Kaspar H. Spinner

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Kaspar Heinrich Spinner (born March 6, 1941 in Biel ) is a Swiss German studies specialist and didactic specialist in German.

Life

Spinner attended elementary school, the Progymnasium and the Gymnasium in Biel / Switzerland. He then studied German, art history and education at the University of Zurich and the Free University of Berlin from 1960 to 1968 . In 1968 he received his doctorate from the University of Zurich under Emil Staiger . A year later he passed the diploma examination for the higher teaching post (grammar school teacher) at the University of Zurich.

From 1968 to 1972 Spinner worked as an assistant to Prof. Bernhard Böschenstein at the University of Geneva (German studies). Between 1972 and 1975 he worked as an assistant professor for German studies with a focus on literary didactics at the University of Kassel and taught at the Baunatal comprehensive school. From 1975 to 1979 Spinner was Professor (H2) for German Studies / Literature Didactics at the University of Kassel, then until 1986 Full Professor for German Language and Literature and its didactics at the Pedagogical University of Rhineland , Department of Aachen, from 1980 integrated into the RWTH Aachen . Between 1986 and 1988 Spinner was full professor for modern German literary history, including didactics of German literature at the Philosophical Faculty of RWTH Aachen University. Subsequently, he held the chair for didactics of German language and literature at the University of Augsburg until 2006 .

At the end of March 2006, Spinner retired . In 2011 he received an honorary doctorate from the Weingarten University of Education .

Act

Spinner established particularly productive processes in the didactics of German lessons .

In the German didactic discourse, Spinner's Eleven Aspects of Literary Learning (2006) achieved great reception and importance. For example, in an edition of the Reading Rooms (2015), almost all the articles are devoted to his suggestions. In his basic article from 2006, Spinner explains his ideas about literary didactics, especially about literary learning with the help of literary texts.

Works (selection)

  • The moon in German poetry from the Enlightenment to late Romanticism. Bonn: H. Bouvier u. Co. Verlag 1969.
  • Dealing with poetry in secondary school I. Baltmannsweiler: Schneider 4th ed. 2000
  • (Ed.): Syn aesthetic education in elementary school. A handout for teaching . Donauwörth: Auer 2001
  • Creative German lessons. Identity - Imagination - Cognition . Seelze: Kallmeyer 2nd edition 2006
  • (Ed.): Acquire reading skills, learn literature. Basics. Lesson models for the 1st – 4th Class . Berlin: Cornelsen Scriptor 2006
  • (Ed. With Constanze Kirchner and Markus Schiefer Ferrari): Aesthetic education and identity. Interdisciplinary suggestions for secondary level I and II. Munich: kopaed 2006
  • Literary learning. In: Praxis Deutsch 200, pp. 6–16 (eleven aspects).
  • (Ed. Together with Michael Kämper-van den Boogaart): Reading and literature lessons . 3 volumes. Baltmannsweiler: Schneider 2010 (German lessons in theory and practice 11, 1–3). Own contribution therein: - Methods of literary instruction, 11.2, 190–242.
  • Short stories - short prose. Basics - methods - suggestions for teaching . Seelze: Kallmeyer 2012
  • Education or pleasure in living out fantasies? Contributions to children's and youth literature and its didactics. Frankfurt a. M .: Lang 2013

literature

  • Christine Köppert / Klaus Metzger (eds.): Development of inner forces. Points of focus in German didactics. Festschrift for Kaspar H. Spinner on the occasion of his 60th birthday. Velber: Friedrich 2001.
  • Reading rooms - magazine for literacy , 2nd volume 2015, issue 2: special issue on Spinner's eleven aspects ( online )

Web links

Commons : Kaspar H. Spinner  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.ph-weingarten.de/fileadmin/redaktuere/Homepage/Die_PH/Aktuelles/Downloads_Seiten_Aktuelles/nahaufnahme_Ausgabe-04_Nov_2011.pdf
  2. ↑ Productive processes in literature lessons ( Memento from February 15, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Reading rooms, 2015, issue 2.
personal data
SURNAME Spinner, Kaspar H.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Spinner, Kaspar Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss Germanist and didactic specialist
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Biel