Horst W. Opaschowski

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Horst W. Opaschowski in September 2014

Horst Werner Opaschowski (born January 3, 1941 in Beuthen , Upper Silesia , German Empire , now Poland ) is a German educational scientist , futurologist and consultant for politics and business.

Life

After studying pedagogy, psychology and sociology at the Universities of Bonn and Cologne , he was awarded a doctorate in 1968 at the University of Cologne with a thesis on "Youth Tourism and its Pedagogical Problems". phil. PhD . In 1973 he developed a leisure policy concept on behalf of the federal government . From 1975 to 2006 he was Professor of Education at the University of Hamburg . In 1979 he founded the BAT Leisure Research Institute, financed by British American Tobacco (Germany) GmbH , of which he was scientific director until 2007. In 2007, the BAT Leisure Research Institute was transformed into the Foundation for Future Issues, of which Opaschowski was the scientific director until the end of 2010. Since 2011 he has been working as a futurologist, publicist and consultant for business and politics.

His main focus lies in the area of ​​social and future research.

Under Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt ( SPD ), he was a research assistant and developed a leisure-time policy concept for the federal government. Under Chancellor Helmut Kohl (CDU) he worked as a scientific expert and as an advisor to Angela Merkel he initiated future conferences and citizens' dialogues in 2008/2009.

In 2007 Opaschowski received the honorary award of the tourism committee of the German Bundestag .

In December 2010 Opaschowski was awarded the Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany .

On his behalf, the market research company Ipsos has been conducting quarterly surveys since 2012, from which Opaschowski compiles the National Prosperity Index for Germany (NAWI-D) .

In 2014 he founded the Opaschowski Institute for Future Research / OIZ in Hamburg with his daughter Irina Pilawa.

Opaschowski has been a member of the supervisory board of Industrie-Contact AG since 1999 and a member of the supervisory board of the Weißenhäuser Strand holiday center . Since 2003 he has been a member of the board of trustees of the state initiative “Hamburg is committed” and since 2009 founder and initiator of the “Helferbörse” in the multigenerational house “brügge” in Hamburg. Opaschowski has been married to his wife Elke since 1967, with whom he has two children. Son Alexander is an auditor and partner at Ernst & Young . Daughter Irina is a primary school teacher and is married to the TV presenter Jörg Pilawa . In 2018 he said about life expectancy for newborns: “Every second person born today will be alive 100 years from now. A revolution of the lifetime that has never happened in all of human history. "

Awards

Press reviews

  • "Theses-firm futurologist" (Tagesspiegel from January 11, 2009)
  • "Future Pope" (Focus from December 28, 2012)
  • "One of the 500 most important intellectuals in the German-speaking region" (CICERO MAGAZIN, January 2013, p. 28)
  • "Founder of futurology" (Munzinger archive of December 11, 2015)
  • "Opaschowski shaped the discipline of futurology" (Wirtschaftswoche of December 31, 2018)
  • "Mr. Future" (deutschland.de from April 8, 2020)

Book publications

  • 1970: Young people's current problems ISBN 3-7815-0125-6 .
  • 1970: Youth trips abroad - historical, social and educational aspects. Luchterhand, Neuwied / Berlin 1970 (also dissertation University of Cologne).
  • 1976: Leisure time education. Foundation for science and practice, Bad Heilbrunn, ISBN 3-7815-0278-3 .
  • 1976: Leisure time as a social task. Concepts and models, Düsseldorf, ISBN 3-88073-014-8 .
  • 1976: Social work with unemployed young people. Street work and action research in the living area, Opladen, ISBN 3-8100-0172-4 .
  • 1977: Leisure education in school. Animative didactics, Bad Heilbrunn, ISBN 3-7815-0344-5 .
  • 1977: Leisure education in the performance society, 3rd edition, Bad Heilbrunn, ISBN 3-7815-0334-8 .
  • 1979: Introduction to leisure-cultural broad-based work, Bad Heilbrunn, ISBN 3-7815-0388-7 .
  • 1979: Qualification of the animators, Düsseldorf, ISBN 3-88075-036-X 1979.
  • 1981: Methods of animation. Practical examples, Bad Heilbrunn, ISBN 3-7815-0479-4 .
  • 1983: work, leisure, meaning in life? Orientations for a future that has long since begun, Opladen, ISBN 3-8100-0417-0 .
  • 1990: Leisure, consumption and lifestyle, Cologne, ISBN 3-88575-055-4 .
  • 1990: Pedagogy and Didactics of Leisure Time, 2nd edition, Opladen, ISBN 3-8100-0881-8 .
  • 1993: Leisure Economics. Marketing of adventure worlds, Opladen, ISBN 3-8100-1029-4 .
  • 1996: Pedagogy of Free Life, 3rd edition, Opladen, ISBN 3-8100-1563-6 .
  • 1998: Life between must and leisure. The older generation: yesterday. Today. Morgen, Hamburg-Ostfildern, ISBN 3-924865-30-2 .
  • 1998: after work? From the future without work to work with a future, Opladen, ISBN 3-8100-2068-0 .
  • 1999: Environment. Leisure. Mobility. Conflicts and Concepts, 2nd edition, Opladen, ISBN 3-8100-2307-8 .
  • 1999: Generation @. The media revolution is dismissing its children. Life in the Information Age , Hamburg, ISBN 3-616-06871-1 .
  • 2000: Xtrem. The calculated madness. Extreme sport as a time phenomenon, ISBN 3-924865-33-7 .
  • 2000: Cathedrals of the 21st Century. Adventure worlds in the age of event culture, Hamburg, ISBN 3-924865-32-9 .
  • 2001: Paradise bought. Tourism in the 21st Century, Hamburg, ISBN 3-924865-36-1 .
  • 2001: Germany 2010. How we will work and live tomorrow. Edition of the BAT Freizeit-Forschungsinstitut GmbH, Hamburg.
  • 2002: What holds us together. Crisis and Future of the Western World, ISBN 3-7892-8091-7 .
  • 2002: Tourism. A systematic introduction - analyzes and forecasts, Opladen ISBN 3-8100-3216-6 .
  • 2002: Start-up in life: How independent are the Germans, Hamburg, ISBN 3-924865-37-X .
  • 2004: The Generational Pact. The social network of the future, Darmstadt, ISBN 3-89678-487-0 .
  • 2004: Germany 2020. How we will work and live tomorrow - Forecasts of Science, Wiesbaden, ISBN 978-3-531-14940-0 .
  • 2005: Live better, live better? Living in the city of the future, ISBN 3-89678-544-3 .
  • 2006: Leisure industry. The leading economy of the future, ISBN 3-8258-9297-2 .
  • 2006: The Moses Principle. The 10 Commandments of the 21st Century, ISBN 978-3-579-06947-0 .
  • 2007: dreams of old age. Illusion and Reality (with Ulrich Reinhardt), ISBN 978-3-89678-361-5 .
  • 2007: Minimex. The future model of a social society, ISBN 978-3-579-06976-0 .
  • 2009: Rethinking Prosperity: How the Next Generation Will Live, ISBN 978-3-579-06878-7 .
  • 2010: WE! Why Ichlinge no longer have a future, Hamburg, ISBN 978-3-86774-104-0 .
  • 2011: The Germany Plan. What needs to be done in politics and society, Gütersloh, ISBN 978-3-579-06671-4 .
  • 2013: Germany 2030. How we will live in the future, Gütersloh, ISBN 978-3-579-06635-6 .
  • 2014: This is how we want to live! The 10 future hopes of the Germans (with the collaboration of Irina Pilawa), Gütersloh, ISBN 978-3-579-07076-6 .
  • 2016: The Abraham Principle. How we live well and long (with the help of Irina Pilawa), Gütersloh, ISBN 978-3-579-08647-7 .
  • 2018: You have five lives! A guide through the five-generation society (with Peter Zellmann), MANZ, Vienna, ISBN 978-3-214-12639-1 .
  • 2019: Know what will be. A short history of the future of Germany, Patmos-Verlag, Ostfildern, ISBN 978-3-8436-1184-8 .

Web links

Wikiquote: Horst W. Opaschowski  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Horst Werner Opaschowski , munziger.de , accessed on December 27, 2019
  2. ↑ a b biography and career , opaschowski.de, accessed on December 27, 2019
  3. ↑ a b Horst Opaschowski turns 75 , Mittelbayerische.de, January 3, 2016.
  4. ↑ Tourism researcher Prof. Opaschowski receives honorary award from the tourism committee , press service of the German Bundestag, March 9, 2007
  5. ↑ Professor Opaschowski awarded the Federal Cross of Merit ( Memento from November 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ Studies of the week: Young generation is less environmentally conscious , absatzwirtschaft.de , August 30, 2018
  7. ^ Prosperity index Germany in: Die Zeit from May 23, 2017
  8. ↑ "Kreativ im Kollektiv" , handelsblatt.com , October 22, 2014
  9. ↑ Prof. Dr. Horst W. Opaschowski , Industrie-Contact AG
  10. ^ Helmut Heigert: Perm in the amusement park. In: ahgz.de . November 9, 2019, accessed April 18, 2020.
  11. ↑ Maiken Nielsen: This is what life could look like in old age. In: tagesschau.de June 6, 2018, accessed June 6, 2018 (interview).
  12. ↑ Having fun through the crisis . ( tagesspiegel.de [accessed on May 31, 2020]).
  13. ↑ The Generation Crisis . ( focus.de [accessed on June 5, 2020]).
  14. ↑ Horst Opaschowski . ( munzinger.de [accessed on May 28, 2020]).
  15. ↑ 2019 will be a year of confrontations . ( wiwo.de [accessed on May 28, 2020]).
  16. ↑ Time becomes as valuable as money . ( deutschland.de [accessed on June 6, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Opaschowski, Horst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Opaschowski, Horst Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German university professor and leisure researcher
DATE OF BIRTH January 3, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Bytom