Dr. Sigrun Lehnert is since 2010 a scientific assistant in Hamburg. The same year, she took up her dissertation project at the University of Hamburg „Wochenschau und Tagesschau in den 1950er Jahren“ (about German newsreels and the first TV-News-show in the 1950s). She completed this project and earned her PhD in 2013. The following book was published by UVK Verlag, Konstanz. Her research interests comprise: film and television history.