Wolfgang Hagen has been a professor at Leuphana University Lüneburg (2012-2013) and a lecturer in media science at the Humboldt-Universität in Berlin (since 2003). He has also held various positions at German editing houses and radio stations, including Radio Bremen and SFB. From 2002 to 2012 he headed the cultural and music departments as well as the media research department Deutschlandradio Kultur.