Peter Bierl

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Peter Bierl (* 1963 ) is a German journalist and book author .

Life

Peter Bierl studied political science , sociology and psychology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . He published several books and essays on the subjects of National Socialism as well as anthroposophy , esotericism and the environmental movement .

In the 1990s Bierl was a member of the ecological left , but resigned. During this time he was an editorial member of the association newspaper ÖkoLinX .

Bierl lives in the greater Munich area and works as a journalist for various newspapers, including Die Tageszeitung , Jungle World and the Süddeutsche Zeitung .

reception

The book "Root Races, Archangels and Folk Spirits"

The book, published in 1999, dealt with Rudolf Steiner's anthroposophy and Waldorf education . According to the cultural scientist Jana Husmann , the book helped to bring the question of racism with Rudolf Steiner into the public again. The polemical disputes about “eco-fascism” were initiated by Jutta Ditfurth in the early 1990s and were part of a debate about esotericism and fascism. In principle, Bierl was able to prove racist, anti-Judaist and anti-Semitic statements in Steiner's work. However, Bierl would not have provided a closer, critical, systematic discussion. This was later, according to Jana Husmann, scientifically specified by the religious scholar Georg Otto Schmidt and the historian Helmut Zander .

The book received strong rejection from the anthroposophical spectrum, where Bierl was consistently received negatively. In connection with Bierl's book, however, the Anthroposophical Society in the Netherlands commissioned a commission to search Rudolf Steiner's writings and lectures for racially discriminatory statements.

The book "Schwundgeld, Freiwirtschaft und Rassenwahn"

The book "Schwundgeld, Freiwirtschaft und Rassenwahn - Critique of Capitalism from the right: The Silvio Gesell case" was published in 2012 and summarizes Peter Bierl's decades of research on Silvio Gesell (1862–1930).

Alwine Schreiber-Martens, a graduate mathematician, criticized Bierl in a review on the website Sozialoekonomie.info, which is managed by Werner Onken , with constructive-critical proximity to Silvio Gesell's free economics: “Overall, with this book, Bierl is again attempting a non-Marxist analysis of the To push capitalism and the correspondingly different approaches to overcoming it into the brown corner. Instead, a factually differentiated discussion is required, which may not be really wanted, despite the claim made at the beginning of the book. "

The economist Alfred Müller referred positively to Bierl's book: "In view of Gesell's ideas about extermination and human breeding and his view, people can be divided into races and stand among themselves in an interracial selection competition, to the" question of whether Gesell is a social Darwinist, eugenicist and Racist was »like Bierl to answer yes."

Bierl had published several articles on Silvio Gesell in the previous years, including the 2004 article "Schwundgeld, Menschenzucht und Antisemitismus", which led to a controversy with Werner Onken , the editor of Silvio Gesell's complete works. The sociologist Christian Thiel described this controversy: “Like other economic approaches that are limited to the sphere of circulation, capitalism and the power of money are implicitly personified with the Jews (Bierl 2004, p. 11; reply in Onken 2004) . ”Werner Onken self-critically remarked that Darwin's influence on Gesell was“ in [his] opinion actually a sore point in the land rights and monetary reform movement ”.

Publications (selection)

  • Rosa Luxemburg: the red democracy (=  Podium Progressive . Band 5 ). PDS / Linke Liste, Landesverband Rheinland-Pfalz, Mainz 1991, OCLC 28809456 .
  • All power to the councils: Rosa Luxemburg: council democracy and socialism . ISP, Cologne 1993, ISBN 3-929008-07-6 .
  • Root races, archangels and folk spirits: Rudolf Steiner's anthroposophy and Waldorf education . Konkret-Literatur, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-89458-242-1 .
  • Schwundgeld, free economy and racial madness: criticism of capitalism from the right: the Silvio Gesell case . Ed .: Friedrich Burschel. KVV concrete, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-930786-64-0 .
  • Green brown: environmental, animal and homeland protection from the right (=  Unrast transparent, right edge . Band 5 ). Unrast, Münster 2014, ISBN 978-3-89771-105-1 .
  • The basics of the criticism of capitalism (= unrest transparent, social crisis . Volume 6). Unrast, Münster 2018, ISBN 978-3-89771-144-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Bierl: The Nazi era in the home book: the (non) processing of the Nazi era in local history using the example of the Fürstenfeldbruck district . In: Amperland . Dachau. ISSN  0003-1992 . Volume 42, 2006, pp. 257-261.
  2. ↑ Jana Husmann: Black and White Symbolism: Dualistic Thinking Traditions and the Imagination of “Race”. Religion - Science - Anthroposophy . transcript Verlag, 2015, p. 38 , ISBN 978-3-8376-1349-0 .
  3. ^ Michael Rissmann: National Socialism, Völkische Movement and Esotericism. In: Zeitschrift für Genozidforschung , 4 (2003), pp. 58–91, here p. 61, doi: 10.5771 / 1438-8332-2003-2-58 .
  4. ↑ Heiner Ullrich: Rudolf Steiner: Life and Teaching . Beck, 2011, p. 196 , ISBN 978-3-406-61205-3 .
  5. ↑ Alwine Schreiber-Martens: Review of Peter Bierl, "Schwundgeld, Freiwirtschaft und Rassenwahn". In: Sozialoekonomie.info. Werner Onken , Foundation for the Reform of Monetary and Land Order, 2013, accessed on June 20, 2017 .
  6. ^ A b Alfred Müller: With Marx in a better society: About the uselessness of money reforms in ailing capitalism . Tectum Verlag 2016, p. 205, ISBN 978-3-8288-3668-6 .
  7. ↑ Peter Bierl: Schwundgeld, Human Breeding and Anti-Semitism , June 12, 2004.
  8. ↑ Christian Thiel: The «better» money: An ethnographic study on regional currencies , Springer-Verlag 2011, p. 139, doi: 10.1007 / 978-3-531-94000-7 .
  9. ↑ Werner Onken: On the contrast between monetary reform and anti-Semitism - statement on Peter Bierl's defamation. December 2004, accessed July 5, 2017 . .
personal data
SURNAME Bierl, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1963