Georg Rammer

Georg Rammer (born January 13, 1946 in Budapest , Hungary ) is a German psychologist , author and publicist . He has built up the psychosocial service of the city of Karlsruhe since 1974 and later led it. Since his retirement in 2009 , he has worked primarily as an author, speaker and publicist.

Georg Rammer

Life

After the 1956 uprising in Hungary, the family fled to Germany. After high school and military service, Georg Rammer studied psychology in Tübingen . He combined his studies with practical work in a homeless community and in a youth center. a. with rockers. From 1974 he began to set up the psychosocial service in Karlsruhe , a new type of offer of psychological counseling and psychosocial help especially for families, parents, children and young people in disadvantaged situations at the time. Georg Rammer has headed this position since 1980. He played a key role in establishing one of the first communal advice centers for sexual violence “AllerleiRauh” in Karlsruhe in 1990 and played a decisive role in setting up the “Early Help” advice center. Two conferences served as a technical basis for a new care structure to promote empathy: "Baby, Bonding and Advice" and "Feel It!" In 2009 he retired and devoted himself to numerous publications, conference and congress contributions and interviews to technical and political topics ( see below). He is involved in the working group "Solidarisch Leben" from Attac Karlsruhe.

Topics and focus of work

• Poverty in a rich country, consequences of disadvantage, division of society
• Neoliberal capitalism, effect on psyche and society
• Causes of misanthropy
• Militarism and War: Backgrounds and Counter-Strategies
• Influencing opinion, propaganda and manipulation
• Fundamental and human rights

Selected publications

Georg Rammer writes for various newspapers and magazines; regularly in the biweekly Ossietzky , also for “Das Blättchen” and for the online magazines “NachDenkSeiten” and “Hinter den Schlagzeilen”. He also writes articles for non-fiction books.

Publications in the catalog of the German National Library

• Linguistic psychology and the theory of understanding , alongside Ulrich Haug (Düsseldorf: Pädagogischer Verlag Schwann, 1974) (translated into Italian and Spanish)
• Israel and Palestine (Neustadt / W .: Dutschke-Verlag, 2012)
• Behind the facades: stories of people and politics (Neustadt / W .: Dutschke-Verlag, 2013)
• Poverty eats the soul up (wealth too): child poverty in rich Germany (Neustadt / W .: Dutschke-Verlag, 2013)

Contributions to conference proceedings, collections of articles and journals

• Play with the dirty kids! Psychological counseling with socially disadvantaged people . In: Yearbook for Educational Advice, Volume 2 (Beltz-Verlag, 1996)
• Children have rights - to poverty? In: Sheets for German and International Politics (July 2008)
• Child poverty or the rule of law? In: Fundamental Rights Report . On the situation of civil and human rights in Germany. (2009)
• Dining - or starving? Mobilization against poverty . In: TafelGesellschaft: On the new way of dealing with excess and exclusion (Bielefeld: Transcript, 2010)
• Just don't starve. In: Sheets for German and International Politics (May 2010)
• Counter-militarization. In: Ossietzky magazine . (Issue 8/2015)
• Brutalization . In: Ossietzky magazine . (Issue 5/2016)
• "Why do they hate us?" (GW Bush) . In: Social divisions: On the perception of inequality and injustice in politics and society (Gießen: Psychosozial-Verlag, 2018)
• The fear of the state: rule, simulated democracy and repression. In: Paralysis of Criticism: Society without Opposition? (Gießen: Psychosozial-Verlag, 2019)
• Sleepwalkers or Warmongers: The Momentum of Imperial Interests. In: Internal war, external war: and the intellectuals as "pillars of society"? Edited by: Klaus-Jürgen Bruder, Christoph Bialluch, Jürgen Günther (Frankfurt: Westend, 2019)

Videos

Together with Siegfried Mutschler-Firl, Georg Rammer produced the following videos:

• "... I'd rather be dead ..." Civil Defense in Karlsruhe (1987)
• Bomb madness - 33 years of the Karlsruhe Nuclear Research Center (1989), video on Vimeo
• Poverty = discouraged? Children Talk About Poverty (1999), video on Vimeo

Web links

• Brutalizing society - how do we treat each other? on YouTube In: Open Channel Kaiserslautern, November 25, 2019

Individual evidence

1. ^ Karlsruhe: Psychosocial Service of the City of Karlsruhe. Retrieved February 24, 2020 . 
2. ^ Karlsruhe: AllerleiRauh. Retrieved February 24, 2020 . 
3. ^ Karlsruhe: Early help. Retrieved February 24, 2020 . 
4. ^ Karlsruhe: Symposium on Baby, Attachment and Advice 2001. Accessed on February 24, 2020 . 
5. ↑ Karlsruhe: Symposium “Feel it!” On July 14, 2005. Retrieved February 24, 2020 . 
6. ^ AG Solidarisch Leben - Attac Group Karlsruhe - www.attac.de. Retrieved February 24, 2020 . 
7. ↑ Welcome -. Retrieved February 24, 2020 . 
8. ^ Georg Rammer: Georg Rammer: Threatening security. Retrieved February 24, 2020 . 
9. ↑ Georg Rammer on the political conditions of our time: "Many hear the lies, feel the hypocrisy". In: NachDenkSeiten - The Critical Website. Retrieved February 24, 2020 . 
10. ↑ Georg Rammer. In: BEHIND THE HEADLINES. Retrieved February 24, 2020 . 
11. ↑ … I'd rather be dead right away… Civil defense - e.g. Karlsruhe (Media Group Schräpur, Heidelberg) (Video) - German Digital Library. Retrieved February 24, 2020 . 
12. ↑ autofocus: I'd rather be dead. Retrieved February 24, 2020 . 
13. ^ Rammer, Georg, Mutschler, Sigi, Mediengruppe Schräschspur: Bombing Mania - 33 Years of the Karlsruhe Nuclear Research Center . ( mediaartbase.com [accessed February 24, 2020]).
14. ↑ Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, Dept. General State Archive Karlsruhe - Findbuch S Environmental Protection: Collection Environmental Protection Wilhelm Knobloch - structural view. Retrieved February 24, 2020 . 
15. ^ Karlsruhe: Video: Poverty = discouraged? Retrieved February 24, 2020 .