Hellmut Geissner

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Karl Hellmut Geißner (also Hellmut K. Geißner or Geissner ; born March 7, 1926 in Darmstadt ; † August 19, 2012 in Lausanne ) was a German rhetoric and speech scholar .

Life

Geißner passed the Abitur in Darmstadt. He then studied Greek, Latin, German, philosophy and speech at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . In 1949 he passed the language trainer examination. In 1955 he received his doctorate from Heinrich Weinstock at the University of Frankfurt. phil. His dissertation entitled “Man and Language” dealt with the philosophy of Hans Lipps .

From 1956 to 1965 he was a research assistant and university lecturer for speech and speech training at the Saarland University in Saarbrücken . From 1964 to 1971 he was the first chairman of the German Society for Speech Science and Speech Education , from which the German Society for Speech Science and Speech Education (DGSS) emerged in 1978 . In 1965 he established the scientific advisory board of the DGSS, from 1966 to 1972 he was the editor of the “Mitteilungen” of the DGSS. As an academic councilor , senior counselor and finally director, he headed the Speech Studies and Speech Training Department at Saarbrücken University from 1965 to 1976.

From 1968 to 1991 he acted as editor (initially together with Wilhelm L. Höffe ) of the series "Sprache und Sprechen". In 1968 Geißner founded the Institute for Rhetoric and Methodology in Political Education (from 1996: Institute for Rhetoric and Methodology ; IRM) at the European Academy of Otzenhausen (EAO). In the same year, the International Colloquium on (Oral) Communication (ICC) was held for the first time , which Geißner initiated together with Fred L. Casmir from the American National Communication Association and which has since taken place every two years in Europe and the USA.

In 1976, Geißner was appointed full professor for speech studies and speech training at the Rhineland-Palatinate University of Education (EWH; Landau in the Palatinate ), from which the University of Koblenz-Landau later emerged. From 1984 to 1987 he was dean of the philological department of the EWH in Landau. From 1983 he was a member of the scientific advisory board of the Hernstein Institute for Management and Leadership near Vienna. From 1985 he was a member of the Scientific Council of the Institute for German Language (IDS). He held the chair for speech science in Landau until his retirement in 1994. He then held teaching positions at the universities of Zurich and Vienna . He was also a long-time seminar leader and trainer for large corporations and media companies.

In addition to the DGSS, of which he was a board member from 1954 to 1984, Geißner was a member of the Society for Applied Linguistics , the Speech Communication Association , the International Society for the History of Rhetoric , the International Society of Phonetics and the International Society for the Study of Argumentation .

Geißner is counted among the most important representatives of speech science, he has fundamentally shaped this subject. He emerged with numerous publications on speech science and speech training as well as rhetoric . In addition, he developed the “five-sentence theory” of argumentation and the situation model of communication. The 13-part television series “Talking and talking” ( SWF / ORF ), which was awarded the Adolf Grimme Prize in, is based on Geißner's teaching of rhetorical communication (standard work “Rhetorik und Politikbildung”, 1973; 3rd edition 1986) Silver has been awarded. He participated in several of the “International Voting Days” of the Academy for the Spoken Word .

Since his retirement, Geißner lived with his second wife in Lausanne, Switzerland. He had two sons with his first wife.

Honors

  • Honorary member of the German Society for Speech Science and Speech Education (DGSS) e. V.
  • Honorary Chairman of the Board of Trustees at the Institute for Rhetoric and Methodology at the European Academy Otzenhausen (EAO)
  • Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon, 1994
  • Medal of Honor in Silver from the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
  • Award of the Speech Communication Association, USA, for “Outstanding Scholarly and Research Contributions to the Study of International and Intercultural Communication”

Publications

Author:

  • Man and language. Studies on the philosophy of Hans Lipps. Dissertation, University of Frankfurt am Main, 1955.
  • Record analysis. Spoken poetry. Minerva, Saarbrücken 1965.
  • Speak in public. An introduction to rhetoric. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1969.
  • Rhetoric. Study material. 4th edition. Bayerischer Schulbuch-Verlag, Munich 1978, ISBN 3-7627-2110-6 .
  • Rhetoric and political education . 3. Edition. Scriptor, Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-589-20105-3 .
  • Speech Science. Oral Communication Theory. 2nd Edition. Scriptor, Frankfurt am Main 1988, ISBN 3-589-20771-X .
  • Speech training. Didactics and methodology of oral communication. 2nd Edition. Scriptor, Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-589-20788-4 .
  • Oral: in writing. Linguistic analysis of an acquitted and read report. Scriptor, Frankfurt am Main 1988, ISBN 3-589-20837-6 .
  • In front of loudspeakers and screen. Media-critical work 1965–1990. Röhrig, St. Ingbert 1991, ISBN 3-924555-74-5 .
  • Ways and aberrations of speech training. People who started in their subject before 1945 and what they wrote. Röhrig, St. Ingbert 1997, ISBN 3-86110-116-5 .
  • Communication pedagogy. Transformations of "Speech" Education. Röhrig, St. Ingbert 2000, ISBN 3-86110-244-7 .
  • Democracy and rhetorical communication. Selected essays. Röhrig, St. Ingbert 2005, ISBN 3-86110-395-8 .

Co-author:

  • Basics of acting. Friedrich, Velber near Hanover 1965.
  • Talk and let talk. Accompanying material for the TV series of the same name (SWF). Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1975, ISBN 3-421-06440-7 .
  • Characters in worship. Kaiser / Kösel, Munich 1976, ISBN 3-459-01084-3 .
  • Conversation / leadership talks. 5th edition. Röhrig, St. Ingbert 2008, ISBN 978-3-86110-168-0 .

Complete bibliography of the publications (1954–2007) systematically arranged in:

  • Edith Slembek (Ed.): Transcensions: stimulated - think further. Honorary colloquium on the 80th birthday of Hellmut K. Geißner. Röhrig, St. Ingbert 2007, ISBN 978-3-86110-427-8 , pp. 135-173.

literature

  • Henner Barthel (Ed.): Logon didonai. Conversation and responsibility. Festschrift for Hellmut Geißner. Ernst Reinhardt, Munich / Basel 1996, ISBN 3-497-01394-3 .
  • Madeleine Hofer, Waltraud Ziegler (ed.): Thinking in conversation. “Sense is not, sense happens”. Festschrift for Hellmut K. Geißner. Röhrig, St. Ingbert 2001, ISBN 3-86110-288-9 .
  • Thomas Kopfermann (ed.): The voice phenomenon. Imitation and identity. Hellmut K. Geissner on his 80th birthday . Academy for Spoken Word. Röhrig, St. Ingbert 2006, ISBN 3-86110-409-1 .
  • Wilfried Kürschner : Linguist Handbook . Biographical and bibliographical data of German-speaking linguists of the present . Volume 1. Gunter Narr Verlag, Tübingen 1994, ISBN 3-8233-5000-5 , pp. 265-267.
  • Edith Slembek (Ed.): Talking and acting with one another . Festschrift for Hellmut Geißner. Scriptor, Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-589-20841-4 .
  • Edith Slembek (Ed.): Transcensions: stimulated - think further. Honorary colloquium on the 80th birthday of Hellmut K. Geißner. Röhrig, St. Ingbert 2006, ISBN 978-3-86110-427-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ loss - loss . ( Memento of the original from September 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Family condolence book; Retrieved August 26, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / hkg-inmemoriam.ch
  2. ↑ a b c d e Wilfried Kürschner : Linguist Handbook . Biographical and bibliographical data of German-speaking linguists of the present . Volume 1. Gunter Narr Verlag, Tübingen 1994, ISBN 3-8233-5000-5 , pp. 265-267, here p. 265.
  3. ↑ Bertram Thiel: Brief description Prof. em. Dr. Hellmut K. Geißner (PDF; 64 kB)
  4. ↑ Franziska Fuchs: The Development of Speech Science . ( Memento of the original from February 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 61 kB). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.resonanz-online.de
  5. ↑ Thomas Kopfermann: The phenomenon of voice, imitation and identity: 5th Stuttgart voting days 2004: Hellmut K. Geissner on his 80th birthday . Röhrig Universitätsverlag, 2006, ISBN 978-3-86110-409-4 ( google.de ).
  6. ↑ Liliane Juchli, Edith Kellnhauser, Susanne Schewior-Popp, Franz Sitzmann, Ursula Geißner, Martina Gümmer, Lothar Ulrich (eds.): Experience professionalism (=  Thiemes care ). Thieme, Stuttgart 2004.
personal data
SURNAME Geissner, Hellmut
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Geißner, Karl Hellmut (full name); Geissner, Hellmut K.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German rhetoric and speech scholar
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Darmstadt
DATE OF DEATH 19th August 2012
Place of death Lausanne , Switzerland