Thomas Ebermann

Thomas Ebermann (left) at an event in Karlsruhe

Thomas Ebermann (born April 18, 1951 in Hamburg ) is a German publicist and politician . After his involvement with the Communist Bund , he was involved in founding the Greens party in the Federal Republic of Germany in 1980 . Among other things, he was a member of the Hamburg parliament from 1982 and from 1987 to 1989 as a member of the Bundestag parliamentary group spokesman for the Greens in the Bundestag . As a representative of the eco-socialist , left wing, he and other eco-socialists resigned from the party in 1990 in protest against the “realpolitical tendency of the Greens”. In his journalistic work, Ebermann analyzes the socio-political situation, often with satirical and polemical undertones.

Life

After completing secondary school, Ebermann worked as a childcare worker in a youth home, then at the Phoenix Gummiwerke and at the Norddeutsche Affinerie . In between, he did basic military service in the Bundeswehr .

Via the Bergedorf Workers and Apprentices Center (BALZ) he came to the Hamburg Socialist Workers and Apprentices Center (SALZ), from which the Communist Federation (KB) was formed through the merger with the Communist Workers' Union (KAB) at the end of 1971 . Ebermann was known within the KB under the name "Langer" and was particularly active in the Africa Commission, which dealt with the liberation movements in Africa and maintained special relationships with the MPLA in Angola .

In 1978 he got involved in the formation of the Bunter List in Hamburg and participated in the founding of the party "The Greens" in 1980. At the same time, he and Group Z separated from the Communist League. Within the Greens, he and Rainer Trampert were one of the exponents of the eco-socialist wing of the party. In 1982 he joined the GAL and became a member of the Hamburg parliament (until 1984) and chairman of the parliamentary group. In 1982 the GAL held talks for the first time about the tolerance of an SPD minority government (“ Hamburg conditions ”), through which Ebermann became known nationwide. In August 1982 Ebermann, who at that time was already a member of the citizenry, took part with 58 other people in the occupation of an empty police station in Hamburg and was temporarily arrested by the police.

In 1987 he entered the Bundestag via the Hamburg state list of the Greens, of which he was a member until 1989. He prevailed in the election of the parliamentary group spokesman with 20 against 21 votes against Otto Schily ; later he complained of his lack of influence in the faction shaped by Realos . In 1990 he left the Greens together with Rainer Trampert and 41 others and is still present in the left wing scene as a journalist.

Ebermann lives in Hamburg, works as a publicist and appears alongside Rainer Trampert in political-satirical readings “Sachzwang und Gemüt”. For the cabaret Polittbüro of Lisa Pollitt and Gunter Schmidt of "many years of design in Hamburg concrete -author, satirist and uncrowned Columbo politics," the "verse and elite." In 2012 his play Der Firmenhymnenhandel premiered in Hamburg.

Quotes

• "To be on the left means not having a fatherland, not fighting for a national location in the world, but rather those who have the say in this system to want the plague on their necks"

Fonts

• The future of the greens. A realistic concept for a radical party . Konkret-Literatur-Verlag, Hamburg 1984, ISBN 3-922144-40-3 (with Rainer Trampert ).
• The revelation of the prophets. About the rehabilitation of capitalism, the transformation of left theory into esotericism, goat chants and civil society . Konkret-Literatur-Verlag, Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-89458-139-5 (with Rainer Trampert).
• Will Germany miss the boat? Verlag die brotsuppe , Emmendingen 2000, ISBN 3-935240-00-7 (2 CDs. With Rainer Trampert).
• * Constraint & mind. Sarcastic and analytical texts about the republic, the world and our neighbors . Konkret-Literatur-Verlag, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 978-3-89458-213-5 (with Rainer Trampert).
• Moshe Zuckermann : Two kinds of Israel? Information from a Marxist Jew to Thomas Ebermann, Hermann L. Gremliza and Volker Weiß . concrete texts 34, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-930786-39-7
• The company anthem trade. Verbrecher Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-943167-11-5 .
• Left home love. An uprooting. concrete texts 75, Hamburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-930786-87-9 .

Web links

Commons : Thomas Ebermann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Short biography and reviews of works by Thomas Ebermann at perlentaucher.de
• Thomas Ebermann: About failure, powerlessness and collapse of the left. ( YouTube video, 28:30 minutes) In: Radio Corax . October 19, 2012 (self-portrayal of the political path). 
• Thomas Lohmeier: Back then we thought we could ride the tiger: Thomas Ebermann in conversation about the Greens and the integrative power of the state. In: Prague Spring . February 25, 2014 . 
• Christoph Twickel: The world of work critic Ebermann: "I would like the service desert back". In: Spiegel Online . March 9, 2012 . 
• Christoph-Albrecht Heider: Never small-small. In: Frankfurter Rundschau . November 18, 2004, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Knaurs Weltspiegel 1984, ISBN 3-426-07658-6
2. ↑ Hanning Voigts: On the good-humored horror. In: Friday . March 12, 2012, accessed June 27, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Quoted from Reinhard Mohr : Debate about left and left: The Oskar Lafontaine complex. In: Spiegel Online . September 21, 2008, accessed June 27, 2019 .