Lutz from Werder

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Lutz von Werder (* 1939 in Berlin ) is a German author, moderator, sociologist , philosopher and university professor for comparative psychotherapy research. He is also one of the founders of the writing workshop movement .

biography

He comes from the von Werder family . After studying philosophy (1965) , he received his doctorate in pedagogy in 1972 and was habilitated in sociology in 1975 at the Otto Suhr Institute of the Free University in Berlin . Since 1977 he has been a lecturer in creativity research at the Alice Salomon University in Berlin . There he works as a university professor for comparative psychotherapy research. In October 2000 he started a philosophical co-program on Westdeutscher Rundfunk , which continues to be broadcast monthly. He also moderates so-called Philosophical Cafés in Berlin's Urania , in which the audience is also actively involved.

Work areas

I anti-authoritarian education

At the time of his anti-authoritarian upbringing , Lutz von Werder worked in an anti-authoritarian children 's shop from 1968 to 1972 ( Kinderladen Berlin-Schöneberg II ) and built a club for working-class children (the Red Panthers ). He was one of the main participants in the Red Collective Proletarian Education West Berlin ( Rotkol , 1969–1971). Lutz von Werder was a very active re-publisher of relevant, older texts within the anti-authoritarian education movement .

Editorships

  • Siegfried Bernfeld : Anti-authoritarian education and psychoanalysis. Selected writings . (with Reinhart Wolff ). Frankfurt / M .: March publishing house, 1969 (volume 1) - 1970 (volume 3).
  • Otto Rühle : On the psychology of the proletarian child. (with Reinhart Wolff ). Frankfurt / M .: March publishing house, 1969. Frankfurt: Fischer 1975 ISBN 3-436-02068-0 .
  • School fight. Documents and analyzes volume 1 . (with Reinhart Wolff ). Frankfurt / M .: March publishing house, 1970.
  • Edwin Hoernle : Basic questions of proletarian education . (with Reinhart Wolff ). Darmstadt: March Verlag 1969.
  • Otto Felix Kanitz : Fighters of the Future. For a socialist upbringing . Frankfurt / M .: March publishing house 1970.
  • Otto Felix Kanitz : The proletarian child in bourgeois society. Frankfurt / M .: March publishing house 1970. Frankfurt / M .: Fischer paperback 1974. ISBN 3-436-01852-X .

Works

  • From anti-authoritarian to proletarian education. A report from practice. Frankfurt / M .: Fischer paperback 1972. ISBN 3-436-01521-0 .
  • Socialist education in Germany. History of the class struggle for the education sector 1848-1973. Frankfurt / M .: Fischer paperback 1994. ISBN 3-436-01868-6 .
  • Education and social progress. Introduction to a sociological educational science. Frankfurt / M., Berlin, Vienna: Ullstein 1976. ISBN 3-548-13246-4 .
  • What comes after the children's shops? Experience logs. Berlin: Wagenbach 1977. ISBN 3-8031-1075-0 .
  • Should education be political? Edited and commented on by the 'Red Collective Proletarian Education'. West Berlin (ROTKOL and L. von Werder). Frankfurt / M .: March publishing house 1970.
  • The unknown pious. Biographical Studies. Frankfurt / M .: Haag & Herchen 1987 (Research on Erich Fromm, Vol. 2). ISBN 3-89228-074-6 .

II writing movement

Werder is considered to be one of the leading figures in the creative writing movement , which has been trying to get people to write throughout Germany through writing workshops and work groups since the 1970s. Werder himself mainly examined the theoretical aspects of writing and teaching to write. This also includes the study of writing methods as therapeutic and self-therapeutic means.

Werder has set important impulses in the context of university didactics: Although writing is one of the basic skills in all courses, practical instructions for writing scientific papers have long been neglected in Germany. It is only in the last few years that preparatory seminars on the creative writing of academic papers have been held at universities .

In 1982 Werder founded one of the first institutes for creative writing in Germany. Today it is associated with the Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences.

Many of his many books on creative writing have gained great influence in the writing movement.

Works

  • Remembering, repeating, working through. The creative writing of your own life story . Berlin: Schibri-Verlag 2006
  • Brainwriting & Co. Berlin: Schibri-Verlag 2002.
  • Creative writing textbook. Berlin: Schibri-Verlag, 2001.
  • Introduction to creative writing. Berlin: Schibri-Verlag, 2000.
  • Creative writing in the sciences. Berlin: Schibri-Verlag, 1995.
  • Success at work through creative writing . Berlin: Schibri-Verlag 1995.
  • Scientific writing textbook. Berlin: Schibri-Verlag, 1993.
  • Creative introduction to basic concepts of psychotherapy. Berlin: Schibri-Verlag 1998.
  • Creative literary history. Berlin: Schibri-Verlag 1992.

Since the winter semester of 2006, the Alice-Salomon University of Applied Sciences has been offering the first postgraduate master’s course on “Creative and Autobiographical Writing” in Germany.

III Philosophical art of living

Creative thinking as a philosophical art of living is an important position in the movement of practical philosophy. Werder practices the philosophical art of living as a "radio philosopher" on WDR 5 and as the manager of philosophical cafes in Berlin's Urania and in the Literaturhaus Berlin .

Works

  • Philosophy as Psychotherapy . Berlin: Schibri-Verlag 2006.
  • Do not complain - philosophize. Berlin: Schibri-Verlag, 2006.
  • Philosophy of life for individualists . Berlin: Schibri-Verlag 2005.
  • The great philosophical memory. Berlin: Schibri-Verlag, 2003.
  • Mysticism for summiteers. Berlin: Schibri-Verlag, 2003.
  • Creative Thinking. The most effective methods of great thinkers . Berlin: Schibri-Verlag 2003.
  • Philosophy for lovers. Berlin: Schibri-Verlag, 2002.
  • Introduction to the philosophical art of living in Asia. Berlin: Schibri-Verlag, 2001.
  • Don't be afraid - write. An exercise book of practical philosophy on the question of death. Berlin: Schibri-Verlag 1998.
  • Do not despair - write! An exercise book on the question of God. Berlin: Schibri-Verlag 1997.

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personal data
SURNAME Werder, Lutz von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author and lecturer in creative writing
DATE OF BIRTH 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin