The intention of this book is to heighten the sensibility to the roots of German Kommunikationswissenschaft (communication studies). For that purpose 19 biographical interviews are presented. The interviewees are professors who belong to the discipline’s generation of »Jungtürken« (»Young Turks«). This expression was coined by Walter J. Schütz (born in 1930) in order to describe assistant lecturers or PhD candidates who, being the same age as he, prepared for a university career in the 1960ies and, therefore, discussed everything that was an obstacle to such a career: the small reputation of the discipline, the very limited number of professorships and posts for non-professorial teaching staff, the beginning influxes of students. In their publications and lectures in the 1970ies and 1980ies the »Jungtürken« presented their definition of communication studies and it was not least through PhD and habilitation procedures that they passed this definition on to the next generation of professors. So the interviews in this book do not only provide a key to the planning of courses and to the organization of institutes as well as to the understanding of the interviewees’ work. They also offer a suggestion as to the discipline’s identity – an identity that is, among other things, made up of the stories of people who decided to hand down certain approaches, notions and methods and not to hand down certain others.