Contact:
Phone: +49/ 84 21/ 93 -23314
E-mail: liane.rothenberger(at)ku.de
Mailing address:
Ostenstr. 25
85072 Eichstätt
Germany
Office hours:
by appointment
Ehemaliges Waisenhaus, room 201
Liane Rothenberger studied journalism at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, with minors in Romance Studies and Musicology, and completed her diploma in 2005 with a thesis on the Verein der Ausländischen Presse (Foreign Press Association) in Germany. She then did a traineeship at the Laaber-Verlag publishing house near Regensburg. In 2008, she completed her doctorate at the KU and wrote a thesis on the program development of the German-French cultural TV channel "arte".
From 2008 to 2021, she worked at the Institute for Media and Communication Science at TU Ilmenau and qualified as a professor in 2018 with a monograph on terrorism as a form of communication. Since 2021, she holds the professorship of Media and the Public with specialization in migration.
She has conducted research and delivered lectures abroad at JOMEC in Cardiff, UHA in Mulhouse, Université Lumière 2 in Lyon, Universitat Abat Oliba CEU in Barcelona and the Centre for Global Studies at the University of Victoria in Canada. As a freelance journalist, she has written for Der Spiegel, among other publications.