Rolf Schörken
Rolf Schörken (born August 12, 1928 in Barmen; † August 31, 2014 ) taught history and political didactics at the University of Duisburg as a professor from 1974 to 1993 .
Live and act
Schörken did military service from 1944 to 1945 as an air force helper with the heavy flak in the Wuppertal, Dorsten and Recklinghausen area and was wounded as a prisoner of war. He studied history, German language and literature and philosophy in Tübingen, Freiburg and Bonn and worked in Düsseldorf in higher education and as a high school councilor before moving to university.
He dealt with questions of learning theory and the fundamentals of the emergence of historical consciousness ( history in science and teaching 1970/1972) as well as history in everyday consciousness according to Alfred Schütz . Later he gave impetus for the rediscovery of the storytelling and the education about the meaning of the historical imagination (1994). He was from 1970 for many years chairman of the standards committee Political Education for the political education in North Rhine-Westphalia. In 1980 he coined the term Didactics of Understanding Others .
He wrote historical works about the youth of 1945 ( anti-aircraft generation ) and youth culture.
Honors
- 2012: Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany
Works (selection)
- History in the everyday world: how we encounter history and what we do with it . Stuttgart 1981. ISBN 3-12-915520-1
- Historical imagination and history didactics . Paderborn 1994. ISBN 3-506-78129-4
- Youth 1945: Political Thought and Life History . Fischer TB, Frankfurt / M. 2005. ISBN 3-596-16836-8 (first 1990)
- Indians play and march. Childhood and children's culture in Barmen in the 1930s . Wuppertal 2006.
- When the doors opened. Beginnings of new thinking after 1945 . Schwalbach / Ts. 2012. ISBN 978-3-89974768-3
Web links
- Literature by and about Rolf Schörken in the catalog of the German National Library
- Rolf Schörken as a contemporary witness. In: Youth! Germany 1918–1945. Retrieved August 30, 2019 .
- Rolf Schörken on the occasion of his 80th birthday (PDF file; 70 kB)
- Bodo von Borries : Rolf Schörken (08/12/1928– 08/31/2014). Obituary from the University of Duisburg-Essen
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://lebenswege.faz.net/trauerbeispiel/rolf-schorken/39495783
- ^ Ludger Tewes : Jugend im Krieg , Verlag Reimar Hobbing, Essen 1989 pp. 329 to 343 ISBN 3-920460-49-9 . Heavy Flaka Division 445.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schörken, Rolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German history teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 12, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Barmen |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 31, 2014 |