Wolfgang Sternstein

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Wolfgang Sternstein (born March 12, 1939 in Braunschweig ) is a German peace and conflict researcher and author .

Career

The son of a graduate engineer and passionate, strict National Socialist suffered from a violent upbringing. During his school days he got to know the ideas and texts of Søren Kierkegaard , Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King and, according to his own statement, wanted to contribute to overcoming violence and war. After completing his studies in Tübingen and Frankfurt am Main, he was sent to the protests against the Baden nuclear power plant in 1975 as part of a research project , and it was here that he came into practical contact with nonviolent actions for the first time , which he accompanied scientifically, journalistically and activistically from then on.

The main focus of his political work is the anti-nuclear and peace movement . In the course of his life he participated in more than fifty nonviolent acts, which resulted in a total of 14 months in prison for refusing to pay fines.

From 1976 to 1980 and 1982 to 1984, Sternstein was a member of the board of directors of the Federal Association of Citizens' Initiatives Environmental Protection and founded the Institute for Environmental Science and Rights of Life in 1979 (according to the Stuttgart District Court, VR 3406, the sponsoring association was registered in 1978), on which he has been working since at least 1980.

Publications

  • Marx, Lenin, Mao: Presentation and Criticism d. Marxist social analysis. Haag and Herchen, Frankfurt am Main 1978, ISBN 3-88129-053-2 .
  • Wyhl is everywhere: Citizens' initiatives against nuclear facilities; from d. Work of an action researcher. Haag and Herchen, Frankfurt am Main 1978, ISBN 3-88129-177-6 .
  • Expectations of public continuing education on ecological and environmental issues: Consequences for the MNT area at adult education centers. Pedagogical office of the German Adult Education Association, Frankfurt / Bonn 1981.
  • Nonviolence as a revolutionary principle: 12 theses. Ed .: Graswurzelrevolution Stuttgart, Stuttgart 1985.
  • My way between violence and non-violence: autobiography / Wolfgang Sternstein. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2005, ISBN 3-8334-2226-2 . with a foreword by Horst-Eberhard Richter ( review by Michael Schmid )
  • Gandhi and Jesus: the end of fundamentalism. Gütersloher Verlag-Haus, Gütersloh 2009, ISBN 978-3-579-06475-8 .
  • "When demolished, uprising" - the Swabians rehearse the revolution. Stuttgart 21: Nonviolent Action and Civil Disobedience. In: Reiner Steinweg, Ulrike Laubenthal (Ed.): Nonviolent Action. Experience and Analysis. Brandes & Apsel, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-86099-689-8 , pp. 96-107.
  • »Nuclear power - no thanks!«: The long way to get out. Brandes & Apsel, Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISBN 978-3-95558-033-9 .
  • Learning processes in the public protest against major technical projects. Can the fight against S 21 and for K 21 still be won? In: Research Journal Social Movements . 4/2014, pp. 17-29.

literature

  • Ulrich Philipp: Politics from below: Wolfgang Sternstein; Experiences of a grassroots politician and action researcher Nora, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-86557-085-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cornelia Beuel: Experienced stories: ... resistance becomes a duty. WDR5, January 22, 2012, accessed January 28, 2015 .
  2. ^ UWI eV About the person. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on January 29, 2015 ; accessed on January 28, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.uwi-ev.de
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Sternstein: My way between violence and non-violence. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2005, ISBN 3-8334-2226-2 , p. 194.
  4. ↑ Tinkerer in the countryside. In: Der Spiegel. September 1, 1980, accessed January 28, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Sternstein, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German peace and conflict researcher and author
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig