Siegfried Gerlich

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Siegfried Gerlich (born April 21, 1967 ) is a German pianist and publicist .

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Siegfried Gerlich was born in Upper Silesia. In 1968 he came to Hamburg with his family as a late repatriate, where he grew up and completed the Catholic high school. He studied philosophy with Herbert Schnädelbach and Bernhard HF Taureck and musicology with Peter Petersen and Constantin Floros at the University of Hamburg.

In addition to his journalistic work, since the 1980s Gerlich has taken on various theater assistants and internships with Heiner Müller and Harry Buckwitz , as well as musical directors for theater productions and music festivals, including at the Thalia Theater Hamburg , Ernst-Deutsch-Theater Hamburg , Kampnagel Hamburg and at the Freie Volksbühne Berlin . Gerlich has been working together for many years with Hannelore Hoger , Eva-Maria Hagen , Marie Biermann, Maria-Debora Wolf, Cornelia Schirmer and Anne Weber . On a project basis, he also worked with Barbara Sukowa , Angela Winkler , Eva Mattes , Corinna Harfouch , Nina Hoss , Nina Hagen , Wolf Biermann and Alexander Kluge .

Gerlich has been a lecturer and répétiteur at the School for Drama Hamburg since 2010 .

Until 2006 he was in a relationship with the actress Hannelore Hoger .

Journalistic work

Gerlich has worked as a freelance humanities scholar since 1992. His work focuses on philosophy and musical aesthetics , psychoanalysis and anthropology , cultural theory and history . Gerlich's thematically broadly diversified and often interdisciplinary works revolve around the ambivalences and crises of modernity and their philosophical, political and psychological forms of expression.

In his 1992 book sense, nonsense His Gerlich psychoanalysis sought Jacques Lacan of the French in a theoretically productive relationship with various schools post-structuralism (such as discourse analysis of Michel Foucault , the deconstruction of Jacques Derrida and the schizoanalysis of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari ) to set .

From 1992 to 2013, as a member of the Düsseldorf Association for Psychoanalysis and Philosophy , Gerlich contributed critically to the theoretical development of pathognostics, a feminist-inspired variant of psychoanalysis founded by Rudolf Heinz , with essays and lectures .

In 2005, Gerlich published the volume of discussions Insight into a complete work in which the historian Ernst Nolte, who was controversial in science and the public due to the so-called historians' dispute, provides information about his way of life and thought. This was followed in 2009 with Ernst Nolte: Portrait of a Historian, a larger monograph on the historian, which offers a theoretically oriented overall presentation of his life's work. Lorenz Jäger spoke of this book as a "sympathetically written biography" and Mathias Brodkorb called it "currently the most demanding and knowledgeable representation of Nolte's life's work [...] that is available in German bookshops." The book was translated into Persian by Mehdi Tadayoni and was published uncensored in Iran in 2018.

Unlike in this monograph, in Gerlich the complete works Nolte defended against alleged in his view, misunderstandings and prejudices that he made in his 2011 published book Late reflections a secondary anti-Semitism from. In the publication Sezession (magazine) , published at the time by Götz Kubitschek and Karlheinz Weißmann , he dealt with the subsequent opposition from the right-wing conservative side.

The monograph Richard Wagner was published in 2013 . The question of German , which is primarily concerned with the composer's political and culturally critical writings. In particular, Gerlich deals with Wagner's ideas about the cultural nation and art religion , which were directed against Prussian militarism and the emerging imperialism . Gerlich also deals in detail with Wagner's hostility towards Jews, which he locates in the gray area between Christian anti-Judaism and modern anti-Semitism . The political scientist and Wagner researcher Udo Bermbach called the book "one of the most important Wagner publications of this anniversary year [...] that inundated us with superfluous works".

Also in 2013, Gerlich published the essay on the anthropology of the sexes , in which he presented competing (ethological, evolutionary, ethnological and culturalistic) conceptions of family structures and gender roles and criticized their methodological one-sidedness. Following Gehlen , Gerlich argues “that the patriarchal family would 'secure the foundations of every higher culture', since otherwise humans would be inferior to their unbridled instincts. The patriarchal family is portrayed by Gerlich as an evolutionary form of division of labor between the sexes, which would only be called into question by the gradual relief of mankind from hard work as a result of the industrial revolution. " For the theoretical reconciliation of the various approaches, Gerlich proposed the anthropological concept of the “deficiency being” advocated by Arnold Gehlen and Helmut Schelsky: For the cultural stabilization of the biological instinct-reduced human beings, marriage and family have proven themselves over long periods of history as institutions necessary for survival. It was only the technical relief from immediate life difficulties as a result of the industrial revolution "released the gender difference as a socio-cultural phenomenon" and enabled women to "live and work according to their own needs." With this, Gerlich contradicts the biologization of gender roles. At the same time, in the face of extremely individualistic and neoliberal concepts of human relationships, he expresses concern about the depletion of the stabilizing "primary forms of community", i.e. H. marriage and family.

Gerlich's attempts to sound out the ambivalences of the modern world in the area of ​​tension between decadence and fascism also include treatises and articles in which he deals with problematic figures in European intellectual history such as the Marquis de Sade , Otto Weininger and Ernst Jünger .

Gerlich has u. a. Published in the magazines Der Pfahl, Psychoanalyse und Philosophie, Sezession , Tumult , FUGE - Journal für Religion und Moderne , Wagnererspectrum and Cato .

Authors such as B. Mathias Brodkorb , Andreas Öhler, Lucius Teidelbaum, Felix Klopotek and Hanne Schweitzer assign him to the New Right . Volker Weiß, on the other hand, calls Gerlich an “occasional secession author” and emphasizes that he gave a “pro-Israeli finale” to a controversy with the former chairman of the far-right National Democratic Union of Universities and today's new right-wing lawyer Thor von Waldstein , which the readers accuse him of being “Zionist Propaganda ”.

Gerlich himself is committed to an enlightened, liberal modernity conservatism in the sense of Hannah Arendt .

Fonts (selection)

  • Sense, nonsense, being. Philosophical studies on psychoanalysis, deconstruction and genealogy , Passagen Verlag, Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-85165-019-0 .
  • Heiner Müller in conversation with Siegfried Gerlich: "Tristan und die Banzen" , in: Der Pfahl VIII, 1994. ISBN 3-88221-269-1 .
  • Art in a state of emergency , in: Der Pfahl IX, 1995. ISBN 3-88221-273-X .
  • Drug Gnosis , in: (Ed.) Christoph Weismüller: Contiguities. Texts Festival for Rudolf Heinz, Vienna 1997. ISBN 3-85165-266-5 .
  • How do you get over from psychoanalysis to pathognostics? , in: Psychoanalysis and Philosophy, 1st year, issue 1/1998. ISSN  1436-297X .
  • Insight into a complete work. Siegfried Gerlich in conversation with Ernst Nolte , Edition Antaios, Schnellroda 2005, ISBN 3-935063-61-X (also in Italian and French)
  • Heiner Müller and Ernst Jünger , in: Secession 22, February 2008. ISSN  1611-5910 .
  • Ernst Nolte. Portrait of a historical thinker, Edition Antaios, Schnellroda 2009, ISBN 978-3-935063-24-1 .
  • Author portrait Otto Weininger , in: (Ed.) Weißmann / Lehnert: Staatspolitisches Handbuch, Vol. 3, Schnellroda 2012. ISBN 978-3-935063-56-2 .
  • Richard Wagner. The question of the German. Philosophy, historical thinking and cultural criticism , Karolinger Verlag, Vienna et al. 2013. ISBN 978-3-85418-148-4 .
  • What is German. On Richard Wagner's cultural philosophy and metapolitics , in: wagnerspectrum, Volume 10, Issue 2, 2014. ISBN 978-3-8260-5628-4 .
  • The anthropological revolt of perversion , in: Tumult, Fall 2014. Press code: 4-198745-408000-03.
  • Pathognostic pseudomorphoses , in: (Ed.) Heide Heinz u. a .: Rudolf Heinz and friends, Düsseldorf 2014. ISBN 978-3-935193-28-3 .
  • From Heidegger to Derrida , in: Sezession 64, February 2015. ISSN  1611-5910 .
  • The art as a stopper of the Antichrist , in: FUGE, Volume 16/17: Morbides Denk, Paderborn 2016, pp. 49–84. ISBN 978-3-506-78538-1 .
  • The old and the new nomadism metamorphoses of an anthropological type. First part , in: Tumult of March 8, 2017. Press code: 4-198745-408000-01.
  • Marriage for everyone and no swan song for a lost post , in: Tumult, September 7, 2017. Press code: 4-198745-408000-03.
  • Féministe fatale. Author portrait Camille Paglia , in: Cato, 3/2018. ISSN  2567-112X .
  • Afraid of the white man? , in: Cato, 5/2019. ISSN  2567-112X .

Discography

  • About the men and women with Eva-Maria Hagen, 1988
  • When I get started with Eva-Maria Hagen, 1996
  • Joe, do the music from back then with Eva-Maria Hagen, 1997
  • Wolf songs with Eva-Maria Hagen, 1999
  • Sobbing love with Hannelore Hoger, 2002
  • Chronicle of Emotions , music for the audio book by Alexander Kluge, 2009
  • And above us the sky with Eva Mattes, 2009
  • Marie Biermann sings with Marie Biermann, 2011

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lecturers. In: School for Drama Hamburg. Retrieved August 1, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Hannelore Hoger wants more than just sex February 16, 2016
  3. ↑ Lorenz Jäger: Thinking about annihilation. Ernst Nolte on his 90th birthday. In: FAZ. November 1, 2013, accessed October 8, 2019 .
  4. ^ Mathias Brodkorb: From the attack on the people themselves - Siegfried Gerlich on Ernst Nolte's life's work. January 10, 2010, accessed October 8, 2019 .
  5. ^ Siegfried Gerlich: Ernst Nolte - Späte Ambivalenzen , Sezession, 45, December 1, 2011.
  6. ↑ Ernst Nolte - the "man of tomorrow"? Correspondence between Thorsten Hinz and Siegfried Gerlich , in: Sezession, 45, December 1, 2011; Stefan Scheil: A lance for Ernst Nolte , in: Sezession 46, February 2012. ISSN  1611-5910 .
  7. ↑ Udo Bermbach, in: wagnerspectrum, 9th year, 2013, issue 2, p. 235. ISBN 978-3-8260-5377-1 .
  8. ↑ https://www.idz-jena.de/wsddet/das-geschlechtbild-der-neuen-rechte-gleichrechte-als-bedrohung/ last accessed on October 13, 2019
  9. ↑ Siegfried Gerlich, On the anthropology of the sexes. In: Sezession, year 2013, issue 57, pp. 22-25.
  10. ↑ Mathias Bordkorb: Judaism and the causal nexus - Siegfried Gerlich on "Anti-Semitism". In: right end of the line. August 19, 2010, accessed October 1, 2016 .
  11. ↑ Andreas Öhler, Siegfried Gerlich: New rights: The crack through us. In: zeit.de. May 29, 2016. Retrieved May 30, 2016 .
  12. ↑ Lucius Teidelbaum: Right tumult in the debate. In: der-rechte-rand.de. September 2016, accessed October 1, 2017 .
  13. ↑ Felix Klopotek: Even just any standard bearers - Why the rise of the AfD does not mean a renaissance of conservatism. In: kaput-mag.com. September 22, 2016, accessed October 1, 2017 .
  14. ↑ Hanne Schweitzer: Coming home in spring 2017. Office against Age Discrimination, May 15, 2017, accessed on October 1, 2017 .
  15. ↑ Volker Weiß: Resistance and Conspiracy. Notes from Swabia, part 27. In: Jungle World. April 12, 2018, accessed October 8, 2019 .
  16. ↑ See author portrait Hannah Arendt, in: (Ed.) Weißmann / Lehnert: Staatspolitisches Handbuch, Vol. 3, Schnellroda 2012. ISBN 978-3-935063-56-2 .
personal data
SURNAME Gerlich, Siegfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1967