Marita Pabst-Weinschenk

Marita Pabst-Weinschenk (born April 22, 1955 in Castrop-Rauxel ) is a German speech scholar , pedagogue and author.

Life

Marita Pabst-Weinschenk is a teacher in German, mathematics and art with first and second state exams. Before taking her second state examination, she passed the association examination in Speech Science and Speech Education at the German Society for Speech Science and Speech Education (DGSS) and carried out first training events on a freelance basis. She started her own business and worked as a rhetoric and communication trainer in business and administration. Since 1980 she has been part of the trainer faculty of the Hernstein Management Institute Vienna.

During this time she was also a lecturer for oral communication as part of the German teacher training at the universities of Duisburg, Essen, Düsseldorf, Regensburg and taught speech training, phonetics / linguistics and voice training at the school for speech therapy at the Essen Clinic. She also worked as a freelancer in a hospital and carried out speech therapies there. In 1993 she received her doctorate (Dr. phil) from the Mercator University in Duisburg.

Since 1999 she has been a research assistant at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf , where she teaches didactics of the German language and literature and orality. Its focus is on the bachelor's and master's degrees in German studies and media and cultural studies. Since 2001 she has been head of a DGSS testing center at Heinrich Heine University. Since 2008 she has represented the Professorship of German IV / Oral Studies.

Marita Pabst-Weinschenk is a member of the DGSS, the bmk, professional association for oral communication in North Rhine-Westphalia, the Symposion Deutschdidaktik eV and the Society for Applied Linguistics. She has been a member of the DGSS board since 1993; 2009 to 2017 Deputy Chair. Since 2001 she has been co-organizer of the speech contacts, a series of lectures that was founded by Professor Bartsch and is organized in cooperation with Heinrich-Heine University and the Düsseldorf Adult Education Center. At the German Didactics Symposium, she led the Orality Working Group with Brigit Eriksson from 2006 to 2015. She belongs to the Senate of the Thilo von Trotha Foundation for Speech Culture, represents the DGSS in the Initiative Hören eV and is on the program advisory board of the University Radio Düsseldorf 97.1.

She has been permanently employed at Heinrich Heine University since 1999, after having worked as a freelancer in management, administration, teacher training and in the hospital for over 20 years. In 2008 she represented a professorship for language didactics at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg, from 2008 to 2011 the professorship for orality in Düsseldorf and in 2013/14 a professorship at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich.

Focus in teaching

• Oral communication theory and practice
• rhetoric
• Interviewing
• new media
• Project management
• Language and literature teaching
• Speech effects research

At the center of her theory of rhetoric is the model of the speech pyramid. This is a didactic synopsis model that represents essential criteria for describing speech performance in their relationships.

Publications (selection)

• Bibliography on language skills and speech training in Germany until 1945 . Magdeburg, Essen 1993
• Erich Drach's concept of speech and speech training . (Phil. Diss. Duisburg) Magdeburg, Essen 1993
• The constitution of speech and speech training by Erich Drach. Factual history 1900-1935 . Magdeburg, Essen 1993
• Talking during studies . Frankfurt am Main 1995; New edition 2009
• Write and talk better . Cologne 1999 (with Karl-Dieter Bünting)
• The speaking workshop. Speech and voice training in school. Braunschweig 2000
• Free speaking in elementary school . Berlin 2005
• Learning dialogically in the seminar subject . Alps 2009 (with Bertram Thiel)
• Presenting learning box. Alps 2011
• Cooperative rhetoric - compact. Alps 2011
•  Talk effectively - present convincingly. Alps 2012 (with Ernst W. Jaskolski)
• Apply successfully. BROCKHAUS SCOLARIS 2013
• “You don't even listen to me!” About listening & speaking, so that one likes to listen . Alps 2014
• Fit to the microphone . Alps 2015
• Voiced lessons. Professional communication and rhetoric . Göttingen 2016
• (Ed.) Oral communication as a cooperative process . Frankfurt / M. 1991 (with Frank Lüschow)

• (Ed.) Speech training in class . Munich, Basel 1997 (with Carl Ludwig Naumann and Roland Wagner)
• (Ed.) Basics of speech science and speech training . Munich, Basel 2004; 2nd edition 2011
• (Ed.) Ballads - German ballads in class . Issue 21/2009 of the magazine Deutsch 5–10
• (Ed.) Teach speech communication . Collected essays by Elmar Bartsch. Vol. 1 and 2. Alps 2009, Vol. 3 2011
• (Ed.) Hermann Harry Schmitz and other catastrophes . Alps 2010
• (Ed.) Media: Speech and hearing worlds . Munich 2010
• (Ed.) Reading - Lecturing. Issue 26/2011 of the magazine Deutsch 5–10 (with Becker, Susanne H.)
• (Ed.) Fields of application of cooperative rhetoric. Contributions from voice contacts. Alps 2011
• (Ed.) Orality on everyone's lips. Contributions to Düsseldorf orality. Alps 2012
• (Ed.) Open up poems. Issue 32/2012 of the magazine Deutsch 5–10 (with Becker, Susanne H.)
• (Ed.) Interpret figures . Issue 37/2013 of the magazine Deutsch 5–10 (with Becker, Susanne H.)
• (Ed.) Talk to others . Issue 39/2014 of the magazine Deutsch 5–10 (with Becker, Susanne H.)
• (Ed.) Cooperative rhetoric today. Contributions to Düsseldorf orality. 2 . Alps 2016

Web links

• Literature by and about Marita Pabst-Weinschenk in the catalog of the German National Library
• Marita Pabst-Weinschenk on the website of the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
• Bibliography in the Germanist directory of the DAAD