Wolf-Dieter Zimmermann (teacher)

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Wolf-Dieter Zimmermann (* 1948 in Karlsruhe ) is a German teacher and non-fiction author.

Life

Wolf-Dieter Zimmermann is the third child of Pastor Dieter Zimmermann and his wife Gudrun. After attending school in Gersbach, Freiburg, Dusseldorf and Hilden and graduating from high school in Hilden in 1968, he studied Protestant theology in Munich, Tübingen, Mainz and Münster and then pedagogy in Bochum and Dusseldorf.

After passing the second state examination, he worked as a teacher in a comprehensive school in Mülheim an der Ruhr . During this time he attended several years of further training in humanistic psychodrama with Hans-Werner Gessmann at the Bergerhausen Psychotherapeutic Institute .

From 1985 (until 2003) he wrote and played in the church cabaret "Die Kreuztreter", wrote (with others) textbooks for pedagogy lessons and was (also from 1985) a specialist in Protestant religious studies at the Essen seminar. Further books (including on interviewing and group process observation) followed. In 1997 he became deputy head of the Krefeld seminar, and one year later he founded the Neuss study seminar, which he headed until his “retirement” in 2011.

Wolf-Dieter Zimmermann headed the Neuss study seminar until 2011 and campaigned for media-critical training on the basis of free software . The Ministry of Culture in North Rhine-Westphalia commissioned him with the pilot project “Notebook-based teacher training”. He initiated the Seminarix project which, in addition to free, open source programs and applications, also runs on the basis of the free Linux operating system .

In Mülheim an der Ruhr, he organized and led courses in rooms of the Protestant church on topics such as “E-Mail - but secure”, “Focus formation and digital photography”, “Cryptoparty” (encryption - manageable) until 2015.

From 2005 to 2015 he organized and moderated the coffee grounds benefit event once a year , the proceeds of which were donated to the support group of the children's aid project Las Torres. He was co-organizer of a “sustainability festival” at the Petrikirche in Mülheim. Zimmermann organizes and runs the "Linuxtreff" in Mülheim an der Ruhr with others.

honors and awards

In 2016 Zimmermann received the “RWE Climate Protection Prize” for his project, Old Laptops in a New Look . For reasons of sustainable continued use of older computers, he upgraded them to the Linux operating system, which is much more resource-efficient, and equipped them with a package of free software. In 2018 he applied for the honorary award of the year 2018 with his fellow campaigners from the “Linuxtreff” in Mülheim an der Ruhr, and together with them came fourth.

Fonts

  • Conduct discussions - moderate - advise. Baltmannsweiler: Schneider-Verlag Hohengehren 2003
  • Simulate - evaluate - reflect on group processes. Baltmannsweiler: Schneider-Verlag Hohengehren 2002
  • (with Dieter Zeppenfeld and Tilmann Krämer): Learning from experience - playing with experience: acting in groups. Baltmannsweiler: Schneider-Verlag Hohengehren 1998
  • Peace Education and Aggression. Mülheim ad Ruhr [1990]

Remarks

  1. ↑ Cross or Cross? Interior views of the church cabaret “Die Kreuztreter” from 1985 to 1994. Ed. By Wolf-Dieter Zimmermann. OO: Göttert Verlag o. J.
  2. ↑ Robert Ingenhag, Dr. Anke Philipp, Christina Schütz, Ute von Waldthausen and Wolf-Dieter Zimmermann: Notebook-based teacher training. A project at the Neuss study seminar. Final report. Neuss no year
  3. ↑ Presentation of the speaker, Wolf-Dieter Zimmermann at Froscon 2020 (accessed March 25, 2020)
  4. ^ Ferdinand Thommes: Teaching and learning helpers. In: LinuxUser 04/2009 (accessed March 26, 2020).
  5. ↑ http://www.lastorres.de
  6. ↑ http://www.netzwerk-bildung.net/nachhaltigkeit
  7. ↑ netzwerk-bildung.net - Project accompanying page on the topic of "Sustainable continued use of older computers with free software"
  8. ↑ Climate award for recycling old laptops . In: DerWesten , May 25, 2016 (accessed March 26, 2020).
personal data
SURNAME Zimmermann, Wolf-Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher and non-fiction author
DATE OF BIRTH 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe