Kurt Reumann

Kurt Reumann (born September 24, 1934 in Wesselburen , Dithmarschen) is a German journalist.

Life

After graduating from high school in Neumünster, Reumann earned money for his studies at the Holsteinischer Courier with a two-year traineeship. In Berlin he studied journalism , German , art history and political science at the Free University . In 1964 he did his doctorate under Emil Dovifat , whose assistant he was from 1963 to 1965, on political caricatures. He then gained insight into opinion research from Dovifat student Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann at the Allensbach Institute for Demoscopy . He was then at the Institute for Journalism at the University of Mainz research assistant to Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann.

In 1970 he joined the editorial team of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . He was responsible for reports and comments on education policy , especially for universities. Another specialty was survey research, including election analyzes . For ten years he designed the page “Young people write / newspaper in school” as the editor in charge (until July 1997). He wrote a volume about this pilot project for the series “Texts + Theses” of the Fromm Verlag under the title “Reading Joy and Living Worlds” (1992). Reumann turned down several calls for C 4 professorships , for example at the Free University of Berlin or the University of Mainz .

Kurt Reumann was also deputy chairman of the board of trustees of the Liszt School of Music Weimar from 1995 to 2004 . Since 2008 he has been a member of the Academy of Charitable Sciences in Erfurt .

Reumann also dealt intensively with the spelling reform . He is married, has two daughters and lives in Eschborn .

Works

• The antithetical battle picture . Contributions to the determination of its nature and its effect. Dissertation . FU Berlin, Phil. Fac., Berlin 1964.
• Equality of arms in the reply . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1971, ISBN 3-428-02517-2 .
• Inside look, reports from the academic front . Edition Interfrom, Zurich 1975, ISBN 3-7201-5060-7 .
• Horst Baier, Hans Mathias Kepplinger, Kurt Reumann (Hrsg.): Public opinion and social change. Public Opinion and Social Change . Festschrift for Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann. Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1981.
• Horst Baier, Hans Mathias Kepplinger, Kurt Reumann: Public opinion and social change . With contributions in English. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 1982, ISBN 3-531-11533-2 .
• Kurt Reumann (Hrsg.): Jugend heute: Aufbruch or Aufstand? Essen University Symposium. Hanns Martin Schleyer Foundation. Presentations u. Contributions to the discussion. Bachem, Cologne 1982, ISBN 3-7616-0648-6 .
• Is there a guillotine effect for small parties? On the dispute over the publication of poll results before elections. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. March 9, 1983.
• Reading pleasure and worlds of life. A. Fromm, Osnabrück 1992, ISBN 3-7201-5244-8 .
• Against the deadly amusement . Schools and newspapers are allies: calling for a defense of reading culture. In: FAZ. September 28, 1992, p. 14.
• The ministers of education do not go under. In: Secretariat of the Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education in the Federal Republic of Germany (Ed.): Unity in Diversity: 50 Years of the Conference of Ministers of Education 1948–1998. Luchterhand, Neuwied / Kriftel / Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-472-02952-8 .
• Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung for Germany (ed.): The reform as a dictation. To the argument about the German spelling. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Frankfurt am Main 2000, [contains 17 articles by Reumann on the spelling reform]

literature

• Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (ed.): You edit and write. [Editor of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung]. Modifications made by Ingeborg Lukas. Frankfurt General Newspaper, Frankfurt am Main 2000, p. 92 f.

Web links

• Literature by and about Kurt Reumann in the catalog of the German National Library