Horst F. Rupp

Horst F. Rupp (born October 19, 1949 in Rothenburg ob der Tauber ) is a German Protestant theologian and religious educator. He teaches and researches as a full professor for religious education and didactics of religious education at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg .

Life

Horst F. Rupp studied Protestant theology , German studies , psychology and history at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg and at the University of Zurich from 1969 to 1978 . In 1975 he passed the teaching examination for high school education in the subjects of German and theology, followed in 1976 the theological entrance examination for the spiritual office of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria and in 1978 the state examination in history. From 1978 to 1980 he passed the teaching traineeship for high school service in Bavaria with the second state examination. From 1980 to 1983 he was a temporary academic advisor at the chair for religious education at the University of Bamberg (assistant to Rainer Lachmann ). In 1985 he received his doctorate in theology at the University of Erlangen (topic of the dissertation: Religion and its didactics with Mrs. AW Diesterweg . A chapter in a history of religious didactics in the 19th century). After three years as a teacher at a grammar school, Rupp took on a position as a research assistant at the Institute for Protestant Theology at RWTH Aachen University . In 1991 he moved to the University of Koblenz-Landau , Dept. Koblenz , as an academic councilor .

After a substitute for a chair at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and his habilitation there (1993; title of the habilitation thesis: Religion - Education - School. Studies on the history and theory of a complex relationship) he was appointed to the Würzburg chair in the winter semester 1993/94 called. From 1998 to 2000 he was dean of the Philosophical Faculty III of the University of Würzburg, from 2000 to 2002 he represented the faculty in the university's senate. From 2006 to 2011 he was the speaker of the "Conference of theologians involved in teacher training in Bavaria" (KLT). The retirement took place on April 1, 2015.

In 2000, Rupp was at the center of a controversy surrounding the Creglingen Jewish Museum . In a dispute with his colleagues on the board of directors of the Creglingen Jewish Museum, to which Rupp was a member at the time, he demanded that the period between 1933 and 1945, in particular the Creglingen Jewish pogrom of March 25, 1933, be adequately taken into account in the museum conception and presentation. This controversy received national and international media attention. As a result of these disputes, Rupp was removed from the board.

The focus of his research is on historical (religious) education, especially in Diesterweg research. He designs religious education or religious didactics conceptually based on the concept of education. The guiding principle for him is the formula: Religion needs education - education needs religion. Further focal points of his teaching and research activities are Judaism and its didactic communication in the (religious) didactic context as well as (auto) biographical research in the field of religious education.

Publications (selection)

• Religion and its didactics at Ms. AW Diesterweg. A chapter in the history of religious didactics in the 19th century . Weinheim / Basel: Beltz / Deutscher Studien Verlag 1987. ISBN 3-89271-007-4 .
• Ms. AW Diesterweg. Pedagogy and Politics . Göttingen and Zurich: Muster-Schmidt 1989. ISBN 978-3-7881-0137-4 .
• Life path, religious upbringing and education. Religious Education as an Autobiography . Volume 1 and Volume 2. Weinheim: Deutscher Studien Verlag 1989 (ed. Together with Rainer Lachmann). ISBN 978-3-89271-173-5 and ISBN 978-3-89271-174-2 .
• Diesterweg: Pedagogy - Teacher Training - Educational Policy . Weinheim: Deutscher Studien Verlag 1990 (ed. Together with Gerd Hohendorf). ISBN 3-89271-214-X .
• Religion - Education - School. Studies in the history and theory of a complex relationship . Weinheim: Deutscher Studien Verlag 1994, ISBN 978-3-89271-475-0 . 2nd edition 1996, ISBN 3-89271-475-4 .
• Diesterweg between research and myth. Texts and documents on the history of research . Neuwied / Kriftel / Berlin: Luchterhand 1996 (together with Gert Geißler). ISBN 978-3-472-02709-6 .
• Profiles of Educators: Philipp Melanchthon (1497-1560) . In: Prospects. Quarterly Review of Education. Unesco Publishing. International Bureau of Education. Vol XXVI / 1996, No. 3, p. 611–621 (English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Russian, Chinese)
• Of life and death. Jews in Creglingen . Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 1999, ISBN 3-8260-1834-6 ; 2nd edition 2001 (together with Hartwig Behr). ISBN 3-8260-2226-2 .
• Where the Holocaust began. Why Creglingen wants a Jewish museum - and yet doesn't want it. In: DIE ZEIT 55 (2000), No. 44 (October 26, 2000), 48-49.
• School / school system . In: Theological Real Encyclopedia . Volume XXX, ed. by Gerhard Müller. Berlin / New York: de Gruyter 1999, 591–627.
• Life path and religious upbringing. Religious Education as an Autobiography . Volume 3. Weinheim: Deutscher Studien Verlag 2000 (ed. Together with Rainer Lachmann). ISBN 3-89271-893-8 .
• Friedrich Adolph Wilhelm Diesterweg: Complete works. XX. Tape. Texts from the years 1842 to 1857 . Neuwied / Kriftel / Berlin: Luchterhand 2000 (ed. Together with Ruth Hohendorf). ISBN 3-472-00877-6 .
• Christians meet Jews. A tutorial . Neuendettelsau: Meeting of Christians and Jews 2002; ISBN 3-936678-00-6 ; 2nd revised and updated edition Nuremberg: Encounter of Christians and Jews 2012; ISBN 978-3-00-038610-7 .
• Media theory and media theology . Münster: LIT Verlag 2003 (ed. Together with Klaas Huizing ). ISBN 3-8258-6544-4 .
• Dispute over the Jewish Museum . Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2004. ISBN 3-8260-2966-6 .
• Worthwhile stations in religious education . Jena: IKS Garamond 2005 (ed. Together with Reinhard Wunderlich and Manfred Pirner). ISBN 3-938203-07-2 .
• Religion in the plural . Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2011 (ed. Together with Klaas Huizing). ISBN 978-3-8260-4445-8 .
• Life path, religious upbringing and education. Religious Education as an Autobiography. Volume 4 . Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2011. ISBN 978-3-8260-4773-2 .
• Life path, religious upbringing and education. Religious Education as an Autobiography. Volume 5. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2014. ISBN 978-3-8260-5226-2 .
• The Waltensburg master in his time. Kunstverlag Josef Fink / Verlag Bündner monthly paper: Lindenberg and Chur 2015. ISBN 978-3-905342-51-2
• Life path, religious upbringing and education. Religious Education as an Autobiography. Volume 6. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2015. ISBN 978-3-8260-5510-2 .
• Rothenburg ob der Tauber. History of the city and its surroundings. Darmstadt: Theiss Verlag / Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 2016 (ed. Together with Karl Borchardt). ISBN 978-3-8062-2962-2 .
• "Every teacher - a religion teacher". Religion and its didactics with Mrs.AW Diesterweg. A chapter in the history of religious didactics in the 19th century. 2nd, supplemented edition. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2016. ISBN 978-3-8260-6009-0 .
• Lotte Köhler: The reform pedagogue Adolph Diesterweg. Psychoanalytic reflections on his biography. Edited by Horst F. Rupp. Gießen: Psychosozial-Verlag 2016. ISBN 978-3-8379-2582-1 .
• Focus on Diesterweg. Educational and school history contributions. Würzburg: Ergon-Verlag 2017. ISBN 978-3-95650-246-0 .
• Peter Paul Cadonau (1891–1972). Theologian and pastor in turbulent times. Zurich: Theological Verlag Zurich 2019. ISBN 978-3-290-18203-8 .
• Horst F. Rupp is editor of the series "Forum on Education and Didactics of Religion" (Weinheim: Deutscher Studien Verlag 1988ff.) And "Forum on Education and Didactics of Religion - New Series" (Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2003ff.), “Approaches to Church History” (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1999ff.) And co-editor of “Friedrich Adolph Wilhelm Diesterweg. Complete Works ”(Neuwied / Kriftel / Berlin: Luchterhand 1998ff.) And the series“ Theologie und Empirie ”(Weinheim and Kampen: Deutscher Studien Verlag / JH KOK Publishing House 1990ff.)

literature

• Lars Bednorz / Olaf Kühl-Freudenstein / Magdalena Munzert (eds.): Religion needs education - education needs religion. Festschrift for Horst F. Rupp on his 60th birthday . Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2009. ISBN 978-3-8260-4154-9 .
• Horst F. Rupp: Education. Selected writings on religion and education, Judaism and art. Edited by Martha Römer and Susanne Schwarz. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2015. ISBN 978-3-8260-5543-0 .

Interviews with Horst F. Rupp

• Name guilt. The Sunday conversation. Würzburg professors and their research. Part 2: Horst F. Rupp. In: SonntagsMerkur. A cooperation between Rheinischer Merkur and Mainpost. No. 39 of October 1, 2000, p. 7. Reprinted in: Horst F. Rupp, Streit um das Jüdisches Museum. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2004, pp. 137–139.
• Place of learning conversation. Changed perception. An interview with Horst F. Rupp. In: Basic course in adult education. A correspondence course. Study unit pedagogical action. Edited by the Evangelical Office for Distance Learning for Church Services. Hannover 2001, pp. 26-29.
• no minimo Entrevista: O neto do assassino de meu Bisavo (Marina Lemle, October 5, 2005)
• “Very painful learning process” In: Frankenpost / Hof from April 11, 2008

Web links

• Personnel page for the Chair of Protestant Theology II at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See the reconstruction of this controversy in the publication: Horst F. Rupp: Streit um das Jüdisches Museum . Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2004.