Siegbert Wolf

Siegbert Wolf speaks in 2019 on the 100th anniversary of Gustav Landauer's death at the Landauer memorial in Munich's forest cemetery

Siegbert Wolf (* 1954 in Grebenhain / Hessen ) is a German historian , political scientist and journalist specializing in the history of the 19th and 20th centuries, Jewish social history and social criticism . He is the editor of the Gustav Landauer edition.

Life

Siegbert Wolf did his doctorate with Lothar Gall on the history of liberalism in Frankfurt am Main before the First World War. He then published introductory monographs on Jean Améry , Hannah Arendt , Martin Buber and Gustav Landauer. Since 2008 he has published a selection of at least twelve volumes by the anarchist Jewish social philosopher Gustav Landauer . He also edits works by forgotten authors such as Maria Regina Jünemann and Samuel Lewin . Siegbert Wolf is a founding member and board member of the Martin Buber Society. He was co-initiator of the Gustav Landauer memorial that was inaugurated on June 29, 2017 at the Munich Forest Cemetery. Siegbert Wolf lives in Frankfurt am Main.

Works (selection)

• Liberalism in Frankfurt am Main. From the end of the Free City to the First World War (1866–1914) . (= Studies on Frankfurt History, Volume 23). Publishing house Dr. Waldemar Kramer , Frankfurt am Main 1987, ISBN 3-7829-0341-2 .
• Gustav Landauer as an introduction . Edition SOAK by Junius-Verlag, Hamburg 1988, ISBN 3-88506-839-7 .
• Hannah Arendt . Introductions to their work . Haag and Herchen, Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 3-89228-585-3 .
• Martin Buber for an introduction . Junius-Verlag, Hamburg 1992, ISBN 3-88506-873-7 .
• Gustav Landauer . Bibliography . Edition Anares in Still-Verlag , Grafenau 1992, ISBN 3-922209-90-6 .
• On the vulnerability of humanism. About Jean Améry . dipa-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1995, ISBN 3-7638-0360-2 .
• Open de poorten van de Vrijheid. Milly Witkop (1877–1955), anarchiste en feministe. Voorwoord Anya Topolski. Vertaling Johny Lenaerts. Kelderuitgeverij, Utrecht 2016, ISBN 978-90-79395-30-9 .
• Werner Portmann , Siegbert Wolf: "Yes, I fought". Of dreams of revolution, "air people" and children of the shtetl. Biographies of Radical Jews . With a foreword by Emanuel Hurwitz . Unrast Verlag , Münster 2006, ISBN 3-89771-452-3 .
• Jürgen Mümken , Siegbert Wolf: "Anti-Semite, that doesn't go among people". Anarchist Positions on Anti-Semitism, Zionism and Israel. Volume I: From Proudhon to the founding of the state. Edition AV , Lich / Hessen 2013, ISBN 978-3-86841-088-4 .
• Jürgen Mümken , Siegbert Wolf: "Anti-Semite, that doesn't go among people". Anarchist Positions on Anti-Semitism, Zionism and Israel. Volume II: From the founding of the state until today. Edition AV , Lich / Hessen 2014, ISBN 978-3-86841-118-8 .

Editing

• Gustav Landauer : The past is also the future. Essays on Anarchism . Luchterhand Literaturverlag , Frankfurt am Main 1989, ISBN 3-630-61843-X .
• Frankfurt am Main . Jewish cityscape . Jewish publishing house in Suhrkamp Verlag , Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-633-54111-X .
• Gustav Landauer : The Revolution . Ed., Introduced a. with e. Register vers. by Siegbert Wolf. Unrast Verlag , Münster 2003, ISBN 3-89771-906-1 .
• Milly Witkop -Rocker, Hertha Barwich , Aimée Köster u. a .: The syndicalist women's association . Ed., With introduction and Note vers. by Siegbert Wolf. Unrast Verlag , Münster 2007, ISBN 978-3-89771-915-6 .
• Maria Regina Jünemann : The anarchist. Novel . Ed. U. with e. Nachw. Vers. by Siegbert Wolf. Verlag Edition AV , Lich 2008, ISBN 978-3-936049-92-3 .
• Samuel Lewin : Demons of the Blood. A vision . From the Yiddish speak. by Ruben Beatus . New ed. u. with e. Nachw. Vers. by Siegbert Wolf. Verlag Edition AV , Lich 2013, ISBN 978-3-86841-079-2 .
• Gustav Landauer : Selected Writings . With illustration by Uwe Rausch . Verlag Edition AV , Lich 2008ff .:
  • Volume 1: Internationalism . Lich 2008, ISBN 978-3-936049-96-1 .
  • Volume 2: Anarchism . Lich 2009, ISBN 978-3-86841-012-9 .
  • Volume 3.1: Anti-Politics . Lich 2010, ISBN 978-3-86841-031-0 .
  • Volume 3.2 .: Anti-Politics . Lich 2010, ISBN 978-3-86841-036-5 .
  • Volume 4: Nation, War and Revolution . Lich 2011, ISBN 978-3-86841-046-4 .
  • Volume 5: Philosophy and Judaism . Lich 2012, ISBN 978-3-86841-068-6 .
  • Volume 6.1: Literature . Lich 2013, ISBN 978-3-86841-090-7 .
  • Volume 6.2: Literature. Lich 2013, ISBN 978-3-86841-091-4 .
  • Volume 7: Skepticism and Mysticism. Attempts to follow up Mauthner's criticism of language . Lich 2011, ISBN 978-3-86841-059-4 .
  • Volume 8: Part of Speech. Novel, short story, drama, satire, poem, translation . Lich 2014, ISBN 978-3-86841-101-0 .
  • Volume 9: Birgit Seemann: "With the vanquished". Hedwig Lachmann (1865-1918). German-Jewish writer and anti-militarist . 1st ed., Revised. and updated new edition. Lich 2012, ISBN 978-3-86841-073-0 .
  • Volume 10: Tilman Leder: The politics of an "anti-politician". A political biography of Gustav Landauer . Lich 2014, ISBN 978-3-86841-098-3 .
  • Volume 11: Call to Socialism. A lecture . Lich 2015, ISBN 978-3-86841-133-1 .
  • Volume 12: Friedrich Hölderlin in his poems . Lich 2016, ISBN 978-3-86841-152-2 .
  • Volume 13: The Revolution. Critical edition of the first edition . Lich 2017, ISBN 978-3-86841-168-3 .
  • Volume 14: A Way to Liberate the Working Class . Lich 2018, ISBN 978-3-86841-194-2 .
  • Volume 15: Master Eckhart's Mystical Writings. New edition of the first edition from 1903 . Bodenburg / Bad Salzdetfurth 2019, ISBN 978-3-86841-209-3 .

Web links

• Siegbert Wolf (Ed.): "Selected writings" by Gustav Landauer. on the website of the Edition AV publishing house
• Inauguration of the Gustav Landauer monument in Munich