Wolfgang Hagen

Wolfgang Hagen studied German and philosophy in Vienna and Berlin. Doctorate in 1977, from 1970 to 1972 in the founding collective of Merve-Verlag Berlin, then until 1975 managing director of a bookshop, 1978 cultural editor at Radio Bremen, 1979 to 1984 editor and presenter of the SFB programme »SFBeat«. From 1984 founding and programme director of »Radio Bremen Vier«. From 2002 to 2012 he was head of the culture department at Deutschlandradio. Habilitation at the University of Basel in 2001, Professor of Media Studies at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg from 2013, Senior Researcher of the DFG Research Group MECS since 2015 and Project Manager of the DFG project »Media of Assistance« since 2018.