Ekkehart Krippendorff

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Ekkehart Krippendorff (born March 22, 1934 in Eisenach ; † February 27, 2018 in Berlin ) was a German political scientist . He was a professor at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies at the Free University of Berlin .

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Ekkehart Krippendorff studied history, philosophy and political science at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg , at the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen and at the Free University of Berlin. In 1959 he received his doctorate in Tübingen under Theodor Eschenburg . With a Fulbright scholarship , he was at Harvard University from 1960 to 1961 , then from 1961 to 1962 assistant at Yale University . With the help of a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation , Krippendorff was at Columbia University from 1962 to 1963 . From 1963 to 1968 he was a research assistant at the Otto Suhr Institute of the Free University of Berlin. The summer semester of 1965 became known in West Berlin as the “Krippendorff Semester” when student protests broke out because of its political activities for the left in the “Spandauer Volksblatt” and the subsequent non-renewal of his employment at the Free University of Berlin.

At the end of the 1960s he belonged to the SPD and was a board member of the Republican Club . From 1968 to 1969 he was visiting professor at the City University of New York and at Columbia University. 1970 to 1971 he was visiting professor at the University of Siena . In 1970 his habilitation at the Free University of Berlin was obviously rejected for political reasons, in 1972 he was habilitated in Tübingen near Eschenburg (who also did not share Krippendorff's political views).

In 1969 Krippendorff became Professor of International Relations at the Bologna Center of the Johns Hopkins University in Bologna (Italy). In 1973, the Baden-Württemberg Minister of Education, Wilhelm Hahn, prevented his appointment to the University of Konstanz . In 1975 he was visiting professor at the University of Sussex and from 1976 to 1979 visiting professor at the University of Urbino . In 1978 he changed to the professorship for political science and politics of North America at the Central Institute John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies at the Free University of Berlin. In 1985, Krippendorff was visiting professor for peace research at the University of Tokyo . In 1999 he retired.

Krippendorff was one of the pioneers in peace research . Since the 1980s he has also dealt with political content in works of literature and opera, working primarily on Goethe and Shakespeare . He published his autobiography in 2012 with Graswurzelrevolution .

Fonts (selection)

  • The Liberal Democratic Party of Germany in the Soviet Zone of Occupation 1945–1948 , 1961 (Diss. Tübingen 1960)
  • (as editor :) Friedensforschung , 2nd edition 1970
  • The American strategy. American Foreign Policy Decision-Making Process and Tools , 1970
  • International system as history. Introduction to International Relations, 1 , 1975 and International Relations as a Science. Introduction, 2 , 1977; both together in one volume as a revised edition 1986 under the title Internationale Politik. History and theory
  • Italy: The Historical Compromise , in: Kursbuch, 46/1976 (December), pp. 55–74
  • State and war. The historical logic of political unreasonableness , 1985, 3rd edition 1987, ISBN 3-518-11305-4
  • International politics. History and Theory , 1987, ISBN 3-593-32568-3
  • How the grown-ups play with people. Goethe's Politics , 1988, ISBN 3-518-11486-7
  • with Peter Kammerer : Travel book Italy: about reading landscapes and cities , with a contribution by Cesare Cases, expanded and completely revised new edition in one volume, Berlin: Rotbuch-Verlag 1990, ISBN 978-3-88022-753-8 (first Edition 1979/1981)
  • Politics in Shakespeare's Dramas , 1992, ISBN 3-518-40388-5
  • Military criticism , 1993, ISBN 3-518-11804-8
  • German foreign policy: learning from its history means getting out of it , in: (Friedenskundetagung 1995, IPPNW , Berlin): Weltmacht Deutschland; Pp. 11-25
  • The art of not being governed. Ethical politics from Socrates to Mozart , 1999, ISBN 3-518-41039-3
  • Dissatisfied. Forty Years of Political Science. (Farewell lecture) in: Blätter für German and international politics , 8/1999; Pp. 991-1002
  • Goethe - Politics against the Zeitgeist , Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt / Main, 1999, ISBN 978-3-458-16937-6
  • Critique of Foreign Policy , 2000, ISBN 3-518-12139-1
  • Jefferson and Goethe , European Publishing House, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 978-3-434-502104
  • The wind blows peace research in the face in: S + F Quarterly Bulletin for Security and Peace 4/2002, pp. 198–200
  • Shakespeare's Comedies , 2007, ISBN 978-3-931659-87-5
  • The culture of the political. Ways out of the discourses of power , Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86599-092-1
  • Threads of life. Ten autobiographical attempts , Heidelberg 2012 , ISBN 978-3-939045-19-9
  • Beyond the day. Exemplary theater criticism in the domination-free discourse , Verlag Graswurzelrevolution, Heidelberg 2019, ISBN 978-3-939045-35-9

literature

  • Ulrike C. Wasmuht: History of German Peace Research (= Peace Agenda. Vol. 30). Agenda-Verlag, Münster 1998, ISBN 3-89688-029-2 .
  • Thomas Greven, Oliver Jarasch (ed.): For a living science of the political. Detour as a method. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am 1999, ISBN 3-518-12129-4 .
  • Internationales Biographisches Archiv 10/2013 of March 5, 2013 (rw) and loose-leaf collection (delivery 2/2000) in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)

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personal data
SURNAME Krippendorff, Ekkehart
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Eisenach
DATE OF DEATH February 27, 2018
Place of death Berlin