Gerd Koch

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Gerd Günter Koch (born September 4, 1941 in Rotenburg (Wümme) ) is a theater pedagogue , publicist, publisher and editor.

Life

Gerd Koch completed an apprenticeship as a wholesale and foreign trade clerk in Bremen. He passed the Abitur on the second educational path at the Oldenburg College. He studied political science, journalism, literature and education in Berlin, Hamburg and Lüneburg with the degrees of the first state teacher examination and diploma in education. His state examination thesis was entitled Destroy the State! Marx and Bakunin on the Paris Commune . Politically he was active in the socialist office . He worked as a research assistant in the educational science department at Harm Prior (educational science and didactics of politics and social studies) at the University of Hamburg and was working on his dissertation learning with Bert Brecht. Bertolt Brecht's political and cultural education at the former Lower Saxony University of Education (PHN), Lüneburg Department (today Leuphana University Lüneburg ) is doing his doctorate.

Koch's work focuses on the theory and practice of social cultural work, theater in social fields and Bertolt Brecht's production approach as an educational concept. Bertolt Brecht , Pierre Bourdieu , Heiner Müller , George Tabori , Augusto Boal , François Jullien and Abū Alī al-Husayn ibn Abdullāh ibn Sīnā were important sources of ideas . From 1981 to 2006 he was Professor of Education and Social Cultural Work at the Alice Salomon University (ASH) Berlin, where he was the academic director of the master’s course in Biographical and Creative Writing until 2010 . Until 2016 Gerd Koch was a juror for the Alice Salomon Poetics Prize. He works in workshops and future workshops at home and abroad.

Together with others, Gerd Koch founded the magazine for theater pedagogy correspondences and the book series Practice - Theory - Innovation. Berlin contributions to social work and care and Lingen contributions to theater education .

Until 2016 he was involved in the founding of an active museum of the languages ​​of the world and set up the monthly Salon of Languages ​​there, which he coordinated until mid-2016.

In the tradition of literary salons, Gerd Koch organizes literary afternoons to which writers and other creative people are invited. The guests included Jan Robert Bloch , Helmut Bräuer , Amir Hassan Cheheltan , Martin Jürgens , Heidi von Plato , Holly-Jane Rahlens , Friedhelm Rathjen , Uwe Soukup , Lutz von Werder , Rainer E. Zimmermann .

Award

On November 17, 2011 Gerd Koch was at the University of Koçaeli (Turkey) during the "19th international Drama in Education Seminar" by Çağdaş Drama Derneği (Association for contemporary drama) because of his theoretical and practical implementation in the field of creative drama in education and theater education for his life's work. His “humanism” and his work “on the process of intercultural communication” were highlighted.

Memberships and engagement

  • Society for Theater Education Lower Saxony eV, Hanover
  • Theater pedagogical center and apartment building Kreativhaus eV (sponsorship), Berlin
  • Galerie Morgenland eV (founding member and board member until 2013), Hamburg
  • Ernst Bloch Society (member of the Management Board until 2010), Ludwigshafen
  • International Ernst Bloch Association, Nuremberg
  • International Brecht Society , USA
  • Member of the Advisory Board GRIPS Werke eV, Berlin
  • Bundesverband Theaterpädagogik eV (external examiner for final exams in full training and advanced training in theater pedagogy), Cologne
  • German Society for Educational Science
  • Education and Science Union
  • Ver.di / IG Medien, member of the Association of German Writers since July 1st, 1977
  • Gesellschaft für Sinn und Form eV (board member), Berlin
  • Federal Working Group (BAG) Spiel und Theater eV (board member), Hanover
  • Federal working group "History, Culture, Education" in the Association of German Amateur Theaters (BDAT), Berlin
  • DAKTYLUS e. V., Berlin

Selected editorial and co-authorship

  • Experiences - Socialists work on their political socialization. With Volkhard Brandes with the assistance of Rita Marx and Conrad Westhoff. Offenbach 1980
  • Already lived today? Everyday life and utopia . With Norbert Kremeyer and Volkhard Brandes. Offenbach 1981
  • Associal theater. Attempts to play with didactic pieces and incitement to practice . With Reiner Steinweg and Florian Vaßen. Cologne 1984
  • Experiment: Political Culture. Reports from a new everyday social life . Frankfurt / M. 1985
  • CHALLENGES: ENVIRONMENT. Inciting ecological teaching and learning . Frankfurt / M. 1985
  • The 'future workshop' method in social education . With Günther's truth. Milow, Berlin 1991
  • Contradiction and contradiction. Theater between obstinacy and adaptation . With Bernd Ruping and Florian Vaßen. Lingen, Hanover 1991
  • Laughter and clown theater: the diversity of the comic in music, literature, film and drama . With Florian Vaßen. Frankfurt / Main 2nd edition 1995
  • Theatricalization of teaching and learning processes . Berlin, Milow 1995. With video: The art of living. An ASFH production in 2001. Gerd Koch in conversation. Idea and realization: Laszlo Kornitzer .
  • Literary life, exile and National Socialism. Berlin - Antwerp - Sanary-sur-Mer - Lippoldsberg . Frankfurt / M. 1996
  • U-TOPOI. Aesthetics and political practice with Ernst Bloch . With Rainer E. Zimmermann. Mössingen-Talheim 1996
  • Interplay: body theater experience . With Florian Vaßen and Gabriela Naumann. Frankfurt / Main 1996
  • Measures: Controversial perspective practice Brecht / Eisler's teaching piece . With Inge Gellert and Florian Vaßen. Berlin 1999
  • Nothing works without a body: learning in new contexts . With Gabriela Naumann and Florian Vaßen. Berlin, Milow 2000
  • Difference and social work: sensitivity in dealing with the different. Practice - theory - innovation. Berlin contributions to social work and care . Volume 1. With Heiko Kleve and Matthias Müller. Berlin, Milow 2003
  • Dictionary of Theater Education . With Marianne Streisand. Milow, Berlin 2003
  • Theater work in social fields. An introductory manual . With Sieglinde Roth and Florian Vaßen. Frankfurt / M. 2004
  • Tell you what I do not know . With Reiner Steinweg. Milow, Berlin 2006
  • Can help us and you and nobody. The mahoganyation of the world. Bertolt Brechts and Kurt Weils "Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny " . With Florian Vaßen and Doris Zeilinger with the assistance of Sinah Marx. Frankfurt / M. 2006
  • 100 years of social teaching and learning. From the women's social school to the Alice Salomon Hochschule Berlin . With Adriane Feustel. Berlin 2008
  • Social space staging . With Nadine Giese and Silvia Mazzini. Milow, Berlin 2012

Monographs

  • Learning with Bert Brecht. Bertolt Brecht's political-cultural pedagogy . 2nd extended new edition Frankfurt / M. 1988
  • "Destroy the state! Marx and Bakunin to the Paris Commune" . Hamburg 1974

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Koch, Gerd
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Koch, Gerd Günter (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater pedagogue and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH September 4, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Rotenburg (Wümme)