Reimer Gronemeyer

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Reimer Gronemeyer at a lecture in Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt, organized by the initiative Dementia-friendly Bad Cannstatt [1] on January 25, 2016

Reimer Gronemeyer (born July 4, 1939 in Hamburg ) is a German theologian , sociologist and university professor .

Life

Gronemeyer first studied Protestant theology in Hamburg, Heidelberg and Edinburgh . In 1971 he received his doctorate with a thesis on Paul’s letters and was then pastor in Hamburg. He then studied sociology and received his doctorate in 1973 with a thesis on questions of corporate and social participation. Gronemeyer was an assistant at the theological faculties in Mainz and Bochum .

Since 1975 he has been Professor of Sociology at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen . In his research he deals with the questions of aging in society. Since the mid-1990s, his focus has been on dementia , the hospice movement and palliative care . He is also involved in a number of associations and foundations on these issues.

Reimer Gronemeyer is married to the educational scientist Marianne Gronemeyer .

engagement

  • Chairman of the board of Aktion Demenz e. V., Giessen
  • Chairman of the board of Pallium - research and help for social projects e. V., Giessen
  • Member of the Board of Trustees of the German Hospice and Palliative Foundation, Berlin
  • Member of the scientific advisory board of the German Hospice and Palliative Association e. V., Berlin
  • Member of the board of trustees at Hospiz Mittelhessen e. V., Wetzlar

Works (selection)

Entire fonts

  • The 4th age: dementia is not a disease. Pattloch Munich 2013, ISBN 3-629-13010-0
  • Heaven: longing for a lost place . Munich: Pattloch 2012, ISBN 3-629-02283-9
  • Is Aging a Disease? How we cope with the social challenges of dementia . With Rüdiger Dammann . Campus Verlag 2009. ISBN 3-593-38968-1
  • Dying in Germany: How we can give death a place in our lives again . Fischer Verlag 2008. ISBN 3-596-18151-8
  • The battle of the generations . Munich: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt 2004. ISBN 3-421-05752-4
  • Ice Age of Ethics . Würzburg: Echter Verlag 2003. ISBN 3-429-02528-1
  • That's how you die of AIDS in Africa. Why Western Health Concepts Fail in Southern Africa. A polemic . Frankfurt am Main: Brandes and Apsel 2002. ISBN 3-86099-756-4
  • The 10 commandments of the 21st century. Morals and Ethics for a New Age . Munich / Düsseldorf: Econ Verlag 1999. ISBN 3-430-13528-1
  • The new lust for asceticism . Berlin: Rowohlt Verlag 1998. ISBN 3-87134-320-X
  • All people remain children . Düsseldorf: Metropolitan-Verlag 1996. ISBN 3-89623-029-8
  • Why still church? Berlin: Rowohlt Verlag 1995. ISBN 3-87134-210-6
  • Your brother's blood. The future of violence . Düsseldorf: Econ Verlag 1993. ISBN 3-430-13529-X
  • Without a soul, without love, without hate. From the end of the individual and from the beginning of the test tube man . Düsseldorf: Econ Verlag 1992. ISBN 3-430-13531-1
  • The distance from the wolf pack. About the threatening war between the young and the old . Düsseldorf: Classen 1989. ISBN 3-546-43530-3
  • (with Georgia A. Rakelmann): The Gypsies: Travelers in Europe; Roma, Sinti, Manouches, Gitanos, Gypsies, Kalderasch, Vlach u. a. , Cologne: DuMont 1988, ISBN 3-7701-1854-5 .
  • (Ed.): Gypsies in the mirror of early chronicles and treatises: Sources from the 15th to the 18th century , Giessen: Focus 1987, ISBN 3-88349-336-8 , (series: Giessener Hefte für Tsiganologie; 1987)

Editors' publications

  • Let's de-professionalise ourselves! A critical dictionary on the language in care and social work . Together with Charlotte Jurk. Bielefeld: transcript 2017. ISBN 978-3-8394-3554-0 .
  • The history of the hospice movement in Germany . Together with Andreas Heller, Sabine Pleschberge and Michaela Fink. Ludwigsburg: Hospiz Verlag 2012. ISBN 978-3-941251-53-3
  • Dementia and civil society - a polemic . Together with Peter Wißmann and Thomas Klie. Frankfurt am Main: Mabuse-Verlag 2008. ISBN 978-3-940529-16-9
  • Help at the end of life: hospice work and palliative care in Europe . Wuppertal: Hospiz-Verlag 2004. ISBN 3-9810020-0-8
  • What to do with the dying? : Hospices in Europe - Approaches to a comparison . Münster: Lit Verlag. ISBN 3-8258-6011-6
  • Youth and violence: the new generation conflict or the collapse of civil society Reinbek: Rowohlt Verlag 1993- ISBN 3-499-13352-0
  • The lazy negro. From the white crusade against black idleness . Reinbek: Rowohlt Verlag 1991. ISBN 3-499-13071-8

Web links

Commons : Reimer Gronemeyer  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Board of Directors. Action Dementia e. V., accessed on August 10, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Board of Directors. Pallium e. V., accessed on August 10, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Board of Trustees. German Hospice and Palliative Foundation, accessed on May 14, 2013 .
  4. ↑ The Scientific Advisory Board. German Hospice and Palliative Association V., accessed on May 16, 2013 .
  5. ↑ Sponsors and Board of Trustees Support group Hospiz Mittelhessen e. V., accessed on August 10, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Gronemeyer, Reimer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran theologian and sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg