Erich Jooss

Erich Jooß, 2009

Erich Jooß (born March 13, 1946 in Hechingen ; † October 28, 2017 in Höhenkirchen-Siegertsbrunn , District of Munich ) was director of the Sankt Michaelsbund , chairman of the media council of the Bavarian State Center for New Media (BLM) and author .

Live and act

Erich Jooß studied German, history and political science and did a doctorate in German. In September 1976 he started at Sankt Michaelsbund as an assistant to the management and was managing director of both associations from 1984 to 2011. From 1989 he was the representative of the Bavarian Bishops' Conference for new media. In 1993 he became a member of the BLM media council as a representative of the adult education institutions. From 2003 to April 2017, Jooß was chairman of the media council. Since 1989 he has been the representative of the Bavarian Bishops 'Conference for New Media and between 2001 and 2011 he was an advisor to the Journalism Commission of the German Bishops' Conference . In 2013 he was elected Deputy President of the German Academy for Children's and Youth Literature . In addition to these activities, Erich Jooß, who was President of the Munich Tower Scribe, was the author of many children's books.

honors and awards

For his services, Jooß was awarded the papal New Year's Eve (Komtur) and the Bavarian Poetentaler in 2005 and the Bavarian Order of Merit and the Bavarian Constitutional Medal in silver in 2006.

Works

• Aspects of the lack of relationship , Selb 1976
• The Catholic public library , Munich [among others] 1981 (together with Michael Mücke and Irmgard Rothweiler)
• The crocodile of Mr. Pfefferminz , Munich [ao] 1983
• Georg fights with the dragon , Düsseldorf 1986 (together with Antonella Bolliger-Savelli)
• Christophorus , Freiburg im Breisgau [ua] 1987 (together with Herbert Holzing )
• Do not be afraid! , Freiburg im Breisgau [et al.] 1987
• The fox, the bird and the water of life , Würzburg 1988 (together with Erich Hölle)
• The cat and the vixen , Oberursel / Ts. 1988 (with Katerina Lovis)
• Nikolaus , Freiburg im Breisgau [among others] 1989
• The red ball , Oberursel / Ts. 1990 (with Erich Hölle)
• The wonderful story of the girl and the unicorn , Würzburg 1990 (together with Erich Hölle)
• Der Himmelsbaum , Freiburg im Breisgau [among others] 1991 (together with Eva Johanna Rubin)
• My little book from Easter , Hildesheim 1992 (together with Linda Wolfsgruber )
• Simon and the magician with the bird's face , Würzburg 1992 (together with Herbert Holzing )
• The year Würzburg has 12 months 1992 (together with Pieter Kunstreich)
• Der Zauberschirm , Würzburg 1994 (together with Gabriele Hafermaas)
• The chief's son , Mödling [ua] 1995 (together with Antoni Boratyński)
• The heron tree , Würzburg 1996
• The man and the cloud and other silent stories , Munich 1997
• Children of Heaven and Earth , Munich 1998
• König Kaktus , Hamburg 1999 (together with Renate Seelig )
• What do you mean, dear god? , Würzburg 1999
• Once upon a time in Bethlehem , Munich 2000
• Der Freund der Adler , Würzburg 2000 (together with Gabriele Hafermaas)
• Do you know that the stars sing , Freiburg im Breisgau [among others] 2000
• The Gift of the Little Shepherd , Kevelaer 2001 (with Margret Bernard-Kress)
• A literary love , Pfaffenhofen 2001
• The master who could send dreams , Freiburg im Breisgau [among others] 2002 (together with Renate Seelig )
• Daniel in der Löwengrube , Stuttgart [ao] 2003 (together with Anne Ebert)
• Franziskus and the song of the lark , Stuttgart [et al.] 2003
• About the shine that angels spread , Freiburg im Breisgau [et al.] 2003
• The angel who had no name , Freiburg im Breisgau [among others] 2004
• The wisdom of St. Leonhard , Rosenheim 2004
• The wisdom of St. Francis , Rosenheim 2004 (together with Klaus G. Förg )
• When heaven and earth were still one , Freiburg im Breisgau [among others] 2005
• The wisdom of the patron saint , Rosenheim 2005 (together with Klaus G. Förg )
• The Bible, told for children , Freiburg im Breisgau 2006
• Shine, my star, shine , Lahr 2006
• Martins Mantel , Stuttgart [ua] 2006 (together with Renate Seelig )
• Ritter Georg and the fight with the dragon , Freiburg im Breisgau [among others] 2006 (together with Steffen Faust)
• Elisabeth of Thuringia and the miracle of roses , Freiburg im Breisgau [among others] 2007 (together with Steffen Faust)
• Hail, Maria , Rosenheim 2007 (together with Klaus G. Förg )
• Kidney table with poinsettia , Freiburg, Br. 2007
• Library history , Schrobenhausen 2008 (together with Franz Josef Mayer and Josef Beyrer)
• The giant Christophorus and the king of the world , Freiburg, Br. [Ua] 2008 (together with Steffen Faust)
• The great fairy tale journey , Munich 2009
• Die Zauberfeder , Munich 2009
• Because the heart is a bird's feather , Munich 2010
• At the end of the visible world , Munich 2011
• The long night of the bird catcher , Munich 2011
• The good gifts of St. Nicholas , Stuttgart [et al.] 2012
• Franz von Assisi and the language of animals , Stuttgart [et al.] 2013
• The most beautiful stories from St. Nicholas , Stuttgart [among others] 2013
• The most beautiful stories from Sankt Martin , Stuttgart [including] 2014
• The child who changed the world , Würzburg 2014
• Rübezahl , Stuttgart 2015
• blues in the morning , Hauzenberg 2015
• The girl, the balloon and the moon , Weitra 2016
• Three Kings , Stuttgart, 2017

Editing

• Rampenscheinwelt , Selb 1978 (edited together with Joachim Putlitz)
• Stories of shepherds, saints and fools , Freiburg im Breisgau [u. a.] 1983
• German poems of the twentieth century , Ottobrunn near Munich 1984
• We saw the child , Freiburg im Breisgau [u. a.] 1984
• The bread miracle , Freiburg im Breisgau [u. a.] 1986
• A touch of paradise , Freiburg im Breisgau [u. a.] 1986 (edited together with Hermann Kirchhoff )
• Catholic childhood , Freiburg im Breisgau [a. a.] 1988 (edited together with Werner Ross )
• Ways of promoting literature , Munich 1988
• The big book of children's prayers , Freiburg im Breisgau [u. a.] 1989
• Michael Ende : Words like dreams , Freiburg im Breisgau [u. a.] 1991
• Death is in the world , Würzburg 1993 (published together with Inge Jooß)
• Rafik Schami : Times of Narration , Freiburg im Breisgau 1994
• Christmas through the eyes of children , Freiburg im Breisgau [u. a.] 1995
• Nachgedacht , Würzburg 1997 (edited together with Ulrich Harprath )
• Rafik Schami : Back then there and now here , Freiburg im Breisgau [u. a.] 1998
• Construction sites of heaven , Munich 2001
• You can't catch the wind , Munich 2005 (edited together with Regina Jooß)
• The Bear Book , Munich 2008
• Hope drives black , Munich 2010 (published together with Anton G. Leitner and Georg Maria Roers )

Web links

• Literature by and about Erich Jooß in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Stephan Munder: Former BLM Media Council Chairman Dr. Erich Jooß has died . on radiowoche.de from October 31, 2017, accessed on November 2, 2017.
2. ↑ Willi Witte: Erich Jooß died: Designer in the Bavarian media landscape . on mk-online.de from November 2, 2017, accessed on November 10, 2017.
3. ↑ Claudia Möllers: Cosmopolitan, Catholic, well-read: A media professional leaves the ship. Freisinger Tagblatt , November 24, 2011, page 12, accessed on November 2, 2017.
   Erich Jooß. In: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2016/2017. Volume II: P-Z. Walter De Gruyter , 2016, ISBN 978-3-11-045397-3 , pp. 464-465.