Hans Giffhorn
Hans Giffhorn (born December 21, 1942 in Berlin ) is a German cultural scientist .
Career
Giffhorn was a professor for visual communication at the University of Education in Göttingen and since 1981 professor for cultural studies at the universities of Göttingen and (from 1994) Hildesheim .
In connection with his research on his early publications on aesthetic education and on the theory and history of art education, which formed the basis of his dissertation, he came to the conviction that the mechanisms of the scientific community made it possible for many scientists to restrict themselves to the traditional limits of their subject and to the uncritical ones Support the adoption of established doctrines , and that this can block the view of more recent research results from other areas and disciplines and thus lead to incorrect results. Last but not least, this conviction (which also characterizes all of his later publications) led Giffhorn to turn to various research areas and publication media in the course of his work: in addition to books and articles for specialist journals, also photography and documentary film .
From 1993 Giffhorn produced magazine articles and documentaries a. a. for Arte , ZDF , ARD and GTZ ( German Society for Technical Cooperation ) projects in Colombia , Ecuador , Brazil and Peru . In particular, he addressed ecological and social issues in connection with the protection of the biodiversity of Latin American habitats and the culture and history of indigenous peoples.
Chachapoya research
During a trip to South America in 1998, he met descendants of the Chachapoya in Peru and said he saw evidence that parts of this culture have roots in Europe . In 2013 he published hypotheses about a presumed discovery of America by Phoenicians and Celts , as well as the role he assumed these early immigrants played in the development of the Chachapoya.
Inspired by Giffhorn's first book publication on this subject, the TV broadcaster Arte commissioned a TV documentary on his theory in 2013, which was produced in the same year ("Carthage's Forgotten Warriors"). Giffhorn was interviewed for the film but had no control over its creation. The documentation was later u. a. also broadcast by ZDF-Info and the US broadcaster PBS . Further reactions to the publication of his book prompted Giffhorn to undertake intensive new research and research trips.
He published the results in a 2nd revised edition of the book (March 2014), in a three-part documentary broadcast by Spiegel-Geschichte 2015, in his most complete publication on the subject to date, a DVD with 190 minutes of video documentation and 114 pages of additional text. and images (2016) as well as in its most recent publication, a PDF file comprising approx. 25 illustrated pages (as a German and English version). There is a focus on dealing with the latest publications of the most influential archaeologists currently researching the Chachapoya - see "Works".
Works (selection)
- Celts in ancient Peru? New evidence for an early Atlantic crossing and for Eurocentric ideologies and dogmatism in archaeological science - using the example of current research on the Chachapoya , PDF file, academia.edu, 2019
- Celtic Immigrants in Ancient Peru? The merits of Professor Warren Church for the understanding of Chachapoya culture, Eurocentric ideologies and dogmatism at universities and new evidence for a pre-Columbian immigration to South America, by Hans Giffhorn , PDF file, academia.edu, 2019
- DVD Celtic warriors in ancient Peru , video and text documentation 2016.
- The riddle of the Chachapoya: Celtic emigrants in ancient Peru TV documentary, 3 parts, SPIEGEL story, Hamburg 2015.
- Chachapoya: What America discovered in ancient times? , Co-author Al Bell, academia.edu 2015
- Was America discovered in ancient times? Carthaginians, Celts and the riddle of the Chachapoya. CH Beck, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-406-64520-4 .
- Chachapoya: was America discovered in ancient times? A line of evidence. In: Amerindian Research. No. 31, February 2014, ISSN 1862-3867 , p. 43 ff.
- Critique of Art Education. Chances and dangers of aesthetic education. Dumont, Cologne 1979, ISBN 3-7701-1077-3 .
- Arguments, pamphlets, materials for changing art education. Maier, Ravensburg 1976, ISBN 3-473-61412-2 .
- Fashion behavior. Dumont, Cologne 1974, ISBN 3-7701-0739-X .
Web links
- Literature by and about Hans Giffhorn in the catalog of the German National Library
- Hans Giffhorn in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Books and videos by Hans Giffhorn in Worldcat (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dieter Richter / Jochen Vogt: The secret educators. Rowohlt: 1974, p. 221 ( online )
- ↑ Hans Giffhorn Hrg., "Political Education in the Aesthetic Area. Lesson Examples", Friedrich Verlag, Velber b. Hanover, 1971
- ^ Hans Giffhorn, "Critique of Art Education: On the Social Function of a School Subject", DuMont Schauberg, Cologne. 1st edition 1972
- ↑ Hans Giffhorn, "Ibiza - an unknown natural paradise", Braunschweig (imaginative), 1991
- ↑ Die Welt: Even Phoenicians could set course for America , January 17, 2013
- ↑ Hans Giffhorn: Was America discovered in antiquity? Carthaginians, Celts and the riddle of the Chachapoya. Munich 2013 1st edition
- ↑ First broadcast by Arte in March 2014
- ^ Secrets of the Dead: Carthage's Lost Warriors
- ↑ documented in Hans Giffhorn: Celtic warriors in ancient Peru - additional materials. PDF file on DVD Giffhorn 2016, p. 105ff
- ↑ The Riddles of the Chachapoya Celtic Emigrants in Ancient Peru, Part 1
- ↑ cf. Stefan Korinth: Wasn't the "New World" all that new? in Telepolis / Science and Politics 2016 [1]
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Giffhorn, Hans |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German cultural scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 21, 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |