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Old hand tells all The times of "political sugar coating" are over according to Dr. Tilo Prase, a journalism lecture at Leipzig University, who went through the latest political changes, the "Wende" and survived. The 45-year-old-lecturer, who has taught at Leipzig since 1979, explained how he passed through the re-unification of Germany. Many of his colleagues retired at the same time. He said: "Luckily enough I taught the journalistic crafts in the last decade of the GDR. I taught the visual crafts such as film editing and camera operating. That basically did not change until nowadays." He has some concerns about the changes for the students. Now they must organise more for themselves and earn their living."But over all, he thinks, the positive aspects of the "Wende" outweigh the negative. One problem with the transition, after the old professors had retired, was that the teachers (wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter) did their work, yet when the new professors arrived, the teachers were downgraded again even though they had proved they could do the work. Dr. Prase thinks more should have been done to integrate new media in to the course of studies. In some areas of education Leipzig is still too conservative, he says. He also thinks that the wissenschaftlichen Mitarbeiter should begiven more power as they do a great part of the everyday work. The history of journalistic education in Leipzig through the different political circumstances is no theme in Leipzig besides in acadamic papers. Major problems are are familiar to many universities in Germany like crowed lectures and the shortage of money. Christian Hallerberg |
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