Guest Lecturers
Insights into practice are exciting, instructive and an important part of the degree programme. In line with this motto, the Department of Media and Business Communication regularly invites experienced, high-calibre practitioners from various areas of the media industry as guests. As part of teaching assignments and as guest lecturers, they pass on their valuable experience and insights to the students.
For example, the following were or are involved in teaching for many years:
Dr Florian Drücke, Chairman of the Board and Managing Director of the Federal Association of the Music Industry (BVMI), Berlin, and member of the German-French Cultural Council and the Global Future Council "The Future of Information and Entertainment" of the World Economic Forum, among others
Daniel Epailly, Managing Director of the media agency Mindshare GmbH and Wavemaker GmbH, Frankfurt a. M.
Florian Fritsche, Managing Director and Chief Digital Officer at Raudio.BizLeipzig, a national new audio marketer; previously Head of Sport at Amazon Germany, Head of Digital Business Development at Antenne Bayern, Managing Director at Regiocast Digital and founder of Germany's first football radio station "90elf"
Emke Hillrichs, Director Strategy at the strategy agency diffferentBerlin
Helge Hoffmeister, Managing Partner at the management consultancy Gauly Advisors, Frankfurt a.M.; previously Senior Vice President for Strategic Communications at Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA (formerly Bertelsmann AG)
Sascha Naujoks, winner of the German Television Award and Managing Director of magis TVCologne/Berlin; previously Head of Development at Tower Productions and Senior Vice President Lead Projects at ProSiebenSat.1, among others
Marc Roder, Senior Consultant at Loyamo.
Marius Voigt, independent political and communications consultant (Potsdam, Berlin, Luxembourg) and former managing director and office manager of the fischerAppelt agency (Berlin)
Other guest lecturers included:
Maja Bahtijarević, journalist and filmmaker, Norddeutscher Rundfunk and others
Elmar Bartel, speaker and speech coach at ZDF
Florian Brauch, managing partner of the tour organiser SPARTA Booking and the business service company 3ACHT3NULL
Franca Dettmar, Junior Consultant at Consumer Panel Services GfK, Nuremberg
Mirko Filip, Head of Product Marketing & Business Development at Clipfish
Clemens Finzer, Head of the Training Department at Bayerischer Rundfunk
Ingo Fischer, Managing Director of Fischer Media Management. Previously Producer at MAX Productions and Supervisor Film, TV and Commercial at BMG ufa Munich
Isabell Kroiß, Partnership Relations Manager at FC Bayern Munich
Philipp Krohn, business editor of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and author of "Sound of the Cities"
Ralf Michutta, Managing Director of the full-service FUNCONNECTION event company GmbH in Nuremberg
Patrick Morgan, former programme director and head of music at the radio station bigFM, Ludwigshafen/Stuttgart
Frank Müller, editor and media coach at the Mainfranken studio of Bayerischer Rundfunk
Dr Lars Peters, Podcast Account Director at Spotify
Lukas Pizon, Senior A&R Manager & Creative at Sony/ATV Berlin
Mario Radetzky, singer, guitarist and songwriter withBlackout Problems.
Tobias Regner, musician and winner of the third season of the casting show "Deutschland sucht den Superstar"
Tom Ripphahn, owner of the label and recording studio analoghaus, singer, guitarist and songwriter for Hands on the Wheel as well as producer and composer of advertising music
Thorsten Schliesche, Executive Vice President and General Manager Europe at Napster
Eva-Maria Schmidt, HORIZONT Head of Internet and Online Media; HORIZONT is the leading professional magazine in the marketing, advertising and media segment
Joachim Schulz, owner of Posthalle GmbH in Würzburg and Managing Director of the event agency Tunefish Entertainment
Dr Benedikt Spangardt, Head of Communications, Havariekommando, Cuxhaven
Achim Vogel, Research Consultant, Advise Research GmbH, Ulm
Anthrin Warnking, Author Radio & Online at N-JOY (Norddeutscher Rundfunk), Hamburg
Henning Wehland, member of Söhne Mannheims and H-Blockx, judge on "The Voice Kids" and manager and managing director of BLX-Music & Entertainment
Jan-Simon Wolff, Managing Director of the indie label Chimperator Department, Berlin
Sabrina Wynistorf, Consultant at the brand agency Interbrand AG, Zurich
