Gerhard Oberlin

Gerhard Oberlin (born December 4, 1950 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a German literary and cultural scientist, science journalist, textbook author, poet, storyteller and teacher.

Life

After studying English, German and sports science, Gerhard Oberlin first worked as a grammar school teacher in Reutlingen before he switched to the international school service as head of German and advanced training coordinator. After a few years in Tokyo and Yokohama , further studies in pedagogy, psychology, anthropology and cultural studies as well as the doctorate to Dr. phil. with Gert Sautermeister in Bremen. Afterwards various teaching activities at universities and Goethe Institutes in Asia ( Tokyo , Beijing , Hong Kong ) as well as guest lectureships at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem , the Malayalam University in Tirur, India and at the PTM Government College in Perinthalmanna / Kerala.

In addition to short stories, poetry and scientific essays , he published literary psychological studies a. a. on works by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Friedrich Schiller , Heinrich von Kleist , Adelbert von Chamisso , Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm , Rainer Maria Rilke , Franz Kafka , Georg Büchner and Friedrich Hölderlin . There were also numerous cultural studies and psychoanalytic investigations into phenomena of contemporary history and the present. He published two books by the Greek author and astrophysicist Argyris Sfountouris on the cultural and contemporary history of Greece, which illustrate and complement the film A Song for Argyris by Stefan Haupt .

The author runs an editorial office and offers professional editing services for authors. He teaches as a lecturer at the Adult Education Center in Tübingen.

In 1992, under the patronage of Karl Krolow, he founded the “ Society for contemporary poetry e. V. “, with today's seat in Leipzig.

For his lyrical work, he received the Baden-Württemberg Art Foundation Prize in 1993 , which included a work grant at Solitude Castle .

Gerhard Oberlin founded and directed Montessori schools in Japan, Laos and Zurich. In 2003 he became headmaster of the Rhein-Main International Montessori School (RIMS) in Friedrichsdorf , before moving to the Zurich International School in Zurich and finally to the German School in Athens .

Monographs

• Sun spots. Poems . Narr Verlag, Tübingen 1983, ISBN 3-87808-195-2 .
• Walpurgi Day. Poems . Narr Verlag, Tübingen 1984, ISBN 3-87808-362-9 .
• Silence between the seas. Poems . NF Weitz Verlag, Aachen 1986, ISBN 3-925177-30-2 .
• Goethe, Schiller and the unconscious. A literary psychological study . Psychosozial-Verlag , Giessen 2007, ISBN 3-89806-572-3 .
• Modernity and awareness. Heinrich von Kleist's last stories . Psychosozial-Verlag, Giessen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89806-587-0 .
• The last myths. Investigations into the work of Franz Kafka . Psychosozial-Verlag, Giessen 2011, ISBN 978-3-8379-2046-8 .
• The madness of reason. Georg Büchner's ' Lenz '. The crisis of the subject in modern times. A literary essay. Königshausen & Neumann , Würzburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-8260-5462-4 .
• Delphi - the oracle . Center of the ancient world. A cultural psychological study . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-8260-5710-6 .
• Why? - Death flight 4U 9525 . The Germanwings tragedy . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-8260-5808-0 .
• as editor: Argyris Sfountouris : Mourning for Germany. Speeches and essays by a survivor . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-8260-5821-9 .
• Childhood in the electronic age. A letter of defense . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-8260-5935-3 .
• War in the heart. The drama of inanimate feelings . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-8260-5986-5 .
• The infinite object. Religion and psyche . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-8260-6123-3 .
• Why we laugh, why we cry. The feeling for the film . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-8260-6124-0 .
• as editor: Argyris Sfountouris: Silence is my mother tongue. Greece - its poets, its contemporary history . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-8260-6147-9 .
• Miracle or delusion. Hölderlin's spiritual ecstasies . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-8260-6201-8 .
• Ashes to Ashes. Our life. Meditations on Death . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-8260-6200-1 .
• The infinite object. Religion and psyche . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-8260-6123-3 .
• Why we let ourselves be seduced. The message of fairy tales. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-8260-6346-6 .
• Example football. The betrayal of the game and the consequences. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-8260-6355-8 .
• Creativity and psyche. On the psychology of the artistic. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8260-6478-4 .
• Kafka's unwritten aesthetic. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8260-6477-7 .
• "Now everything, everything has to turn" - perspectives for the future . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8260-6617-7 .
• Inner Switzerland. A psychogram. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-8260-6725-9 . ISBN 978-3-8260-6725-9 .
• I don't know what is it supposed to mean. German soul. A psychogram. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-8260-6771-6 .
• Climbing to the limit - philosophical messages. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-8260-6909-3 .
• with Argyris Sfountouris: Bloodlust. Violence in humans . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2020, ISBN 978-3-8260-7060-0 .
• It's NOT a Man's World. The millennium of women. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2020, ISBN 978-3-8260-7064-8 .
• Apocalypse - end time fantasies. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2020 (to be published in autumn 2020).
• Jealousy . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2021 (to be published in spring 2021).

Web links

• Literature by and about Gerhard Oberlin in the catalog of the German National Library .
• Gerhard Oberlin at Psychosozial-Verlag .
• Works by Gerhard Oberlin at Königshausen & Neumann .

Individual evidence