Frigga Haug

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Frigga Haug (born November 28, 1937 in Mülheim an der Ruhr ) is a German sociologist and philosopher .

Life and commitment

Frigga Haug, née Langenberger, experienced the time of National Socialism and the end of the war as a child in the Ruhr area . Her parents were both members of the National Socialist German Student Union . Her mother (born in 1911) studied economics and was one of the few female students at the time. With her first name Frigga, based on the Germanic goddess , Haug quarreled according to her own statement in the phase of her politicization, as it indicates the National Socialist past of her family. She was particularly shaped by the experiences of the Second World War and the associated poverty, as well as the death of her father who fell outside Stalingrad . From 1948 she attended the Mülheim girls' high school Luisenschule and, after graduating from high school in 1957, began studying in West Berlin .

With marriage and the birth of a daughter in 1963, she moved to Cologne, interrupted her studies and only returned to West Berlin two years later. Since 1965 she has been married to the philosopher Wolfgang Fritz Haug for the second time .

In 1970 she graduated in sociology, received her doctorate in psychology in 1976 and qualified as a professor in 1978 in social psychology. During the student movement she was an assistant at the Psychological Institute of the Free University of Berlin and was active in the women's movement from the start.

Haug was a member of the Easter march movement and from 1965 worked in the magazine " Das Argument ". In protest against the US war in Vietnam , she joined the Socialist German Student Union (SDS). Frigga Haug was a member of the Frauenbund, a group that was formed in 1968 as the “ Action Council for the Liberation of Women ” . This split into a group, which from then on called itself Bread and Roses , and a second, to which Frigga Haug also belonged, which initially continued to bear the old name, but renamed itself to the Socialist Women's Association West Berlin (SFB) in 1970 . This women's association existed until around 1980. Frigga Haug was a leading figure in the SFB. At the time, Haug rejected the autonomous and grassroots feminism of the women's center in West Berlin , which was active at the same time . Haug later reflected critically on her dogmatic positions of the 1970s, see Marxist Feminism .

At the end of the 1980s, Haug founded the women's crime series Ariadne as part of Argument-Verlag , in which crime novels written exclusively by women are published. Her daughter Else Laudan has been running the series for several years.

theses

"As a central thesis, I claim: sacrificing oneself is an act and not fate, ... because we ourselves also carry within us the dominion we want to get rid of."

- Frigga Haug : women - victims or perpetrators. Haug 1990, p. 34

From her political work in the 1960s, Haug developed the insight that the one-dimensional view of women as victims of a patriarchal-capitalist society does not adequately depict people's personal reality. She refused to accept the thesis that women are victims as objects and thus passive, dependent and incapable of resisting. The victim status hinders the view of possibilities for change.

research

Haug's main research areas are female socialization and women's politics, work and automation, learning and social science methods. She developed the method of collective memory work in the 1970s. After eight works on labor research, she published works on Marxism and feminism as well as critical psychology , learning and, since the 1980s, nine books on remembrance work, women's politics and Rosa Luxemburg.

Frigga Haug initially worked as a research assistant at the Hamburg University of Economics and Politics. Until 2001 she was Professor of Sociology at the Hamburg University of Economics and Politics . She was visiting professor in Copenhagen, Klagenfurt, Innsbruck, Sydney (Australia), Toronto (Canada), Durham (USA). She is also co-editor and editor of the magazine " Das Argument " and the " Historical-Critical Dictionary of Marxism ", Editor of the “ Forum for Critical Psychology ”. In 1979 she founded the Berliner Volks-Uni together with Wolfgang Fritz Haug . In 1980 she founded the international forum of socialist feminists with other women from European countries, which existed for nine years.

Memberships

During the party congress of the party Die Linke 2007, Frigga Haug announced her entry. She is also a member of

Frigga Haug is the chairwoman of the Berlin Institute for Critical Theory .

In 2013 she received the Clara Zetkin Women's Prize from the Die Linke party .

Fonts

  • Critique of the role theory , Fischer, Frankfurt 1973, 1975, reissued ²1994, ISBN 3-88619-222-9 .
  • Education and social production. Critique of the role play , Campus, Frankfurt 1977, ISBN 3-593-32532-2 .
  • Ed. Frauenformen, everyday stories and draft of a theory of female socialization 1980, 2nd A 1981, 3rd revised edition, as: Education for Femininity , Argument Verlag , Hamburg.
  • Ed. Sexualisierung der Körper , Argument Verlag, Hamburg 1982, 2. A 1988, 3. A 1992, English Verso Verlag 1983.
  • with Kornelia Hauser (ed.): Subject woman. Critical Psychology of Women , Argument Verlag, Berlin 1985, Vol. 1, ISBN 3-88619-117-6 .
  • with Kornelia Hauser (ed.): The Shrewd Paralysis , Argument Verlag, Berlin 1986.
  • Women - victims or perpetrators? Argument magazine, special issue 46, Hamburg 1988.
  • (Ed.): Sexualisierung der Körper , Argument magazine special issue 90H, Hamburg 1988, ISBN 3-88619-090-0 .
  • with Kornelia Hauser (ed.): Die other Angst , Argument Verlag 1991.
  • with Eva Wollmann (ed.): Does the achievement have a gender? Argument Verlag, Hamburg 1993, ISBN 3-88619-219-9 .
  • Lectures to introduce memory work , Argument Verlag, Hamburg 1999, ISBN 3-88619-321-7 .
  • Memory work , Argument Verlag, Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-88619-383-7 .
  • with Brigitte Hipfl (ed.): Sinful pleasure. Women's film experiences . Argument Verlag www. friggahaug.inkrit.de , 1995.
  • On the tension between theory and empiricism in Rosa Luxemburg, in: Theodor Bergmann , Wolfgang Haible (eds.): Reform, Demokratie, Revolution. On the topicality of Rosa Luxemburg. Supplement to socialism (journal) , 5th VSA-Verlag Hamburg 1997 ISBN 3-87975-921-9 , pp. 28-35.
  • Learning relationships. Self-movements and self-blockages , Argument Verlag, Hamburg 2003.
  • Ed., Historical-Critical Dictionary of Feminism , Vol. 1, Argument Verlag Hamburg 2003, 2A 2011.
  • Ed., News from the Patriarchate. Argument Verlag, Hamburg 2005.
  • with Ulrike Gschwandtner: shooting stars. Future expectations of young people . Argument Verlag, Hamburg 2006.
  • with Katrin Reimer (ed.): Politics around the headscarf , Argument Verlag, Hamburg 2005.
  • Rosa Luxemburg and the art of politics , Argument Verlag, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-88619-350-9 .
  • The four-in-one perspective. Politics of women for a new left , Argument Verlag, Hamburg 2008, 2nd edition 2009, ISBN 978-3-88619-336-3 .
  • Letters from afar. Requirements for a feminist project today , Argument Verlag, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-86754-304-0 .
  • with Sabine Gruber and Stephan Krull (eds.): Working like never before !? On the way to collective agency , Argument Verlag, Hamburg 2010. ISBN 978-3-86754-308-8 .
  • Historical-critical dictionary of feminism , Vol. 2, Argument Verlag, Hamburg 2011.
  • with Michael Brie (ed.): Between class state and self-liberation. Rosa Luxemburg's understanding of the state . Nomos Verlag , Baden-Baden 2011, ISBN 978-3-8329-4148-2 .
  • The path explored while walking - Marxism-Feminism , Argument Verlag, Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-86754-502-0 .
  • Self-change and change in circumstances , Argument Verlag, Hamburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-86754-508-2 .
  • The restlessness of learning , Argument Verlag, Hamburg 2020, ISBN 978-3-86754-516-7 .

In 1995 her first crime novel was published , Everyone According to His Achievement , and in 1997 the second, Everyone According to His Needs .

literature

  • Kornelia Hauser (Ed.): Many places everywhere. Festschrift for Frigga Haug , Argumentverlag 1987
  • Jutta Meyer-Siebert, Andreas Merkens, Iris Nowak, Victor Rego Diaz (eds.): Using the restlessness of thinking. Festschrift for Frigga Haug , Argument Verlag, Hamburg 2002
  • Wolfgang Bittner , Mark vom Hofe: How she became 68. Frigga Haug . In: I meddle. Striking German résumés. Horlemann Verlag, Bad Honnef 2006, ISBN 978-3-89502-222-7 .
  • Ilse Lenz : The New Women's Movement in Germany. Farewell to the small difference . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3-531-14729-1 .
  • Cristina Perincioli : Berlin is becoming feminist. The best that remained of the 1968 movement. Querverlag, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-89656-232-6
  • Ute Kätzel: The women of 68 - portrait of a rebellious generation of women. Rowohlt Berlin Verlag, Berlin, 2002, ISBN 3-87134-447-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sociologist Frigga Haug - "I am a project" . In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur . ( deutschlandfunkkultur.de [accessed June 14, 2017]).
  2. ↑ Homepage Das Argument - Ariadne Krimi ( Memento of the original from September 15, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed June 12, 2010  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.argument.de
  3. ^ Sociological Classics , accessed June 12, 2010.
  4. ↑ Frigga Haug: Defense of the women's movement against feminism, Das Argument, Vol. 15 (1973), H. 83 ISSN  0004-1157 .
  5. ↑ Cristina Perincioli: Berlin is becoming feminist. The best that remained of the 1968 movement. Querverlag, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-89656-232-6 , pp. 158–171.
  6. ^ Elisabeth Klaus: Gender research in communication studies: On the importance of women in the mass media and in journalism . Springer-Verlag, 2013, p. 29 .
  7. ^ Members of the scientific advisory board. In: Attac. Retrieved July 13, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Haug, Frigga
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist and philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Mülheim an der Ruhr