Hermann Glaser

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Hermann Glaser (born August 28, 1928 in Nuremberg ; † June 18, 2018 ) was a German cultural historian and journalist .

Life

Glaser studied German , English , history and philosophy in Erlangen and Bristol . He received his doctorate in 1952 from the University of Erlangen on Hamlet in German literature. After ten years as a high school teacher, the successful author moved to a political office as head of school and culture from Nuremberg in 1964. He called for a "civil right culture" in a democratic society. In 1973 he was a co-founder of the self-administered Nuremberg youth center KOMM in order to give more freedom to the young people who were in his view . After the mass arrest in Nuremberg in 1981, he stood by the 140 young people affected. The action, which Prime Minister Franz Josef Strauss himself was involved in triggering , was intended to demonstrate state and police power in Bavaria. All proceedings were put down in the end. (see literature 1981)

He was chairman of the Deutscher Werkbund and had lectureships at the Technical University of Berlin in the field of communication studies (honorary professorship) and in the field of "Culture and Management" at Dresden International University .

In 1964, Glaser wrote the book Spießer-Ideologie , which long before (beginning with Goethe's epic Hermann und Dorothea ) showed the correspondence between German culture and that of National Socialism , just as mediocre philistinism, which also continued in the Federal Republic. Later he wrote, among other things, the cultural history of the Federal Republic of Germany and the small cultural history of Germany in the 20th century . He was co-editor of a German literary history, radio author, essayist and columnist and member of the PEN Center Germany . For 15 years he headed the culture committee of the German Association of Cities .

Glaser died in June 2018 at the age of 89.

honors and awards

Fonts (selection)

  • Hermann Glaser: A short cultural history of the present with a guide through non-fiction , Ullstein book no. 229, Ullstein Taschenbücher-Verlag GmbH, Frankfurt am Main 1959.
  • Hermann Glaser, Harald Straube: National Socialism and Democracy. A Citizenship Education Workbook . Bayer. Schulbuch-Verlag, Munich, 1961.
  • Hermann Glaser, Jakob Lehmann, Arno Lubos : Ways of German literature . Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt / M., 1961.
  • Hermann Glaser: Contemporary world literature - presented in problem areas . Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt / M., 1962.
  • Philistine ideology. About the destruction of the German spirit in the 19th and 20th centuries and the rise of National Socialism , (Rombach, Freiburg / Br. 1964, Fischer TB 1985) ISBN 3 596243513
  • Eros in politics. A socio-pathological investigation . Verlag Wissenschaft und Politik, Cologne, 1967.
  • Public German . S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt / M., 1972; Fisherman series; 28, ISBN 3-10-025301-9 .
  • Hermann Glaser, Axel Silenius (ed.): Youth in the Third Reich . Tribüne-Verlag, Frankfurt / M., 1975.
  • Sigmund Freud's 20th Century, Hanser, Munich 1976.
  • Culture of the Wilhelmine era
  • Industrial culture and working life
  • The disappearance of work. The chances of the new activity company
  • The Third Reich - how it was and how it came about - report and documents . 5th, revised. and additional new edition, Freiburg im Breisgau, Basel, Vienna: Herder 1979, 208 pages, Herder library, volume 744, first edition. 1961, The Third Reich - Claim and Reality (= Herder Library, 92). ISBN 3-451-07744-2 .
  • Franconia and National Socialism - Franconian National Socialism . In: National Socialism in Franconia. A country under the weight of its history. Ed. Evangelische Akademie Tutzing, Tutzinger Studies, Texts and Documents on Political Education, No. 2/1979, Claudius-Verlag, Munich, pp. 7–19.
  • The beginning was never so much: the German spirit in the 19th century , Munich and Vienna, 1981, ISBN 978-3-446-13304-4
  • Hermann Glaser (Ed.): The Nuremberg mass arrest . Documents and analyzes . (Editor: Ingke Brodersen). Reinbek near Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1981, 314 p., ISBN 3-499-14854-4 (rororo 4854: rororo aktuell)
  • The cultural history of the Federal Republic of Germany (3 volumes). Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 1990, ISBN 3-596-10530-7 (complete cassette)
    • Volume 1: 1945–1948: Between surrender and currency reform
    • Volume 2: 1949–1967: Between the Basic Law and the Grand Coalition
    • Volume 3: 1968–1989: Between Protest and Adaptation
  • Educated middle class and nationalism. Politics and culture in Wilhelminian Germany , dtv, Munich 1993 ISBN 3423045086
  • German culture: 1945–2000 . - Updated edition - Ullstein Verlag, Berlin 1999.
  • Hermann Glaser, Rainer Lindenmann, Max Ackermann (eds.): The Feuerbachs - A German Family in the 19th Century , with CD. Schrenk Verlag, Gunzenhausen 2006, 144 pages, ISBN 3-924270-46-5 .
  • Hermann Glaser, Johann Schrenk: Jean Paul. Schrenk-Verlag, Gunzenhausen 2006, ISBN 3-924270-44-9 .
  • The sixties. Germany between 1960 and 1970. Ellert and Richter, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-8319-0286-6 .
  • Hermann Glaser, Rita Süssmuth : Education as a global challenge. Two statements - one conversation. In: Robertson-von Trotha, Caroline Y. (Ed.): Kultur und Gerechtigkeit (= Kulturwissenschaft interdisciplinary / Interdisciplinary Studies on Culture and Society, Vol. 2), Baden-Baden 2007, ISBN 978-3-8329-2604-5 .
  • Hermann Glaser: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel - Weltgeist in Franconia , Schrenk-Verlag, Gunzenhausen 2008, ISBN 978-3-924270-53-7 .
  • Hermann Glaser, Johannes Heisig : Talking to a trout is worth something . Projects Verlag Cornelius, Halle 2012, ISBN 978-3-86237-744-2 .
  • Hermann Glaser, Walter Bauer, Glaser's animal life . AMS-Verlag, Hersbruck 2011, ISBN 978-3-941353-07-7 .
  • Hermann Glaser: Adolf Hitler's inflammatory pamphlet “Mein Kampf”. A contribution to the history of the mentality of National Socialism. Allitera, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-86906-622-6 .
  • Hermann Glaser, Walter Bauer: souvenirs. 55 small gifts and their cultural history . Ars vivendi Verlag , Cadolzburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-86913-411-6 .
  • Hermann Glaser: Franconia - a German literary landscape. Epochs - poets - works . Schrenk-Verlag, Gunzenhausen 2015, ISBN 978-3-924270-66-7 .

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Cultural politician and journalist Hermann Glaser has died. In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur . June 18, 2018, accessed June 19, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Glaser, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cultural politician and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH June 18, 2018