Peter Kühnst

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Peter Kühnst (1999)

Peter Kühnst (* 1946 in Heilbad Heiligenstadt ) is a German sports scientist .

Life

Kühnst was a gymnast at the children's and youth sports school in Erfurt . He then studied sport, history and geography at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena and then worked for two years as a teacher in Weimar.

After coming to Germany in 1974 after political imprisonment, he became an assistant for sports history at the German Sport University in Cologne . In addition to his seminars, he was able to do his doctorate here in 1980. He then worked as a teacher for sport and history at high schools in Hürth and Frechen and during this time pursued - also with the help of a research grant from the IOC - his studies on the image of sport in prominent art from the Italian Renaissance to postmodernism. In 1995 he completed his habilitation with this cultural studies study at the Ruhr University in Bochum and taught there as a private lecturer. In 2010 he retired and has lived and worked in Chonburi / Thailand for several years .

Publications

  • Totalitarian body culture. A century of competitive sport. (LIT-Verlag) Münster 2018
  • Temple of the Body. A heretic pamphlet. Kulturverlag Kadmos. Berlin 2015
  • Sports pictures Florian von Stetten Sports and performance. Victors and powers. Sport and beauty. Three-part television documentary. Idea and collaboration: Peter Kühnst (Sport. A cultural history in the mirror of art). Day / dream film production. Cologne 2009
  • Naked Champions The sporty act in photography. (Texts: P. Kühnst / W. Borgers) Edition Braus. Heidelberg 2004
  • Corps d'Athletes Sport and naturism in photography. (Text: P. Kühnst / W. Borgers) Edition du Regard. Paris 2004
  • Physique Classic Photographs of Naked Athlets. (Contributions: P. Kühnst / W. Borgers) Thames & Hudson Ltd. London 2004
  • The Tradition of Sports Representation in 18th and 19th Century Art History. In: H. Körner / A. Stercken (ed.). Art, sport and body. 1926–2002 / GESOLEI. Hatje Cantz Publishing House. Ostfildern-Ruit 2002. pp. 235–241
  • Sports guide Manfred Ewald A mentality-historical approach to the death of the former GDR sports president. Deutschlandfunk. Cologne December 9, 2001
  • Faith - fight - obey Inconvenient memories of the totalitarian tradition in the history of competitive sport from 1928 to 1989. In: S. Meck / PG Klussmann (ed.). (Festschrift for Dieter Voigt) Lit-Verlag. Münster-Hamburg-London 2001, pp. 219–244
  • Questions about the historical topography of alternative physical culture at the Bauhaus. In: W. Simmat (ed.). Weimar lectures on the relationship between sport and art and culture. (Bauhaus-Universität-Weimar) Weimar 2000 pp. 84–91
  • Sports. A cultural history in the mirror of art. (Habilitation) Verlag der Kunst. Dresden-Amsterdam 1996
  • Sports. A Cultural History in the Mirror of Art. (Translation: Allen, Guttman, Amherst / Mass.) Gorden & Bridge Fine Arts. New York-London-Amsterdam 1996
  • Sport as Reflected in Art from the Renaissance to Impressionism By: Quest 41 (1989) 2 (University of North Carolina) Champaigne, IL, p. 89-98
  • Bibliography Sport and Art Gymnastics, retreats, physical exercises, physical culture, gymnastics, sport and games in the fine arts from the Renaissance to the present. (3127 titles with many annotations) self-published. Cologne 1986. Frechen 1989
  • The abused sport The political instrumentalisation of sport in the Soviet occupation zone and the German Democratic Republic from 1945 to 1957. (Dissertation) Verlag Wissenschaft und Politik. Cologne 1982

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Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Bold, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sports scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Heilbad Heiligenstadt