Michael Schlagheck

Michael Paul Schlagheck (born March 29, 1955 in Gladbeck ) was director of the Catholic Academy of the Diocese of Essen Die Wolfsburg in Mülheim an der Ruhr from 1995 to June 2019 .

Michael Schlagheck

Life

After graduating from high school in 1974, Michael Schlagheck studied Catholic theology and English for teaching at the University of Essen at St. Ursula High School in Dorsten . After the first state examination in 1977, he studied adult education, political science and Catholic theology at the University of Essen, graduating as a qualified pedagogue. At the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Schlagheck continued his studies in the subjects of educational science, psychology and Christian social studies and received his doctorate in 1995 with a thesis on the spiritual roots of the Catholic Academy's work in education and the theological work of Romano Guardini .

From 1978 Schlagheck worked as an assistant in a Catholic student community. From 1980 to 1992 he worked in various areas of responsibility for the Episcopal Pastoral Office in Essen, most recently as a consultant for fundamental issues in the management.

From 1992 to 1995 he was deputy director, from 1995 to 2019 he was director of the Catholic Academy of the Diocese of Essen Die Wolfsburg. During this time, Die Wolfsburg became a place for dialogue in the Ruhr area for interdisciplinary discussions on various social, political and cultural issues. It was also redesigned under his direction into a modern conference center for the region. From 2007 to 2011 Schlagheck was the representative of the Diocese of Essen for the Ruhr 2010 Capital of Culture . He was responsible for the development and implementation of church projects in the Capital of Culture.

Michael Schlagheck is married to the psychoanalyst Karin Schlagheck. They are parents of a daughter and a son.

Focus

The main topics of his work are the dialogue between theology, culture and psychoanalysis, the relationship between society, state and church, the development of the Ruhr Metropolis and dialogue and cooperation with various companies in the Ruhr area.

engagement

Schlagheck is committed u. a. Member of the board of trustees of the Duisburg foundation “Brennender Dornbusch”, as chairman of the board of trustees of the Kirchhellen youth development association “Philipp Neri”.

Publications

• Michael Schlagheck (Ed.): Theology and psychology about identity and foreignness. Paderborn, Bonifatius 2000
• Jorge E. Carvajal, Wilfried Lanfermann, Michael Schlagheck, Dieter Spelthahn, Josef Thesing (eds.): Market economy and social justice for Latin America. Münster, LIT Verlag 2000
• Willi Fährmann, Michael Schlagheck, Vera Steinkamp (eds.): Search for traces 11, philosophical and religious matters in children's and youth literature. Mülheim, Catholic Academy Die Wolfsburg 2001
• Michael Schlagheck (Ed.): Theology and Psychology in Dialogue on Dying and Death. Paderborn, Bonifatius 2001
• Michael Schlagheck, Caspar Söling (Ed.): Theology and Biology in Dialogue, I'm Making Progress. Aging as development. Paderborn, Bonifatius 2001
• Willi Fährmann, Michael Schlagheck, Vera Steinkamp (eds.): Searching for traces 12, myths, powers and magic. Harry Potter or the question of where from and where to in the fantastic children's and youth literature. Mülheim, Catholic Academy Die Wolfsburg 2001
• Willi Fährmann, Michael Schlagheck, Vera Steinkamp (eds.): Search for traces 13, On the way to oneself, literature and lifestyle. Mülheim, Catholic Academy Die Wolfsburg 2001
• Willi Fährmann, Michael Schlagheck, Vera Steinkamp (eds.): Search for traces 14, What people long for. Mülheim, Catholic Academy Die Wolfsburg 2001
• Willi Fährmann, Michael Schlagheck, Vera Steinkamp (eds.): Search for traces 16, classics - forays through children's and youth literature. Mülheim, Catholic Academy Die Wolfsburg 2001
• Michael Schlagheck, Günter Berghaus (eds.): Getting to the bottom of life: Emil Wachters Adveniat crypt in the Essen Cathedral Church. Essen, Klartext 2002
• Burkhard Kämper, Michael Schlagheck (ed.): Between national identity and European harmonization. On the basic tension of the future relationship between society, state and church in Europe. Berlin, Duncker & Humblot 2002
• Thomas Auchter, Michael Schlagheck (ed.): Theology and psychology in dialogue about the dream. Paderborn, Bonifatius 2003
• Thomas Auchter, Michael Schlagheck (ed.): Theology and psychology in a dialogue about remembering and forgetting. Paderborn, Bonifatius 2003
• Thomas Auchter, Michael Schlagheck (ed.): Theology and psychology in dialogue about the delusion of feasibility. Paderborn, Bonifatius 2003
• Thomas Auchter, Michael Schlagheck (ed.): Theology and psychology in dialogue about the experience of the fragmentary and the longing for wholeness. Paderborn, Bonifatius 2006
• Michael Schlagheck, Susanna Schmidt, Thomas Sternberg (eds.): But tear the clouds. Texts to think about. Freiburg im Breisgau, Herder publishing house 2007
• Thomas Auchter, Michael Schlagheck (eds.): Theology and psychology in dialogue about the delusion of feasibility and the power of the ability to suffer. Paderborn, Bonifatius 2007
• Jens Lieven, Michael Schlagheck, Barbara Welzel (eds.): Networks of Memoria. Essen, Klartext Verlag 2013

Series Editing

• Katrinette Bordarwé, Jan Gerchow, Klaus Lange, Alfred Pothmann, Hedwig Röckelein, Thomas Schilp, Michael Schlagheck (eds.): Dominion, liturgy and space, studies on the medieval history of the women's monastery in Essen, research on the women's monastery in Essen, volume 1. Essen, plain text -Publisher 2002
• Katrinette Bordarwé, Brigitta Falk, Jan Gerchow, Klaus Lange, Hedwig Röckelein, Thomas Schilp, Michael Schlagheck (eds.): Essen and the Saxon women's foundation in the early Middle Ages, Essen research on women's foundation, volume 2. Essen, Klartext-Verlag 2003
• Katrinette Bordarwé, Brigitta Falk, Jan Gerchow, Klaus Lange, Hedwig Röckelein, Thomas Schilp, Michael Schlagheck (eds.): Reform - Reformation - Secularization, women's pens in times of crisis, Essen research on women's monastery, volume 3. Essen, Klartext-Verlag 2004
• Katrinette Bordarwé, Brigitta Falk, Jan Gerchow, Klaus Lange, Hedwig Röckelein, Thomas Schilp, Michael Schlagheck (eds.): Gandersheim and Essen - Comparative studies on Saxon women's foundations, Essen research on women's foundations, volume 4. Essen, Klartext-Verlag 2006
• Klaus Gereon Beuckers, Katrinette Bordarwé, Birgitta Falk, Klaus Lange, Hedwig Röckelein, Thomas Schilp, Michael Schlagheck (eds.): ... how gold shines in the eyes, treasures from the Essen women's foundation, Essen research on women's foundation, volume 5. Essen, Klartext-Verlag 2007
• Klaus Gereon Beuckers, Katrinette Bordarwé, Birgitta Falk, Klaus Lange, Hedwig Röckelein, Thomas Schilp, Michael Schlagheck (eds.): Pro remedio et salute anime peragemus, commemoration of the dead at the women's monastery in Essen in the Middle Ages, Essen research on women's monastery, volume 6. Essen, Klartext-Verlag 2008
• Klaus Gereon Beuckers, Katrinette Bodarwé, Birgitta Falk, Klaus Lange, Hedwig Röckelein, Thomas Schilp, Michael Schlagheck (eds.): Frauenstifte - Frauenkloster and their parishes, Essen research on women's monastery, volume 7. Essen, Klartext-Verlag 2009
• Klaus Gereon Beuckers, Katrinette Bodarwé, Birgitta Falk, Ute Küppers-Braun, Klaus Lange, Gisela Muschiol, Hedwig Röckelein, Thomas Schilp, Michael Schlagheck (eds.): Catholic - Lutheran - Calvinist, women's convents in the age of confessionalization, Essen research on women's monastery , Volume 8. Essen, Klartext-Verlag 2010
• Klaus Gereon Beuckers, Katrinette Bodarwé, Birgitta Falk, Ute Küppers-Braun, Klaus Lange, Gisela Muschiol, Hedwig Röckelein, Thomas Schilp, Michael Schlagheck, Annemarie Stauffer (eds.): Women build Europe, international interdependencies of the Essen women's monastery, Essen research on Frauenstift, Volume 9. Essen, Klartext-Verlag 2011
• Klaus Gereon Beuckers, Katrinette Bodarwé, Birgitta Falk, Ute Küppers-Braun, Klaus Lange, Gisela Muschiol, Hedwig Röckelein, Thomas Schilp, Michael Schlagheck, Annemarie Stauffer (ed.): Liturgy in medieval women's foundations, research on Liber Ordinarius, Essen research on Frauenstift, Volume 10. Essen, Klartext-Verlag 2012
• Klaus Gereon Beuckers, Katrinette Bodarwé, Birgitta Falk, Klaus Lange, Thomas Labusiak, Jens Lieven, Gisela Muschiol, Hedwig Röckelein, Thomas Schilp, Michael Schlagheck, Annemarie Stauffer (eds.): Silk in the early and high medieval women's pen, possession - meaning - Conversion, Essen research on Frauenstift, Volume 11. Essen, Klartext-Verlag 2013
• Klaus Gereon Beuckers, Birgitta Falk, Thomas Labusiak, Klaus Lange, Jens Lieven, Gisela Muschiol, Hedwig Röckelein, Thomas Schilp, Michael Schlagheck, Annemarie Staufer (eds.): New spaces - new structures, Baroqueization of medieval women's colleges, Essen research on women's colleges, Volume 12. Essen, Klartext-Verlag 2014