Heiner Jestrabek

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Heiner Jestrabek (born June 11, 1956 in Heidenheim an der Brenz ) is a German non-fiction author , publicist and board member of the Humanist Freethinkers Association of East Württemberg.

Life

From 1987 Jestrabek initiated the organization of a group of free thinkers to form the "German Freethinkers Association Ostwürttemberg eV", initially under the umbrella of the German Freethinkers Association . In 1995 the Association of East Wuerttemberg separated from the umbrella association. In 2014 it was renamed “Humanistic Freethinkers Association East Württemberg” and joined the Humanists of Baden-Württemberg as a regional association, a state association of the Humanist Association of Germany recognized as a public corporation . Jestrabek is the executive chairman of the regional association and a member of the Baden-Württemberg board of the Humanist Association of Germany.

Jestrabek published numerous publications on historical and philosophical topics. He works as a freelance funeral orator for humanistic weddings and name celebrations and is the regional contact of the German Society for Human Dying .

Heiner Jestrabek lives in Heidenheim. He is married with a daughter and a grandson.

Fonts (selection)

  • Peasants' War, Reformation and "witch-madness" in East Württemberg / Swabia . Verlag Freiheitsbaum, Reutlingen 2018, ISBN 978-3-922589-69-3
  • Prometheus and the Philosophers. Handbook of Philosophy and Enlightenment, Ancient Greece . Verlag Freiheitsbaum, Reutlingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-922589-66-2
  • Glossary of humanistic freethinking. Let's talk about definitions. Verlag Freiheitsbaum, Reutlingen 2017, 3rd, expanded edition
  • Eduard Fuchs: Art collector and critic of the times: a biographical-political sketch. 3rd ext. Ed., Verlag Freiheitsbaum, Reutlingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-922589-53-2
  • The outcome of the siècle des Lumières, the century of the Enlightenment & Anacharsis Cloots , the "orator for all humanity." Verlag Freiheitsbaum, Reutlingen 2016, ISBN 978-3-922589-61-7
  • Historical city walk with legends and stories from Heidenheim . Heidenheim 2014
  • Early German criticism of religion: Matthias Knutzen's pamphlets, fragments of the three deceivers Moses, Jesus, Mohammed, Reimarus . Verlag Freiheitsbaum, Reutlingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-922589-55-6
  • Freethinkers. Lessons from history. Portraits & essays . Verlag Freiheitsbaum, Reutlingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-922589-52-5
  • With Ji YaLi: Seek the truth in the facts. Enlightenment, Rationalism and Free Thinking in Chinese Philosophy. Verlag Freiheitsbaum, Reutlingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-922589-50-1
  • With Hellmut G. Haasis : People's Book of the Mocked Popes - A liberating laugh book. With happy, surrealistic collages by Uli Troskowitsch . Verlag Freiheitsbaum, Reutlingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-922589-34-1
  • thinking about the free: little philosophical story; think freely ... walk upright! Working group of freethinkers in Swabia, Ulm, Heidenheim, Göppingen 1996
  • Conquistadors, Capital and Church. A little crime story of Christianity and of the resistance and freedom struggle of the peoples of America. Working group of freethinkers in Swabia, Ulm 1995
editor
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley : "There Is No God!" Criticism of religion and rule . Edition Spinoza, Verlag Freiheitsbaum, Reutlingen 2019, ISBN 978-3-922589-71-6
  • Schiller Seff / Poems and texts by Josef Schiller, known as Schiller Seff, a north Bohemian working-class poet, free thinker and libertarian socialist. With an afterword "On the German-Czech relationship" edited by Heiner Jestrabek, Verlag Freiheitsbaum, Reutlingen, Heidenheim 2018, ISBN 978-3-922589-70-9
  • Songs of the Ghetto - Yiddish Freedom Songs. Songbook documentation. Songs of need and hope, work and struggle, anti-fascist and newer songs. Yiddish - German. 3rd ext. Ed., Verlag Freiheitsbaum, Reutlingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-922589-51-8
  • Paul Henri Thiry d'Holbach / The Holy Plague & Common Sense . Verlag Freiheitsbaum, Reutlingen 2016, ISBN 978-3-922589-62-4
  • Enlightenment & Free-thinker's - Enlightenment in England. John Toland: Letters to Serena & Pantheistikon . Verlag Freiheitsbaum, Reutlingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-922589-56-3
  • Susanne Leonhard / Underground literature in revolutionary Germany: stolen life, free thinking; Documentation on life and work. Edited and introduced by Heiner Jestrabek, Erw. Ausg., Verlag Freiheitsbaum, Reutlingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-922589-58-7
  • August Thalheimer / So reason itself is worldly: selected philosophical and religious-critical writings. Edited by Heiner Jestrabek, Alibri-Verlag, Aschaffenburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-86569-130-9
  • August Bebel / "Modern culture is an anti-Christian ...": selected speeches and writings on criticism of religion. Classics of Religious Criticism 9. Ed. By Heiner Jestrabek, Alibri-Verlag, Aschaffenburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-932710-59-9
  • Rosa Luxemburg / Freethinker of Socialism: selected writings on criticism of religion and bureaucracy. Classics of Religious Criticism 8th Ed. By Heiner Jestrabek, Alibri-Verlag, Aschaffenburg 2003, ISBN 978-3-932710-58-2
  • Jakob Stern / From rabbi to atheist: selected writings critical of religion. Classics of Religious Criticism 4th Ed. By Heiner Jestrabek, IBDK-Verlag, Aschaffenburg, Berlin 1997, ISBN 978-3-932710-54-4
  • Albert Dulk / "Down with the atheists!" Selected writings critical of religion from the early free-thinker movement. Classics of Religious Criticism 3rd ed. By Heiner Jestrabek, IBDK-Verlag, Aschaffenburg, Berlin 1995, ISBN 978-3-932710-53-7

Web links

proof

  1. ^ Siegfried R. Krebs: When humanism has become practical , Humanistischer Pressedienst , May 28, 2015
  2. ↑ Who or what is the Humanist Freethinkers Association? , Humanistic Freethinkers Association Ostwuerttemberg, accessed on February 27, 2019.
  3. ↑ Heiner Jestrabek: Worth knowing at who-is-hu.de , accessed on February 27, 2019.
  4. ↑ Heiner Jestrabek , Alibri Verlag
  5. ↑ Heiner Jestrabek , zeremonienleiter.eu accessed on February 27 of 2019.
  6. ↑ DGHS on site
personal data
SURNAME Jestrabek, Heiner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author
DATE OF BIRTH June 11, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidenheim an der Brenz