Wolf Rainer Wendt

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Wolf Rainer Wendt (born May 14, 1939 in Schwerin ) is a German social worker , social pedagogue and social work scientist. He developed u. a. the systemic-eco-social model of action and has introduced the concept of case management in German-speaking countries.

Life of Wolf Rainer Wendt

Wendt grew up in the GDR and was imprisoned there for 18 months at the age of seventeen for, among other things, “decomposition work in the FDJ” and “defamation of the state”. After fleeing to the West, he caught up with his Abitur and studied philosophy, psychology, sociology and art history in Tübingen and Berlin, and earned a diploma in psychology. In 1969 he was in Tübingen with a dissertation on the philosophical aesthetics in interpretation of the art of Marcel Duchamp to Dr. phil. PhD, his doctoral supervisor was the philosopher and educator Otto Friedrich Bollnow . After completing his studies, Wendt worked as an educational advisor and became head of department at the Stuttgart youth welfare office. From 1978 to 2004, Wendt was a professor at the Faculty for “Social Affairs” at the Stuttgart University of Cooperative Education . In addition to extensive journalistic activities, he is involved in practical and research projects that are based on the case management concept and deal with questions of civil society and the social economy. In 2003 he received an honorary professorship at the University of Tübingen.

1989 co-founder of the German Society for Social Work (DGSA), he was its chairman from 1993 to 2009. He was co-editor of "Brennpunkte Sozialer Arbeit" and the "Series of publications of the German Society for Social Work", is a member of the editorial board of " Blätter der Wohlfahrtspflege " and " Sozialwirtschaft ", and co-editor of the magazine "Case Management". Since 2004, Wendt has also been chairman of the German Society for Care and Case Management (DGCC).

Wendt pushes the theory development in social work, further develops the case management concept. For example with the instructions for "care counseling". He writes basic works on the history of social work (most recently in two volumes in 2016), on theories of social work and on social economics (see list of publications in: Mühlum / Rieger 2009). Works on stoic ethics ("Suitability - ethical considerations", 1989), on cultural anthropology ("Ritual and right life", 1994) and on political philosophy ("The order of the world in house and state", 2019).

The eco-social model of social work according to Wendt

In his books “Ecology and Social Work” (1982) and the continuation “Thinking and acting eco-socially. Basics and Applications in Social Work ”(1990) and“ The eco-social principle. Social work, understood ecologically ”(2010) describes Wendt's basic ecological social approach. He sees a general paradigm ( eco-social paradigm ) and a guiding pattern for social work in the ecological thought pattern . It deals with the household of coexistence and the life of individual people with their impairments. The inhospitableness which the exploitation of nature entails corresponds to the inhospitable nature of the modernized living conditions of many people. "From an ecological point of view, today's society has the task of organizing humane life in our world in a sustainable way, for itself and for everyone who belongs to it." Wendt describes nine categories of his eco-social model based on this principle:

Then Wendt speaks of a "human ecosystem" (systemic approach), in which these categories are reflected. He sees self-management in personal lifestyle , which is supported by management of social work. This support management is case management , which affects social practice through individual aid , community work and social group work.

Social economics

Wendt has the eco-social approach in recent years into a social economics introduced. In his theory of the social economy, social work is combined with the care work of people in their own sphere of life and both with budgetary action in public and social services of general interest. According to Wendt, the social economy with its services and facilities directly serves the welfare of people, but remains entirely dependent on economic activity as a whole. Functionally, the social economy is defined as the way in which care and supply are demand-oriented and collectively based on decisions that are to be made in (public, communal and private) households according to the eco-social paradigm . The "maintenance of welfare", both formally organized and informal in these processes, is the main subject of social economics. It extends from the socio-political design of care (the welfare regime) to the individual "economy of living".

Writings (monographs)

  • Children's recreation. A socio-educational curriculum. Stuttgart 1975.
  • Ecology and social work. Stuttgart 1982.
  • History of Social Work. Stuttgart 1983 (5th edition in two volumes 2008)
  • Fitness. Ethical considerations. Frankfurt am Main 1987.
  • Think and act eco-socially. Freiburg i.Br. 1990.
  • Ritual and right life. Stuttgart 1994.
  • Support on a case-by-case basis. Freiburg i. Br. 1995.
  • Civil society and social action. Freiburg i. Br. 1996.
  • Case management in social and health care. Freiburg i. Br. 1997 (5th edition 2010)
  • Social knowledge management. Baden-Baden 1998.
  • Social informatics. Baden-Baden 1999.
  • Social economics. Baden-Baden 2002.
  • Social economy - a system. Baden-Baden 2003.
  • Social work and social economy. Freiburg i. Br. 2004.
  • with A. Wöhrle: Social economy and social management in the development of their theory. Augsburg 2007.
  • The eco-social principle. Freiburg i. Br. 2010, ISBN 978-3-7841-1957-1 .
  • The social upkeep of welfare. Baden-Baden 2011, ISBN 978-3-8329-7000-0 .
  • Social economy. A breviary of their teaching. Freiburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-86226-236-6 .
  • Manage social care. Studies on the social economy. Baden-Baden 2015, ISBN 978-3-8487-2179-5 .
  • History of Social Work 1. Society before the Social Question 1750–1900. 6th, extended Edition. Wiesbaden 2016, ISBN 978-3-658-15355-7 .
  • History of social work 2. The profession in its changing circumstances. 2nd, extended Edition. Wiesbaden 2016, ISBN 978-3-658-15434-9
  • Economy of lifestyle. Welfare-related lifestyle in the context of social economy . Baden-Baden 2017. ISBN 978-3-8487-4375-9
  • Acting economically in social work. The eco-social theory in revision. Opladen 2018. ISBN 978-3-8474-2220-4
  • The order of the world in house and state. Social control in a West-Eastern comparison . Wiesbaden 2019. ISBN 978-3-658-27013-1

Editorships

  • Study and practice of social work. Stuttgart 1985
  • Outpatient social care services in cooperation. Freiburg 1993
  • Work socially and scientifically. Status and positions of social work science. Freiburg 1994
  • Social work in the change of its self-image. Profession and Identity. Freiburg 1995
  • Teaching and practice as a partner in social work. Rudersberg 1995
  • Social informatics: status and perspectives. Baden-Baden 2000
  • Innovation in social practice. Baden-Baden 2005
  • (with Peter Löcherbach) Case Management in development. Heidelberg 2006 (3rd edition 2017)
  • (with Peter Löcherbach) Standards and professionalism in case management. Heidelberg 2009
  • Welfare arrangements. New ways in the social economy. Baden-Baden 2010
  • Social economic benefits. Supply design and value creation processes. Augsburg 2011
  • (with Cornelia Hoßfeld) Colorful young practice. Baltmannsweiler 2012
  • Advice and case management. Heidelberg 2012
  • Attention to people in social work. Situation 2013
  • Care for welfare. Modern welfare in the associations of service to people. Baden-Baden 2014.
  • Social management of health. Wiesbaden 2017
  • (with Peter Löcherbach) Care and Case Management. Transprofessional care structures and networks. Stuttgart 2020

literature

  • Wolf Rainer Wendt: Social Informatics - Status and Perspectives. With contributions by Silke Axhausen, Josef Hilbert, Helmut Kreidenweis and others (= Edition Social Management. Volume 15). Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden 2000, ISBN 3-7890-6910-8 .
  • Wolf Rainer Wendt. In: H. Heitkamp, ​​A. Plewa (ed.): Social work in self-testimonies. Volume 2, Freiburg 2002, ISBN 3-7841-1397-4 , p. 419 ff.
  • A. Mühlum, G. Rieger (Ed.): Social work in science and practice. Festschrift for Wolf Rainer Wendt. Location 2009, ISBN 978-3-89918-181-4 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ H. Heitkamp, ​​A. Plewa (Ed.): Social work in self-testimonials. Freiburg 2002, p. 425 ff.
  2. ↑ Wendt, Wolf Rainer: Ready-Made. The problem and the philosophical concept of aesthetic behavior, presented to Marcel Duchamp. Anton Hain, Meisenheim am Glan 1970.
  3. ↑ WR Wendt: The horizon of advice in case management. In: ders. (Ed.): Consulting and Case Management. Medhochzwei, Heidelberg 2012, pp. 1–75.
  4. ↑ Wendt: The eco-social principle. 2010, p. 5.
  5. ↑ From the eco-social approach to social economics. In: Social Work. 49, 2000, pp. 282-289.
  6. ↑ The social upkeep of welfare. Elements of social economics. Nomos, Baden-Baden 2011.
  7. ↑ Economics of Life. Baden-Baden 2017
personal data
SURNAME Wendt, Wolf Rainer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German social scientist and social worker / social pedagogue
DATE OF BIRTH May 14, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwerin