Peter Stiegnitz

Peter Stiegnitz (born September 30, 1936 in Budapest ; † January 20, 2017 in Vienna ) was an Austrian author, ministerial official and sociologist.

Life

Peter Stiegnitz grew up in Budapest. In March 1944, Hungary was occupied by the German Reich . Stiegnitz had to leave school soon after and could only avoid deportation by fleeing. Even after the Second World War, he suffered reprisals in communist Hungary . In the course of the Hungarian uprising , his parents fled with him to Austria.

He studied sociology , philosophy , psychology and ethnology at the University of Vienna and was awarded a doctorate in 1963. phil. PhD . Until his retirement, Stiegnitz was a ministerial advisor in the Federal Press Service of the Austrian Federal Chancellery .

Stiegnitz has published 30 books and over 6,000 specialist articles. He worked as a correspondent for several German-language and Jewish newspapers and magazines. The author, who has received several awards, in particular for his scientific work on the sociology of migration , also taught as a visiting professor at the University of Budapest in the fields of language practice, cultural studies and language didactics. He was the scientific curator of the Austria section of the research society for the world refugee problem.

Stiegnitz trat als Kritiker des Multikulturalismus hervor.

Mentiology

According to his own statement, his lifelong fascination with the subject of lies was brought about by the fact that in 1944 as a child, faced with the threat of deportation to an extermination camp, he answered the question whether he was a Jew with "no" and saved his life with this white lie. Stiegnitz coined the term mentiology; he sees it as a discipline of the social sciences and psychology . The subject areas of his mentiology research are:

• Social aspects of the lie, e.g. B. from an emotional point of view
• Lies as a Correlative to Attribution : Assumptions about other people's behavior
• Lie in their influence on decision-making processes in individuals and in groups, e.g. B. collective lie, compliance behavior
• Lie and its relationship to communication
• Lies as confirmation of prejudice and in relation to discrimination
• Gender-specific lying behavior
• Lie and non-verbal communication
• Detectability of lying behavior ( lie detector etc.)
• Values and norms regarding lies
• Social consequences of lying behavior ( deviance ).

The Stiegnitz design has not yet been taken up in scientific psychology.

Awards

• Theodor Körner Prize (2 times)

Fonts (selection)

• Man and sociology. Heyne, Munich 1975, ISBN 978-3-453-53051-5 .
• Free from fear. Heyne, Munich 1981, ISBN 978-3-453-53128-4 .
• Judaism. Foundation of western culture. hpt, Vienna 1988, ISBN 978-3-85128-006-7 .
• Sects and free churches. hpt, Vienna 1989, ISBN 978-3-85128-032-6 .
• It's worth lying. Lie - truth - reality. A social analytical study. Haag + Herchen, Frankfurt / M. 1991, ISBN 978-3-89228-594-6 .
• Elites. The pillars of society. Edition Atelier, Vienna 1991, ISBN 978-3-900379-68-1 .
• The new. Assimilation of foreigners in Austria. Edition Atelier, Vienna 1994, ISBN 978-3-85308-002-3 .
• All people lie ... Those who say the opposite are lying. Edition Va Bene , Vienna 1994, ISBN 978-3-85167-016-5 .
• ... and they know what they are doing. The martyr-guards. Edition Va Bene, Vienna 1995, ISBN 978-3-85167-035-6 .
• The lie. The salt of life. Edition Va Bene, Vienna 1997, ISBN 978-3-85167-062-2 .
• Home for free. Integration is not a one-way street. Edition Va Bene, Vienna 2000, ISBN 978-3-85167-096-7 .
• Jews. Judges, avengers, renegades. Edition Va Bene, Vienna 2001, ISBN 978-3-85167-114-8 .
• God without a church. Religion and freemasonry. Edition Va Bene, Vienna 2003, ISBN 978-3-85167-145-2 .
• The big lies of the little politicians. Edition Va Bene, Vienna 2004, ISBN 978-3-85167-165-0
• The fifth commandment. A history of violence. Edition Va Bene, Vienna 2005, ISBN 978-3-85167-175-9 .
• Austria up close. A land between pleasure and suffering. Edition Va Bene, Vienna 2006, ISBN 978-3-85167-191-9 .
• Good morning Occident - good evening Orient. To the competition of cultures. Edition Va Bene, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-85167-199-5 .
• Politics of Violence - The New Fascism. Löcker, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-85409-542-2 .
• On all chairs. The way of the assimilated Jews. Publishing house library of the province, Weitra 2013, ISBN 978-3-99028-223-6 .
• Living religions. The renaissance of faith. Verl. Library d. Province, Weitra 2015, ISBN 978-3-99028-481-0 .

literature

• Susanne Blumesberger, Michael Doppelhofer, Gabriele Mauthe: Handbook of Austrian authors of Jewish origin from the 18th to the 20th century. Volume 3: S – Z, Register. Edited by the Austrian National Library. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11545-8 , p. 1329.

Web links

• Literature by and about Peter Stiegnitz in the catalog of the German National Library
• In conversation with Prof. Dr. Peter Stiegnitz ( Memento from June 26, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Deutschlandradio , broadcast on April 10, 2004.
• Don't let Hungary drop: In conversation with Prof. Peter Stiegnitz in Pester Lloyd on February 6, 2012
• About gender-specific lying behavior

Individual evidence

1. ^ Topic of his doctoral thesis: Contribution to the treatment of the sociological fundamentals of Judaism and anti-Semitism in Austria.
2. ↑ http://www.awr-int.de/nationalesektion/Sktionen/Österreich/index.html (link not available)
3. ↑ see e.g. B. [1]