Peter Winterhoff-Spurk

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Peter Winterhoff-Spurk at the Leipzig Book Fair

Peter Winterhoff-Spurk (born July 2, 1945 in Grimma ) is a German psychologist , author and publisher .

Life

After his birth in Grimma, Peter Winterhoff-Spurk grew up in Wuppertal . There, as well as in Rheda and Bielefeld , he attended school. From 1962 he completed an apprenticeship as a savings bank clerk . From 1965 to 1969 he was a temporary soldier in Rotenburg (Wümme) , Sonthofen , Feldafing and Starnberg . He then passed his Abitur on the second educational path at the Westfalen-Kolleg in Bielefeld. From 1971 to 1977 he studied psychology and sociology at the Philipps University in Marburg . He then worked until 1983 as a research assistant at the Department of Psychology of the language psychologist Theo Herrmann at the University of Mannheim , where he received his doctorate in 1983 . From 1983 to 1988 he worked as Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy , Psychology and Education, where he joined in 1988, studies on the question of the TV influence on the world knowledge of the audience habilitated . From 1989 to 1992 Winterhoff-Spurk was the deputy professor for applied psychology at the University of Saarland from Diether Breitenbach and was there from 1992 to 2010 professor for media and organizational psychology . From 1993 to 1999 he was director of the Media Psychological Research Institute Saarland (MEFIS eV), in which media science projects were carried out for non-university clients. The funds thus generated were used to set up a media psychology laboratory at Saarland University, to co-finance the magazine 'Medienpsychologie' and to hold conferences and lecture series. Furthermore, Winterhoff-Spurk was a founding member of the Saarbrücker Medientage in 1990 and of the Bad Boller Medientage in 2004 .

However, the media psychological research institute had to be liquidated after only a few years due to unsuccessfulness, although the Saarland state government set an annual support amount in the state budget in the six-figure range and the institute was able to use a representative state property on Saarbrücken's Ludwigsplatz. This meant that the partial financing of the “Zeitschrift für Medienpsychologie” had to be ended; As a result, Winterhoff-Spurk no longer played a role in the context of the magazine that used the cut to internationalize and professionalize itself. Support for the “Saarbrücker Medientage” also had to end after six events; the series of events was discontinued immediately afterwards. The Bad Boller Media Days ended after even fewer events. In recent years, professional winter-Spurk devoted barely media psychological issues, and with his retirement , the Chair Winterhoff-Spurks at the University of Saarland was settled. In 2010 he founded the small publishing house JG Seume in Leipzig, which has produced fewer than a dozen publications since it was founded. The publishing house is now based in Saarbrücken.

Private

Peter Winterhoff-Spurk is married and now lives in Saarbrücken. He is a brother-in-law of the sociologist Jan Spurk .

Selected publications

  • Cold hearts , Stuttgart 2009.
  • Babylon Company , Stuttgart 2008.
  • Organizational Psychology , Stuttgart 2002.
  • Television , Bern 2001.
  • Media psychology, an introduction , Stuttgart 1999.

Awards

  • Peter Winterhoff-Spurk received the Johann Gottfried Seume Literature Prize in 2011 for his book Enterprise Babylon. How globalization endangers the soul (Klett-Cotta, 2008). The prize is awarded by the "Seume Society", of which Winterhoff-Spurk was already a member at the time - today he is a member of the board.
  • In 2013 he was made an honorary member of the media psychology department in the German Society for Psychology .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Winterhoff-Spurk: The functions of looking and smiling when prompting, Frankfurt 1983.
  2. ↑ Peter Winterhoff-Spurk: Television and World Knowledge, The Influence of Media on Time, Space and Person Schemas, Opladen 1989.
  3. ↑ https://us.hogrefe.com/products/journals/journal-of-media-psychology , accessed on October 7, 2019
  4. ↑ https://www.seume-verlag.de/unsere-publikationen , accessed on October 7, 2019
  5. ↑ https://www.seume-verlag.de , accessed on October 7, 2019.
  6. ^ Homepage of the publishing house JG Seume Saarbrücken - Frankfurt - Leipzig. Verlag JG Seume, accessed November 20, 2012 .
  7. ↑ MDR FIGARO meets ... Prof. Peter Winterhoff-Spurk. Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk, archived from the original on February 22, 2013 ; Retrieved November 20, 2012 .
  8. ↑ https://www.seume-gesellschaft.de

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personal data
SURNAME Winterhoff-Spurk, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychologist, author and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH July 2, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Grimma