Günther Jacob
Günther Jacob is a German author and journalist from Hamburg .
Life
In the 1970s Jacob was a member of various Maoist groups, first in the KABD until 1976 , then in the splitting off of the Communist Workers' Union / Revolutionary Way and since 1979 in the KBW, which was dissolved in 1985 .
In the 1990s, Günther Jacob worked as a hip-hop and soul DJ, pop journalist and political author with a focus on the criticism of capitalism , pop culture , forced labor during the Nazi era , the Wehrmacht and criticism of the German culture of remembrance .
He published on the Junge Welt , Jungle World , Testcard , Spex , Network Press , the ID archive , concrete and Die Zeit . He published numerous books. When Germany radio Jacob also produced programs and lectured at numerous panel discussions on hip-hop, pop culture, political art and the above-mentioned issues.
He has also published reports under the neoist pseudonym Karen Eliot .
In the early 1990s, Jacob took part in the “Something-Better-Than-the-Nation” campaigns run by the Antifa , which roamed East German cities with the aim of engaging locally against right-wing radicalism and educating the left-wing scene.
Fonts
- Who wins whom? The opportunists pursue the adaptation of the labor movement to liberalism . Frankfurt / Main 1978 (together with Thomas Böhmer and Konrad Weber)
- Materials to criticize the opportunism of the groups “People and Knowledge” . Frankfurt / Main 1978 (together with Thomas Böhmer and Konrad Weber)
- On the criticism of "imperialist economism". An examination of the views of the Bochum-Essen communist group on the struggle for democracy . Frankfurt / Main 1979
- Materials on the situation of the working class in the copier industry and the situation on the global copier market. Examples from a company newspaper for a factory of xerographic equipment in Hamburg . Hamburg 1981
- Pop & Myth: Pop as part of the founding myth of the Berlin Republic
- Agit-Pop - black music and white listeners. Texts on racism and nationalism, hip hop and raggamuffin
- September eleventh zero. Verbrecher Verlag, 2002
- Art Exit - protest song. Edition Selene, 2003, ISBN 3-85266-182-X
Web links
- Günther Jacob: Capitalism and the lifeworld. On the theory of the bourgeois individual in Marx.
- Günther Jacob: "Don't Believe The Hype". Anti-Semitism in American hip-hop.
- Günther Jacob: What is a protest song?
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| SURNAME | Jacob, Günther |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German author and publicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | before 1976 |