Volker Schürmann

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Volker Schürmann (* 1960 in Dortmund ) is a German sports philosopher and university lecturer .

Life

After graduating from high school in Dortmund in 1979, Schürmann studied mathematics, philosophy and educational sciences at Bielefeld University , and passed his first state examination in 1987. From 1989 to 1998 he worked at the University of Bremen as a research assistant in philosophy and from 1998 to 2000 in sports science. His doctoral thesis, which he accepted at the University of Bremen in 1992, was entitled “Practice of abstraction”, and in 1998 he completed his habilitation on the subject of “On the structure of hermeneutic speaking”. In 1999 he was awarded the Prize for the Promotion of Studies in Dialectical Philosophy from the University of Groningen . From 2001 to 2009 Schürmann headed the Department of Sports Philosophy and Sports History at the Sports Science Faculty of the University of Leipzig . In 2009 he took up a professorship at the Institute for Education and Philosophy at the German Sport University Cologne (DSHS). In 2010 he took over the management of the institute.

In 2003 Schürmann worked as a special reviewer for the German Research Foundation (DFG) in sports science and from 2011 he sat on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Helmuth Plessner Society . In the Sports Philosophy Section of the German Association for Sports Science , he assumed the office of Section Spokesperson.

The main focuses of his scientific work include philosophical anthropology, hermeneutics, sports philosophy and modern theory.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Volker Schürmann - DSHS. In: German Sport University Cologne. Retrieved March 7, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Volker Schürmann: Practice of abstraction. In: suche.suub.uni-bremen.de. 1992, accessed March 7, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Volker Schürmann: On the structure of hermeneutic speaking. In: suche.suub.uni-bremen.de. Retrieved March 7, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Concern / Imprint. In: Mediale Moderne. April 10, 2013, accessed March 7, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Who is Who of the German Sport University Cologne. In: German Sport University Cologne. Carl and Liselott Diem Archive, 2011, accessed March 7, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Sports Philosophy | Contact. In: German Association for Sports Science. January 3, 2019, accessed March 7, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Volker Schürmann | Leipzig contributions to theater history research. In: uni-leipzig.de. Retrieved March 7, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Schürmann, Volker
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sports philosopher, university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund