Roland Kaehlbrandt

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Roland Kaehlbrandt (born December 25, 1953 in Celle ) is a German foundation manager, linguist and non-fiction author. Since 2008 he has been chairman of the Frankfurt Polytechnic Foundation . He is honorary professor for language and society at the Alanus University for Art and Society in Alfter near Bonn.

Live and act

After studying social pedagogy , Roland Kaehlbrandt first ran a youth home for the Protestant parish in Cologne. He then studied Romance and German philology and ethnology at the University of Cologne . He earned his studies as a student trainee by teaching French and German as a foreign language at the adult education center and acting as an examiner for VHS language diplomas. With a scholarship he was able to take part in the DAAD Romance Studies program at the Paris Sorbonne University for one year in 1979 .

After completing his Magister Artium , Kaehlbrandt received a doctoral scholarship from the State of North Rhine-Westphalia from 1983 to 1985 . From 1985 to 1990 he worked as a DAAD lecturer for German at the University of Paris III . In 1987 he was appointed director of the German Maison Heinrich Heine Foundation , which he headed until 1990. Kaehlbrandt received his doctorate in 1989 from the University of Cologne with a linguistic dissertation. In 1990 he returned to Germany and supported the development of Franco-German youth work in the new federal states as press spokesman for the Franco-German Youth Office .

Kaehlbrandt continued his work for foundations in 1993 by moving to the Bertelsmann Stiftung in Gütersloh as Head of Communications, where he was also a member of the management team. The foundation's operational work, combined with active communication, shaped him. After six years of foundation work under the leadership of Reinhard Mohn , he moved to the Hertie Foundation in Frankfurt am Main as managing director . Kaehlbrandt contributed to the operational realignment of the foundation by developing and setting up several large projects in the areas of integration and language culture (national competition youth debated , start (scholarship) for gifted immigrant children, elementary school program German & PC).

In 2005 Kaehlbrandt was appointed to the board of the newly established Polytechnic Society in Frankfurt, which maintains the educational tradition of its parent company and founder, the Bürgerervereinigung Polytechnische Gesellschaft e. V., by promoting education and responsibility with a focus on Frankfurt am Main . With assets of 421 million euros, the foundation is one of the largest German private foundations. Since 2005 she has developed 18 so-called lead projects in the areas of family education, language education, cultural education, introduction to science and technology as well as civic competence, including innovative educational projects such as the Diesterweg scholarship for children and parents or the big dictation competition. Several projects were awarded prizes and spread beyond Frankfurt in cooperation structures with other foundations and municipalities. Kaehlbrandt has been chairman of the foundation's board of directors since 2008.

From 1997 to 2006 Kaehlbrandt was a lecturer in stylistics and rhetoric at the Institute for Journalism at the University of Dortmund and from 2007 to 2016 academic director of the intensive course in foundation management at the EBS University of Economics and Law . Since September 2016 he has been teaching as an honorary professor for language and society at the Alanus University for Art and Society in Alfter. He also wrote several books on the German language.

Private

Roland Kaehlbrandt grew up in Cologne ; his ancestors come from northern Germany, his parents from the Baltic States, including lawyers, merchants and Protestant pastors. He is married and has two children.

Memberships and engagement

As part of his voluntary work for the Federal Association of German Foundations , Kaehlbrandt headed its education working group from 2001 to 2007. From 2007 to 2014 he was a member of the board of directors and chairman of the jury for the KOMPASS award of the federal association. Since 2007 he has been chairman of the Frankfurt Foundations Initiative. Kaehlbrandt is also a member of various boards of trustees (including the German Academy for Language and Poetry , Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Provadis University of Industry and the State Foundation for Coexistence in Hessen ).

Publications (selection)

  • The principle of responsibility. Foundations as initiators and companions of social change. In: the scales. Grünenthal GmbH magazine. Volume 35, No. 3 (= pp. 88-133: Foundations ), 1996, pp. 97-103.
  • Buntes Deutsches Bestiarium: Lexicon of inevitable fellow human beings. DVA, Munich 2001, ISBN 978-3-421-05478-4 .
  • German for elites. DVA, Munich 1999, ISBN 978-3-421-05186-8 .
  • Hello! What's going on? All good! Why life isn't too short to learn German. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , No. 177, August 1, 2016, p. 9.
  • “I want to wake up and motivate.” The German linguist Roland Kaehlbrandt sees language awareness as a task for society as a whole. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , May 5, 2017, p. 52.
  • with Walter Krämer: Lexicon of beautiful words. Piper, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-492-27318-3 .
  • Logbook German - how we speak, how we write. Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 2016, ISBN 978-3-465-04255-6 .
  • with Walter Krämer: Plastic German - A lexicon of linguistic errors. Piper, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-492-25317-8 .

Awards

Web links

Commons : Roland Kaehlbrandt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Riebsamen: Many innovative projects. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of December 24, 2013.
  2. ^ Hans Riebsamen: For Frankfurt. 10 years of the Polytechnic Society Foundation. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung from November 22, 2015.
  3. ↑ Julia Kilian: Hessian Integration Prize goes to four projects. News from the German Press Agency dated November 7, 2013.
  4. ↑ Hans Riebsamen: Culture Prize for the German Summer. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of October 12, 2016.
  5. ↑ Thomas Remlein: Prize for the German Summer. In: Frankfurter Neue Presse from October 10, 2016.
  6. ↑ Stephan M. Hübner: The key function of the family. In: Polytechnik 1/2015, pages 16 to 18.
  7. ^ Alanus University: New honorary professorship for language and society at Alanus University. Press release from September 15, 2016.
  8. ^ Alfred Grosser : Paths through the word game hell. In: Frankfurter Rundschau from November 20, 2015.
  9. ^ Wolfgang Krischke: Save the German from self-dismantling. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of November 28, 2015.
  10. ^ Justus Wenzel: A wake-up call from Roland Kaehlbrandt: Are we letting the German language deteriorate? In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung of May 22, 2016.
  11. ↑ SPTG - News. Retrieved May 17, 2018 .
  12. ↑ Enrico Sauda: "Full of honor" for Kaehlbrandt. In: Frankfurter Neue Presse from May 4, 2017.
  13. ↑ Enrico Sauda: For the love of language. In: Frankfurter Neue Presse from April 30, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Kaehlbrandt, Roland
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German foundation manager and non-fiction author
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Celle