Stephanie Seul

PLEASE EMAIL ME IF YOU WISH A COPY OF MY PAPERS!    -    I am a Lecturer in Media History in the Department of Cultural Studies (FB 9) at the University of Bremen (in Northern Germany). I was trained as a historian at the Universities of Munich/Germany and Cambridge/Great Britain (M.Phil in European Studies and earned a Ph.D. (2005) from the European University Institute in Florence/Italy with a thesis on Chamberlain’s appeasement policy and the British propaganda campaign directed at the German public 1938-1940.


My research focuses on Anglo-German diplomatic and media relations during the interwar period and the Second World War, on the history of the German and international press during the first half of the 20th century, and in particular on the representation of anti-Semitism and the Holocaust in the mass media (press and radio) at that time. Recently, I have also begun to study the German-Jewish press during the First World War.

I am currently engaged in a research project investigating, from a comparative and transnational perspective, the coverage of German anti-Semitism during the Weimar Republic in the international press, taking as examples Great Britain, France, Italy, Austria, and the United States.

In a second project I investigate the discourses in the German-Jewish press on the First World War, the rise of anti-Semitism, and German-Jewish identity.

My third project deals with female war correspondents during the First World War: So far, I have studied the Austrian travel writer and photographer Alice Schalek in more detail, but in the long run I am aiming at a more general and comparative study of female war correspondents in different war theatres during 1914-1918.

Professional Services:

Co-editor of the refereed journal "Media History" (Routledge, Taylor & Francis)

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