Kurt Weis

Kurt Weis (born October 20, 1940 in Mannheim ) is a German sociologist .

Life

Weis studied law and trained as a criminologist, sociologist and anthropologist in Germany and the USA. In 1968 he received his PhD from Harvard University . He then worked at the universities in Chicago, Berkeley and Hawaii. In 1979 he completed his habilitation in Saarbrücken in the subject of sociology. Weis has been teaching at the Technical University of Munich since 1980 , where he headed the Sociology department from 2002 until his retirement in 2006 , in which the two new faculties for sports science and economics at TUM are involved. He then temporarily took on a visiting professorship in Hawaii.

Weis has been a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts since 1992 and an associate of the Hawaii Research Center For Future Studies since 1998 .

Kurt Weis lives with his wife Felicitas in Starnberg .

Act

Weis' research and publication focus is on the sociology of sport , youth , deviance, religion and technology , research on time and the future . The scientist's versatility is also documented in the interdisciplinary series of lectures and symposia that he has organized at TUM since 1991:

• Images of people in science, technology and religion (1991/1992)
• What is time (1993–1995)
• New Horizons of Thought at the End of Modernity: Change of Perspective in Science, Technology and Religion (2000/01)
• Extreme sports and the search for experience in nature. Existential Experiences, Crossing Boundaries, Experiential Education (2003)
• 1. Munich Experience Days from 3rd to 5th May 2003 at TUM: Extreme sports and the search for experience in nature (including the extreme climber Alexander Huber , the psychotherapist Ruediger Dahlke and the astronaut Ulrich Walter )
• 2. Munich Experience Days from 27. – 29. January 2006 at TUM: desert, forest and water, search for experience and meaning in nature
• 3. Munich Experience Days from 15. – 17. April 2011 in the Schweisfurth Foundation : The adventure of borderline experience in different cultures of consciousness, with the speakers Franz-Theo Gottwald , Bruce Werber , Christian Hackbarth-Johnson , Bruno Baumann , Sylvester Walch , Regina Lindinger , Michaela Mihriban Özelsel , Werner Schneider , Harald Walach , Dieter Vaitl , Torsten Passie , Sadhu Videhe alias Sebastian Chembakam , Michael von Brück , Franz Pfitzner , Geseko von Lüpke , Klaus Jahn and Paul Kohtes

Weis about himself in the program booklet of the 3rd Munich Experience Days: He “seeks the way from book knowledge to natural experience knowledge and pursues its application relevance. To do this, he visited the indigenous peoples in the tropical rainforest , the peaks of the Alps and the heights of Tibet , learned to build his igloo from the Eskimos , ran many marathons in Munich , crossed the Gobi desert (2003) and the Takla Makan (2006) on foot. , submitted to the rituals of the medicine men on the Amazon (2008) and immersed himself in the spiritual paths of India (2005–2009). Until November 2005 he rowed in the professors eight for the Technical University of Munich. Until 2006 he sailed every year with his students on the Baltic Sea . Now at home he likes to sail on Lake Starnberg. "

Fonts (selection)

• Kurt Weis: The rape and its victims . Enke, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-432-92431-3 .
• Stefan Böschen, Kurt Weis: The present of the future. Perspectives on time-critical knowledge politics . VS, Wiesbaden 2007, ISBN 978-3-531-14641-6 .
• Kurt Weis, Robert Gugutzer (Hrsg.): Handbuch Sportsoziologie . Hofmann, Schorndorf 2008, ISBN 978-3-7780-4660-9 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ^ Lectures by Kurt Weis, u. a.