Max Fuchs

This article deals with the cultural scientist Max Fuchs. For other people see Maximilian Fuchs .

Max Fuchs (born September 30, 1948 in Dudweiler , Saarland ) is a German cultural scientist and university professor. He became particularly well known as the chairman of the German Cultural Council (since 2001) and director of the Remscheid Academy, as well as numerous publications on cultural theory and politics, educational theory and cultural history .

Life and work

Fuchs first completed an apprenticeship as a telecommunications technician at the former Federal Post Office. By training he allowed himself an FH study of mathematics and economics, which he called diploma - mathematician graduated. When this field became too narrow for him, he added a university degree in pedagogy and sociology , which he obtained with a Magister Artium (MA) and a doctoral thesis for Dr. phil. completed.

After initially working for many years in various positions at the Bundespost, he was then initially a grammar school teacher from 1984–1988. When he was offered the head post of the Remscheid Institute for Education and Culture (IBK), he resigned from teaching and took over the management there, later moving to a position as director of the Remscheid Academy. A few years later he also became honorary professor for cultural work at the University of Essen , which at that time was still called the comprehensive university. He was also given teaching positions for cultural and educational policy at the University of Basel and the Hamburg University of Economics and Politics .

Fuchs was active on a voluntary basis in numerous culture promotion committees and institutions. Until March 2013 he was chairman of the German Cultural Council . He was a member of the Federal Youth Board of Trustees , member of the German delegation at the UNESCO World Congress on Cultural Policy in Stockholm in 1998, member of the German UNESCO Commission , member of the Board of Trustees of the Institute for Cultural Policy of the Cultural Political Society . He was elected as spokesman for the Media Qualification Network in North Rhine-Westphalia , deputy chairman of the Socioculture Fund (1994-2000), and chairman of the European Committee of the German Cultural Council. Max Fuchs is honorary chairman of the Federal Association for Cultural Education for Children and Young People , of which he was chairman from 1994 to 2009.

Fuchs is married and has two sons.

Works (selection)

• On the way to the culture school kopaed, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-86736-317-4 .
• Culture and the Basic Law , in: Robertson-von Trotha, Caroline Y. (Hrsg.): 60 years Basic Law. Interdisciplinary Perspectives (= Kulturwissenschaft interdisciplinary / Interdisciplinary Studies on Culture and Society, Vol. 4), Baden-Baden 2009, pp. 107–118, ISBN 978-3-8329-4865-8 .
• Culture - Participation - Education kopaed, Munich 2008 ISBN 978-3-86736-039-5
• Kultur Macht Sinn VS Verlag für Sozialwiss., Wiesbaden 2008, 1st edition, ISBN 978-3-531-15892-1 .
• Kulturpolitik VS Verlag für Sozialwiss., Wiesbaden 2007, 1st edition, ISBN 3-531-15448-6 .
• The culture school. Concept and theoretical basics (series of publications on cultural education, vol. 32), kopaed, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-86736-332-7 .

Individual evidence

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3. ^ Federal Cultural Foundation : Entry M. Fuchs
4. ↑ http://www.ibk-kultur.de/content/view/14/28/
5. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from February 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ↑ Fuchs elected for the fifth time as President of the Cultural Council

Web links

• Literature by and about Max Fuchs in the catalog of the German National Library

• Interview with Professor Max Fuchs "Culture is a product of the good life" , NGZ from April 4, 2009, accessed July 22, 2010
• Statement by Prof. Dr. Max Fuchs at the Extraordinary General Meeting of the German Association of Cities on September 24, 2003 in Berlin
• Culture (politics) in Europe - Comments by Max Fuchs on a nationally and internationally more complicated cultural policy at the Goethe-Institut , accessed July 22, 2010
• Max Fuchs: The secret curriculum in the cultural area of ​​the Internet (PDF)
• Position on the question "What is cultural education" by Prof. Dr. Max Fuchs Academy Remscheid
• Interview on the question "What is cultural education?" In the PH-Bildungswelle from January 29, 2014 in the program of the Junge Kulturkanals Karlsruhe