Amok: Muster und Genealogie einer publizistischen Debatte von 1964 bis heute

The text deals with a killing frenzy in Germany in 1964. Joseph Vogl calls this case the beginning of the age of amok, because at this time the notion ›amok‹ begins to refer to an established and stabilized knowledge. The following text wants to discuss Vogl’s thesis by scrutinizing the news about persons running amok at that time. My goal is to prove that even though a lot of themes rerun, there are significant changes and shifts in the knowledge of amok after 1964. Especially since the late sixties the news are focused on debating the impact of media on these sorts of violent crimes. How the correlation of amok and media is designed by the news, is the question of the text.