Horst Groschopp

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Horst Groschopp (born February 8, 1949 in Zwickau ) is a German cultural scientist and publicist of atheist-humanist convictions.

Life

After an apprenticeship as a lathe operator and the Abitur at the workers and farmers faculty of the Bergakademie Freiberg , he studied cultural studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin from 1968 to 1971 ; In 1978 the doctorate took place . From 1971 to 1996 Groschopp worked at the Institute for Cultural Studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin, completed his habilitation in 1984 and was a university professor there from 1985 to 1996. Horst Groschopp is married, has two children and now lives in Zwickau.

Social Commitment

In 1989 Groschopp was a co-founder of the Association of Freethinkers of the GDR (VdF), whose history he documented together with the historian Eckhard Müller under the title Last Attempt of an Offensive 2014. In January 1994 he joined the Humanist Association of Germany and has since dealt with the history and cultural significance of free-spirited, free-thinking and humanistic-atheistic movements as well as their ideas and strategies for action. Groschopp was President of the Federal Association from 2004 until his resignation in 2009. After his resignation, he remained in the office of Director of the Humanist Academy Berlin and the Humanist Academy Germany, founded in 2006, until the transition into retirement in May 2014.

Horst Groschopp is a member of the Weltanschauung research group in Germany .

Journalistic activities

As part of his work, publications on historical workers 'and workers' club culture were created, including studies on Otto Rühle and Fritz Kummer (1986 new edition of his One Worker's World Tour in 1913, 1924). He has also published works on the cultural system of the GDR and especially its cultural institutions, on the cultural history of the German free thinkers and the current organizational and conceptual structure of secular associations and, since 1999, on the theory and history of modern humanism . In 2013, The Whole Human was published , a comprehensive study of humanism in the GDR and the history of its conception.

Before that, from 1978 to 1996 he was co-editor and editor-in-chief of individual volumes of “Mitteilungen aus der Kulturwissenschaftlichenforschung ”, which is currently being continued as an online journal under the name of kulturation . There he worked as an editor for cultural policy.

For humanismus aktuell , a magazine for culture and worldview, he worked as an editor from 1997 to 2008 and was responsible for 25 issues. The magazine has been continued as the online magazine humanismus aktuell since 2011 . He also writes for the Humanist Press Service at irregular intervals .

From 2009 to 2013 he was editor of the series of the Humanist Academy Berlin and since 2010 the editor of the series of the Humanist Academy Germany , within the framework of which he has so far published eleven books on various aspects of humanism .

Together with Hubert Cancik and Frieder Otto Wolf , he is also the editor of the compendium Humanism: Basic Concepts , which appeared in May 2016 in the science publisher de Gruyter and is part of the project of an encyclopedia of humanism .

Selection of works

  • Class situation and living conditions. On the connection between class analysis and the analysis of living conditions using the example of the development of proletarian living conditions and their evaluation in the cultural conception of some contemporary theorists in Germany (1860–1914) ; Berlin 1978 (dissertation).
  • Cultural work of the workers 'organizations in Germany before 1914. Studies on the history of socialist cultural work in the German workers' movement , 2 volumes; Berlin 1984 (Dissertation B = Habilitation).
  • Between a beer evening and an educational association. On cultural work in the German labor movement before 1914 ; Berlin 1985 (1st edition), Berlin 1987 (2nd edition); ISBN 978-3-320-00562-7 .
  • Humanism and culture. On the theory and practice of humanism ; Berlin, 2000.
  • Dissidents. Free thinking and culture in Germany ; Berlin: Dietz, 1997; ISBN 3-320-01936-8 ; 2. verb. Edition Tectum Wissenschaftsverlag, Marburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-8288-2771-4 .
  • The whole person. The GDR and humanism. A contribution to German cultural history . Tectum Wissenschaftsverlag, Marburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-8288-3163-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ horst-groschopp.de Information according to H. Groschopp's website, accessed on October 16, 2010
  2. ↑ http://www.horst-groschopp.de/vita
  3. ↑ Eberhard Tiefensee, Preface, in: Florian Baab, Was ist Humanismus? History of the term, counter-concepts, secular humanisms today. Regensburg 2013.
  4. ^ Announcement at Alibri-Verlag
  5. ↑ a b http://hpd.de/node/8287
  6. ↑ "An important pioneer of practical humanism" , press release of May 18, 2014
  7. ^ Kummer, Fritz (1986): A Worker's World Tour , Kiepenheuer Verlag Weimar
  8. ↑ Secular and free-spirited organizations and associations in Germany 2011. Accessed on July 5, 2020 .
  9. ↑ The website of kulturation - online journal for culture, science and politics
  10. ↑ a b complete directory humanismus aktuell. (PDF; 37 kB) Accessed July 5, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Horst Groschopp. (List) In: Humanistic Press Service. 2015, accessed October 11, 2015 .
  12. ↑ Website for the book Humanism: Basic Concepts , accessed on June 26, 2016
  13. ↑ A comprehensive spectrum of humanistic thinking , interview with Frieder Otto Wolf , accessed on June 26, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Groschopp, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cultural scientist
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Zwickau