Richard Albrecht

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Richard Albrecht (born May 4, 1945 in Apolda ) is a German social scientist .

Life

Richard Albrecht grew up in Buchholz (Nordheide) and Harburg and after attending a business school , working as a language teacher and training as a journalist in Hamburg at the Universities of Kiel , Heidelberg and Mannheim, studied social sciences ( philosophy , political science , sociology , social psychology , statistics ) educated. He was a member of the SDS ( Socialist German Student Union ). Albrecht was later awarded his doctorate in cultural studies (scl) at the University of Bremen in 1976, as an external candidate during his professional career, and in 1989 at the University of Kassel in political science with his biography on Carlo Mierendorff , published in 1987 as a book .

From 1986 to 1991 Albrecht held lectureships as a guest lecturer at the universities of Münster, GH Siegen and WH Mannheim and worked as a social science journalist on various radio programs for Südwestfunk (SWF), Deutschlandfunk (DLF) and Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR). From 1991 to 2003 he was the author of the quarterly magazine “liberal” and from 2001 to 2005 the editor , lecturer and honorary judge .

As a historically working social scientist, Albrecht focused on materialistic subject science and cultural-analytical social psychology , publications on Carlo Mierendorff , on German - speaking anti - fascist emigration after 1933 and on the exile of the playwright Carl Zuckmayer .

Albrecht attributed theoretical-conceptual contributions, empirical case studies and historical essays

• Sociology of literature
• Everyday life
• Symbolism in politics and the symbolic struggle against National Socialism
• Political sociology of jokes and gallows humor in the concentration camp
• Whispering joke in the "Third Reich"
• Emigration, "half-emigration" and exile as a way of life
• Genocide Policy in the 20th Century
• Micro-empirical field research on the dimensioning of vertigo structures in contemporary German society in the 21st century
• Utopian Paradigm , an essay whose theoretical framework , which was trained by Ernst Bloch, is also partially published online.

Albrecht's most recently published books deal with Staatsrache (2005), genocide politics as genocide (s) (2006/08), human crimes (2007) and sociological ideology , science and culture criticism (2008; 2011). In 2009 he published his historical memory of Ernst Bloch's lecture on exile in exile (1939) and a micro-empirical case study that critically examined the Wikipedia article (more precisely: the status of the article at the time) about Jürgen Habermas , 2010 essays on life and work by René König , Carl Djerassi and Hannah Arendt , 2011 on “Subject Marxism”, Ferdinand Tönnies , the “ Matthew Effect ”, Hans Arp , Dada and contemporary art and Eric Hobsbawm .

From 2002 to 2007 Albrecht edited the independent online magazine rechtsskultur.de (magazine for people & civil rights), which appeared in five volumes .

Fonts

Monographs

• Marxism, bourgeois ideology, left-wing radicalism. On the ideology and social history of Western European left radicalism. (= Critique of the bourgeois ideology. Volume 55). Verlag Marxistische Blätter, Frankfurt am Main 1975, ISBN 3-88012-304-7 .
• Employees at risk of alcohol in the company. Possibilities and limits of rehabilitation measures. (= Notifications from DGVT. Special Issue III). German Society for Behavioral Therapy , Tübingen 1981, ISBN 3-922686-50-8 .
• The need for real stories: On contemporary entertainment literature in the GDR. (= Research on literature and cultural history. Volume 15). Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-8204-1053-8 .
• with Otto R. Romberg and others: Resistance and Exile 1933–1945. (= Series of publications. Volume 223). 3. Edition. Federal Agency for Civic Education, Bonn 1989, ISBN 3-923423-30-6 .
• The militant social democrat. Carlo Mierendorff 1897 to 1943. (= International Library. Volume 124). Dietz, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-8012-1128-2 . (1997 under the title alias Dr. Friedrich: Carlo Mierendorf - a temporary life. Filmed by Alfred Jungraithmayr )
• Exile research. Studies on German-speaking emigration after 1933. (= European university publications / German language and literature. Volume 1092). Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1988, ISBN 3-631-40554-5 .
• ... strange and yet familiar. Sketches on the political culture of jokes yesterday and today. (= Political Sociology. Volume 2). Lit-Verlag, Münster 1989, ISBN 3-88660-502-7 .
• “No Return” - Carl Zuckmayer's exile. Aspects of a new biography of the successful German dramatist. Carl-Zuckmayer-Gesellschaft, Mainz 1995, ISBN 3-921384-00-1 .
• The Kreisau Circle: on the constitutional ideas of men of the resistance around Helmuth James Graf von Moltke. (Co-author), Heidelberg: C. Müller, 1986 (= motifs - texts - materials, volume 71) ISBN 3-8114-2096-8 .
• Genocide Policy in the 20th Century. (= Reports from jurisprudence). 3 volumes. Shaker, Aachen
  • Volume 1: Genocide (s). 2006, ISBN 3-8322-5055-7 .
  • Volume 2: Poor Ocide. 2007, ISBN 978-3-8322-5738-5 .
  • Volume 3: Hitler's Secret Speech. 2008, ISBN 978-3-8322-6695-0 .
• Demoscopy as demagoguery - critical issues from the eighties. (= Reports from social science). Shaker, Aachen 2007, ISBN 978-3-8322-6324-9 . (with CD-Rom)

Editions

• with Ingeborg Drewitz : Publication. The forum for authors and the literary public. 25 (1979) - 26 (1980)
• Explorations. Texts from (the) district. Revier Verlag, Duisburg 1983.
• legal culture. Independent online magazine. 1 (2002/03); 2 (2002/04) - 5 (2006/07) under the title Rechtsskulturaktuell .
• Facets of international Carl Zuckmayer research. Contributions to life - work - practice. (= Theater and cultural studies. Volume 2). Carl-Zuckmayer-Gesellschaft, Mainz 1997, ISBN 3-921384-06-0 .

Scientific papers

• "... always thinks of the ´middle functionary´" ... Wolfgang Abendroth (May 2, 1906 to September 15, 1985). In: International scientific correspondence on the history of the German labor movement. (iwk), 40, 4, 2004, pp. 465-487; also added in: Friedrich-Martin Balzer (Ed.): Wolfgang Abendroth for beginners and advanced users. revised and expanded edition. Pahl-Rugenstein, Bonn 2006.
• About processes of upheaval in German society. In: GMH. 41, 8, 1990, pp. 503-512. (PDF file; 137 kB)
• To the critique of real capitalism. In: GMH. 42, 8, 1991, pp. 508-515. (PDF file; 82 kB)
• Those who are not allowed to work should at least eat well. In: GMH. 47, 10, 1996, pp. 665-667. (PDF file; 86 kB)
• The functional competencies of contemporary literature. Short essay. In: Glarean Magazine. 1998.
• Short essay Critique Network: Subject Marxism 2009. (PDF file; 142 kB) In: Critique Network - Journal for Critical Theory of Society . ISSN  1866-4105
• Basic contribution to genocide politics in the 20th century. 2009. (PDF file; 382 kB, English)
• Murder (ing) Armenians. The Turkish genocide against the Ottoman Armenians during the First World War and its place in the political history of the 20th century. In: Swiss journal for religious and cultural history. No. 108, 2014, pp. 127–148. ( Online version , PDF, accessed June 15, 2016)
• Employment ban policy 1972. For forty years: blinking on the left - overtaking on the right. Reminder of the Willy-Willy policy of occupational bans in 1972. 2012. see: berufsverbote.de

Web links

• Literature by and about Richard Albrecht in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Richard Albrecht  in the German Digital Library

Footnotes

1. ^ Literary sociology . In: Cologne journal for sociology and social psychology . 32, 4, 1980, pp. 821-825; Literary sociology, reception aesthetics and literary didactics . In: Aesthetics and Didactics . (Ed. Jürgen Landwehr ; Matthias Mitzschke), Düsseldorf: Schwann, 1980, pp. 132–149; Some Aspects of the Sociology of Literature. In: British Journal of Sociology . 32, 4, 1981, pp. 483-492; further articles on empirical bestseller research, the sociology of novels and media (1980 ff.) are listed here
2. ↑ Scientific and artistic appropriation of everyday life. In: Hans Jörg Sandkühler (Ed.): The science of knowledge and the knowledge of science. Metzler, Stuttgart 1978, pp. 179-185 (co-author); Everyday life. In: New Political Literature . 26, 1, 1981, pp. 1-12; History as everyday life. In: Journal of Folklore. 79, I, 1983, pp. 85-103.
3. ^ "Symbolkampf" in Germany 1932. In: International scientific correspondence on the history of the German workers' movement . 22, 4, 1986, pp. 498-533; The symbolic world of the three arrows. In: Émile. 1, 3, 1988, pp. 148-179.
4. ↑ Circus Konzentrazani - a model analysis. In: Austrian Journal for Sociology . 9, 1/2, 1984, pp. 183-190.
5. ↑ The ´whisper joke´ in the Third Reich. In: Fabula . 27, 3/4, 1986, pp. 308-319; About the whispering joke in the “Third Reich”. In: Communications. 15, 1/2, 1990, pp. 57-83.
6. ^ Art and literature in anti-fascist exile 1933–1945. In: Discussion German. 14, 71, 1983, pp. 344-355; Scientists in exile. But also: exile in science. In: grandstand. 23, 91, 1984, pp. 96-106; Carl Zuckmayer in exile, 1933–1946. A documentary essay. In: International Archive for the Social History of German Literature. 14, I, 1989, pp. 165-202; Carl Zuckmayer's American Years. Aspects of the unsuccessfulness of a successful playwright in emigration. In: Communications. 20, 1, 1995, pp. 112-128.
7. ↑ The political ideology of the objective adversary and the ideological politics of genocide: Prolegomena to a political sociology of genocide according to Hannah Arendt . In: Sociologia Internationalis , 27, I, 1989, pp. 57-88.
8. ↑ Phantom funding: severe disabilities and more. Postscript for the year of disabled people 2003. In: Background. 17, 4, 2004, pp. 37-48; nachzensur.de: Insights into the German "Google Society". In: Enlightenment and Criticism . 14, II, 2007, pp. 214-224.
9. ^ The Utopian Paradigm - A Futurist Perspective. In: Communications. 16, 3, 1991, pp. 283-318; http://www.grin.com/e-book/109171/tertium-ernst-bloch-s-foundation-of-the-utopian-paradigm-as-a-key-concept
10. ↑ "Destroyed Language - Destroyed Culture": Ernst Bloch's lecture in exile seventy years ago: History and current issues. In: Bloch yearbook. 13, 2009, pp. 223-240; see. “Destroyed Language” - On the 125th by Ernst Bloch. In: sociology today . 3, 11, 2010, pp. 24-26.
11. ↑ Habermas' world power. In: Tönnies forum . 18, 2, 2009, pp. 5-25.
12. ↑ René König: Once an emigrant - always an emigrant. In: sociology today . 3, 10, 2010, pp. 30-33.
13. ↑ Carl Djerassi's “Parnassus Jews”. In: sociology today . 3, 11, 2010, pp. 42-43.
14. ^ "The totalitarian phenomenon": On the political sociology of totalitarianism by the German-Jewish author Hannah Arendt. In: sociology today . 3, 12, 2010, pp. 32-35; ibid, issue 13, pp. 36-38.
15. ↑ subject Marxism. In: sociology today. 3, 15, 2011, pp. 20-23.
16. ↑ Ferdinand Tönnies (1855-1936). On the 75th anniversary of the death of a sociological classic. In: sociology today. 3, 16, 2011, pp. 30-33.
17. ↑ The Matthew Effect. In: sociology today. 4, 17, 2011, pp. 28-31.
18. ↑ DADA - DADAISMUS - HANS ARP: Art as a process. In: sociology today. 4, 18, 2011, pp. 28-32.
19. ↑ Between Worlds and Transitional Times - Eric Hobsbawm's Last Book. In: Journal of World History . 12, 1, 2011, pp. 173-179.
20. ↑ rechtskultur.de - independent online magazine for civil rights ( Memento from February 11, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) http://rechtskultur.de/