of Modern European History (2012)

in VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture (2012)

in Simonson, Peter; Peck, Janice; Craig, Robert T.; Jackson, John P., jr. (Eds.) The Handbook of Communication History (2012)
2011

in Medien-Debatten-Öffentlichkeiten in Deutschland und Frankreich im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert / Medias, Débats et Espaces Publiques en Allemagne et en France aux 19e et 20e siècles. (2011)

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in Journal of European Television History and Culture (2011), 1(2),
2010

in Materializing Europe. Transnational Infrastructures and the Project of Europe. (2010)

in Journal of British Cinema and Television (2010)

in Media History (2010)

in Materializing Europe. Transnational Infrastructures and the Project of Europe. (2010)

in Medienlandschaft Saar von 1945 bis in die Gegenwart. Band 1: Medien zwischen Demokratisierung und Kontrolle (1945-1955). (2010)

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Book published by Palgrave/McMillan (2010)

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in Badenoch, A (Ed.) Materializing Europe. Transnational Infrastructures and the Project of Europe. (2010)
2009

in Sound Souvenirs: Audio Technologies, Memory and Cultural Practices (2009)

in Mythos ¿ Helden ¿ Symbole. Legitimation, Selbst- und Fremd-wahrnehmung in der Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, der Medizin und Technik (2009)

in Archiv für Sozialgeschichte (2009)
2008

Book published by Belgische Staatsarchive. (2008)

in Tijdschrift voor Mediageschiedenis (2008)

in Hermès: Cognition, Communication, Politique (2008)

in Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television (2008)

in Bargaining Norms - Arguing Standards. Negotiating Technical Standards (2008)

Book published by STT Netherlands Study Centre for Technology Trends. (2008)

in Norms - Arguing Standards. Negotiating Technical Standards (2008)
2007

in Zwei Jahrhunderte deutschsprachige Zeitung in Ostbelgien (2007)

in Pariser Historische Studien (2007)

in Revue d'Allemagne et des Pays de langie allemande (2007)

in Rundfunk und Geschichte (2007)

in Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte (2007)

Book published by Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag (2007)
2006

in Northern Lights: Film and Media Studies Yearbook (2006), 1

in Zimmermann, Clemens (Ed.) Die Stadt als Kommunikationsraum. Medialität und Raumgefüge der Großstädte im 20. Jahrhundert (2006)

in Griset, Pascal (Ed.) Georges Pompidou et la modernité: Les tensions de l’innovation, 1962–1974 (2006)
2005

in Miard-Delacroix, Hélène; Hudemann, Rainer (Eds.) Wandel und Integration. Deutsch-französische Annäherungen der fünfziger Jahre (2005)

in Revue d'Allemagne et des Pays de Langue Allemande (2005), (1),
2004

in Tijdschrift voor Mediageschiedenis (2004), 7(1), 90-117
2001

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in Lejeun, Carlo; Fickers, Andreas; Cremer, Freddy (Eds.) Spuren in die Zukunft: Anmerkungen zu einem bewegten Jahrhundert (2001)

in Lejeune, Carlo; Fickers, Andreas; Cremer, Freddy (Eds.) Spuren in die Zukunft: Anmerkungen zu einem bewegten Jahrhundert (2001)

in Lejeune, Carlo; Fickers, Andreas; Cremer, Freddy (Eds.) Spuren in die Zukunft: Anmerkungen zu einem bewegten Jahrhundert (2001)

in Lejeune, Carlo; Fickers, Andreas; Cremer, Freddy (Eds.) Spuren in die Zukunft: Anmerkungen zu einem bewegten Jahrhundert (2001)

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Book published by Lexis Verlag - 1 (2001)
1998

Book published by Verlag für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften und Technik (1998)