Horst Stowasser

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Stowasser in Berlin 2007

Horst Stowasser (born January 7, 1951 near Wilhelmshaven ; † August 30, 2009 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein ) was a German author and anarchist .

Life

Horst Stowasser spent parts of his youth in Argentina , where he went to school and came into contact with historical anarchism , became politically active and was arrested several times. After graduating from high school in Argentina, he began studying agriculture and Romance languages in Germany . He made several trips around the world and made contacts all over the world.

In Germany, he founded the anarchist documentation center in Wetzlar in 1971, which was later renamed AnArchiv and is now located in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse . It offers an extensive collection of documents, magazines and literature on anarchism with a German-language focus.

In the early 1980s he became known through the trial of the Tucholsky quote “ Soldiers are murderers ”.

In 1985 he published a book in which he proposed a new form of "project anarchism". This so-called Project A aimed to anchor libertarian projects in everyday life in a small town. This idea was put into practice from 1989. Implementation began in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse , where Stowasser himself worked, as well as in two other locations and abroad. After a crisis in the mid-1990s, a discussion process is currently underway to continue the project. Stowasser continued to live there and built up a residential and life project in which the AnArchiv should also be housed.

On August 30, 2009, he died in a Ludwigshafen hospital from complications from sepsis .

Think

Horst Stowasser advocated project-oriented work and did not represent any theoretical currents of anarchism. The "project anarchism" creates work and living opportunities in collective self-administration. In Neustadt, Stowasser's place of residence, there were 14 self-governing businesses before the project's crisis in the mid-1990s, around half of which have survived to this day and which are grouped together in the “Work of Self-Managed Projects and Facilities” (WESPE). "An attempt is made to build self-managed, decentralized, ecological and libertarian structures and to network them with one another that have an economic, cultural and political effect". The last project was the self-managed, cross - generational housing project Eilhardshof in the Mietshäuser Syndikat , which was to be managed collectively in common ownership as a monument and consisted of individual apartments in addition to common rooms. It was funded by direct loans but had to file for bankruptcy in August 2010.

Fonts

  • 1973: The Kronstadt sailors uprising . An-Archia, Wetzlar 1973.
  • 1979: Makhnochina. The Struggle of Anarchist Rebels for a Free Society in Ukraine, 1917–1922 . 2nd Edition. An-Archia, Wetzlar 1979.
  • 1992: The project A . 1st edition. An-Archia, Wetzlar 1985 (2nd edition 1992).
  • 1995: pure freedom. The idea of ​​anarchy, history and future . Eichborn Verlag , Frankfurt am Main 1995, ISBN 3-8218-0448-3 ( archive.org ).
  • 2003: Life without a boss and a state. Dreams and Realities of the Anarchists . 14th edition. Karin Kramer , Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-87956-120-6 ( archive.org ).
  • 2006: Anti-Aging for Anarchy? Libertarian Barcelona and its anarchist unions ... A report . Edition AV , Lich 2006, ISBN 978-3-936049-72-5 .
  • 2007: Proyecto A . In: Murray Bookchin , D. Liguri, H. Stowasser (eds.): La utopía es posible. Experiencias posibles . Tupac, Buenos Aires 2007 (Spanish).
  • 2007: anarchy! Idea, history, perspectives . 2nd Edition. Edition Nautilus , Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-89401-537-4 ( archive.org - new edition of pure freedom ).
  • 2009: (with Ch. Gauglitz) On the trail of happiness. A slightly anarchic pleasure trip through France . Edition Strasser, Albersweiler 2009, ISBN 978-3-940668-15-8 .

literature

  • Project A / Plan B. A conversation with the writer Horst Stowasser ; in: Bernd Drücke (Ed.): Yes! Anarchism. Lived utopia in the 21st century , Karin Kramer Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-87956-307-1 , pp. 233–247.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ What is the AnArchive? In: anarchiv.de. Retrieved July 10, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Bernd: Project A / Wasp / Self-managed companies ; anarchismus.de
  3. ↑ "After the bankruptcy of Eilhardshof GmbH, which had acquired the property in Schöntal for a cross-generational residential project and started its renovation, the property will be offered for sale again in the near future. (...) That with state subsidies, loan from The project financed by Umweltbank Nürnberg and small loans from private individuals had to go to court in July. The reason (...) the costs for the conversion and renovation of the former manufacturer's villa, which were almost doubled compared to the original plan. A continuation of the project in its original variant, which also The upper limit for the rent without rent later to be paid by the residents is questionable. (...) The last reliable figure was costs of around € 3.6 million for the completion of the five buildings located on the park-like property provisional insolvency administrator, it will now amount to a realization of the property, i.e. its sale de probably flow more or less completely to the mortgagee Umweltbank. " - Retrieved on January 7, 2011 from insolvenzrecht.de ( Memento of the original from October 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.insolvenzrecht.de
  4. ↑ A standard work on anarchism, non-fiction book of the month June 2007, approx. 510 pages, approx. 100 photos.
personal data
SURNAME Stowasser, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-speaking author and anarchist
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH near Wilhelmshaven
DATE OF DEATH August 30, 2009
Place of death Ludwigshafen am Rhein