Horst von Gizycki

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Horst von Gizycki (born January 16, 1930 in Berlin ; † June 1, 2009 in Kassel ) was a German art and social psychologist , writer , publicist and essayist .

Life

Horst von Gizycki was born in Berlin in 1930 and grew up there. He attended grammar school in Berlin, Brno and Goslar (Abitur 1949). He then completed an apprenticeship as an industrial clerk and copywriter. From 1952 he studied psychology (diploma), philosophy and sociology in Göttingen . In 1959 he received his doctorate with an empirical thesis on the psychology of judgment. As part of the adult education at the University of Göttingen , he then dealt with prejudice and anti-Semitism . From 1966 to 1995 Horst von Gizycki was Professor of Art Psychology at the University of Kassel (formerly Kassel University). During this time, he primarily researched communitarian community experiments (“lived utopias”). His research interests led him to Israel and several times to the USA (to Brandeis University and Berkeley ). From these stays numerous books later resulted (inter alia. Noah's Ark '84. On the social psychology of lived utopias and "Mother Jones" or another America. Critical minorities in the USA ). During his time as a professor, he also took part in the university reform, worked on projects in political adult education (in Göttingen ) and participated in the philosophical summer school in Korčula and the Inter University Center Dubrovnik . In addition to his teaching and research activities, he was committed to the project of European unification. For him, this commitment was combined with his many years of work as co-editor and author of the Frankfurter Hefte . Von Gizycki also distinguished himself as an essayist and author of radio features, mainly on social-psychological topics. Since 1955 he was married to the ethnologist Renate von Gizycki . Horst von Gizycki died suddenly and unexpectedly on June 1, 2009 the day before a conference of European cultural magazines he had planned for a long time in Berlin.

Horst von Gizycki was an artist himself. Over the years he created hundreds of miniatures with pen and brush, which only became public after his death in an exhibition and a book ( Sketchbook. Nulla dies sine linea. ).

Fonts

Books
  • Recourse to irrelevant features when making difficult distinctions. An experimental contribution to the psychology of judgment. Diss., Göttingen 1959, DNB 480954526
  • 1972: Youth trips to Israel. An investigation into the effectiveness of encounter programs. With M. Baethge, H. Skowronek, W. Strzelewicz. Juventa-Verlag, Munich 1972.
  • 1974: Departure from the Neandertal. Draft of a new municipality. A polemic. 123 pages. Luchterhand, Darmstadt 1974.
  • 1978: Oases of Freedom. The difficulty of self-determination. Reports, experiences, models. 191 pages, ed. by Hubert Habicht. Fischer-TB, Frankfurt 1978.
  • 1983: Noah's Ark '84. On the social psychology of lived utopias. An essay. 171 pages, Fischer-TB, Frankfurt 1983, ISBN 3-596241634 .
  • 1990: "Mother Jones" or Another America. Critical minorities in the US. Fischer-TB, Frankfurt 1990.
  • 2011: From Bosch to Beuys or Can art change our lives? Selected essays 1969–2008. Universitäts-Press, Kassel 2011, ISBN 978-3-862191444 .
Essays
  • On the psychology of prejudice . In: W. Strzelewicz: Prejudice as an educational barrier . Goettingen 1965
  • Renewal of Aesthetic Practice - The Social Task of Art Schools . In: Frankfurter Hefte 7/1969
  • The pyramidal disease. Social psychological theses on the pathology of the dominant society . In: Frankfurter Hefte 2/1979
  • Fraternity. Notes on the social psychology of alternative forms of life . In: H. Klages and P. Kmieciak: Value change and social change . Frankfurt 1979
  • Does the kibbutz still have a future? In: Frankfurter Hefte 10/1982
  • “Productive power” Eros or: New approaches to cooperative forms of life. In: O. Schwencke (Hg): Future of work - future of leisure and culture . Hagen 1984
  • In a fight about the right emptiness. Selected sketches for an ecological aesthetic . In: contradiction. Munich Journal of Philosophy 2/1985
  • For a Euro-humanistic Germany. Social psychological remarks on the openness of the German question . In: Die Neue Gesellschaft / Frankfurter Hefte 4/1985
  • Broken threads. Labyrinths of our history from a socio-psychological point of view . In: impulses. Journal of Evgl. Hofgeismar Academy 1/1988
  • From Bosch to Beuys. About the contribution of the arts to a holistic understanding of nature . In: HA Müller (Hg): Science and Faith . Munich 1988
  • Oh, we believers in Cain. Sketches on the question of my image of God . In: J. Brauers (Hg): My image of God. An anthology . Munich 1990
  • Can art help change our lives? In: Zdravko Radman (ed.): Horizons of Humanity. Essays in Honor of Ivan Supek . Frankfurt 1997

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personal data
SURNAME Gizycki, Horst von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art and social psychologist, writer, publicist and essayist
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH June 1, 2009
Place of death kassel