Further events
ESC-FESTIVAL Weil am Rhein - Vortrag mit "Dr. Eurovision" Irving Wolther
Kulturzentrum Kesselhaus
Am Kesselhaus 9, 79576 Weil am Rhein
"Growing up is getting old? - How the Eurovision Song Contest keeps reinventing itself."
Veranstaltungsdetails
"Dr. Eurovision" Irving Wolther, freelance journalist at NDR and team leader of the Eurovision International Conference, gets to the bottom of why the ESC has lost none of its fascination from 1956 to the present day and sheds light on how the ESC continuously uses the latest technical achievements to keep its finger on the pulse of the times in terms of both visual and stage aesthetics.
Irving Wolther studied applied linguistics, cultural studies and journalism at the universities of Mainz, Geneva and Hanover. He has been involved with the Eurovision Song Contest for over 40 years and is one of the leading international researchers on the subject. In his dissertation 'Clash of Cultures - The Eurovision Song Contest as a Means of National-Cultural Representation' in 2006, he analyzed for the first time the complex interrelationships of the contest in the field of tension between media, music industry, politics and national culture.
Wolther is co-founder and owner of the _phonos journalist office in Hanover and works as a journalist for the official German Eurovision Song Contest website www.eurovision.de, among others. In 2018, he initiated the annual Eurovision International Conference together with Sofia Vieira Lopes from the NOVA University of Lisbon.
Note: This text was translated by machine translation software and not by a human translator. It may contain translation errors.
Irving Wolther studied applied linguistics, cultural studies and journalism at the universities of Mainz, Geneva and Hanover. He has been involved with the Eurovision Song Contest for over 40 years and is one of the leading international researchers on the subject. In his dissertation 'Clash of Cultures - The Eurovision Song Contest as a Means of National-Cultural Representation' in 2006, he analyzed for the first time the complex interrelationships of the contest in the field of tension between media, music industry, politics and national culture.
Wolther is co-founder and owner of the _phonos journalist office in Hanover and works as a journalist for the official German Eurovision Song Contest website www.eurovision.de, among others. In 2018, he initiated the annual Eurovision International Conference together with Sofia Vieira Lopes from the NOVA University of Lisbon.
Note: This text was translated by machine translation software and not by a human translator. It may contain translation errors.