Erhard Koellner

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Erhard Köllner (born January 11, 1950 in Würzburg ) is a German educationalist , sexologist and psychotherapist whose research focused primarily on the life situation of homosexual people. He has lived and worked in Cologne since 1977 .

life and work

Erhard Köllner grew up as the youngest son of a pastor's family with many children in the Franconian Jura in Creußen (until 1963) and Bamberg (1963–1971). First he trained in business and tax consulting professions. After graduating from high school, he studied religious education and church education at the Augustana University in Neuendettelsau (1973) and then education, psychology and sociology in Würzburg and Cologne.

After the second semester, Köllner became a research assistant at the Institute for Education at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg . In 1979 he successfully passed the main diploma examination for pedagogy and trained as a psychotherapist. In 1990 he obtained his doctorate in pedagogy in Cologne with an empirical study on homosexuality entitled "Homosexual Socialization and Gay Counseling". The study on the life context of male homosexuals was based on a 25-page questionnaire with 102 individual questions. His doctoral supervisor, Prof. Heinrich Lenzen, was a student of Otto Friedrich Bollnow and Bollnow in turn was a student of Herman Nohl , the founder of humanities education .

In 1995/1996, Köllner carried out events on client-centered counseling as a lecturer at the curative education faculty of the University of Cologne .

With his main scientific work Homosexuality as an Anthropological Challenge (2001), Köllner sees himself as a successor to his teachers as a representative of humanities education. A central thesis of his work is the criticism of the lack of communication between the generations as a “dialogue between those who are already emancipated and those who are on their way to emancipation”.

The problems and needs of male homosexuals that came to light in his empirical study were the impetus for his pocket book Gay and Self-Confident , which is supposed to provide practical help in life for homosexual men. From his point of view, theory and practice are inseparable for a teacher.

He has been retired since August 2015.

Works

  • Gay Socialization and Gay Counseling. Coming out and homosexual socialization in male homosexuals with a special emphasis on maturity preferences and interpersonal attraction. A sexual science study with socio-educational reflection. Dissertation, Lit-Verlag , Münster 1990, ISBN 978-3-88660-586-6
  • Educational efforts. A collection of essays. Hochschulschriften, Vol. 18, Lit-Verlag, Münster 1991, ISBN 978-3-88660-791-4
    • Research Methods in Educational Science, pp. 9–20
    • Social role and role theory, pp. 21–34
    • Giftedness / Giftedness Research, pp. 35–54
    • Class-specific socialization research - critical, pp. 55–66
    • The Paradigmatic Character of Anomie Theory in the Sociology of Deviant Behavior, pp. 67–76
    • On the problem of “friendship duration among homosexuals”, pp. 77–85
    • The essence of ephebophilia and its position in homosexual research, pp. 87–96
  • Gay and confident. Self-awareness program. Partner training. Confidence training. Rowohlt Taschenbuch , Reinbek 1994, ISBN 978-349919-634-8
  • Counseling in social work: Exercise book for client-centered conversation, Kohlhammer Verlag , Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 978-317013-811-7
  • Homosexuality as an anthropological challenge. Conception of a homosexual anthropology. Verlag Julius Klinkhardt , Bad Heilbrunn 2001, ISBN 3-78151-138-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d Hans Meyer: Homosexual anthropology (human studies). Interview with Erhard Köllner, HuKinfo, Ecumenical Working Group Homosexuals and Church (HuK) eV, July-September 2001; Pp. 45-46.
  2. ^ University of Cologne (ed.): Course catalog University of Cologne SS1996 . Cologne 1996, p. 153 ( digitized at ub.uni-koeln.de ).
  3. ^ University of Cologne (Ed.): Course catalog University of Cologne WS 1995/96 . Cologne 1995, p. 159 ( digitized at ub.uni-koeln.de ).
  4. ↑ Björn Reinfrank: The Young and the Restless: Jung und Gay in 2004. rik 6/04, 2004; P. 20.
personal data
SURNAME Köllner, Erhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educationalist, sexologist and psychotherapist
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Wurzburg