Konrad Riggenmann

Konrad Riggenmann (* 1952 in Pfaffenhofen an der Roth ) is a teacher who has written a number of theater pieces for young people, published books critical of the Church, and led court cases against the cross in classrooms .

Life

Konrad Riggenmann is the third of five children in a teaching family. As a child he was an acolyte and as a youth he held leadership positions for the Catholic rural youth . At the age of 21 he entered a seminary. He dropped out of theology studies after four semesters. In 1978 he left the church and in the same year became a teacher in elementary and secondary schools. He published a total of twelve youth theater pieces. In 2001 he did his doctorate at the University of Augsburg on " John Dewey's pedagogy using the example of his reception in Brazil". In 2002, Riggemann obtained before the Bavarian Administrative Court that crosses attached to the classroom walls in Bavaria could be removed during his lessons.

Awards

• Seven Swabian Prize (dialect theater), Augsburg 1994
• Ossip K. Flechtheim Prize of the Humanist Union 2002

Works

Non-fiction

• John Dewey's pedagogy and its survival with Paulo Freire. By, through and for women? Dialogical Education Publishing House, Oldenburg 2001.
• Escola nova, escola ativa! John Dewey's pedagogy using the example of its reception in Brazil , Paulo Freire Verlag, Oldenburg 2001 ¹ , 2nd edition 2006 (dissertation)
• Crucifix and holocaust. On the most successful portrayal of violence in world history , Espresso-Verlag, Berlin 2002
• You were so good, Yeshu Barabbas. The Nazarenes after the woman from Migdal , Liber Libri 2007
• Holy perpetrators, loving fathers, in: TD Wabbel (Ed.): The holy nothing. God after the Holocaust , Patmos Verlag, Düsseldorf 2007, pp. 92–113
• Jesus. On the abuse of the Son of Man , Edition Va Bene, 2009, ISBN 978-3-85167-233-6

Plays

in the Impuls-Theater-Verlag, Munich:

• Swabian Christmas game. For children and people , 1985
• Mirjam under the palm. A Christmas play based on the 19th sura of the Koran , 1989
• Rio Decembro. A Carioca Christmas game , 1990

at Deutsches Theaterverlag, Weinheim / Bergstrasse:

• Nikolaos. A game about the man from Myra who threw the money in the window , 1992
• Men! Scenes on the situation of the second most beautiful sex , 1994
• Smoking is healthy, says Dr. Marlboro. A parody , 1996
• ... still being better than a teacher! A game with singing to say goodbye to teachers and principals , 1996
• Dragon burger. An old legend, retold , 1998
• Bad girls! , 2000
• Libretto for: Spinni? The Haindling Opera. 13 crazy scenes in Haindling , music: Hans-Jürgen Buchner , text and playback CD, 2003
• Winner kiss. About football and other competitive sports , 2006
• The making of Sambatics. Pop musical with Brazilian samba , 2008

Web links

• Konrad Riggenmann , Dachau Institute of Psychology and Education
• Michael Kasperowitsch: The Persistent , Taz , March 22, 2002
• Hauke ​​Goos: The Crusade . In: Der Spiegel . No. 43 , 2003, p. 83 ( online ).
• Konrad Riggenmann: Crosses in classrooms? Bavaria's legal contribution to the continuity of anti-Semitism , Dachau Institute for Psychology and Education, 2007