Kurt Franz (didactic)

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Kurt Franz (born February 10, 1941 in Ossegg ) is a German literary scholar .

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After the expulsion from the Sudetenland, his family came to the Rosenheim district. Franz attended elementary school in Raubling for four years, then the humanistic grammar school in Rosenheim . After graduating from high school, he soon started a family and studied German, history, geography, art education, pedagogy and philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich (LMU). In 1964 Franz passed the examination for the teaching post at "Mittelschulen" (today Realschule). Three years later he took the scientific examination in the subjects German, history and geography for the teaching post at grammar schools. He then taught part-time at various types of schools, including a. at the specialist school for opticians and at the police officers' school. In addition, Franz studied at Munich University. There he received his doctorate in philosophy in 1973. The topic of his dissertation is: Studies on the sociology of the poet in Germany in the late 13th century . He then worked for several years as a lecturer in didactics of German language and literature at the LMU. In 1991, Franz completed his habilitation and two years later was offered a professorship for didactics of German language and literature at the University of Regensburg , where he retired in 2006. During his time at the University of Regensburg, Franz was mainly responsible for training students for teaching at elementary, secondary, secondary and grammar schools.

Franz is above all a proven connoisseur of children's poetry and fairy tales. He has also written literature for children (stories, poems). His book Reading Makes You Strong. Everything about books was reprinted and translated into Swedish.

From 1997 to 2013 he was President of the German Academy for Children's and Young People's Literature ; now he is their honorary president.

The Sudeten German Academy of Sciences and Arts appointed him a full member of the humanities class in 2010.

Works

  • Children's poetry. Structure, reception, didactics , Munich 1979
  • Reading makes you strong. Everything about books , Munich 1980
  • Children's lyric , in: Working group for children's and youth literature (ed.): Children's literature in the Federal Republic of Germany, Munich 1983, pp. 22–25
  • Who does not honor the penny. Everything about money , Munich 1983
  • What children read . Children's and youth literature in class, Munich 1983
  • Poetry , in: Dietrich Grünewald / Winfried Kaminski (Hrsg.): Kinder- und Jugendmedien. A manual for practice, Einheim / Basel 1984, pp. 449–459
  • Johann Peter Hebel Kanitverstan. A misunderstanding and its consequences , Munich 1985
  • Children's lyric , in: Günter Lange (Hg.): Pocket book of children's and youth literature. Volume 1, Hohengeren 2000, pp. 201-227
  • Children's and young people's literature. A lexicon , Meitingen 1995 ff.
  • Do you know the Brothers Grimm? , Weimar 2012

Honorary positions

  • President of the German Academy for Children's and Young People's Literature
  • Deputy Chairman of the Walter Kahn Fairy Tale Foundation
  • Juror at the German Youth Literature Prize

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information from the Federal President's Office
  2. ^ Märchentage 2014 of the Walter Kahn Fairy Tale Foundation and joint award ceremony with the German Academy for KJL
personal data
SURNAME Franz, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Ossegg