Bernd Wedemeyer-Kolwe

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Bernd Wedemeyer-Kolwe (* 1961 in Kassel ; born Bernd Wedemeyer ) is a German sports scientist and folklorist . He is especially with sport historic emerged works.

Life

Bernd Wedemeyer completed a master's degree at the Georg-August University in Göttingen from 1981 to 1988 with the subjects of folklore (1983–1988), prehistory and early history (1981–1988) and Assyriology (1984–1988). In 1992 he was there with Rolf Wilhelm Brednich with the dissertation housing and home furnishings in Göttingen in the 18th and in the first half of the 20th century to Dr. phil. PhD . He was also very interested in the history of sports , in addition to gymnastics, especially weight training and bodybuilding . In 1996 he published the book Strong Men, Strong Women. A cultural history of bodybuilding , one of the first popular scientific presentations of the modern fitness movement. Wedemeyer deepened in the wake his research to their early years in Germany and put to another, cumulative dissertation entitled The bodybuilding movement in the German Empire and the Weimar Republic before, with whom he 2001 Arnd Krüger to Dr. disc. pole. received his doctorate. In the following year he completed his habilitation with the portrayal of “The New Man”. Physical culture in the empire and in the Weimar Republic , which also appeared in print in 2004, and then received the venia legendi for the subject of "sports history" in 2002 , which he initially as a private lecturer and since 2007 as an adjunct professor at the university's institute for sports science Represents Göttingen. Since 2010 he has also been teaching there at the Institute for Cultural Anthropology / European Ethnology.

From 2003 to 2010, Bernd Wedemeyer-Kolwe worked as a freelance worker to set up the archives of the State Sports Association of Lower Saxony . He was chairman of the scientific advisory board of the Lower Saxony Institute for Sport History e. V. (NISH) and has been its Scientific Director and Managing Director since 2011.

In addition to the history of sports and gymnastics in general, his scientific focus is primarily on the history of the body , the history of life reform and social movements, the history of the ethnic movement and the history of occultism . From 2004 to 2011 he worked as a freelance worker for the Disabled Sports Association of Lower Saxony (BSN) and the German Disabled Sports Association (DBS), including two specialist books, on the history of disabled sports .

Wedemeyer's publications are characterized by the fact that they also classify the respective sport-historical subject in the other contemporary and cultural-historical context. He succeeded in doing this in his biography of the “athlete father” Theodor Siebert , published in 1999 .

Fonts

  • Coffee de Martinique and Kayser-Thee. Archaeological and folkloric studies on the household effects of Göttingen citizens in the 18th century , Modern Archeology Edition. Material culture (Volume 1), Göttingen 1989 ( ISBN 3-927780-00-6 )
  • Housing conditions and furnishings in Göttingen in the 18th and first half of the 20th century , Kulturwissenschaft series (Volume 1), Dissertation, Göttingen 1992 ( ISBN 3-926142-22-7 )
  • as editor together with Arnd Krüger : Kraftkörper - Körperkraft. To understand physical culture and fitness yesterday and today. Booklet accompanying the exhibition in the entrance hall of the new university library, 3.7 . – 31.7.1995 . Göttingen library publications No. 8, Göttingen 1995 ( ISBN 3-930457-06-7 )
  • Strong men, strong women. A cultural history of bodybuilding , Munich 1996 ( ISBN 3-406-39246-6 )
  • The Schaefer strength training estate. An inventory overview , Hoya 1997
  • A citizens' initiative with tradition. Festschrift for the 150th anniversary. Turngemeinde von 1848 Northeim eV , Northeim 1999
  • The athlete's father Theodor Siebert. A biography between physical culture, life reform and esotericism , Göttingen 1999 ( ISBN 3-928312-08-1 )
  • Festschrift on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Hessian Athlete Association. 1899-1999 , Egelsbach 1999
  • as editor together with Arnd Krüger: Learning sports history from biographies. Festschrift for the 90th birthday of Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Henze , series of publications by the Lower Saxony Institute for Sports History Hoya eV (Volume 14), Hoya 2000 ( ISBN 3-932423-07-0 )
  • The bodybuilding movement in the German Empire and in the Weimar Republic , cumulative dissertation 2001
  • "The new person". Physical culture in the Empire and in the Weimar Republic , habilitation thesis, Würzburg 2004 ( ISBN 3-8260-2772-8 ; 2nd edition Würzburg 2006)
  • as editor together with Judith Baumgartner: Aufbruch - Seitenpfade - Abwege. Search movements and subcultures in the 20th century. Festschrift for Ulrich Linse , Würzburg 2004 ( ISBN 3-8260-2883-X )
  • The archive of the State Sports Federation of Lower Saxony. Research overview and inventory catalog , series of publications by the Lower Saxony Institute for Sports History Hoya, Materials on Lower Saxony Sports History No. 8, Göttingen 2006 ( ISBN 3-932423-31-3 )
  • "Prevented healthy people"? The history of Lower Saxony disabled sports . New start, Hanover 2010, ISBN 978-3-9808244-0-8 .
  • From “ disabled gymnastics ” to the German Disabled Sports Association (DBS) - a history of German disabled sports . Arete, Hildesheim 2011, ISBN 978-3-942468-02-2 .
  • Departure! - The life reform in Germany . Verlag Philipp von Zabern in the Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2017, ISBN 978-3-8053-5067-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information from the publishing house Königshausen & Neumann ; Retrieved April 19, 2016.
  2. ↑ a b c d CV at the Lower Saxony Institute for Sports History; Retrieved April 19, 2016.
  3. ↑ a b c Brief presentation on the website of the Institute for Sports Science at the Georg-August University of Göttingen ( memorial from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ); Retrieved April 19, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Wedemeyer-Kolwe, Bernd
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wedemeyer, Bernd (former name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sports scientist and folklorist
DATE OF BIRTH 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel