Alphons Silbermann
Alphons Silbermann ( born August 11, 1909 in Cologne, † March 4, 2000 ) was a German sociologist and publicist.
Life
Alphons Silbermann was born on August 11, 1909 as the son of middle-class print shop owner Salomon Silbermann, whose father was an itinerant junk dealer in Cologne. He studied musicology, law and sociology at the University of Cologne, Freiburg and Grenoble. After graduation, he worked as a judicial clerk to 1933 and received his PhD in the same year with Hans Kelsen Dr. jur. He then emigrated to the Netherlands to escape the persecution of Jews in the Third Reich. The other escape led in 1938 by Amsterdam via Paris to Sydney. In Australia, he started as a dishwasher and waiter. Later, he managed to open his own restaurant Silver's Food Bars. It eventually became eight restaurants and so - three decades before the first McDonald's - the first fast food chain in Australia. With the financial success associated he could finance his music sociological work as a career changer.
After the publication of music sociological studies was employed as a lecturer Alphons Silberman at (then Conservative ) State Conservatory (State Conservatory of Music) in Sydney. His lectures were published in summary ... of musical things (1949 ). From 1950 onwards, was Alphons Silbermann, who was then the social type of homosexual dandy embodied, wanderer between two worlds: on the one hand and Australia on the other hand - with an increasing trend - Europe and Germany. At the Sorbonne, he lectured on music aesthetics and initiated together with Gisèle Brelet the first European Congress on music programs in Broadcasting (1954). Employed him in 1958, the University of Cologne, at the suggestion of King René as Lehrbeautragten / lecturers. Later he was a professor in Lausanne ( 1964 on the former Chair of Vilfredo Pareto ) and Bordeaux ( 1974-1979 ). In 1970 he was returned to the German citizenship and was in his hometown of Cologne, in which he engaged both culturally and in the Jewish community, as a professor of mass communication and sociology of art tenured for life. After renewing his Doctorate in Law. he was financially compensated with the rank of " prosecutor " and called himself " prosecutor aD ". Alphons Silbermann nevertheless remained until his death also an Australian citizen.
Importance
Alphons Silbermann worked as a high school teacher, but also as a journalist with an extensive work in many languages. His favorite subjects were music or art sociology, mass communication and culture industry, anti-Semitism, homosexuality and everyday sociology. Together with René king he was editor and editor of the Cologne Journal of Sociology and Social Psychology ( KZfSS ) and founded the Institute of Mass Communication in Cologne. Because of its scientific merits Alphons Silbermann was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross 1st Class and the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. As a representative of empirical sociology, he was part of the Cologne School and was thus contrary to Theodor W. Adorno and the Frankfurt School. This affected not only the sociology of music, but also the positivist dispute. Silbermann was the '68 movement in the universities just as skeptical as a " dialectic of Enlightenment" with an uncertain outcome. In Germany he was one of the first to systematically applied the methods of empirical social and communication research and introduced in the academic operation. These include the systematic content analysis ( content analysis ), structural- functional case studies and empirical- qualitative text analysis.
Alphons Silbermann was as media advisor to Axel Springer ( image BamS, Die Welt, Hörzu etc. ) as well as for the private television operates. He advised the Federal Criminal Police Office in matters of media search. With his autobiographies transformations and flaneur of the century he made a name for himself as a popular everyday, cultural and everyday cultural sociologist. At 80, he was still served as a media star of talk show talk show. Until his last years Silbermann was a sought-after public orator and witty speaker discussion. He was considered an everyday sociologist, entertaining and creative thinkers emeritus " German professor with gold cufflinks " ( Friedrich Knilli ).
Quotes
- If we had no prejudices, it would not cause us so much pleasure in others which to discover.
About Alphons Silbermann:
- My house sociologist (Alfred Biolek )
- Media Chief Rabbi (anonymous)