Jürgen Weintz

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Jürgen Weintz (* 1955 ) is a German educational scientist , theater pedagogue , cultural manager , management consultant and coach (DGfC). For many years he was the managing director of the Akademie Off-Theater nrw and now teaches as a professor for cultural work and cultural management at the Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences .

Life

Jürgen Weintz studied German , history , philosophy and educational science at the University of Düsseldorf from 1974 to 1980 and from 1982 television, film and theater studies at the University of Cologne . After completing his legal traineeship at the Humboldt-Gymnasium in Düsseldorf and working as a research assistant at the University of Düsseldorf, he studied theater studies at the Free University of Berlin and theater education at the Berlin University of the Arts from 1984 . Since 1986 he has worked for eight years as a director and production manager at various independent theaters and in cooperation with the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus as well as a theater pedagogue and communication trainer in the fields of universities , teacher training and adult education . In 1986 Jürgen Weintz began a long-term collaboration with the Brazilian theater teacher Augusto Boal , which lasted until his death in 2009.

In 1993 Jürgen Weintz co-founded the Akademie Off-Theater nrw , of which he was the educational director and managing director until 2009. In 1997 he received his doctorate as Dr. phil. with Hans-Wolfgang Nickel and Peter Simhandl at the Berlin University of the Arts. His doctoral thesis was entitled: "Aesthetic and psychosocial experience through role work". In 1999 he founded the agency for corporate theater "eventkom" and worked from 1999 to 2009 as a theater lecturer at the University of Düsseldorf. Jürgen Weintz has been a professor for theater / cultural work and cultural management / cultural marketing at the Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences since 2009 . His scientific focus is on the aesthetics of the performing arts, theory and practice of theater education, visitor / non-visitor research, cultural marketing and PR as well as cultural management with a focus on leadership and personnel . Jürgen Weintz also works as a consultant for marketing / management issues and as a systemic coach, senior coach and teaching coach (DGfC).

Publications (selection)

  • Culture visitors and non-visitors. Characteristics, interests, barriers and incentive factors. A quantitative study in the Mönchengladbach area , in: KM-Magazin 111, Weimar, pp. 43–47 (2016)
  • Theater education and acting, aesthetic and psychosocial experience through role work , 4th edition, Milow 2008, ISBN 978-3-937895-64-2 .
  • Augusto Boal's new theater methods in university teaching, in: Theater in teaching, procedures, concepts, proposals , ed. by B. Wildt, I. Hentschel and J. Wildt, Münster 2008, pp. 191-199, ISBN 978-3-8258-1272-0
  • A.Boal: The Rainbow of Desires, Methods from Theater and Therapy , ed. by Jürgen Weintz and Bernd Ruping, Milow (2006) ISBN 3-937895-18-3
  • Old and new theater methods Augusto Boals , in: Theater macht Politik , ed. by S.Odierna and F.Letsch, Frankfurt / M. 2006, pp. 47-40 ISBN 3-930830-38-8 .
  • Tricks - On the tension between art and life in theater pedagogical practice in the social and corporate sector , in: U.Hentschel / HMRitter, Developments and Perspectives of Game and Theater Pedagogy , Milow 2003, pp. 144–152, ISBN 3-933978- 83-1

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SURNAME Weintz, Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educationalist, theater pedagogue, cultural manager and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH 1955