Bruno Osuch

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Bruno Osuch (born November 26, 1952 in Radmühl , Hesse ) is a German teacher and former president of the Berlin-Brandenburg Humanist Association .

Life

Bruno Osuch studied mathematics and social studies (history, politics, geography) for teaching at the University of Kassel from 1973 to 1978 . He then completed his legal clerkship in Kassel . After 1980 he worked at various comprehensive schools in Berlin. a. as head of the department for social studies and mathematics.

Since 1984 he has worked in various functions to develop the subject of humanistic life studies, including as a seminar leader, member of the scientific advisory board and parliamentary liaison to the Berlin House of Representatives .

Together with Gerald Betz and Werner Schultz, he drafted the framework plan for life science lessons in Berlin in 1993 .

In 2000 he received his doctorate with a thesis on the importance of Erich Fromm for teaching values using the example of life studies at the Technical University of Berlin . Since then he has also been a lecturer and examiner for this subject at the TU Berlin.

From 2001 to 2016 he was involved in the establishment and expansion of the state bilingual Nelson Mandela School , among other things as acting, deputy headmaster, department head and member of the school conference.

From 2016 to the beginning of 2019 he worked as a teacher and coordinator for the development of ethics classes at the German School Santiago de Chile as part of the German Schools Abroad.

Since May 2019 he has been an authorized representative on the board of the HVD Berlin-Brandenburg for contacts with the government, parliament, parties and associations.

He is the father of a daughter and a son and lives in his second marriage in Kleinmachnow near Berlin.

politics

Bruno Osuch was initially a member of the DKP in the 1970s , and then briefly of SEW . Since 1990 he has been a member of the SPD , also a member of the GGG - non-profit society comprehensive school and the International Erich Fromm Society .

Memberships and honorary positions

Awards

Part-time journalistic activities

Osuch published numerous articles and comments in the Berlin Tagesspiegel on values ​​education and the relationship between church and state.

Fonts (selection)

  • New beginning in the armaments center Kassel. In: Schneider, Ulrich u. a. (Ed.): When the war was over. Hessen 1945. Frankfurt / Main 1980, pp. 56-65.
  • The power of "secret" worldviews. On the current importance of Erich Fromm's critical Freudo-Marxist approach . In: humanism today. Magazine for culture and worldview. Berlin. H. 1 / September 1997, pp. 22-29.
  • Humanistic life studies - an ideological alternative to religion and ethics lessons in the Berlin school. In: Schulz-Hageleit, Peter (Ed.): Learning under changed living conditions. Frankfurt / Main 1999, pp. 251-276.
  • To have and to be. On the significance of Erich Fromm's social psychology for humanistic life studies. In: humanismus aktuell, magazine for culture and worldview. Berlin, special issue 2/1999, pp. 125–134.
  • On the importance of Erich Fromm for the school subject Humanistic Life Studies. A contribution to the didactics of value formation. Dissertation (at the TU Berlin, Bibl. No. D 83, also available as a microfiche).
  • "My dream country" - analysis of a lesson sequence. Body, language and imagination in their relationship to the unconscious - a didactic approach from Erich Fromm's point of view . In: Adloff, Peter / Alavi, Bettina (eds.): Just like school, only completely different. Didactic contributions to humanistic life studies. Berlin 2001, pp. 165-178.
  • Life studies - the history of a school subject as reflected in its curricula. In: humanismus aktuell, magazine for culture and worldview. Berlin, H. 8/2001, pp. 71-78.
  • Humanism - Life Science - Erich Fromm. Traditions and perspectives of a little-known school subject. In: Claßen, Johannes (Ed.): Erich Fromm - Education between having and being. Eitorf 2002, pp. 255-306.
  • Humanistic Life Studies - Traditions and Perspectives of a Special Alternative to Religious Education in Berlin and Germany. A political-historical, constitutional and educational study. In: Hardach, Karl (Hrsg.): International studies on the history of economy and society. Frankfurt, 2012. Volume 2, pp. 785-817.
  • 30 years reintroduction of life science: Traditions and perspectives of a special school subject In: blz 5/2014, magazine of GEW Berlin , accessed on May 30, 2014.
  • See the world with different eyes. A report that gives courage to those who would like to take the big step in foreign service , together with Constance Velazquez, in: bbz magazine of the GEW Berlin, issue 11/2018, pp. 30–31.

radio

Osuch on TV

  • Freethinkers' life lessons in Berlin. Contribution to a television report on teaching life skills at schools in Berlin-Neukölln in the “Journal Kirche” series by Sender Freie Berlin (SFB). Author: Karl-Heinz Baer, ​​broadcast on June 12, 1986.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ “The word 'atheist' still doesn't have a good reputation” , Pedro Stein Guerrero (Santiago de Chile) in an interview with Bruno Osuch. In: this side, 1/2019, pp. 38–41.
  2. ^ International Erich Fromm Society: Homepage
  3. ↑ Life science: Schools must not be neutral , in Der Tagesspiegel of September 14, 2000, accessed on October 1, 2012
  4. ^ City of Critical Spirits , in Der Tagesspiegel of September 3, 2004, accessed on October 1, 2012
  5. ↑ Ethics instead of indoctrination , in Der Tagesspiegel of June 13, 2008, accessed on October 1, 2012
  6. ↑ Berlin is not Pope! , in Der Tagesspiegel on July 19, 2011, accessed on October 1, 2012
  7. ↑ One can also change rituals , in Der Tagesspiegel of July 18, 2012, accessed on January 3, 2012
  8. ↑ Life studies throughout Germany , in Der Tagesspiegel from August 19, 2013, accessed on September 8, 2013
  9. ↑ Religious people are not automatically more tolerant , in Der Tagesspiegel of February 7, 2015, accessed on February 8, 2015
  10. ↑ My way to humanism , in Der Tagesspiegel of June 21, 2015, accessed on June 22, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Osuch, Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher and President of the Humanist Association Berlin-Brandenburg
DATE OF BIRTH November 26, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Radmuehl , Hesse