Olaf Kramer

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Olaf Kramer (born October 21, 1970 in Papenburg ) is a German rhetorician and literary scholar. He is professor for rhetoric and knowledge communication at the seminar for general rhetoric at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen , where he heads the presentation competence research center.

Life

Kramer studied general rhetoric, modern German literature, philosophy and psychology in Tübingen, Frankfurt am Main and Chapel Hill, USA. In 2008 he received his doctorate with a thesis on rhetoric under Goethe. In 2015 he completed his habilitation with a thesis on virtual reality. In 2016, Kramer was appointed to the Klaus Tschira Professorship for Rhetoric and Knowledge Communication.

Research projects

In 2012, Kramer founded the Presentation Competence Research Center, which he also heads. Here he deals with the possibilities of passing on and imparting knowledge. For example, the Research Center for Presentation Skills conducts research and training for the Youth Presented project , a nationwide competition for schoolchildren. In addition, Kramer and the presentation competence research center are responsible for the lecture series Science Notes as well as Rhetoric and Knowledge .

Further research fields of Kramer are political communication and populism as well as digital rhetoric and virtuality.

Fonts

  • Goethe and rhetoric. Berlin 2010
  • Zs. With Rainer Malaka (ed.): Multiplikatoren Handbuch Jugendspiele. Heidelberg 2012.
  • Prohibited rhetoric. Cunning, trickery and secret knowledge as formulas for success in rhetorical advice literature. In: Knape, Joachim, Olaf Kramer and Thomas Schirren. (Ed.): Rhetoric. Education - training - further education. Berlin 2012. pp. 165–180.
  • Politics between the present and the future. The genus deliberativum in the mediocracy. In: Ueding, Gert and Gregor Kalivoda (eds.): Ways of modern rhetoric research. Classic foundations and interdisciplinary development. Berlin and Boston 2014, pp. 681–701

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. www.sciencenotes.de