Götz Großklaus

Götz Großklaus (Prof. em. Dr.), born 1933, is Professor emeritus at the Institute for Neuere Deutsche Philologie at the University (TH) of Karlsruhe (now: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology KIT). He co-founded the Institute for Applied Culture Studies at the University (TH) Karlsruhe and was Associate Professor for Media History at the Staatlichen Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe as well as Visiting professor at the Cairo University (1974-76), Visiting Fellow at the University of Melbourne (1983) and at the Istanbul Universitesi Beyazit (1995). Main Field of Research: Comparative Literature / Culture Studies, Semiotics, Theory of Media.