Henning Eichberg

Henning Eichberg ( born December 1, 1942 in Schweidnitz, Silesia, among other pseudonyms Hartwig Singer and Thorsten Sievers ) is a German historian, cultural sociologist and publicist. He has lived in Denmark since 1982. There, teaches and researches Eichberg at the University of Southern Denmark, in particular in the field of sports science.

Eichberg is regarded as one of the main founders and leaders of the New Right in the 1970s. To him the concept of ethnopluralism goes back. Today he is a member of the left Socialistisk Folkeparti ( SF) in Denmark. He is a member of the cultural committee of the party executive of the SF. To date, there are those who doubt Eichberg's transformation from political right to political left.

Eichberg is the father of the composer Søren Nils Eichberg.

• 5.1 Cultural Studies
• 5.2 Writings on Politics
• 5.3 Autobiographical
• 5.4 Festschrift

Life

In Germany

Henning Eichberg was born in 1942 in Schweidnitz (Silesia ) and grew from 1945 to 1950 in the Soviet occupation zone or East Germany, and later in Hamburg. In 1956, he appeared there in the right-wing German Social Union (DSU ) by Otto Strasser. In the early 1960s he was active as a student in the Legion Europe, an anti- communist discussion group in Hamburg, where the members of the banned National Federation in Hamburg students ( BNS ) organized. As part of the question of the electoral support of the NPD, the Legion Europe split into three parts. Eichberg joined the Consortium for Homeland Security and stood with her collectively in the CDU, where he was a member from 1964 to 1968. In the late 1960s Eichberg was a member of the National Democratic Student Federation ( NHB ). About the Legion Europe Eichberg had come in contact with the right-wing Nation magazine Europe. The close relationship with the founder Arthur Ehrhardt, a long -time cooperation developed in this magazine ( 1961-1974 ). At the same time he wrote from 1962 to 1971 political and cultural contributions of the points arising from the BNS and the NPD related German Student indicator ( DSA), and 1968-1971 for the " Ostpolitik German Student Association " from (ODS ) published student magazine Actio. In 1966 he entered into contact with the French right-wing extremists around the magazine Europe and Alain de Benoist Action, which later became the Nouvelle Droite emerged, the French " New Right ".

After studying history and literature in Hamburg Eichberg 1970 PhD at Albert Timm at the Ruhr- University Bochum with a thesis on the history of technology. He was a research assistant in August 1971 Nitschke at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Stuttgart, where he habilitated in 1976 in the historical behavior research with studies on the sociology of Indonesia and the history of modern sports.

In the early 1970s he published under the impression of the New Left socio-critical contributions that came in contradiction to the established rights and the emergence of a " New Right " led. With his publications in Young Forum, fragments and criticism boy he was considered the main theorists of this movement. In 1972, he drafted a statement of principles for action New Rights ( ANR ), a breakaway from the NPD led by Siegfried Pöhlmann. Eichberg also acted as Germany correspondent for the Nouvelle École, the cultural magazine of the French Nouvelle Droite.

1974 Eichberg was a major player in the founding of the ANR - wing majority ' cause of the people / National Revolutionary organizational structure " ( SdV / NRAO ), the " right and left beyond " claimed a position. The " nationalist revolutionaries " by the magazine New Times referred to anti-Nazi National Bolsheviks during the Weimar period, including at Ernst Niekisch, Karl Otto Paetel and A. Paul Weber, and saw the national question in Germany as unresolved and potentially revolutionary.

In the 1970s, Eichberg contributed significantly to justify concepts such as national identity, socialism own national path, Third Way, ethnic pluralism and liberation nationalism. From 1980 article published by him in the national revolutionary oriented magazine ourselves in ourselves, he developed theories about the relationship between identity, alienation and capitalism and continued the factional dispute within the New Right by positions of the Republicans, the boys freedom and the " nonsense of the Conservative Revolution " ( " the talk of, the Conservative Revolution 'is a process, once again not to speak of nationalism and nation. " ) criticized.

As the late seventies circles the left of the " national question " opened, Eichberg was interlocutor. He gave interviews (for example, in Aesthetics and Communication ) and published from 1976 posts in journals of the left alternative scene as in the anarchist Under the cobblestones is the beach of Hans Peter Duerr, in the Sponti magazine paved beach and in the formerly Marxist- Leninist liberation. In 1978, he led in the book edited by Jochen Steffen Klaus Rainer Röhl magazine and the da- avanti a highly acclaimed discussion with Rudi Dutschke on the national question in Germany under the title: " National is revolutionary."

Eichberg wrote regularly for the Murrhardter city newspaper podium. His publications dealt with in the eighties, environmental issues and a redefinition of national identity as decoupling and decentralization, as " balkanization for everyone."

Together with the then sitting as a non-party for the Greens in the Bundestag Alfred Mechtersheimer he founded the " Peace Committee 2000 ', which is classified by the constitutional protection than the extreme right today, and developed ideas of a " Nationalpazifismus ". He also published in the journal published by Mechtersheimer Mediatus.

In Denmark

In 1982, a call to Denmark, where he had received the Gerlev Prize for critical cultural theory at the Sport University Gerlev. He taught as a professor of sociology at the University of Odense and Copenhagen. This professorship was funded by the (then socialist ) Danish Ministry of Culture. Eichberg's Sports Research Institute in Gerlev developed as a result the leading institution of its kind in Northern Europe. Today it is affiliated as CISC University of Southern Denmark.

Culture Sociological Books from Eichberg also appeared in Japan, France, England, USA and Finland. From Esa Sironen Eichberg was placed in a foreword between Elias, Foucault and the Frankfurt School. Sironen repeated this view later in his habilitation thesis.

Eichberg was particularly involved in the scene of the Danish folk high schools, relying on the democratic movement of 1848 and the poet NFS Grundtvig relate. He wrote regularly for the Højskolebladet and taught foreign students groups.

In the 1990s, Eichberg joined the left Socialist People's Party ( SF). He held political and philosophical courses on the socialist summer school in Livø and published in the journals Folke Socialists, Praksis and Salt as well as in SF anthologies. As a member of the SF- Cultural Committee, he authored several program texts for socialist culture and sports policy.

Eichberg's political publications since the 1980s to treat the theory of democratic "people " and civil society from a materialistic point of view, questions of socialist culture and the critique of globalization. His main work for people theory, The People of Democracy (2004), refers to Johann Gottfried Herder, NFS Grundtvig and Martin Buber: "Who does not want to speak of the nations, to say nothing of the people. " To Eichberg's 60th birthday seemed a Danish Festschrift with critical contributions to the folk concept of culture and democracy.

International action had mainly Eichberg's criticism of Olympic sport, his materialist- dialectical concept of physical culture (Body Cultures, 1998) and his philosophy of " ethnical Sports" ( for all sports ) as a contribution to " bodily democracy." Eichberg was a founding member of several international research networks: the Institut International d'Anthropologie Corporelle (Rennes, France, 1987), the Centre for the Study of Body Culture ( Tsukuba, Japan, 2002) and the International Network for the Marxist Study of Sport ( 2005). The concept of " physical Democracy " took effect on the International Sport and Culture Association ( ISCA, est. 1994), an umbrella organization of national sports from over 60 countries, the critical journalists conference Play the Game (Copenhagen, founded in 1998) and the International Academy of Sport for All ( IASFA, Copenhagen, founded in 2004).

Academic career

(according to the University of Southern Denmark )

Includes Eichbergs research

• The history of the body: Competitive sports, dance, play, hard, nature and outdoor life from the 18th century to today
• The change in the pattern of behavior in the industrial revolution
• The historical relativity of productivism
• The social time of modernity

• Comparative studies in Indonesia, Libya, Denmark, Greenland and Germany - Body and Identity
• Sports and ethnic minorities in Denmark
• Game Cultures
• Sports and Holidays

• The space of movement culture
• Sport and Identity
• Sport in the course of life

• Architecture of sport
• Movement landscape
• Movement in the city
• Activities at the open air and in nature
• Space and location of the game
• Movement in the maze - Cultural Ecology of sport

• Modern nationalization processes
• National identity formation and self-determination
• Ethnic minorities, people of the nation
• People's term in international comparison
• The body of democracy
• Civil society movements, popular democracy

• Materialist analysis of the body
• Motion studies as configuration analysis
• The dialogical principle ( according to Martin Buber)
• Between humanity and Zwischenkörperlichkeit
• The trialektische method.

Work

As an employee of the nation and Europe Eichberg represented a European idea, which emphasized the special position of Europe in the world for the better. He argued with the " occidental rationality " and the " logical empiricism " of European culture. Later, Eichberg distanced and criticized its associated great power ideas that are now become the mainstream of bourgeois Europe, as euro -fascist and neo-colonial. Eichbergs studies on Indonesia, Libya, Greenland, Ireland and Brittany treated interrelationships between culture and democratic self-determination. Instead of European power politics it related to decolonization and solidarity with oppressed peoples.

Criticism and controversy

In the research extremism in Germany, which deals with the " New Right ", Henning Eichberg is regarded as one of the leading theorists of the emergence of the New Right. So wrote Thomas Assheuer and Hans Sarkowicz 1990:

" Henning Eichberg (...) dominates the ( already of the " conservative revolution " rehearsed ) mutual blending of right and left theorems on the most refined, and he probably is, therefore, " the author of the New Right, which is most deeply penetrated into the publishing network the Left ». Although (...) Eichbergs national revolutionary liberation philosophy sees left anti - imperialism strikingly similar, but comes from an entirely different context of justification. His " ethnic pluralism " turns out to be namely as a variety of anti - universalism, which has the " New Right " written on their banners. A culture, a people says Eichberg, has a particularistic "truth"; it is a willful universe that rejects all claims to validity of the western mind - ideals such as freedom, justice, human rights as arrogance. Ethnopluralism confesses Eichberg, turns against a " thinking, which quickly with the ' universally human ' at hand ( and ) that is only too quick to everything Deviating as " inhuman " to denounce ". "

In Denmark, turning away from bourgeois side against the sports and social criticism in Eich 's writings. The Minister of Culture of the right-wing government in 2001, Brian Mikkelsen, withdrew the research institute IFO, at the Eichberg worked, financing and led with Eichberg a controversy in the media.

Publications

About 30 scientific books about the history and sociology of sport, the history of technology, the sociology of Indonesia and about ethnic minorities, national identity and democratic theory. In addition to German and Danish books were published by Eichberg also in English, French, Finnish and Japanese.

Cultural Studies

Writings on politics

Autobiographical

Festschrift

• Møller, Jørn 2004 (ed. ): Folk - om et grundbegreb i og democratic culture. (People - a basic concept in democracy and culture. ) Århus: Klim