Dietmar Goerlitz

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Dietmar Görlitz (born July 4, 1937 in Preußisch Eylau ) is a psychologist and professor i. R. for developmental psychology at the Technical University of Berlin .

Live and act

Born on July 4, 1937 as the son of lawyer Paul Görlitz and his wife Charlotte in Preußisch Eylau / East Prussia, after having switched to school several times and graduating from high school in Bremen, then internships in business, preparation for economics studies in Mannheim, change to medicine and psychology at the university Heidelberg, worked at the local psychological institute (Rudert, Kirchhoff, Pongratz, with a minor in philosophy Löwith and Gadamer), graduated in psychology in 1962, then worked as a qualified psychologist at the educational counseling center of the city of Ludwigshafen / Rhein and the psychological institute of Heidelberg University. Married to Brigitte Frey from Eberbach am Neckar since 1963, two children (working as a lawyer and a doctor).

From 1963 worked at the Psychological Institute of the Technical University of Berlin, specializing in general and communication (expression) psychology, 1970 doctorate at the Philosophical Faculty there, participation in the establishment of a clinical department at the same institute, additional change via an assistant professorship at the TUB in 1971 in social psychology, from 1973 released for research work at the University of Heidelberg, then at the University of California, Los Angeles, appointment to a professorship for developmental psychology at the Technical University of Berlin, acceptance and employment there since 1975, retired in autumn 2002 as University professor. 1985 Habilitation at the Free University of Berlin for cultural psychology - in social and developmental psychology (Commission Rülcker, Rauh, H.Heckhausen, Paul B.Baltes), since then parallel teaching there until 1972.

Currently application-oriented in setting up a generation college as an institutional framework for generational research in the craft-professional area, a project funded by nexus with the ZTG of the TUB and the Robert Bosch Foundation in cooperation with the Central Association of German Crafts, supervised by nexus and the Center for Technology and Society of TUB.

Publications

  • Görlitz, Dietmar (1972). Results and problems of expression psychological speaking-voice research . Meisenheim am Glan: Anton Hain.
  • Görlitz, Dietmar (Ed.). (1980). Perspectives on attribution research and theory. The Bielefeld symposium. Cambridge, Mass .: Ballinger (Harper & Row).
  • Fietkau, Hans-Joachim, and Görlitz, Dietmar (Eds.) (1981 ). Environment and everyday life in psychology . Weinheim: Beltz,
  • Görlitz, Dietmar (ed.). (1983). Childlike explanations. Developmental psychological contributions to attribution research. Weinheim-Basel: Beltz.
  • Görlitz, Dietmar, & Wohlwill, Joachim F. (Eds.). (1987). Curiosity, imagination, and play. On the development of spontaneous cognitive and motivational processes. Hillsdale, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum.
  • Görlitz, Dietmar (1990). When psychologists see pictures. In Ulrich Kleiner (ed.): Managing is creating - Festschrift for Armin Danco (pp. 307-318). (Printed with the support of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation Cologne). Düsseldorf: Triltsch.
  • Görlitz, Dietmar, Harloff, Hans-Joachim, Mey, Günter, & Valsiner, Jaan (Eds.). (1998 ). Children, cities, and psychological theories - Developing relationships. Berlin-New York: de Gruyter.
  • Görlitz, Dietmar (2008). Holistic Psychology in Heidelberg. In Rainer Diriwaechter & Jaan Valsiner (Eds.),  Striving for the whole. Creating theoretical syntheses (pp. 59-87). New Brunswik - London: Transaction Publ.
  • Görlitz, Dietmar (2011). Training sponsorships. Theoretical explanatory models as a contribution of developmental and social psychology. (With Kathrin Najasek). In Christine von Blanckenburg and Hans-Liudger Dienel (eds.), Old and Young in Crafts. Training mentors and intergenerational responsibility as a success factor for professional practice (pp. 17–35). Stuttgart: Franz Steiner.

Web links

  • Dietmar Goerlitz. In: Generation College. nexus(CV of Dietmar Görlitz).;

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dietmar Görlitz. In: Generation College. nexus, accessed on October 21, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Goerlitz, Dietmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Prussian Eylau