Gunter Gebauer

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Gunter Gebauer (born January 23, 1944 in Timmendorfer Strand ) is a German philosopher and sports sociologist. He is a professor at the Free University of Berlin ; In 2012 he retired.

Life

Gebauer grew up in Kiel and after graduating from high school, studied philosophy , general and comparative literature , linguistics and sports science in Kiel, Mainz and Berlin . In 1969 he received his doctorate at the TU Berlin in philosophy with a thesis on Wittgenstein's theory of language . In 1975 he completed his habilitation with a thesis on an analytical theory of understanding at the TH Karlsruhe.

From 1969 to 1977 he was Hans Lenk's assistant at the Philosophical Institute at the Technical University of Karlsruhe . In 1978 he accepted a professorship for philosophy and sociology of sport at the Free University of Berlin. In 1995 he turned down a chair for general philosophy at the German Sport University in Cologne and in the same year received a professorship for general philosophy at the Institute for Philosophy at the Free University of Berlin.

Gebauer was president of the international Philosophical Society for the Study of Sports from 1991 to 1993 . In 1993 he became spokesman for the Interdisciplinary Center for Historical Anthropology at the Free University of Berlin. From 1999 to 2010 he was a member of the Collaborative Research Center "Cultures of the Peerformative" with his own research projects. From 2007 to 2012 he was a member of the excellence cluster "Languages ​​of Emotion" as a researcher. From 2013 to 2018 he was chairman of the scientific advisory board of the Franco-German research institute "Center Marc Bloch" in Berlin. Gebauer held visiting professorships in Paris, Strasbourg and Hiroshima (Japan).

His work focuses on the topics of philosophy of language , anthropology, aesthetics and sports sociology. Gebauer is a member of the German Academy for Football Culture . He was the laudator of the “Football Slogan of the Year” award at the German Football Culture Prize 2015 and defined the football slogan from a linguistic and linguistic-philosophical perspective.

At the beginning of December 2018 he was awarded the ethics prize of the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB). In December 2018, Gebauer expressed considerable criticism of the DOSB and top-class sport. There is a kind of nepotism in the DOSB, there is a lack of transparency, Gebauer told Deutschlandfunk . With regard to the German sponsorship of sports, he said that pursuing a sporting career bears the risk of falling behind professionally. Turning top athletes into idols and trailblazers is a big mistake, he said.

Private

Gebauer has two sons, Laurent (born 1970) and Henri (born 1979).

bibliography

Monographs (selection)

  • Word usage, language meaning. Contributions to a theory of meaning following the later philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein , Fink Munich 1971.
  • The individual and his or her social knowledge. Studies on symbolic knowledge . De Gruyter Berlin / New York 1981.
  • Vienna - Kundmanngasse 19. Planning, morphological and philosophical aspects of the Wittgenstein House (with A. Grünewald, R. Ohme, L. Rentschler, Th. Sperling and O. Uhl.), Fink Munich 1981.
  • Historical anthropology (with D. Kamper, D. Lenzen, HG Mattenklott and KG Wünsche), Rowohlt Reinbek 1989.
  • Mimesis. Culture - Art - Society (together with Christoph Wulf ), Rowohlt Reinbek 1993, engl. Trans. University of California Press 1996.
  • Game, ritual, gesture. Mimetic action in the social world (together with Christoph Wulf ), Rowohlt Reinbek 1998.
  • The Poetics of Football , Campus Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 2006.
  • Life in 90 minutes. A philosophy of football. , Pantheon 2016
  • Wittgenstein's anthropological thinking , Verlag CH Beck, Munich 2009; English translation, Palgrave, London 2017.
  • Ludwig Wittgenstein. In the flow of life and language. Speaker: Ulrich Matthes and Gunter Gebauer. onomato Verlag , Düsseldorf 2011 (audio book)
  • From emotion to language. How we learn to talk about feelings (with Manfred Holodynski, Stefan Koelsch, Christian von Scheve), Weilerswist, Velbrück 2017
  • On the pull of the masses and the new power of the individual (together with Sven Rücker ), DVA / Random House , Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-421-04813-4 .
  • Olympic games. A hundred pages. , Reclam, Stuttgart 2020.

Editions (selection)

  • The Laocoon Project. Plans for a semiotic aesthetic. Stuttgart (Metzler) 1984.
  • Sport - Eros - Death. Frankfurt a. M. (Suhrkamp) 1986. [Together with Gerd Hortleder.]
  • Physical strength and imagination. Staging of the hero in sport. Berlin (Reimer) 1988.
  • Practice and aesthetics. New perspectives in Pierre Bourdieu's thinking. Frankfurt a. M. (Suhrkamp) 1993. [Together with Christoph Wulf.]
  • The other utopia of modernity. Olympia's path from religion to drug. Frankfurt a. M. (Suhrkamp) 1996.
  • Anthropology. Leipzig (Reclam) 1998.
  • Pierre Bourdieu: German-French Perspectives. Frankfurt a. M. (Suhrkamp) 2008 (together with Catherine Colliot-Thélène and Etienne François)
  • Wittgenstein - Philosophy as work on oneself. Munich (Fink) 2009 (together with Fabian Goppelsröder and Jörg Volbers).
  • Languages ​​of emotion. Frankfurt a. M. (Campus) 2014 (together with Markus Edler).

Television productions

  • Philosophy of sport. What is the fascination of top physical performance based on? In an interview with Alexander Kluge for DCTP. First broadcast on February 7, 2012 on Sat.1.

Radio productions

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The day with Gunter Gebauer - What can politics learn from sport? Retrieved December 11, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Gebauer, Gunter, Prof. Dr. February 13, 2009, accessed December 11, 2018 .
  3. ^ Football slogan of the year 2015 - with Gunter Gebauer
  4. ^ DOSB ethics prize for Professor Gunter Gebauer, awarded on December 7, 2018. In: German Association for Sports Science. May 31, 2018, accessed December 11, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Dlf sport talk - "Top athletes are not role models". Accessed December 31, 2018 .
  6. ↑ https://wdrmedien-a.akamaihd.net/medp/ondemand/weltweit/fsk0/197/1974104/1974104_23798465.mp3
personal data
SURNAME Gebauer, Gunter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher and linguist
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Timmendorfer beach