Dr. Stephan Völlmicke

Stephan Völlmicke was born in 1976 in Olpe (Sauerland). After his A levels, he worked as Sound Technician at the radio station Deutschlandfunk (Cologne) for 3 years . From 1999, he studied Communication Science, Political Science and Sociology at the University of Münster and received his master’s degree in 2004. During his studies, he worked as Student Assistant and Tutor. From December 2005 until October 2006, he was Research Assistant at the Department of Communication at the University of Münster and the ERASMUS-Coordinator. From November 2006 until February 2007, he was Research Assistant and responsible for the structural conception of the Graduate School of Communication Science. From April 2007 until March 2008 he was Coordinator of the Graduate School of Communication Science. From Mai 2008 until April 2009, Völlmicke was Coordinator of Media Practice at the Münster Department of Communication. From May 2009 until May 2011 he was Executive Assitant of the head of the Department of Communication. Völlmicke received his Doctoral degree (Dr. phil.) in 2010 at the University of Münster (topic: 40 Years of Public Show — Public Viewing. How the TV Crime Show “Tatort” Has Transformed Their Audiovisual Depiction of Death Against the Background of How Society Has Changed Its Way of Dealing With Death and Dying.) From 2011 until 2017, he the was Scientific Coordinator of the Training Research Group “Trust and Communication in a Digitized World”. Since 2017, Völlmicke is the Coordinator for media practice and ERASMUS at the Departement of Communication.