Carsten Brosda (born 3 October 1974) is a German politician of the

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(SPD) who has been serving as State Minister (''Senator'') and head of the

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Authority for Culture and Media in the Senates Scholz II and Tschentscher since February 2017.

Early life and career

Brosda was born in

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. As an exchange student, he spent a year in

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, 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 TU Dortmund University (german: Technische Universität Dortmund) is a technical university in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany with over 35,000 students, and over 6,000 staff including 300 professors, offering around 80 Bachelor's and ...

and completed an internship at the

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. He also completed an internship at the press office of the

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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. 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

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'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

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(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,

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. 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

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Chancellery. From 2013, Brosda was also representative of the Senate of Hamburg for the media.

Political career

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. On 1 February 2017, Brosda succeeded

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, who died in October 2016, as Senator for Culture in the Senate Scholz II and Senate Tschentscher. In the negotiations to form a so-called

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of the SPD, the

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and the FDP under

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following the 2021 federal elections, Brosda was part of his party's delegation in the working group on cultural affairs and media; his co-chairs from the other parties were

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and Otto Fricke.

Other activities

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, Ex-Officio Chair of the Supervisory Board * Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, Ex-Officio Chair of the Supervisory Board * German Federal Cultural Foundation, Member of the Board of Trustees * German Federal Film Board (FFA), Ex-Officio Substitute Member of the Supervisory Board *

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, Ex-Officio Chair of the Supervisory Board * Cultural Foundation of the German States (KdL), Ex-Officio Member of the Council * Thalia Theater, Ex-Officio Chair of the Supervisory Board * Hamburg Marketing Gesellschaft mbH (HMG GmbH), Ex-Officio Member of the Supervisory Board *

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(FES), Member of the Board of Trustees * ''

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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".'',

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: Westdeutscher Verlag, 2001, . * ''Diskursiver Journalismus: journalistisches Handeln zwischen kommunikativer Vernunft und mediensystemischem Zwang.'', Wiesbaden:

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, 2008 ( dissertation), .

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Brosda, Carsten 1974 births Living people Social Democratic Party of Germany politicians Senators of Hamburg People from Gelsenkirchen Technical University of Dortmund alumni