Günter Witt

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Günter Witt (born December 19, 1925 in Stralsund ) is a German sports scientist , university professor and former deputy minister for culture of the German Democratic Republic .

Life

Witt was drafted into the Reich Labor Service during the Second World War , served in the Wehrmacht from 1943 to 1945 and was taken prisoner by the British. He then worked as a new teacher and from 1950 full-time employee of the Free German Youth and the SED . From 1953 to 1955 Witt studied at the party college "Karl Marx" (PHS). In 1959 he was awarded the GDR Medal of Merit. Between 1960 and 1965 he was Deputy Minister for Culture and Head of the Film Department. In 1965 he was released. In 1965 Witt completed his doctoral thesis on the connection between art and sport at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig (KMU).

From 1974 he worked as a lecturer for sports aesthetics at the German University of Physical Culture (DHfK). In 1981 he completed his PhD B (title: "Aesthetics of Sport: An attempt to take stock and lay the foundations"). From 1982 to 1990 Witt held a professorship for cultural theory and aesthetics at the DHfK. Among other things, Witt dealt with the connection between art and sport, Bertolt Brecht's relationship to sport, the “body as a subject of the fine arts in the Renaissance” and headed the research project “Aesthetics of Sport” shortly before the DHfK was dissolved. Under his leadership, the DHfK's art collection grew to more than 500 pieces. The art should "offer a comprehensive overview of the representation of sport in the art of the former GDR".

Witt was a member of the board of the National Olympic Committee of the GDR from 1981 to 1990 .

After leaving university, Witt published articles on sports and art as well as articles on sports history in the magazines "Leipziger Sportwissenschaftliche Posts", "Olympic Fire", "Olympic Youth", "Posts on Sports History" and the magazine of the Förderverein Sächsisches Sportmuseum Leipzig eV For the book “German University for Physical Culture Leipzig 1950–1990” published in 2007, he contributed the essay “The scientific discipline of aesthetics of sport and the gallery of sport in the visual arts”.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Biographical databases: WITT, GÜNTER. In: Federal Foundation for the Processing of the SED Dictatorship. Retrieved February 7, 2019 .
  2. ↑ filmarchives online - filmarchives online. Retrieved February 7, 2019 .
  3. ↑ - On the trail of films. In: Deutschlandfunk. Retrieved February 7, 2019 .
  4. ^ Günter Witt: Aesthetics of Sports: Attempt to take stock and lay the foundations / . 1981 ( uni-leipzig.de [accessed February 7, 2019]).
  5. ↑ a b The authors. (PDF) In: Contributions to the history of sports; Issue 5 / 1997. Accessed February 7, 2019 .
  6. ^ Günter Witt: Art and sport in the GDR - common features of their contribution to the all-round development of socialist personalities . In: Theory and Practice of Physical Culture . tape 32 , no. 12 , 1983, ISSN  0563-4458 , pp. 883–888 ( bisp-surf.de [accessed February 7, 2019]).
  7. ^ Günter Witt: Brecht and the sport . In: Theory and Practice of Physical Culture . tape 27 , no. 10 , 1978, ISSN  0563-4458 , p. 725–731 ( bisp-surf.de [accessed February 7, 2019]).
  8. ^ Günter Witt: The body as a theme of the fine arts in the Renaissance . In: Stadion: international magazine for the history of sport . tape 15 , no. 2 , 1989, ISSN  0172-4029 , pp. 191–210 ( bisp-surf.de [accessed February 7, 2019]).
  9. ↑ Günter Witt: Aesthetic of the sport. 1990, accessed February 7, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Sports sculptures. In: spowi.uni-leipzig.de. Retrieved February 7, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Günter Witt: Olympic Games as the "marriage of muscle and mind" - ideal and reality . In: Leipzig sports science contributions . tape 45 , no. 1 , 2004, ISSN  0941-5270 , p. 122–131 ( bisp-surf.de [accessed February 7, 2019]).
  12. ^ Günter Witt: Sport as reality and symbol in works by Bernd Hertel . In: Olympic fire . No. 1 , 1999, ISSN  0471-5640 , p. 45–49 ( bisp-surf.de [accessed February 7, 2019]).
  13. ^ Günter Witt: "I learned to box" - memories of Fritz Kortner . In: Olympic Youth . (2ooo), 4, 2000, ISSN  0343-0235 , p. 34–40 ( bisp-surf.de [accessed February 7, 2019]).
  14. ↑ List of authors . In: Sports Museum, magazine of the Friends of the Sächsisches Sportmuseum Leipzig eV 2014, p. 29 .
  15. ↑ Contents . In: Gerhard Lehmann, Lothar Kalb, Norbert Rogalski, Detlev Schröter and Günther Wonneberger (eds.): German University for Physical Culture Leipzig 1950-1990 . Meyer & Meyer, Aachen 2007, ISBN 978-3-8403-0034-9 , pp. 7 .
personal data
SURNAME Witt, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sports scientist, university professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Stralsund