Stefan Hölscher
Vice-Rector for Studies and Teaching / Research Associate in Art Didactics and Aesthetic Education
Ph. +49 (0)251 83 61330
hoelscher[at]kunstakademie-muenster.de
Leonardo-Campus 2
Room 307
Stefan Hölscher (born in 1965) has been Vice-Rector for Teaching and Studies at the University of Fine Arts Münster since 2021, where he has worked as a research associate for art didactics in teaching, as a representative for the reform of teacher education (and training) and as coordinator for school-based practical phases since 2003.
From 2010 to 2015, he was primarily responsible for the conceptual and organisational implementation of the reform processes of the teacher training programme at the art academies in Düsseldorf and Münster. Since then, he has repeatedly acted as an advisor on questions of teaching degree programmes at various art universities in Germany (including the Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design, the State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe and the Berlin University of the Arts) and authored a position paper of the German universities of the arts (Rectors’ Conference of the German Universities of the Arts, RKK) on the Bologna reform of teaching degree programmes.
Hölscher studied mathematics and theoretical physics at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, education and philosophy at the University of Münster and painting and graphic arts at the University of Fine Arts Münster. He completed these studies as a graduate mathematician (Diplom, 1996) and with the first state examination for secondary schools with the subjects of art and mathematics (2002).
- Vice-Rector for Teaching and Studies at the University of Fine Arts Münster since 2021
- Liaison lecturer of the University of Fine Arts Münster (2016 – 2020)
- Chairperson of the art study group for the practical semester in the Master of Education (since 2013)
- Member of the steering group for the practical semester of the district of Münster in cooperation with the University of Münster, the University Centre for Teacher Education of the University of Münster and the district government of Münster (since 2013)
- Member of the teaching degree task force of the Rectors’ Conference of the German Universities of the Arts (2011)
- Member of the Senate of the University of Fine Arts Münster (since 2008)
