RG 5022/1: Popular narratives of a good life. Interrelationships between modern medicine and temporality on German television. (SP 02)

At a glance

Project duration
05/2021  – 04/2025
DFG classification of subject areas

Theatre and Media Studies

German Literary and Cultural Studies (Modern German Literature)

Funded by

DFG Research Unit DFG Research UnitDFG Research UnitDFG Research UnitDFG Research Unit

Project description

The project analyses the (mass) media representation and negotiation of temporal conceptions of the good life in the context of medicine. How are changing conceptions of time considering current medical developments and individual reorientations in relation to a successful life perceived and televisualized by German linear television and non-linear streaming services?

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Participating institutions

Cooperation partners

  • Cooperation partner
    UniversityGermany

    Carl von Ossietzky Universit?t Oldenburg

  • Cooperation partner
    UniversityGermany

    Goethe University Frankfurt

  • Cooperation partner
    UniversityGermany

    University Medical Center G?ttingen

  • Cooperation partner
    UniversityGermany

    University of G?ttingen