Horst Rumpf

Horst Rumpf (born May 1, 1930 in Darmstadt ) has been a professor emeritus for educational science at the University of Frankfurt am Main since 1996 .

Life

Rumpf grew up in Darmstadt and attended the old-language Ludwig-Georgs-Gymnasium . Studied German, history and theology in Mainz, Munich and Frankfurt / M. led him to the teaching profession for eight years, then as a lecturer at various universities (Frankfurt / M., Konstanz, Innsbruck). Since 1960 Rumpf has been a permanent guest in Martin Wagenschein's seminars at the TH Darmstadt , who became his most important teacher, for over 20 years . The theater years in Darmstadt under Gustav Rudolf Sellner in the fifties (drama) and the years at the Frankfurt Opera under Michael Gielen between 1975 and 1985 brought him important learning experiences . At the University of Innsbruck he was professor for educational science from 1971 to 1975, since 1975 Professor (until 1996) in the Faculty of Education at the Goethe University Frankfurt / Main, since 1992 also honorary professor at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts .

The Association of German School Musicians awarded him the Kestenberg Medal in 1994 . The Swiss Wagenschein Society awarded him the Wagenschein Prize of Honor in 2006.

Focus of work

• School and teaching in the process of civilization
• Teaching and learning to understand ( cognitive theory and pedagogical aspects)
• Aesthetic Experience and Aesthetic Education
• Dealing with technocratic and empirically shortened ideas of upbringing and educational science

An educational science that was only concerned with itself never interested him. The phenomenologically oriented theoretical position in the educational sciences is most clearly outlined in: The fruitfulness of phenomenological attention for educational science and educational practice , in meaning and experience - phenomenological methods in the human sciences . Edited by Max Herzog and Carl F. Graumann. Heidelberg, Asanger 1991, pp. 313-335.

Publications (selection)

He received his doctorate in 1957 at the University of Frankfurt / M. with a work on the interpretation of the figure of Christ in the late Holderlin . The first educational publication that became widely known at the time: 4o school days diary of a student council , Braunschweig 1966/67 (3 editions).

• Sham clarities - explorations of school and classroom research . Braunschweig, Westermann 1972.
• The artificial school and real learning . Munich, Ehrenwirth 1986.
• With a strange view - pieces against the flattering of the world . Weinheim, Beltz 1986.
• Lessons and Identity . 3rd edition, Munich, Juventa 1987.
• The ignored sensuality. 3rd edition Weinheim-Munich, Juventa 1994.
• Activation attempts. Excavations against the desolation of the learning culture . Weinheim-Munich 1986.
• Didactic interpretations . Weinheim and Basel, Beltz 1991.
• ... tough with amazement: Martin Wagenschein: Educational writings on the existence of the knowledge society . Editor and author of the introduction, Kallmeyer, Seelze 2001.
• This side of the teaching mania - educational attentions . Juventa, Weinheim-Munich 2004.
• PISA and the desolation of aesthetic sensuality . In: CP Buschkühle / J. Fehlke (ed.): People - Images - Education . Athena Verlag, Oberhausen 2005, pp. 38–47

Web links

• Literature by and about Horst Rumpf in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website at the University of Frankfurt / M.