Wieland Elfferding

Wieland Elfferding (* 1950 ) is a German author, journalist and teacher who lives in Berlin .

Life

After graduating from the Max Slevogt Gymnasium in Landau in der Pfalz , Elfferding studied philosophy , political science and Russian philology at the Free University in Berlin . He completed his studies there with a diploma thesis on “The inclusion of the working people in the planning and management of socialist industrial operations since the economic reforms of 1965 in the USSR” (1975). He then took up teaching positions at the Free University of Berlin and the University of Innsbruck , where he B. lectured in the winter semester 1995/96 on "Analyzes of the change in social meaning through television". He wrote and edited numerous books on socio-political and cultural-philosophical problems. Today he publishes regularly in weekly newspapers like Friday .

Elfferding, who in the 1980s was particularly concerned with topics related to the theory of Marxism , later analyzed the aesthetics of National Socialism and dealt with ecological issues and natural clichés. Among other things, he critically examined Helmut Kohl's appearance in the media. In 1986, Elfferding, together with Helmut Dubiel and Hilde Schramm, played a key role in the debate about the law on the Berlin Academy of Sciences .

Wieland Elfferding also translated the writings of the British sociologist Stuart Hall into German as part of the edition of his collected works .

He is currently working at the Friedensburg-Oberschule in Berlin as a teacher and at the same time as an upper school coordinator .

Works

• Self-administration (with Wolfgang Fritz Haug ). Berlin 1981, ISBN 3-88619-014-5
• New social movements and Marxism (with Wolfgang Fritz Haug). Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-88619-078-1
• Marxism and party theory (with Michael Jäger and Thomas Scheffler). Berlin 1983, ISBN 3-88619-091-9
• Is it nice here? Landscape after the ecological crisis (with Anton Holzer ). Vienna 2000, ISBN 978-3-85132-240-8
• The Alpine Sherpa (with Anke Bünz-Elfferding). Innsbruck 2002, new edition 2009, ISBN 3-85218-404-5 .
• The mountaineers. From a mountain guide's life . Österreichischer Jagd- und Fischerei-Verlag, Vienna 2011. ISBN 978-3-85208-092-5

Essays

• "Note on the discourse of the 'Heidelberg Manifesto'". The Argument 25 (1983), pp. 254-260
• "Is a party alliance possible without supremacy?" The Argument 26 (1984), pp. 849-863
• "Sacrifice ritual and national community discourse using the example of the winter aid organization." In: Fascism and Ideology 2. The Argument 1980
• “Right-wing populist potential in the CDU / CSU”. In: Helmut Dubiel (Ed.): Populism and Enlightenment. Frankfurt / M. 1986, pp. 150-189
• "Facts - do they still exist? On the topicality of Hannah Arendt's thoughts on the political public." Neue Zürcher Zeitung Vol. 222 (2001), 202 v. 1./2. September 2001, p. 57

Web links

• Directory of online articles from Wieland Elfferding in "der Freitag"
• Wieland Elfferding: Communist Capitalism (Friday, January 5, 2007)
• Literature by and about Wieland Elfferding in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ University of Innsbruck. Institute for Contemporary History: Newsletter No. 3 (95/96) ( Memento of August 17, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Wieland Elfferding: From the proletarian mass to the war people. Mass rally and public in German fascism. In: New Society for Fine Art (Ed.): Staging of Power. Aesthetic fascination in fascism. Berlin 1987, pp. 15-50.
3. ^ Wieland Elfferding: Helmut Kohl as a media event. On the media and power discourse in the election year 1994. In: Jörg Becker (Ed.): Media, power and markets . Zurich 1994.
4. ^ Hermann Josef Schuster: On the prehistory of the law on the Academy of Sciences in Berlin. In: Academy of Sciences and Technology in Berlin Yearbook 1987. p. 226 ff.
5. ^ Stuart Hall: Selected Writings . 4 volumes. Hamburg 2000-2004