Ronald Graetz

Ronald Grätz (born October 29, 1958 in São Paulo , Brazil ) is a German specialist in German. He is general secretary of the Institute for Foreign Relations and publisher of the journal Kultur Austausch .

education

Ronald Grätz studied philosophy, German and Catholic theology in Tübingen and Frankfurt am Main. He passed his first state examination with a thesis on the image of Jesus in Wolfgang Koeppen's novel Death in Rome .

Job and life

From 1989 to 1992 Grätz worked as a program teacher for the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in São Paulo, as well as the vice-director of a UNESCO project school .

In Barcelona he worked as a lecturer at the Universitat de Barcelona for didactics and methodology (German as a foreign language) and as a language teacher at the Goethe Institute (1994–1998).

This was followed by positions as head of program work for the Eastern Europe / Central Asia region at the Goethe-Institut Moscow (1998–2002), as advisor to the board at the headquarters of the Goethe-Institut Munich (2003–2006) and as head of the Goethe-Institut in Lisbon (2006-2008).

Since September 2008 he has been Secretary General of the Institute for Foreign Relations (Stuttgart, Berlin).

Ronald Grätz is married and has one daughter.

Memberships

Since 2012 Scientific Advisory Board of the Ibero-American Institute of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin
Since 2014 Scientific Advisory Board of the Leibniz Center Moderner Orient , Berlin
Since 2010 Committee on Europe and International Affairs of the German Cultural Council (until 2014)
Since 2012 Strategy Group of EUNIC Brussels (until 2016)
Since 2012 competent citizen in the committee for culture and media of the Stuttgart municipal council (until 2016)

Publications

Editorships

with Hans-Joachim Neubauer: Carla del Ponte. My life for justice. Conversations. With an introductory essay by Jutta Limbach. With a photo contribution by Robert Lyons. Steidl, Göttingen 2011.
with Hans-Georg Knopp: Cultures of Conflict. Texts on politics, society, everyday life and art. Steidl, Göttingen 2011.
with Hans-Georg Knopp: In- between spaces. What can the arts do in conflict situations? Steidl, Göttingen 2012.
with Erik Bettermann: Digital challenge. International relations in the age of Web 2.0. Steidl, Göttingen 2012.
MINHASP. A city reader of São Paulo. Esefeld & Traub, Stuttgart 2013.
with Hans-Joachim Neubauer: Jacques Delors. My life for Europe. Conversations. With an introductory essay by Hans-Dietrich Genscher. With a photo contribution by Carl de Keyzer. Steidl, Göttingen 2013.
with Erik Bettermann: Between the fronts. Limits to neutral reporting. Steidl, Göttingen 2013.
with Johannes Ebert: Human Rights and Culture. The human right to culture. Steidl, Göttingen 2015.
with Hans-Joachim Neubauer: Ernesto Cardenal. My life for love. Conversations. With an introductory essay by Norbert Lammert. With a photo contribution by Susan Meiselas. Steidl, Göttingen 2016.
with Hans-Joachim Neubauer: Human Rights Watch. A portrait. Conversations. With a photo contribution by Ed Kashi. Steidl, Göttingen 2016.
Can culture save Europe? Federal Agency for Civic Education, Bonn 2017.
with Roland Bernecker: Global Citizenship. Steidl, Göttingen 2017 (English version 2018).

Essays

Lisboa - Maputo - Berlin. A transcultural music project. In: Dorothee Kimmich, Schamma Schahadad (Hrsg.): Cultures in motion. Contributions to the theory and practice of transculturality. Transcript, Bielefeld 2012, pp. 188-210.
Who learns from whom? Islam in Germany. In: Olaf Zimmermann, Theo Geißler: Islam - Culture - Politics. Berlin 2013, pp. 46–50.

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personal data
SURNAME	Grätz, Ronald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German philologist, General Secretary of the Institute for Foreign Relations
DATE OF BIRTH	October 29, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH	São Paulo , Brazil