Siegfried Kett

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Siegfried Kett (born April 25, 1939 in Fürth ) is an educator and cultural politician. Most recently he was head of the Nuremberg Education Center , the second largest adult education center in Bavaria .

Under the Lord Mayors Andreas Urschlechter , Peter Schönlein and Ludwig Scholz and the school and culture advisor Hermann Glaser , Siegfried Kett shaped the educational and cultural policy of the city of Nuremberg.

life and work

Nuremberg Education Center
Inner courtyard of the education center

Siegfried Kett first studied communications engineering in Berlin and then vocational education in Stuttgart. In 1967 he passed the state examination for teaching at vocational schools. From 1960 to 1963 Siegfried Kett worked in Nuremberg and Bayreuth in the telecommunications service of the Deutsche Bundespost. After completing his legal traineeship and teaching exams, he taught in Fürth and Nuremberg . In 1972 he became director of studies and deputy head of vocational school 1 in Nuremberg.

In 1974, Siegfried Kett switched to the school and culture department. From 1977 to 1985 he was head of the office for culture and leisure of the city of Nuremberg , from 1985 to 1990 head of culture in Nuremberg and internal deputy of the school and culture officer Hermann Glaser . In this function he advocated a self-confident handling of the Nazi legacy of the city of Nuremberg.

From 1992 to the end of 2002, Siegfried Kett headed the Nuremberg Education Center . Under his leadership, the education center moved to the trade museum next to the Cinecittà Nuremberg . In 1997 he brought Peter Lokk to the education center to set up the first communal Internet café, “Aktionfeld Multimedia”, and campaigned for the development of the southern part of Nuremberg . With the support of the Bavarian Ministry of Culture, he founded the Learning Region in the Nuremberg-Fürth-Erlangen area.

More functions

From 1994 to 2004 Siegfried Kett worked as the second and first chairman of the Bavarian Adult Education Association. At the same time he represented Bavaria in the pedagogical committee of the German Adult Education Association (DVV) . Besides, he was

  • Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Academy for Civic Education in Tutzing (1996-2005),
  • Chairman of the State Advisory Board for Adult Education (until 2004),
  • Member of the regional school council (until 2005),
  • Member of the administrative committee of the German Institute for Adult Education (until 2004),
  • 2008 Chairman of the Association for the Promotion of Innovative Cultural Work

Honors

Publications

  • Culture shop Nuremberg. Theses, model, material . Andernach: Atelier-Verlag, 1976 (AVA Manifesto; 6)
  • Decentralized cultural meeting places . Edited in the social planning project group by Bodo Kadolowski, Siegfried Kett and Friedrich Strauch. Nuremberg: City of Nuremberg, Nuremberg Plan Working Group, 1977
  • Model for the cultural revitalization of the southern part of Nuremberg
  • With Nobert Termeer: ​​Club Atlas Nuremberg , Nuremberg 1980
  • Nürnberger Freizeitkiste, an information newspaper on Nuremberg's cultural life . Ed .: City of Nuremberg, Office for Cultural Leisure Activities. No. 1 from July 1978 to No. 14 from February 1980
  • With Scott Grunau: Pictures of Electrical Engineering - From the History of Electricity and its Application . No. 1 to No. 10, published by the City of Nuremberg from 1982 to 1984
  • The Nuremberg artist house. A city history from 1867-1992 . Verlag Nürnberger Presse, Nuremberg 1992, ISBN 3-920701-89-5 .
  • With Christiane Schleindl: The Master of Nuremberg - a film discovery , Nuremberg 1994
  • Siegfried Kett, Manfred Scholz and Harald Zintl (eds.): Karl Bröger - worker poet , journalist and politician. Documentation for the symposium on October 4th, 2008 in Nuremberg . Publishing institutions: Karl-Bröger-Gesellschaft eV, Nuremberg; Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Regensburg. Nuremberg, 2009, 126 pages, ISBN 978-3-86872-037-2 .
  • Illumination and acceleration - from the glass tube to the dynamo and telephone. Nuremberg's role in electrical history. Schrenk-Verlag, Röttenbach 2016, ISBN 978-3-924270-83-4 .

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personal data
SURNAME Kett, Siegfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publicist and professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Fuerth