Carsten Brosda
Carsten Brosda (born 3 October 1974) is a German politician (SPD). Since February 2017 he has been Senator and head of the Hamburg Authority for Culture and Media in the Senates Scholz II and Tschentscher.
Early life and career
Brosda was born in Gelsenkirchen. As an exchange student, he spent a year in Texas, USA, where he came into contact with the job profile journalism on a high school course. He studied Journalism and Political Science at the Dortmund University of Technology and completed an internship at the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung in Essen. He also completed an internship at the press office of the SPD presidium in Berlin. Subsequently, the SPD offered him a half-day job, which allowed him to earn a doctorate incidentally. In 2007 he received his doctorate with a dissertation on "Discursive Journalism" at the faculty of cultural studies at the University of Dortmund. For several years he worked as a lecturer at various German universities.
Political career
From 2000 to 2005 Brosda worked in various positions as a press officer, editor, speechwriter and policy speaker at the Party Executive of the SPD in Berlin. During Gesine Schwan's candidature for the Office of the German President 2004 he was her press secretary. From 2005 to 2009, he was in charge of the Speech, Lectures and Analysis Unit at the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (BMAS) and from 2008 was also deputy head of the Management and Planning Staff. From 2007 to 2009 he worked under the then Federal Minister of Labor and Social Affairs, Olaf Scholz.
From 2010 to 2011 Brosda was head of the communication department of the SPD party executive committee, until in June 2011 the First Mayor of Hamburg, Olaf Scholz, appointed him as head of his newly created Media Office in the Hamburg Senate Chancellery. From 2013, Brosda was also representative of the Senate of Hamburg for the media.
On 1 March 2016, Brosda was appointed as State Councillor of the Senate Chancellery for the Media and Digitization, as well as State Councillor of the Culture Authority in the Senate Scholz II. He succeeded Horst-Michael Pelikahn in the Culture Authority.[1]
On 1 February 2017, Brosda succeeded Barbara Kisseler, who died in October 2016, as Senator for Culture in the Senate Scholz II and Senate Tschentscher.[2]
Other activities
- Deichtorhallen, Ex-Officio Chair of the Supervisory Board[3]
- Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, Ex-Officio Chair of the Supervisory Board[4]
- German Federal Film Board (FFA), Ex-Officio Substitute Member of the Supervisory Board[5]
- Hamburg State Opera, Ex-Officio Chair of the Supervisory Board[6]
- Thalia Theater, Ex-Officio Chair of the Supervisory Board[7]
- Hamburg Marketing Gesellschaft mbH (HMG GmbH), Ex-Officio Member of the Supervisory Board[8]
- ZDF, Member of the Program Committee[9]
Personal life
Brosda is married and has two children.
Works
- Along with Thomas Meyer und Christian Schicha: Diskurs-Inszenierungen: zur Struktur politischer Vermittlungsprozesse am Beispiel der "Ökologischen Steuerreform"., Wiesbaden: Westdeutscher Verlag, 2001, ISBN 3-531-13568-6.
- Diskursiver Journalismus: journalistisches Handeln zwischen kommunikativer Vernunft und mediensystemischem Zwang., Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2008 (dissertation), ISBN 978-3-531-15627-9.
References
- Carsten Brosda wird neuer Staatsrat für Kultur, Medien und Digitales., hamburg.de. 23 February 2016, retrieved 27 Januar 2017.
- "Bürgerschaft bestätigt Brosda als Kultursenator" (HTTPS). ndr.de (in German). 2017-02-01. Retrieved 2017-02-01.
- Supervisory Board Deichtorhallen.
- Supervisory Board Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein.
- Supervisory Board German Federal Film Board (FFA).
- Supervisory Board Hamburg State Opera.
- Supervisory Board Thalia Theater.
- Supervisory Board Hamburg Marketing Gesellschaft.
- Members of the Program Committee ZDF.