Götz Eisenberg

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Götz Eisenberg (* 1951 in Arolsen , Hessen ) is a German social scientist and publicist. He worked as a prison psychologist in the Butzbach JVA .

Live and act

Eisenberg grew up in Kassel . He passed his Abitur in 1969 at a local high school. He then studied law, then political science, sociology and psychosomatic medicine at the University of Giessen . He then worked as a research assistant and as a lecturer in a small social science publisher. In 1980 he was promoted to Dr. rer. soc. PhD (dissertation on the history of social movements). He then took on teaching assignments at Giessen University and Wiesbaden University of Applied Sciences for many years. After training as a family therapist, he got a job with the psychological service of the Butzbach prison, where he worked as a prison psychologist from 1985 to 2016. In prison he carried out a handball project together with the former national player Manfred Freisler and, along with other cultural projects, tried to organize theater performances and readings.

He writes for the Frankfurter Rundschau , the Berlin weekly Der Freitag , the Schweizer Wochenzeitung (WOZ) , the Junge Welt and the Gießen magazine psychosozial , the NachDenkSeiten the online magazine Ausege. Perspectives for everyday parenting . as well as the blog behind the headlines . In Giessen Gazette he published some years the column "Our everyday absurd". By June 12, 2020, Eisenberg published a 33-part "Corona diary" in the GEW Ansbach Internet magazine .

Since the early 1970s, Eisenberg has been writing theoretical texts and essays in the tradition of critical theory ( Frankfurt School ) and the anti-authoritarian thinking of the New Left . With reference to Erich Fromm , Klaus Horn and Peter Brückner, he tries to convey socio-psychological and sociological approaches. As one of the first authors he turned to the subject of " amok ". He is not satisfied with the search for the individual psychopathology of the perpetrators, but asks about the social conditions that favor such acts. According to Eisenberg, the rampage threatens to become the “criminal physiognomy of the global age” .

Fonts (selection)

  • Attempts to escape. About Genesis, the course and poor repeal of the anti-authoritarian movement, 2nd, revised edition, Focus, Gießen 1975, ISBN 3-920352-54-8 (1st edition, Prolit-Buchvertrieb, Gießen 1973, without ISBN).
  • Lenin: Theory and Revolution, in: Political Theories and Ideologies , Ed .: Franz Neumann, Baden-Baden 1974 (Signal-Verlag)
  • Marxism and the Labor Movement. Attempt on the relationship between revolutionary theory and experience. Focus, Giessen 1974, ISBN 3-920352-48-3 .
  • Fifties. A reader . Together with H.-J. Left published by Focus-Verlag in Giessen in 1980
  • About the joy of war and the longing for peace. On the underground story of hostility . In: Frieden vor Ort , Ed .: Marianne and Reimer Gronemeyer, Frankfurt (Fischer Taschenbuchverlag) 1982
  • Death in life. A reader on a 'forbidden' topic . Published in 1985 by Focus-Verlag Giessen together with Marianne Gronemeyer
  • At the edges. Off-site texts from 10 years. Focus, Giessen 1988, ISBN 3-88349-359-7 .
  • Youth and violence. The new generation conflict or the collapse of civil society . Together with Reimer Gronemeyer, Reinbek 1993 (Rowohlt-Verlag)
  • Amok - children of the cold. About the roots of anger and hatred. Rowohlt-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Reinbek near Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-499-22738-X .
  • "If you don't work, you shouldn't eat". On the sub- and inner colonial history of the labor society . In: after work! Eleven attacks against work. Edited by: Robert Kurz , Ernst Lohoff, Norbert Trenkle, Hamburg 1999 (Konkret Literatur Verlag)
  • Violence that comes from the cold. Amok, pogrom, populism. Psychosozial-Verlag, Giessen 2002, ISBN 3-89806-203-1 .
  • "What is what lies within us, murders, steals?" . On the psycho- and sociodynamics of contemporary homicides. In: psychosocial No. 104, Giessen 2006
  • Take everything with you into the downfall. In the western metropolises, the rampage seems to be establishing itself as a “model of misconduct”. In: psychosocial No. 112, Giessen 2008
  • The installation of the detonator in a bomb. Computer games glorifying violence in prison. In: psychosocial No. 113, Giessen 2008
  • Crime and Therapy. Experiment about "key experiences" . In: psychosocial No. 116, Giessen 2009
  • ... so that nobody forgets me anymore! Why amok and violence are no coincidence. Pattloch, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-629-02250-9 .
  • Between amok and Alzheimer's. On the social psychology of unleashed capitalism . Brandes & Apsel, Frankfurt am Main 2015, ISBN 978-3-95558-108-4 .
  • Between work frenzy and fear of foreign infiltration. On the social psychology of unleashed capitalism . Volume 2, Wolfgang Polkowski, Gießen 2016, ISBN 978-3-9818195-1-9 .
  • Better to die standing than to live on your knees! No pasarán! A collage about the Spanish Civil War that began 80 years ago . Wolfgang Polkowski, Giessen 2016, ISBN 978-3-9818195-2-6 .
  • Between anarchism and populism. On the social psychology of unleashed capitalism . Volume 3, Verlag Wolfgang Polkowski Gießen 2018, ISBN 978-3-9818195-3-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry: Götz Eisenberg , German Digital Library .
  2. ↑ List of Eisenberg articles in the online magazine “NachDenkSeiten” .
  3. ↑ List of Eisenberg articles in the online magazine Ausege .
  4. ^ Eisenberg articles in the blog Behind the Headlines . .
  5. ↑ "Our absurd everyday life" , Gießener Anzeiger .
  6. ↑ Götz Eisenberg: "Corona diary" . In: The GEW-AN magazine, March 31, 2020 to June 12, 2020.
  7. ↑ Götz Eisenberg: Amok - children of the cold. About the roots of anger and hatred. Rowohlt-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Reinbek near Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-499-22738-X , p. 13.
personal data
SURNAME Eisenberg, Götz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychologist and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Arolsen