Dietmar Moews
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Dietmar Moews (born November 8, 1950 in Lauenau, Germany) is a German sociologist, artist, and publisher.
Moews studied hydraulic engineering and seaport and harbour-building in Minden in Bielefeld between 1968 and 1972, graduating with a Diploma of Engineering in 1972. He continued his studies at the University of Hanover in engineering and education between 1972 and 1974 and law at the Georg August University of Göttingen between 1974 and 1976. He went on to also study fine arts in Braunschweig between 1976 and 1978 and organizational sociology at University of Bremen as a post-graduate scholar in 1990-1998, gaining a Doctorate in 2000.
His 1972 design for the "Seaport and sport-and-shelter-harbour of the Isle of Norderney“, the so-called "Dietmar-Moews-Port," was constructed in 1975 by the State of Lower Saxonia and the Federal Republic of Germany,
In 1973 he founded the "Fine-Arts-Gallery Merkin-Möws" in Hanover-Linden together with a former school-friend Gerhard Merkin. 1975 to 1984 he directed the "Ballhof-Galerie Hannover“ in downtown Hannover. In 1979 he founded the art magazine Neue Sinnlichkeit. He organized the "Art-Fair-Play" called "U" for central Hannover's "Spielplatz der Künste" from 1983 to 1989.
After moving to the Schwabing neighborhood of Munich in 1989, Moews founded the "Pandora Kunst Projekt“ with exhibitions, concerts, stage plays and residences for artists. 1994 he was an internet technology and communications consultant to the German Green Party (Alliance '90/The Greens). In 1995 he founded "Office for Earth-Belongings“ in Magdeburg and Leipzig.
He went to Dresden 1998 and organized the "Diesseits von Gut und Böse“ art project. In the year 2005 he founded the "Mobile Büro für Lichtgeschwindigkeit“, the "BiBi4E“ (Broadband for Everyone) campaign and the non-governmental organization "Mobiler Verein für Mobile Büros für Lichtgeschwindigkeit“.
In the year 2000 he founded the "Alphons Silbermann Zentrum Institute for European Mass-communications- and Education Research Dresden" and in 2003 he organized the Free University Dresden, a model of a virtual research university.