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Public Talks (Selection)

July 13, 2026

News Media & War

Waffen für Werte? Zur medialen Moralisierung von Krieg und Rüstung [Weapons for values? On the media’s moralization of war and armaments], Talk, Association for Peace Goslar, Goslar, DE (2026). 

Propaganda: Zur Herstellung der Kriegstüchtigkeit in den Köpfen [Propaganda: Shaping a Mindset Ready for War], Talk and Workshop, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Gifhorn, Gifhorn, DE (2026). 

Krieg als neue Normalität: Wie Politik und Medien militärisches Denken in der Gesellschaft prägen [War as the new normal: How politics and media shape military thinking in society], Gramsci-Tage & Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Braunschweig, Braunschweig, DE (2025).

News Media & Representation

“Medien und Demokratie im Umbruch: Zwischen Meinung und Ahnung” | Stefan Leifert & Mandy Tröger, Haus der Weimarer Republik, Weimar, DE (2026).

Mediale Narrative Dekonstruieren [Deconstructing media narratives], Panel and Discussion, Menschen und Institutionen für Kommunikation und Partizipation (MIKOPA) Conference [People and institutions for communications and participation (MIKOPA)], Leipzig, DE (2024). 

“Die Medien” und “der Osten”. Was läuft schief in den deutschen Medien? [‘The media’ and ‘the East’. What’s going wrong in German media?], Talk, Re:publica 2023, Berlin, DE (2023).

Meine Medien, meine Stimme? Zur Rolle der Medien in Ostdeutschland [My media, my voice? On the role of media in East Germany], Panel, Deutsche Gesellschaft e. V., Berlin, DE (2023). 

Narrative, Framing und „die Geschichte“ [Narratives, framing and “the story”], Talk and Workshop (online) with Paul Wellsow and Mandy Tröger, Talk Series „Linke Flaute?“ [Crisis of the Left?], Rosa-Luxemburg-Foundation Saxony-Anhalt and Saxony, DE (2022). 

Strukturelle Gründe, warum die ländlichen Regionen Ostdeutschlands in den Medien oft aus städtischer Perspektive dargestellt werden [Structural reasons why media often portray rural regions in East Germany from an urban perspective], Talk, Realitätscheck: Erzähle mir Brandenburg [Reality Check: Narrating Brandenburg], Schloß Trebnitz, Bildungs- und Begegnungsstätte e.V., Trebnitz, DE (2022). 

„Die Medien“ und „der Osten“ ['The media' and 'the East'], Talk (online), Speakers Series „(K)Einheitsgeschichten – Eine politische Geografie Ostdeutschlands“, StipendiatInnen der Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, DE (2022). 

Geschichten aus Ost & West – Medien- und Meinungsbildung hier und dort [Stories from the East & the West – media and opinions here and there], Input (online), Bücherhallen Hamburg and Stadt- und Regionalbibliothek Erfurt, DE (2021). 

Ostdeutsche Medienverhältnisse [Media in East Germany], Talk and Discussion (online), Medientage: Face the Facts. Öffentliche Medien in privaten Zeiten [Media Days: Face the Facts. Public Media in Private Times], Heinrich Böll Foundation, Berlin, DE (2020). 

Zukunft – nur in der Stadt? Bruchlinien zwischen Stadt und Land [Future – only in the city? Fault lines between urban and rural area], Panel, Karlsruhe Chamber of Industry and Commerce, KIT Science Week, Karlsruhe, DE (2025)

Ist die Zeitung in der Prignitz das Papier nicht mehr wert? Die Zukunft der Medien im ländlichen Raum [Is the newspaper in the Prignitz not worth the paper? The future of media in rural areas], Event and Discussion, Rosa-Luxemburg- Foundation Brandenburg, Kyritz, DE (2023).

News Media & Digital Transformations

Information und Kommunikation im digitalen Zeitalter: Die Monopole der Techunternehmen und deren Folgen [Information and communication in the digital age: The monopolies of Big Tech], Workshop „Aufklärung? - Der neue Struktur- wandel der Öffentlichkeit“, medico international, Frankfurt am Main, DE (2022). 

Ende der Öffentlichkeit im digitalen Kapitalismus? [The end of the public in digital capitalism?], Talks und Discussion with Dr. Sebastian Sevignani, Dr. Mandy Tröger and Dr. Gert Hautsch, 15. Braunschweiger Gramsci-Tage, Braunschweig, DE (2022).

Facebook & Co. enteignen? [Expropriate Facebook & Co.?], Talk and Discussion (online), Die Linke - Munich, DE (2021).

Pressefrühling und Profit [One the rise and death of newspapers], Book talk, Speaker Series: Über Medien und Macht am Mittwoch [Media and Power on Wednesdays], student organisation KriKW, University of Erfurt, DE (2023).

Marktexpansion und Übernahme der DDR Presse: Die Wirkungen des (west) deutschen Wirtschaftslobbyismus. Zum Tag der deutschen Einheit [Market expansion and the take-over of the East German Press: On the effects of West German lobbying]. Talk (online), Institute for Social Ecological Economic Research, Munich, DE (2023). 

What is a “free press”: East Germany’s experience, Talk, The Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution, Bath, UK (2023). 

German Press & Its History

Pressefrühling und Profit – Wie westdeutsche Verlage 1989/90 den Osten eroberten [On the rise and death of newspapers. How West German newspaper publishers conquered East Germany in 1989/1990], Talk (online), Rosa- Luxemburg-Foundation, Potsdam, DE (2022). 

30 Jahre Märkische Oderzeitung. Vom Parteiorgan zur unabhängigen Tageszeitung [30 Years of the Märkische Oderzeitung. From a party paper to an independent daily newspaper], Talk, Trebnitzer Schlossgespräche, Bildungs- und Begegnungsstätte e.V., Trebnitz, DE (2021). 

Presse in Thüringen damals und heute: Von der ‚Wendevielfalt‘ zum Quasi- Monopol [Press in Thuringia then and now: From diversity to market-monopoly], Talk, Akademie in der Aula, Volkshochschule Altenburg, DE (2021). 

‚Nun ja, mal sehen, was daraus wird‘, Martin Gross und Mandy Tröger im Gespräch [“Well, let's see what comes of it”, Martin Gross and Mandy Tröger in conversation], Discussion (online), Kulturstiftung Schloss Wiepersdorf, DE (2021). 

Vergessener Protest und verhinderter Pressefrühling. Die Treuhandpolitik und ihre Folgen [Forgotten protests and revolutions. The Treuhand policy and its consequences], Talk and Discussion (online), Rosa-Luxemburg-Foundation, Potsdam, DE (2020). 

Die verpasste Chance der Wendezeit: Warum der DDR- Pressefrühling zum Pressesterben wurde [The missed opportunity of the transition], Opening Talk, Duderstädter Gespräche: „30 Jahre Deutsche Einheit“ [Duderstadt Talks: 30 Years of German Unity], Kolpingwerk, Diözesanverband Hildesheim, Duderstadt, DE (2020).

Pressefrühling und Profit [On the rise and death of newspapers. How West German newspaper publishers conquered the East in 1989/1990], Book Reading und Talk, Frankfurt Book Fair, Frankfurt, DE (2019). 

30 Jahre Medienwende: Wie West-Verlage Den Osten eroberten – und das bis heute nachwirkt [30 years of media revolution: How West German publishers conquered the East], Talk, Institute for Communications and Media Research, Leipzig University, DE (2019).

The Treuhand

Die Privatisierung der Volkswacht/OTZ. Ein Treuhand-Presse-Skandal? [The privatization of the Volkswacht/OTZ. A Treuhand press scandal?], Talk, Gera, DE (2024). 

Die Schwierigkeiten bei der wissenschaftlichen Aufarbeitung der Treuhandgeschichte [On the difficulties of doing research on the Treuhand], Talk, Exhibition: Schicksal Treuhand – Treuhand Schicksale, Ilmenau, DE (2023). 

Das letzte Wort hatte die Treuhand? [The Treuhand has got the last word?], Bürger- debatten in Ostdeutschland: Meine Medien, meine Stimme? Zur Rolle der Medien in Ostdeutschland [Civic debates in East Germany: My media, my voice? On the role of media in East Germany], Panel, Deutsche Gesellschaft e. V., Cottbus, DE (2022).

Treuhand Techno Leipzig [Treuhand techno Leipzig], Panel, Art Collective “Panzerkreuzer Rotkäppchen”, Leipzig, DE (2021). 

organizer

Speaker Series (in German): Media and the Extreme Right: On the Way to a New Fascism?, Organizer and Panel Moderator (online), KriKoWi : talks, Network for Critical Communications Research (KriKoWi), DE 

  • TikTok and the Extreme Right with Lara Franke (2025).

  • Discourse Strategies of Right-Wing Alternative Media and Reactions of the Mainstream with Tilman Klawier (2025).

  • The Narrative Community of the New Right with Dr. Felix Schilk (2025).

  • Digital Fascism: Fascism in the Age of Social Media with Prof. Christian Fuchs (2024).

Speaker Series (in German): Media at War – War in the Media, Organizer and Panel Moderator (online), KriKoWi : talks, Network for Critical Communications Research (KriKoWi), DE 

  • Wars neglected by the media with Simon Abel and Dr. Ladislaus Ludescher (2024).

  • The importance of peace journalism and conflict-sensitive journalism with Prof. Carola Richter (2024).

  • Media representations  of the war in Israel and Palestine with Prof. Kai Hafez (2023).

  • Media at War – War in the Media with Prof. Jörg Becker and Prof. Sabine Schiffer (2023).

Discussion Series KriKoWi : talks (in German), Network for Critical Communications Research (KriKoWi), DE 

  • From students, for students: Captured Journalism. A book Project (2024)

  • The Propaganda Model (2023).

  • Hermann Budzislawski: From the “Weltbühne” to the Invention of Socialist Journalism (2022).

  • “Alternative media criticism” - A useful concept of Siegfried Weischenberg? (2021)

  • On the Relationship between Freedom of the Press and the Protection of the Constitution (2021). 

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"The subject matter of my work is not a tiny academic squabble."

Herbert I. Schiller


A panel discussion on media and democracy at a public event in the house of the Weimar Republic, Weimar, in June 2026 (in German).

Reflections on the impact of Bob McChesney’s work on academia and journalism.

A talk I gave on the Re:publica 2023 about “the media” and “the East” (in German).

Mandy Tröger: What being East German means 30 Years after German Unification (in German).

A portrait: “Mandy Tröger: What being East German means 30 Years after German Unification” (in German).

An article on the role of East German women in changing ideas of womanhood in West Germany (in German).

An article of mine on the role of East German women in changing ideas of womanhood in West Germany (in German).

An article in the East German magazine Super Illu on my research about the Treuhand.

A podcast on the transition of the East German press with me as an interview partner (in German).

An interview with me on the German election and East Germany (in German).

An interview with me on the German election in 2021 and East Germany (in German).

Stories from East Germany - 30 Years after German Unification, Rohnstock Biografien (in German).

I am telling my story for the series “Stories from East Germany - 30 Years after German Unification”, Rohnstock Biografien (in German).

The MEDIEN360G Podcast with me about the privatization of GDR newspapers (in German).

The MEDIEN360G Podcast with me about the privatization of GDR newspapers (in German).

“Thinking of East Germany” features different East German perspectives on current German issues (in German).

My bi-weekly column on media and society in the Berlin newspaper Berliner Zeitung (in German)

My bi-weekly (media) column in the Berlin newspaper Berliner Zeitung (in German)

Book Premiere

Book talk (in German) on the 2 volume edition: (Ost)Deutschlands Weg. 45 Studien & Essays zur Lage des Landes Teil I – 1989 bis heute.