Siegfried Schnabl

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Siegfried Schnabl (born February 27, 1927 in Limbach ; † August 4, 2015 in Berlin ) was a German sexologist . The psychotherapist was one of the leading sex specialists in the GDR .

Life

The son of a designer went to high school in Glauchau . After the end of the war, Siegfried Schnabl began his career as a new teacher at a primary school in 1946 . From 1948 Schnabl studied clinical psychology at the University of Leipzig and worked there from 1953 as a research assistant and lecturer . In 1955 he received his doctorate and then worked from 1956 to 1973 in the Ore Mountains as a psychotherapist.

His standard work Mann und Frau intim was published in 1969 . Questions of healthy and disturbed sex life , the most successful marriage and sex guide in the GDR. The work had 18 editions and was sold over a million times and translated into different languages.

Topic of his doctorate B for Dr. sc. phil. ( Habilitation ) was the evaluation of the sexual behavior of 3500 people of different sex. Since he was banned from continuing his scientific work, Siegfried Schnabl headed the marriage and sex counseling center in Karl-Marx-Stadt / Chemnitz from 1973 to 1993 and then worked as a sex consultant for Pro Familia in Aue . Between 1977 and 1987 Schnabl served as a consultant for the Pan American Health Organization .

Siegfried Schnabl enjoyed great popularity in the GDR, as he spoke openly, comprehensibly, empathetically and seriously in hundreds of reports on radio and television, in specialist magazines, journals and books about the problems of human sexuality. He was considered a supporter of Hans Giese . Like him, he took the view that homosexuality was not a sexual disorder, but a normal sexual orientation. Logically, Schnabl campaigned for more tolerance towards homosexuals in the GDR.

He was on the board of the Society for Sexology and was a member of the International Academy of Sex Research .

Siegfried Schnabl lived in Hohenstein-Ernstthal , during his last lifetime in a nursing home in Berlin.

Publications

  • Investigation of typological and general characteristics of the higher nervous activity of humans with a complex method. Dissertation, University of Leipzig, 1955
  • Introduction to Psychopathology. Potsdam: Institute for advanced training of medium-sized medical professionals 1967 (teaching letter)
  • Man and woman intimate. Questions of healthy and disturbed sex life. Greifenverlag, Rudolstadt 1969 (with illustrations by Helmut Fiege)
    17th edition Berlin 1985, 18th edition 1990 ISBN 3-333-00471-2
    • Man and woman intimate. Healthy sex life, dysfunctional sex life. (Slightly shortened license edition for the FRG) Gütersloh: Bertelsmann-Ratgeberverl., 1969 (with illustrations by Gisela and Horst Keuer. Coitus positions: Horst Günther)
    • Muž a žena intímne. Otázky zdravého a narušeného pohlavného života. Martin : Vydavateľstvo Osveta, 1972 ( Slovak. )
    • Măžat i ženata intimno. Problemi na normalnija i smutenija polov život. Sofia : Medicina i Fizkultura, 1979 ( bulg. )
    • El hombre y la mujer en la intimidad. Havana : Editorial Científico-Técnica, 1979 ( span. )
    • Mučžina i ženčšina: intimnye otnošenija. Kishinev : Stiinca 1982 ( russ. )
    • O homem ea mulher na intimidade. Questões da vida sexual. Lisbon: Editorial Caminho, 1983 ( port. )
    • Seksologijos pagrindai. Vilnius : Mokslas 1990 ( lit. ) ISBN 5-420-00321-X
    • The pleasure of loving. Woman and man intimate. Frankfurt am Main: Ullstein Taschenbuch 1992, (completely revised and expanded edition) ISBN 3-548-34932-3
    • Barbatul şi femeia. Relaţii intimate. Chișinău : EUS 1993 ( rum. ) ISBN 5-88568-042-6
  • Intimate behavior, sexual disorders, personality. Habilitation thesis , University of Leipzig, 1972, (as a book :) Berlin, VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, 1972
    • Comportamento sessuale e personalità. Milan: Teti (c. 1976) ( Italian )
  • Nervous? Causes, manifestations, prevention, etc. Overcoming psychosocial health disorders. VEB Verlag Volk und Gesundheit, Berlin 1975
    • Nerves Sofia: Medicina i Fizkultura, 1984 (bulg.)
    • Nervioso? Havana: Editorial Científico-Técnica, 1985 (span.)
  • Plea for love. Leipzig / Jena / Berlin: Urania-Verlag, 2nd edition 1978
    • Razgovor za ljubovta. Sofia: Medicina i Fizkultura, 1982 (bulg.)
    • En defensa del amor. Havana: Editorial Científico-Técnica, 2nd edition 1985 (span.)
  • Love's lust, love's sorrow. Berlin: Berliner Verlag 1987 ISBN 3-86020-007-0
  • 100 questions about sex and love. Frankfurt am Main: Ullstein Taschenbuch 1994 ISBN 3-548-35341-X

Trivia

Schnabl's bestseller (man and woman intimate) appears as a reference in Thomas Brussig's novel Heroes Like Us .

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