Book excerpt: English summary: This volume contains the lectures given at an international conference on the subject of Invasions of Personal Privacy by the Media. The authors deal with the protection of the personality from the media in an analysis of the individual legal systems in the member states of the European Union, discussing this in detail from the perspective of scholarly and legal practice, history of the law, comparative law, conflict of laws and interdisciplinary aspects. The lectures pertain to basic issues in connection with the Caroline decision handed down by the German Federal Constitutional Court and the European Court of Human Rights, they present individual national laws, deal with the development of legal history as well as with general questions, interdisciplinary aspects and questions in regard to conflict of laws. German description: Dieses Buch ist aus der Tagung Verletzungen von Personlichkeitsrechten durch die Medien - Invasions of Personality Rights by the Media hervorgegangen, die im Mai 2004 in Greifswald stattfand. Das Ziel der Tagung war es, die Thematik umfassend in Auseinandersetzung mit den einzelnen Rechten von Mitgliedstaaten der EU zu behandeln und sich ihr gleichermassen aus wissenschaftlicher und praktischer, rechtshistorischer, rechtsvergleichender, kollisionsrechtlicher und interdisziplinarer Sicht zu stellen.