Heinz-Theo Homann

Heinz-Theo Homann (also Theo Homann) (born March 8, 1950 in Dernbach (Westerwald) ) is a German writer and political publicist . It is particularly effective in the context of publications that are assigned to the New Right .

Life

Homann attended the Mons-Tabor-Gymnasium in Montabaur and passed the Abitur there in 1972. From 1972 to 1974 he attended the novitiate of the North German Province of the Jesuit Order in Münster. From 1973 he studied Catholic theology , philosophy and sociology as well as religious studies, German and political science at the universities of Münster, Munich and Cologne until 1997 and finally from 1976 to 1982 in Bonn with a diploma. He then worked from 1982 to 1988 as a nurse and from 1989 to 1990 as a customer advisor in retail. At the University of Bonn he received his doctorate in 1997 at the theological faculty with his thesis The functional argument: Concepts and criticism of the functional logic of justification of religion .

Homann has been editor of the Bonn magazine Etappe (magazine for politics , culture and science ), which is considered one of the theoretical organs of the New Right , since 1988 (together with Günter Maschke since 1993 ) .

Homann was a member of the Republicans party . In 1989 he ran for the city council of Bonn in the local elections in North Rhine-Westphalia . As a student, according to a report by the Bonn General Gazette, he was a member of the right-wing extremist student organization Ring Freiheitlicher Studenten .

Act

Homann works full-time in the scientific publishing industry and is also active as a political-philosophical author and journalist. In addition to his theoretical contributions and editorials in the journal leg (1988ff), he published a historical mystery novel Murder on the Wolf Storm (1992) and was a Yearbook on the Conservative Revolution (1994) out. Under various pseudonyms (Jutta Winckler, Jutta Volz-Winckler, Achim T. Volz-Winckler, Hanns Ludin, Elsmarie Brüggemeyer-Hochstedt), Homann also wrote numerous articles in the right-wing conservative Berlin weekly newspaper Junge Freiheit from the early 1990s to around 2003 .

The work of the Catholic writer Reinhold Schneider had a strong influence on Homann's thinking , as did the Catholic constitutional lawyer and political philosopher Carl Schmitt , who was part of National Socialism for a time . Homann venerates Schneider as a " conservative-revolutionary head" and as "probably the last poet from an occidental-Christian spirit who gave 'news' to those who were born later about what happened before as 'history'"; he is against the fact that German Christian Democrats want to stylize him as a “ politically correct resistance”.

In his extensive dissertation, The Functional Argument , published as a book (580 pages) , Homann presented "for the first time (...) a comprehensive historical-systematic presentation and criticism of the functional logic of the justification of religion." It consists of two parts. “In its problem-historical part, it typologically documents the change in shape of the functional argument between polis religion and systems-theoretical ' Luhmannitis ' of the present. The systematic part presents a fundamentally theologically motivated critique of functionalist reason, the pivotal points of which are personality, fulfilled time and cognitive truth of faith . "According to the blurb of the book, Homann came across convergences that had previously been neglected during his studies, which he compiled in a corollary: As “anti-functionalist warner”, very different thinkers emerged: Theodor W. Adorno and Günther Anders as well as Carl Schmitt and Martin Heidegger , Max Horkheimer and Herbert Marcuse as well as Reinhold Schneider and Dietrich Bonhoeffer , as well as numerous others.

Christian Geyer, editor at FAZ , reviewed the work: “On more than five hundred pages, the author reviews the intellectual history to show who stood up for or against functional thinking and when. The research runs from Plato to Cassirer to Rohrmoser. As a material collection, the book is a great success. Its wide-ranging, extremely thorough and cleverly composed literature preparation moves it into the - horrible dictu - 'function' of an indispensable standard work. As a guide for the good life, however, for a - as Homann likes to say - 'adequate' view of God and the world, the fundamental criticism of the 'functional argument' is a dogmatic blow into the waters of science. "Homann, Geyer says," apparently toying with a school of thought that wants to identify Christianity with certain positions in the humanities. From here it is only a small step to the idea of ​​a 'Catholic sociology', if not a 'Catholic worldview'. The irony of such positions is that they weaken the Christian with the intention of strengthening it. (…) Heinz-Theo Homann does not once cite Jesus Christ or any other founder of religion as a key witness of the anti-functional religious ideology. Instead, he consistently relies on secular and, to a large extent, highly anti-modern lateral thinkers. "Geyer continues:" As you read on, you ask yourself by what standard all the anti-functional appeals of this book are supposed to be covered. There is hardly a chapter in which chimeras such as the primary, genuine, spontaneous and authentic are not conjured up. "

Publications

• Heinrich-Theodor Homann: power and grace. On the eightieth birthday and twenty-fifth anniversary of Reinhold Schneider's death, in: Church newspaper for the Archdiocese of Cologne , No. 17, edition of April 29, 1983, p. 11.
• Heinz-Theo Homann: Among beingsaurs. Report from the congress of the German Society for Philosophy in Bonn, in: the daily newspaper (TAZ) No. 1459/45. Week, vol. 7, Tuesday, November 6, 1984, p. 12.
• Heinz-Theo Homann (ed.): Stage. Journal for Politics, Culture and Science , 1988ff
• HT Homann: Platonic Germany - or: Who is afraid of the idea? In: Wir sich, Koblenz 1990, pp. 27-30.
• Heinz-Theo Homann: Dynamo Pankow - SC Berlin 9: 0, in: CONstructiv 7 (2nd year) Berlin July 1991, pp. 25-28; (Ed. U. Herold, advised by Stephan Hermlin, Walter Jens, Robert Jungk, Heiner Müller)
• Theo Homann: Murder in the Wolf Storm. All-German publishing house, Wesseling 1992 ISBN 3-928415-02-6
• Heinz-Theo Homann: Before the “Roar of Darkness”. Reinhold Schneider's early work in the context of the Conservative Revolution, in: H.-T. Homann (ed.): Yearbook on the Conservative Revolution. Annelies Thomas Verlag, Cologne-Wesseling 1994, pp. 77-108.
• Heinz-Theo Homann (ed.): Yearbook on the Conservative Revolution. Anneliese Thomas Publishing House Cologne / Wesseling 1994; ISBN 3-928415-15-8
• Good job. Novelle, in: Deutscher Almanach 1996. Munich 1996, pp. 234–242
• Heinz-Theo Homann: The functional argument: concepts and criticism of the functional logic of justification of religion. Schöningh, Paderborn 1997; 582 p .; ISBN 3-506-73955-7
• L 'auto-instrumentalisation (Entretien par Stephen de Petiville), in: Revue Catholica (Ed. Bernard Dumont), Paris 1999, No. 63, pp. 34-42
• Heinz-Theo Hofmann: Theses about Marx (as well as some neighboring objects). In: Sleipnir, Heft 5/99, pp. 36–38
• Theo Homann: The conservative intoxication, foreword to: Ralf Küttelwesch (ed.): Adventure alcohol. Factum Coloniae publishing house, Cologne 2005, pp. 5-9
• Theo Homann: R. Küttelwesch's anthology, in: Klaus Gauger (ed.): Diktynna. Yearbook for Nature and Myth 2009, Edition Arnshaugk, pp. 171–175; ISBN 978-3-926370-51-8
• Theo Homann: In the high rack. Erotic passage, in: Helmut Klewan (ed.): Kisses, bites. Erotic trophies. Karolinger Verlag, Vienna and Leipzig 2010, pp. 246–255; ISBN 978-3-85418-137-8
• Theo Homann: Starkstromfrau, in: Axel Matthes (ed.)., The sacred in everyday life or From the swing of things. Diederichs Verlag (Random House publishing group), Munich 2012, pp. 266–279; ISBN 978-3-424-35067-8

Web links

• Literature by and about Heinz-Theo Homann in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Republicans are basins for neo-fascists. (sbt), Bonner General-Anzeiger, September 20, 1989
2. ↑ cf. z. B. Theo Homann: Before the 'Roar of Darkness'. Reinhold Schneider's early work in the context of the Conservative Revolution. In: Yearbook for the Conservative Revolution 1994. Cologne: Verlag Anneliese Thomas 1994, pp. 77-108
3. ↑ Theo Homann: The great untimely. Gesturing with the whole of existence: The Christian conservative writer Reinhold Schneider would have been a hundred years old. In: Junge Freiheit, May 16, 2003, p. 14
4. ↑ From the introduction or the blurb to Homann, The functional argument.
5. ↑ Christian Geyer: Everything you do is good for something. No religion without a function. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Oct. 14, 1997, p. L44