Completed projects

"Collecting Silence? On the collecting of electric guitars"

September 2025
Lecture by Dr Hendrik Buhl at the annual conference of the association "Gitec - Forum E-Gitarrentechnik. Concentrated knowledge on guitar & amp from scientists and professional musicians" (Regensburg): "Collecting Silence? About collecting electric guitars"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kaOqYeOGeY (external link, opens in new window) (external link, opens in a new window)

"The Handwired Principle - a media nostalgic feeling"

November 2024
In this handwritten article on media culture studies, Dr Hendrik Buhl focuses on the "Handwired" construction principle. Among other things, he shows how the major manufacturers Marshall and Vox present their expensive hand-wired amps and promote media-nostalgic cultural patterns in the process. He also takes a Polaroid selfie in the video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYxfzylrpcE (external link, opens in new window) (external link, opens in a new window)

"Electric guitars and resistance"

January 2024
This lecture is not about the kilohm values of pickups. Instead, the focus of Dr Hendrik Buhl's research interest is on (media) cultural aspects of resistance in connection with the electric guitar. What potential for resistance was and is attributed to the electric guitar as a musical instrument and cultural symbol? Which of its sounds are associated with resistance and protest in various cultural formations? What resistant and independent practices of guitarists have existed and still exist in the creative appropriation of the instrument? But also: What tendencies towards the appropriation and wear and tear of resistant potentials were and are there?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAnYJjogYOM (external link, opens in a new window) (external link, opens in a new window)

"Cultures of the electric guitar between art school, rehearsal room and winery"

November 2022
In this article on media culture studies, Dr Hendrik Buhl uses the theoretical umbrella of Bourdieu's habitus theory to examine the connections between the world of wine and that of the electric guitar that promise distinction. He analyses three examples: a text about a guitar made from the wood of old wine barrels, the advertisement for the Chitarre e Vino event offered by the magazine Gitarre & Bass and the guitar lifestyle magazine Guitar Aficionado.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPmZhKX-uxo (external link, opens in a new window) (external link, opens in a new window)

"Further formations of (dis)knowledge about the electric guitar" Part II

August 2021
In the second part of his media cultural studies article on formations of (dis)knowledge about the electric guitar, Dr Hendrik Buhl looks at a four-part series of articles published by Udo Pipper in 2015 in the magazine "Gitarre & Bass" in response to Prof. Dr Manfred Zollner's standard work on the "Physics of the Electric Guitar". How and with what arguments did the columnist position himself against the physicist? Analysing the articles brings to light findings on the relationship between journalism and science, but also on the esotericism of technology and on emotions and pleasure as part of the culture of the electric guitar.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoTgcAs6Fp4 (external link, opens in a new window) (external link, opens in a new window)

"Formations of (un)knowledge about the electric guitar" Part I

May 2021
In this article on media culture studies, Dr Hendrik Buhl looks at guitar myths and the columns by Udo Pipper, which he regularly publishes in the magazine Gitarre & Bass, under the theoretical umbrella of the history of knowledge.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_rQhKCTGkU (external link, opens in a new window)

Publication:
Bernhard J. Dotzler/Henning Schmidgen: Foucault, digital, Lüneburg 2022
meson.press/books/foucault-digital/ (external link, opens in a new window)

Wiesbaden: Springer 2019 (Dr Armin Sieber)

Cooperation project in collaboration (among others) with the Department of Urology at the University of Regensburg to evaluate the information on prostate cancer on the Internet by comparing it with the EAU guidelines.

Accordance of OnlineHealthInformation on Prostate Cancer with the European Association of Urology Guidelines (external link, opens in a new window) (external link, opens in a new window) (full text)
Urol Int. 2018;100(3): 288-293; Bruendl J, Rothbauer C, Ludwig B, Dotzler B, Wolff C, Reimann S, Borgmann H, Burger M, Breyer J

The Chair of Media Studies has been cooperating with the "Netzwerk Wissen 2050 (external link, opens in a new window) (external link, opens in a new window)" of the VCD e.V. since summer 2015 and offered the joint project seminar "Communicated Mobility" in the winter semester 2015/16.

"Do you actually know what Regensburg sounds like?" This was the question addressed by the project seminar "Sounds of the city. Soundscape Regensburg" in the winter semester 2014/15, which resulted in a website whose centrepiece is a sound map of Regensburg.
https://soundscaperegensburg.wordpress.com/ (external link, opens in a new window)

Website (external link, opens in a new window) (external link, opens in a new window)of the project seminar "The medium of the advertising record".
The advertising record is a medium that is hardly known in the public perception as well as in the research landscape and therefore receives little attention. Accordingly, there is a glaring research desideratum here, which this project seminar has addressed on the basis of the so-called "Spremberg Collection".

Collaborative project:
The Virtual Kafka Bureau (external link, opens in a new window) (external link, opens in a new window)
Prof. Dr Benno Wagner (in charge, University of Siegen)
Prof. Dr Stanley Corngold (Princeton University)
Prof Dr Bernhard Dotzler (University of Regensburg)
Prof Dr Joseph Vogl (Humboldt University Berlin)
Sponsorship 2005-2008: Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (external link, opens in a new window) (external link, opens in a new window)

Research Group (until 2010):
Literary Memory Information System (external link, opens in a new window) (external link, opens in a new window)
Prof. Dr Benno Wagner (University of Siegen)
Prof. Dr Bernhard Dotzler (University of Regensburg)
Prof. Dr Alexander Mehler (University of Bielefeld)
Prof Dr Christian Wolff (University of Regensburg)

Publication(s):
Building blocks of a Literary Memory Information System (LiMeS) using the example of Kafka research (external link, opens in a new window)

Exhibition at the University of Regensburg, General Library, with exhibits from the "Information Technology Collection" of the Institute of Information and Media, Language and Culture (I:IMSK), compiled by the students of a project seminar led by Prof Dr Bernhard Dotzler and Dr Ludwig Hitzenberger.
Catalogue: Bernhard Dotzler/Ludwig Hitzenberger (eds.), Schreiben & Rechnen.
Eine Technikgeschichte der Informationskultur, Regensburg 2009
See: http://www.universitaetsverlag-regensburg.de/artikel_6087.ahtml (external link, opens in a new window) (external link, opens in a new window)
See also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAcUX5iBtO0 (external link, opens in a new window)

Exhibition in the IT-Speicher Regensburg. The exhibition concept and content of the accompanying catalogue https://epub.uni-regensburg.de/23698/ (external link, opens in a new window) (external link, opens in a new window) were developed by media studies students under the direction of Prof. Dr Bernhard Dotzler and Dr Ludwig Hitzenberger. The exhibition was co-produced by the Institute of Information and Media, Language and Culture (I:IMSK), IT Inkubator Ostbayern GmbH and bayern design GmbH under the patronage of the Bavarian Minister of State for Science, Research and Art, Dr Thomas Goppel.