Kurt-Jürgen Maass

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Kurt-Jürgen Maaß in the ifa library in Stuttgart 2018

Kurt-Jürgen Maaß (born July 28, 1943 in Elmshorn , Germany ) is a German cultural manager, scientist and former Secretary General of the Institute for Foreign Relations .

education

Maaß studied law and economics in Hamburg and Lausanne , received his doctorate in Hamburg in 1969 with a thesis on the Council of Europe and in November 1972, after a legal traineeship in Hamburg, Strasbourg and Speyer, passed the second state examination in law.

Job and life

After completing his studies, he first worked as an editor at the Deutsche Universitäts-Zeitung in Bonn , then as director of the committees for science and economy at the North Atlantic Assembly in Brussels and then (from 1977) as a speaker at the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Bonn. This was followed by tasks in the Federal Ministry of Education and Science in Bonn and a department head at the Science Council in Cologne. In 1988 Maaß returned to the Humboldt Foundation as Head of Department and was also Deputy Secretary General from 1994. From 1998 to 2008 he was Secretary General of the Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations in Stuttgart and editor of the magazine culture exchange .

From 2001 to 2013 he held teaching positions at the universities of Stuttgart, Tübingen , Bamberg and at the Azerbaidjan Diplomatic Academy in Baku . In 2005, the University of Tübingen awarded him an honorary professorship at the Institute for Political Science.

He was chairman of the board of trustees at the Forum der Kulturen in Stuttgart from 2009 to 2015.

In 2018 he received the Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

He is married and has three children.

Maaß has published numerous books and over 100 essays on questions of international academic exchange, foreign cultural policy and international cultural relations.

Publications

Editorships

  • Search for clues. Paths and effects of the international academic exchange / Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Bonn) (ed.). - Bonn: Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, 1988. - 88 pp.
  • Translate, understand, build bridges. Humanities and literary translation in international cultural exchange. / Armin Paul Frank, Kurt-Jürgen Maaß ... (eds.). - Berlin: Schmidt, 1993. - 2 vol .: 1 - XIX, 458 pp. - 2. - pp. 469-897. - (Göttingen contributions to international translation research; 8.1 and 8.2)
  • Friend or grimace? The image of Germany in the world and the tasks of cultural policy / Hilmar Hoffmann, Kurt-Jürgen Maaß (ed.). - Frankfurt / M .: Campus, 1994. - 199 pp.
  • Destined for freedom. Alexander von Humboldt. A Hebrew biography / Kurt-Jürgen Maaß (ed.). - Bonn: Bouvier, 1997. - 88 pp.
  • German universities in dialogue with the Arab world. Contributions to the conference of the Scientific Initiative Group on Culture and Foreign Policy (WIKA), Karlsruhe, July 19 and 20, 2007 / Institute for Foreign Relations. Kurt-Jürgen Maaß, Bernd Thum (eds.). - Karlsruhe: Univ.-Verl., 2009. - 163 pp. - (Knowledge area Europe - Mediterranean; 1)
  • Culture and foreign policy. Manual for science and practice / Kurt-Jürgen Maaß (ed.). - 3rd completely revised and expanded edition - Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2015. - 500 pp.

Essays

  • Plea for a European foreign cultural policy towards the Islamic world. - In: German Foreign Policy in Dialogue (Trier), 4 (September 4, 2003) 11, pp. 16-21.
  • Against the nationalization of existence. Foundations shape the future. - In: Stifter und Staat. Selected contributions to the past and present of the foundation system. - Food: Ed. Stifterverband, 2006. - pp. 179–189
  • Five dimensions of sustainability. - In: Sustainable Mozart. Art, culture and sustainability. - Salzburg: JBZ, 2007. - pp. 176–180
  • Conflicts in a Globalized World - Can Cultural Policy Help Avoid Them? - In: ways and tracks. Links between education, science, culture, history and politics. Festschrift for Joachim-Felix Leonhard / Helmut Knüppel (eds.). - Berlin: Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg, 2007. - pp. 509-521. -
  • Current challenges in foreign cultural policy. - In: German foreign policy. Security, welfare, institutions and norms / Thomas Jäger,… (ed.). - 2nd edition - Wiesbaden: VS, 2010. - pp. 584–602.
  • The role and significance of evaluation in Germany's foreign cultural policy. - In: Evaluation in Culture and Cultural Policy. An inventory / Vera Hennefeld, Reinhard Stockmann (ed.). - Münster: Waxmann, 2013. - pp. 35–52. - (Social science evaluation research; 11)
  • Cultural diplomacy - opportunities and limits of soft power in foreign policy. Lecture at the Japan Foundation, with comments and discussion. - In: Wochi Kochi Magazine (Tokyo), (2013) 35 (T. 1) and 37 (T. 2), 11.12 pp.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Federal Cross of Merit for Kurt-Jürgen Maaß. Südwestdeutscher Rundfunk. Retrieved May 9, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Maass, Kurt-Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cultural manager
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Elmshorn , Germany