Reiner Steinweg

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Reiner Steinweg (born June 29, 1939 in Pähl ) is a German peace and conflict researcher as well as theater and storytelling pedagogue, who first became known as a Brecht researcher.

Career

Steinweg spent his early childhood in Silesia . Shortly before the end of the war, the mother fled with him and his three younger siblings via Bohemia to East Westphalia-Lippe . His father - a doctor of law at the Reichsbahn - died as a soldier in the Balkans in early May 1945. After graduating from high school in Lemgo in 1959 , he studied at various universities, a. a. in Paris, literary studies and history, took the state examination in Kiel in 1965 and received his doctorate there 4 years later on “Brecht's theory of teaching pieces. A theory-practice model ”. From 1969 he worked as a German teacher at the folk high school in Hesbjerg near Odense / Denmark and at the same time was a member of the staff of the Peace Research College Hesbjerg . In 1971 he began a second degree in political science and sociology with a focus on peace and conflict research in Frankfurt am Main with a scholarship from the Berghof Foundation for Conflict Research .

While still a student he became a member of the Hamburg Action Group for Nonviolence and took part in the "San-Francisco-Moscow March for Peace" (Unilateral Disarmament) from Osnabrück to Moscow in 1961 , organized by the Committee for Nonviolent Action ( Abraham Muste / Bradford Lyttle ), On behalf of the Committee against Nuclear Armament, he organized the Easter March in Munich and the South Region, together with Carl Amery (1962), he was the cantor of the Christian Community in Kiel and performed and wrote “Das neue Jerusalem” by Klaus Harlan (1967) together with Jens Ihwe a memorandum on the establishment of a German institute for peace research (1968).

1971 marriage to Erica von Wrangell, daughter Gisela b. 1975; second marriage with Ulrike Breitwieser, son Felix b. 1986.

life and work

Steinweg combined research and teaching activities, committee work and political practice. Building on his dissertation (1969) on Bertolt Brecht's didactic pieces, he developed an approach for self-reflective peace policy education in the 1980s, which was also the starting point for the research projects “Youth and Violence” (1980–1986) and “Violence in the City” (1989 to 1994 on behalf of the Graz Office for Peace and Development), "Preparation for existential conflicts in training, group and job" (1994-1997, together with Eva Maringer) and "Working climate and conflict potential" of the Linz Chamber of Labor (1997-1999), which he completed with a number of publications. Since 1996 he has been committed to the implementation of the concept of nonviolent communication according to Marshall Rosenberg through training and publications. In 2011 he published an anthology “Nonviolent Action. Experiences and analyzes ”(together with Ulrike Laubenthal).

From 1972 to 1974 Steinweg organized meetings and congresses for the Working Group for Peace and Conflict Research (AFK), a scientific association from all academic disciplines. From 1972 to 1980 he organized several events in Frankfurt am Main as a member of the Socialist Bureau . From 1974 to 1988 he was the editor of “Friedensanalysen” in the edition suhrkamp as an employee of the Hessian Foundation for Peace and Conflict Research , from 1976 to 1984 he was given a teaching position at the University of Frankfurt am Main . on questions of nonviolence , the citizens' initiative movement, socio-psychological aspects of war and peace, etc. a. on the connection between masculinity and war, as well as theater education ; He also taught theater and storytelling at the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences .

From 1979 to 1986 he was a co-founder and member of the advisory board, later for three years co-chair of the educational and meeting center for nonviolent action / curve Wustrow near Gorleben . 1984–85 campaign organizer “Producing for Life. Stop arms exports ”( Pax Christi , Living Without Armor , Reconciliation Covenant ). From 1985 to 1994 he was editor of the annual “Peace Report” of the Austrian Study Center for Peace and Conflict Resolution (ÖSFK). From 1987 to 2004 he was head of the Linz branch of the ÖSFK.

From 1989 to 1992 Steinweg was a lecturer at universities in Sao Paulo, Innsbruck, Salzburg and Vienna, since 2009 also at the University of Applied Sciences Osnabrück / Theater Pedagogical Institute Lingen, and since 2012 at the " European Peace University " (EPU) in Stadtschlaining in Burgenland . From 1998 to 2000 he was in charge of the development of the department “Ways out of everyday violence” of the “European Museum for Peace” in the Friedensburg Schlaining . From 2001 to 2002 he was acting head of the Berghof Research Institute for Constructive Conflict Management in Berlin .

As an advisor to the Peace City of Linz , he has been drafting the annual “Peace Declarations” of the City of Linz since 1988 and initiated a Linz delegation to Kosovo in 1993 and then in 1999 the “Linz Appeal for Peace Policy”, from which a United Nations Commission for Peace and Conflict Prevention ( UNCOPAC ) and the Crisis Prevention Forum emerged . In 2006, after the Lebanon War, he was one of the authors of the "Manifesto of 25" for a changed German Middle East policy and represented this concept in 2008 at the invitation of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Israel .

He has been an honorary member of the Linz Peace Academy since 2017

Fonts (selection)

In addition to the selection of his monographs and anthologies listed here, Steinweg published many articles in numerous periodicals and anthologies

as editor
  • Tell what I don't know The desire to tell stories and how it enriches political, social and therapeutic work . Schibri-Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-937895-14-0
  • Critical Thinking Education. Texts and effects of the teacher Heinz Schultz . Brandes & Apsel, Frankfurt / M. 1993, ISBN 3-86099-109-4 (together with Volkhard Brandes)
  • Peace analysis. For theory and practice . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt / M. 1976–1999 (24 vols.)
  • Peace report. Peace researcher on the situation . Austrian Study Center for Peace and Conflict Resolution, Stadtschlaining, 1984–1993 (10 vols.)
  • Bertolt Brecht : The measure . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt / M. 1972 (with instructions from RS)
as an author
  • Working atmosphere and potential for conflict. Experience from Upper Austrian companies (WISO documents; 45). ISW-Verlag, Linz 1999
  • Violence in the city. Perceptions and interventions, the Graz model . Agenda-Verlag, Münster 1994, ISBN 3-929440-22-9 (together with the "Working Group on Violence in the City")
  • ViolenceOutsideSee. Suggestions for reducing violence . (Edition Lex Liszt; 12). Oberwart 2000, ISBN 3-932444-08-6 (together with Eva Maringer)
  1. "Text band"
  2. Exhibition "Ways Out of Everyday Violence" (1 CD-ROM)
  • Constructive attitudes and behavior in institutional conflicts. Experience, terms, skills (Berghof report; 3). Berghof Research Center for Constructive Conflict Management, Berlin 1997 (together with Eva Maringer)
  • The lesson. Brecht's theory of a political-aesthetic education . Brandes & Apsel, Frankfurt / M. 1995, ISBN 3-86099-250-3
  • City without violence. Mitigation, avoidance, prevention. The Graz proposals . Agenda-Verlag, Münster 1994, ISBN 3-929440-20-2
  • Because we are without weapons. A theater pedagogical research project on political education. Based on a suggestion by Bertolt Brecht . Brandes & Apsel, Frankfurt / M. 1986, ISBN 3-925798-22-6 (together with Wolfgang Heidefuß and Peter Petsch)

Web links

Commons : Reiner Steinweg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Günter Hartung: The poet Bertolt Brecht. Twelve Studies, Leipzig 2004, pp. 184–193; Wikipedia: Lehrstück (theater), accessed September 12; Wikipedia: Spielart-berlin.de, Theaterpädagogische Zeitschrift, 10-2009: "Reiner Steinweg, who ... through his fundamental investigation" The didactic piece. Brecht's theory of a political-aesthetic education “(1972/1976) which professionalized theater pedagogy in the long term“; Achim Schröder u. a. Ed., Handbook on Conflict and Violence Education - Procedures for School and Youth Welfare, Bad Schwalbach 2013, pp. 241-258
  2. ↑ Marcel M. Baumann u. a. Ed .: Friedensforschung und Friedenspraxis, encouragement to work on utopia - Reiner Steinweg on his 70th birthday, Frankfurt 2009, p. 143ff.
  3. ↑ Ulrike Suhr: Between Game and Discourse: Topics and Methods of the Peace Researcher RS, pp. 288–312, reference 3; Friedens-news.at, 6-2008, “veteran of the peace movement and peace research in Austria and Germany”.
  4. ↑ Eva Maringer: S. 206-224, receipt third
  5. ↑ http://www.wissenschaft-und-frieden.de/seite.php?artikelID=1767
  6. ^ Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences: Reiner Steinweg , viewed on September 5, 2013
  7. ↑ http://www.inst.at/studies/l_03_d.htm
  8. ↑ Linz - Culture - City of Peace Linz , viewed on September 10, 2013.
  9. ↑ Crisis-Prevention.info .
  10. ↑ Marcel M. Baumann, Georg Meggle: Beyond thought prohibitions and lack of criticism. The manifesto of the 25 and its consequences. Pp. 275-287, document 3.
personal data
SURNAME Steinweg, Reiner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater pedagogue
DATE OF BIRTH June 29, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Pähl