Micha Brumlik

Micha Brumlik at the awarding of the Buber Rosenzweig Medal (2016)

Micha Brumlik (born November 4, 1947 in Davos ) is a German educational scientist and journalist . He was born in Switzerland to German Jewish parents and has lived in Germany since 1952. He is a professor emeritus in the Faculty of Education at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . As a publicist and guest author of various newspapers, he published non-fiction books, essays and articles on the history of Judaism and contemporary Jewish topics.

Life

Micha Brumlik was born as the son of Josef and Recha Brumlik, who fled to Switzerland from National Socialism. His father had been active in the Zionist youth movement and worked for various Zionist organizations throughout his life without ever having been to Israel. In 1953 the family moved to Frankfurt am Main, where Micha Brumlik attended Lessing-Gymnasium . From 1959 to 1967 he was a member of a Zionist youth organization. After graduating from high school in 1967, Brumlik spent two years in Israel. He studied philosophy and worked in a kibbutz . He experienced Israel as an "imperialist country" and therefore became an "anti-Zionist". In 1968 he joined the Trotskyist organization Matzpen there . After returning to Germany he studied education, philosophy and sociology in Frankfurt am Main. In 1973 he completed his studies with a diploma in social pedagogy. He then worked as a scientific assistant in education at the Universities of Göttingen and Mainz , received his doctorate in philosophy in 1977 and became an assistant professor in Hamburg that same year .

From 1981 to 2000 he held the professorship for educational science with a focus on social pedagogy at the University of Heidelberg .

Brumlik was initially politically active in Germany in the Socialist Office and in the Frankfurt group of the New Left Federation , later as a member of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen and as a Frankfurt city councilor from 1989 to 2001.

In the first half of the 1980s, Brumlik and other critical intellectuals such as Dan Diner and Cilly Kugelmann formed the "Frankfurt Jewish Group", which distinguished itself from the conservative positions of the Jewish community and founded the magazine Babylon . In the context of the Lebanon War in 1982 in particular , the group took a clear position against Israel's policy towards the Palestinians and thus provoked fierce internal Jewish discussions throughout Germany. In the eighties, supported by an analysis by a psychoanalyst from Israel, he revised his attitude towards the State of Israel and the importance of Zionism for Judaism. Since then he has criticized anti-Semitic thought patterns in the political culture of Germany, especially on the left. In early 1991 he resigned from the Green Party because it refused to deliver arms to Israel.

In 2000 he took over a professorship at the Institute for General Educational Science at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main with a focus on "Theory of Upbringing and Education". From 2000 to 2005 he was the director of the Fritz Bauer Institute , a study and documentation center on the history and effects of the Holocaust . In February 2013 Brumlik retired.

In the summer of 2013 he was visiting professor at Dartmouth College . Brumlik has been Senior Advisor at the Center for Jewish Studies Berlin-Brandenburg since October 2013 and senior professor at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main since 2017 .

Brumlik is co-editor of the political and scientific monthly magazine Blätter for German and International Politics and the periodical Babylon - Contributions to the Jewish Present . He was chairman of the working group Jews and Christians at the German Evangelical Church Congress . In February 2008 he criticized the reformulation of the Good Friday intercession for the Jews within the Tridentine mass and canceled his participation in the 97th German Catholic Day in Osnabrück in May .

He shares the patronage of the “Neuer Israel Fonds Deutschland” association founded in 2014 with other prominent personalities, which supports the work of the New Israel Fund (NIF) to promote civil society and democracy in Israel.

Awards

• 2003: Hermann Cohen Medal for Jewish Cultural Philosophy from the Hermann Cohen Academy
• 2016: Buber-Rosenzweig-Medal for understanding between Jews and Christians
• 2016: Franz Rosenzweig guest professorship
• 2019: Hufeland Lecture Prize from the General Practice Foundation

Works (books; selection)

• Together with Petra Kunik (ed.): Reichspogromnacht. Coming to terms with the past from a Jewish perspective. Brandes and Apsel Verlags-GmbH 1988, ISBN 3-925798-92-7
• World Risk in the Middle East - Moral and Political Perspectives in an Endless Conflict , Junius, Hamburg 1991, ISBN 3-88506-188-0 .
• The Anti-Alt - Against the terrible Peacefulness , Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 3-8218-0453-X (Brumlik's reaction and criticism to some publications by the journalist Franz Alt ).
• The Gnostics. The dream of human self-redemption , Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 1992, ISBN 3-8218-0426-2 .
  • New edition: Philo, Berlin / Vienna 2004, ISBN 978-3-86572-207-2 .
  • New edition: Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2016, ISBN 978-3-596-30699-2 .
• Scripture, word, icon. Ways out of the prohibition of pictures , Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-596-12257-0 .
  • New edition: Philo and EVA, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 978-3-86572-626-1 .
• Justice between the generations , Berlin Verlag, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-8270-0175-7 . (also Book Guild Gutenberg 1997)
• No way as a German and a Jew. A federal republican experience , Luchterhand, Munich 1996, ISBN 978-3-630-87985-7 .
• German spirit and hatred of Jews. The relationship between philosophical idealism and Judaism , Luchterhand (sl 2028), Munich 2000, ISBN 3-630-62028-0 (reviews: Heinz Dieter Kittsteiner in NZZ, January 10, 2001; Martin Lüdke in: Die Zeit, January 11, 2001 ; Martin Jander in: taz, January 30, 2001; Peter Jacobs in: Die Welt, February 17, 2001 )
• Reason and Revelation , Philo, Berlin / Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-8257-0241-3 (new edition 2014, ISBN 978-3-86393-024-0 ).
• Education and happiness. Attempt of a theory of virtues , Philo, Munich 2002 ISBN 3-8257-0241-3 .
• CG Jung for an introduction , Junius, Hamburg 2004 (new version), ISBN 978-3-88506-397-1 .
• Advocacy ethics. For the legitimation of educational interventions , Philo, Berlin / Vienna 2004, ISBN 978-3-86572-346-8 .
• Learn from disasters? Basics of contemporary history education with a view to human rights , Philo, Berlin / Vienna 2004, ISBN 978-3-86572-359-8 .
• Who sows the storm. The expulsion of the Germans , construction, Berlin 2005, ISBN 978-3-351-02580-9 .
• Sigmund Freud. The thinker of the 20th century , Beltz, Weinheim 2006, ISBN 978-3-407-85780-4 .
• The abuse of discipline. Answers from science to Bernhard Bueb , Beltz, Weinheim 2007, ISBN 978-3-407-85765-1 .
• Judaism. What is true? The most important answers , Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 2007, ISBN 978-3-451-05796-0 .
• If not now then when? On the future of German Jewry . Charlotte Knobloch , Micha Brumlik and Gesa S. Ederberg in conversation with Wilfried Köpke , Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 2007, ISBN 978-3-451-29395-5 .
• with Jürgen Micksch (Ed.) u. a .: Evangelical for a fundamental reason. How the EKD is profiling itself against Islam , Lembeck, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-87476-545-9 .
• Critique of Zionism , European Publishing House, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-434-50609-6 .
• Off to Siberia ?: How dangerous is our youth? , Beltz, Weinheim 2008, ISBN 978-3-407-85873-3 .
• "... a spark of Roman thought ...": Leo Strauss' criticism of Hermann Cohen , Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg 2008, ISBN 978-3-8253-5123-6 .
• A short history of Judaism , Jacoby & Stuart publishing house, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-941087-53-8 .
• A short story in 5 chapters: Early Christianity , Jacoby & Stuart publishing house, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-941787-14-8 .
• with Steffen Hagemann (ed.): Authoritarian legacy and democratization of political culture. Festschrift for Hajo Funke (= Politics and Culture series . 11). Schiler, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-89930-313-1 .
• Internally circumcised Jews. On Eduard Fuchs' "The Jews in Caricature" , KVV concrete, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-930786-65-7 .
• The violence of the one God. The debate on monotheism between Jan Assmann , Micha Brumlik, Rolf Schieder , Peter Sloterdijk and others , edited by Rolf Schieder, University Press, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-86280-067-4 .
• Like a ball lightning? The riddle of childlike sexuality. In: Ilka Quindeau / Micha Brumlik (ed.): Childlike sexuality . Weinheim, Basel 2012. ISBN 978-3-7799-1552-2 .
• Messianic light and human dignity. Political theory from sources of Jewish tradition. Nomos, Baden-Baden 2013, ISBN 978-3-8487-0102-5 .
• When, if not now? Attempt on the presence of Judaism. Neofelis Verlag, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-95808-032-4 .
• Democracy and education. Neofelis Verlag, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-95808-134-5 .
• Prussian, conservative, Jewish. Hans-Joachim Schoeps' life and work. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2019, ISBN 978-3-412-51501-0 .
• Hegel's Jews. Reformers, socialists, Zionists. Neofelis Verlag, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-95808-211-3 .
• Anti-Semitism. 100 pages . Reclam, Ditzingen / Stuttgart 2020, ISBN 978-3-15-020533-4 .

Journals (editorship)

• With Marina Chernivsky, Max Czollek , Hannah Peaceman, Anna Schapiro, Lea Wohl von Haselberg: Jalta. Positions on the Jewish present. Half-yearly publication , from 2017 ISSN  2510-3725 , Issue 1: Self- authorization .

Web links

Commons : Micha Brumlik  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Micha Brumlik in the catalog of the German National Library
• Micha Brumlik in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Website Micha Brumlik

Interviews

• I believe in the means of education , interview with Micha Brumlik about the topicality of anti-Semitism in Germany and elsewhere ( Memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
• Is there such a thing as Jewish anti-Semitism?

Controversy Micha Brumlik / Rolf Verleger

• Anti-Semitism among Jews? By Micha Brumlik, taz of April 3, 2007
• Anti-Semitology article by Rolf Verleger in the taz on April 12, 2007

Other publications

• A double birthday greeting to Hannah Arendt and dedicated to the "Blätter" (with links to other articles by Brumlik)
• Never freed from guilt by Micha Brumlik, taz from February 25, 2006.
• Who Teaches Human Dignity? , taz, April 25, 2009
• Under suspicion of BDS: Der neue McCarthyismus , Blätter für German and international politics, August 2019

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Micha Brumlik: The vulnerable child ( memento from February 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 327 kB), farewell lecture February 2013
2. ↑ Brumlik, Josef , in: Hermann Schröter (Hrsg.): History and fate of the Essen Jews: Memorial book for the Jewish fellow citizens of the city of Essen . Essen: City of Essen, 1980, p. 496
3. ↑ Micha Brumlik: Kein Weg als Deutscher und Jude , p. 61
4. ↑ Micha Brumlik: Kein Weg als Deutscher und Jude , pp. 35–39.
5. ↑ Micha Brumlik: Kein Weg als Deutscher und Jude , pp. 73–75.
6. ↑ Micha Brumlik: Compass of a youth. (No longer available online.) In: taz.de. taz Verlags u. Vertriebs GmbH, July 5, 2017, archived from the original on July 5, 2017 ; Retrieved July 5, 2017 . 
7. ↑ Micha Brumlik, Homepage, Vita
8. ↑ Micha Brumlik: Terror und Quellenkritik , in: Jungle World from June 21, 2017, accessed on February 25, 2018
9. ↑ Vita at Micha Brumlik, publicist and author. (No longer available online.) March 28, 2019, archived from the original on March 28, 2019 ; accessed on March 28, 2019 . 
10. ↑ Michael Brenner: 1980: Founding of the »Frankfurt Jewish Group«. In: Jüdische Allgemeine, July 4, 2013, accessed March 7, 2018
11. ^ Lutz Fiedler: Matzpen: Another Israeli story. Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2017, p. 354
12. ↑ Micha Brumlik: Kein Weg als Deutscher und Jude , p. 146 f.
13. ↑ Micha Brumlik: To insist on the lack of weapons is malicious. An irrevocable withdrawal from the party , Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, February 3, 1991.
14. ↑ his page in the university
15. ↑ [1]
16. ↑ Vita at Micha Brumlik, publicist and author. (No longer available online.) February 2, 2019, archived from the original on February 2, 2019 ; accessed on February 2, 2019 . 
17. ^ Fellows • Selma Stern Center for Jewish Studies Berlin-Brandenburg. (No longer available online.) February 2, 2019, archived from the original on February 2, 2019 ; accessed on February 2, 2019 . 
18. ↑ Goethe University -. February 2, 2019, accessed February 2, 2019 . 
19. ↑ Micha Brumlik also cancels participation in the Catholic Day epd ( Memento from March 14, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
20. ↑ Our team. NIF Germany website, accessed on March 15, 2018
21. ^ Hermann Cohen Medal for Jewish Cultural Philosophy , accessed on March 20, 2016
22. ↑ Awarded by the umbrella organization of the German Coordination Council of Societies for Christian-Jewish Cooperation (DKR) at the central opening ceremony of the Week of Brotherhood in Hanover on March 6, 2016.
23. ↑ http://www.uni-kassel.de/uni/nc/universitaet/nachrichten/article/kasseler-rosenzweig-professur-an-den-philosophen-micha-brumlik.html ( Memento from March 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive )