Michael Thiele (rhetorician)

Michael Thiele (born September 8, 1947 in Münster ) is a German rhetorician and speaker teacher . Since 2006 he has been an adjunct professor for religious rhetoric at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main .

Live and act

In 1977 he passed the state examination for teaching at grammar schools in the main subjects of German, philosophy, pedagogy and English and in the same year passed the master’s examination in communication / aesthetics with a focus on theater studies at the University of Osnabrück . In 1982 he became a student of Wolfram Hogrebe at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf with the work “Negated Catharsis. Plato - Aristotle - Brecht " doctorate . In 2001 he qualified as a professor at the Department of Protestant Theology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main on the subject of “Spiritual eloquence. Building blocks of religious rhetoric ”. Since 1986 he has been professor for rhetoric and technical English at the Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences - Technology and Economics . In addition, he has been a private lecturer since 2001 and an adjunct professor for religious rhetoric at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main since 2006.

Guest professorships and lectures have taken him to the Ain Shams University in Cairo and the University of Bologna , Sede di Forlì, among others .

His non-university activities include 1974/75 work as a dramaturge at the Osnabrück Municipal Theaters . In 1976 he passed the stage entrance examination for drama and musicals. From 1987 to 1989 he was the artistic main subject teacher for speaking at the acting department of the Folkwang University in Essen . Michael Thiele also works as a speech trainer (DGSS) and gives rhetoric seminars.

Michael Thiele is married and has two children.

Fonts

• Negated catharsis. Plato - Aristotle - Brecht. Frankfurt am Main, Bern, New York, Paris 1991, ISBN 3-8204-9054-X .
• Passages. Building blocks of religious rhetoric. Norderstedt 2003, ISBN 3-8334-0138-9 .
• Spiritual eloquence. Reflections on the art of preaching. Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-17-018352-4 .
• Lead & argue. 2nd Edition. Regensburg 2005, ISBN 3-922757-70-7 .
• Body speaking. Breath, voice, health, Biebelsheim 2008m ISBN 978-3-932977-09-1 .
• Public speech in the church. Regensburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-8461-1000-3 .
• Sermon as true speech. Regensburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-8461-1002-7 .
• Speak talk. Theory and Practice of Linguistic Expressions. In connection with Gerhild Bernard, Thomas Reschke, Waltraud Schlingplässer-Gruber and Beate Schneider. Marburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-8288-2357-0 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Michael Thiele in the catalog of the German National Library
• Michael Thiele's website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ tm-thiele.de