Dr. Hendrik Kühn
Research Associate
Hendrik Kühn has been working as a research assistant at the Center for Communication, Media and Information Sciences (ZeMKI) at the University of Bremen. He is currently researching in the work package “Prototypes of Social Cohesion” at the Research Institute for Social Cohesion (FGZ), having previously worked on the DFG project “Pioneer Journalism: The Re-Figuration of Journalism Organizations” (2019–2024). Before a stay abroad in Brazil, where he wrote novels and short stories and taught German for beginners, he worked in the organization of the Goethe University Frankfurt and in online market research. He studied sociology at Bielefeld University, majoring in media sociology, sociological theory, qualitative social research, philosophy, and political science, and graduated with honors. His thesis received the Sociology Department’s award for the best theoretical thesis. He spent his practical semester at the research department of the BStU Berlin and has researched the history of opposition and resistance in the G.D.R. In 2026, he earned his doctorate with a thesis titled “In Dialogue with the Absent: Narrative Articulations of the Journalism-Audience Relationship in Pioneering Journalism.”
Current reasearch projects
- Prototypes of social cohesion (2025 – 2026)
Most recent publications (Source: ORCID)
- Andreas Hepp and Wiebke Loosen and Hendrik Kühn and Paul Solbach and Leif Kramp (2021). Die Figuration des Pionierjournalismus in Deutschland: Akteure und Experimentierbereiche. Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft. 69 (4). 551--577
https://doi.org/10.5771%2F1615-634x-2021-4-551 - Existenzbeben. Was ist der Mensch und wo geht er hin?. Velbrück Wissenschaft Magazin
https://www.velbrueck.de/out/media_rte/Magazin/Hendrik%20K%C3%BChn%20-%20Existenzbeben.pdf - Hendrik Kühn (2020). Theorie der Singularitäten. Eine Lektüre von Giorgio Agambens ›Die kommende Gemeinschaft‹. Velbrück Wissenschaft
https://doi.org/10.5771%2F9783748911746
