Otto Gross Society

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The International Otto Gross Society e. V. (IOGG) was a non-profit organization in the legal form of a registered association for research into the work of the Austrian psychiatrist and anarchist Otto Gross .

Purpose of the association

On the occasion of its first congress on 28-30 Founded May 1999 in Berlin . The task is defined in the statutes:

"The task of society is to research the work and the social impact of the activities of the doctor, scientist and revolutionary Otto Gross, to illustrate his influence on the intellectual development of the 20th century and to make the results of this work publicly available."

The English psychoanalyst Gottfried Heuer, chairman of the association (until 2015), describes the situation that led to the founding of the association in a self-portrait of the society:

"Although the Austrian doctor, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and anarchist Otto Gross played a key role in the creation of what we now call" modernity ", he is still largely unknown to this day."

A trigger for the rediscovery of the work of Otto Gross was the author Emanuel Hurwitz in 1979 with his book Otto Gross - Paradiessucher between Freud and Jung .

Honorary Chairwoman

Congress documentation

Since it was founded, the company has organized and documented a total of seven congresses between 1999 and 2008:

  • 1st Congress: May 28-30, 1999 in the Bauhaus Archive in Berlin.
  • 2nd Congress: October 27-29, 2000 in the Psychiatric University Clinic Zurich (Burghölzli). Topic: psychiatry, psychoanalysis and literature.
  • 3rd Congress: March 15th to 17th, 2002 in the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich. Topic: bohemian, psychoanalysis and revolution.
  • 4th Congress: October 24th to 26th, 2003 in the City Museum / Robert Stolz-Museum Graz. Subject: the laws of the father.
  • 5th Congress: September 16 to 18, 2005 in the Dada House in Zurich . Theme: Utopia and Eros. The dream of the modern.
  • 6th Congress: September 8-10, 2006 in Vienna. Topic: "... Freud's huge shadow is no longer on my way." The Otto Gross rebellion.
  • 7th Congress: October 3rd to 5th, 2008 in Dresden. Topic: "Shivering loneliness" and "Scream for love" - ​​Otto Gross, psychoanalysis and expressionism.
  • 8th Congress: 14.-16. October 2011 in Graz. Subject: Psychoanalysis & Criminology. Hans & Otto Gross - Libido & Power.
  • 9th Congress: 6-8 May 2016 in Bad Malente together with the Erich Mühsam Society . Topic: racism, anti-Semitism, political violence and persecution. Interactions and contradictions.

Transformation of the company into a working group

An IOGG general meeting decided on September 25, 2017 at a conference in Dresden to dissolve the company. It has been replaced by a working group without formal membership. The Otto Gross Archive, which is located at Gottfried Heuer's in London, should be handed over to the archive of the Kriminalmuseum of the University of Graz according to the decision of the general meeting .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Statutes of the International Otto Gross Society, Section 2, Item 2.1, first half-sentence. In: ottogrossgesellschaft.com. Retrieved February 3, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Otto Gross (1877–1920) - Biographical and theoretical overview, Gottfried Heuer. In: www.ottogross.org. Archived from the original on June 14, 2015 ; accessed on February 3, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Raimund Dehmlow, Gottfried Heuer (Ed.): 1st International Otto Gross Congress . LiteraturWwissenschaft.de, Marburg 2000, ISBN 3-931614-90-5 .
  4. ↑ Gottfried Heuer (Ed.): 2nd International Otto Gross Congress . LiteraturWwissenschaft.de, Marburg 2002, ISBN 3-936134-01-4 .
  5. ^ Raimund Dehmlow, Gottfried Heuer (ed.): 3rd International Otto Gross Congress . LiteraturWwissenschaft.de, Marburg 2003, ISBN 3-936134-06-5 .
  6. ↑ Albrecht Götz von Olenhusen, Gottfried Heuer (ed.): 4th International Otto Gross Congress . LiteraturWwissenschaft.de, Marburg 2005, ISBN 3-936134-08-1 .
  7. ↑ Gottfried Heuer (Ed.): 5th International Otto Gross Congress . LiteraturWwissenschaft.de, Marburg 2006, ISBN 3-936134-18-9 .
  8. ^ Raimund Dehmlow, Ralf Rother, Alfred Springer (eds.): 6th International Otto Gross Congress in Vienna . LiteraturWwissenschaft.de, Marburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-936134-21-6 .
  9. ↑ Werner Felber, Albrecht Götz von Olenhusen, Gottfried Maria Heuer, Bernd Nitzschke (eds.): 7th International Otto Gross Congress in Dresden . LiteraturWwissenschaft.de, Marburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-936134-23-0 .
  10. ↑ Christian Bachhiesl, Gerhard Dienes, Albrecht Götz von Olenhusen, Gottfried M. Heuer, Gernot Kocher (Eds.): 8th International Otto Gross Congress in Graz . LiteraturWwissenschaft.de, Marburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-936134-49-0 .
  11. ↑ Racism, anti-Semitism, political violence and persecution: interactions and contradictions (=  writings of the Erich-Mühsam-Gesellschaft . No. 42 ). Lübeck 2017, ISBN 978-3-931079-50-5 .
  12. ↑ Current / News. In: ottogrossgesellschaft.com. Retrieved February 3, 2019 .