Johano Strasser

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Johano Strasser (2010)

Johano Strasser (born May 1, 1939 in Leeuwarden , Netherlands) is a German political scientist , publicist and writer . From 1995 he was Secretary General of the PEN Center Germany and President from 2002 to 2013.

Life

Johano Strasser (right), 1973

Johano Strasser comes from an international family. His father was born in St. Louis (USA), the son of a French woman and an Austrian , and his mother was Dutch. The two pacifists met at an Esperanto congress in Paris ; the spelling of his first name also corresponds to this planned language .

The family lived in Germany since 1945. After graduating from the Ratsgymnasium Rotenburg (Wümme) in 1958 , Johano Strasser studied at the Foreign and Interpreting Institute of the University of Mainz in Germersheim and became a qualified translator . In 1961/1962 he worked in this profession at the Ford factory in Cologne . He then studied philosophy in Mainz , where he received his doctorate in 1967 .

In the following years he researched and taught in Great Britain, the Netherlands and Germany. In 1977 he completed his habilitation in political science at the Free University of Berlin ; then he taught there as a private lecturer .

He was refused a professorship at the University of Education in West Berlin, triggered by criminal proceedings for sexual harassment.

In the 1970s he was involved as a programmatic pioneer and lateral thinker with the young socialists ; from 1970 to 1975 he was Deputy Federal Chairman. He has been a member of the SPD's Basic Values ​​Commission since 1975 .

From 1980 until she was hired in 1988, Strasser was editor and (with Heinrich Böll , Günter Grass and Carola Stern ) publisher of the political-literary magazine L 80 . In his political writings he criticizes economically centered thinking.

Since 1983 he has worked as a freelance writer. His most successful work is the novel Stille Jagd from 1995. The Association of German Writers (VS) , today in ver.di , elected him to the federal executive committee at the Federal Delegates' Conference in Hamburg (September 24-26, 1987), which he held until 1988 belonged to.

Strasser was raised Catholic, but left the church after graduating from high school. He has had German citizenship since 1964. He is married to the writer Franziska Sperr and lives on Lake Starnberg ; they have two grown-up children.

In 1984 Strasser was awarded the “ The Political Book ” prize of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation , and in 2002 the Gerty Spies Literature Prize from the Rhineland-Palatinate State Center for Civic Education .

selected Writings

Political Writings

  • 1977: The future of democracy. Limits to Growth - Limits to Freedom? (1977)
  • 1979: limits of the welfare state? Social security in the growth crisis. (1979)
  • 1981: The Future of Progress - Socialism and the Crisis of Industrialism. (1981)
  • 1990: life without utopia? Essay on the current German situation. Edited by Freimut Duve , Luchterhand, Frankfurt 1990, ISBN 3-630871038 .
  • 1994: The turnaround is feasible. (1994)
  • 1999: When the working society , the work proceeds. (1999)
  • 2001: Live or Survive. Against the making of the human being an element of the market. (2001)
  • 2005: heads or tails. The German intellectuals before the decision. (2005)
  • 2011: Germany in the "crisis". About the questionable anthropological and action-theoretical foundations of neoliberal economic theory. Thelem, Dresden 2011.
  • 2011: Transformation 3.0. Get out of the growth trap. With Michael Müller . Forward book, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-86602-534-9 .
  • 2013: Society in fear. Between security madness and freedom. Gütersloher Verlags-Haus, Gütersloh 2013, ISBN 978-3-579-06640-0 .
  • 2015: The Drama of Progress. Dietz-Verlag, Bonn 2015, ISBN 978-3-8012-0477-8 .
  • 2017: The free word. On the public use of reason in the post-factual age. (Ed.) Allitera Verlag, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-86906-998-2 .

Literary writings

Autograph
  • The sound of fanfare (novel, 1987)
  • Dengelmanns Harp (story, 1992)
  • Silent Hunt (novel, 1995)
  • A laugh in the dark (novel, 1999)
  • Talking about rain when it rains (Poems, 1999)
  • The problem of the subject. Handouts for the incorrigible (satire, 2002)
  • When we were gods in May (autobiography, 2007)
  • Bossa Nova. A provincial novel (novel, 2008)
  • Columbus only got as far as Hannibal. Fourteen Subversive Stories (2010)
  • The most beautiful time in life (novel, 2011); Translated into Bulgarian by Rumjana Zacharieva and published in the renowned literary magazine Sawremennik, Sofia (No. 1/2014)
  • The wind (poem, 2016)

Web links

Commons : Johano Strasser  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The voice . In: Der Spiegel . No. 44 , 1973, pp. 102 ( online ).
  2. ↑ Die Welt v. October 24, 1973 No. 249 1/1; Kölner -Stadtanzeiger v. November 2, 1971, No. 255 1/2
  3. ↑ Members of the SPD Basic Values ​​Commission ( memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Spd.de, accessed on June 3, 2015  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.spd.de
personal data
SURNAME Strasser, Johano
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist, publicist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Leeuwarden , the Netherlands