Heide Berndt

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Heide Berndt (born December 2, 1938 in Aachen ; † February 23, 2003 in Berlin ) was a German urban sociologist and social medicine specialist .

Life and work

Heide Berndt spent her childhood in Posen and her youth in Frankfurt am Main . From 1959 to 1966 she studied sociology with Theodor W. Adorno at Frankfurt University , interrupted by two semesters at the Free University of Berlin . As a qualified sociologist, she worked for Alexander Mitscherlich from 1966 to 1974 as a research assistant for urban and architectural sociology at the Sigmund Freud Institute . After two years of freelance work, she was appointed as a university professor at the Alice Salomon University in Berlin in 1979, specializing in social medicine . She died shortly before her retirement in 2003.

In an obituary it says: “In theory, she saw herself as an 'Adornidin'”. As a student, she joined the Socialist German Student Union (SDS) and the Argument -Klub (Berlin). As a university lecturer, she was involved in several initiatives and projects to support mentally ill and psychiatric patients.

She worked on an extensive work on the 1968 revolt , which she wanted to complete after her retirement.

Fonts (selection)

  • The image of society among urban planners . Karl Krämer Verlag, Stuttgart 1968.
  • (with Alfred Lorenzer and Klaus Horn ) Architecture as ideology . Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1968.
  • The nature of the city . New Critique Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1978, ISBN 978-3801501587 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernhard Schäfers : Heide Berndt - Ein Obituary , SDS website , accessed on August 18, 2017.

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personal data
SURNAME Berndt, Heath
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 2, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen
DATE OF DEATH February 23, 2003
Place of death Berlin