Micha Brumlik

Micha Brumlik (* 1947 in Davos, Switzerland ) is an educationalist and writer. He was born to Jewish refugees in Switzerland and has lived in Germany since 1952. He was, until his retirement in the spring of 2013 Professor in the Department of Educational Sciences at the Johann -Wolfgang- Goethe- University Frankfurt am Main. As a publicist and guest author of several papers he has published non-fiction, essays and articles on the history of Judaism and contemporary Jewish topics.

Life

Micha Brumlik was born on November 4, 1947 as the son of Joseph and Recha Brumlik in Davos. His father had been active in the Zionist youth movement and worked all his life for various Zionist organizations, without themselves ever been to Israel. 1953 the family moved to Frankfurt, where he attended the Lessing Gymnasium. From 1959 to 1967 he was a member of a Zionist youth organization. After graduation in 1967 Brumlik spent two years in Israel. He studied philosophy and worked on a kibbutz. Israel he experienced as " imperialistic " and was therefore the " anti-Zionists ". After his return to Germany he studied education, philosophy and sociology in Frankfurt am Main. In 1973 he completed his studies with a degree in social work. After that, he was a research assistant of education at the Universities of Göttingen and Mainz, then assistant professor in Hamburg. In the eighties he revised, sponsored by an analysis with a psychoanalyst from Israel, his attitude to the State of Israel and the importance of Zionism to Judaism again. Since that time, he criticized anti-Semitic thought patterns in the political culture of Germany, especially in the left. In early 1991 he resigned from the Green Party of because of their rejection of arms sales to Israel. From 1981 to 2000 he taught Education at the University of Heidelberg.

In 2000, he accepted a professorship at the Institute of Education at the Johann -Wolfgang- Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main with a focus on " theory of education " to. From 2000 to 2005 he was the director of the Fritz Bauer Institute, a Study and Documentation Center on the History and Impact of the Holocaust.

Brumlik is co-editor of the political- scientific monthly magazine Sheets for German and international politics and of the periodical Babylon - contributions to the Jewish presence. He was Chairman of the Association Jews and Christians at the German Protestant Church Congress. He criticized in February 2008, the reformulation of the Good Friday prayer for the Jews within the Tridentine Mass and said his participation in the 97th German Catholic Day in May in Osnabrück from.

Brumlik was in Germany in the Socialist Bureau politically active as a member of Alliance 90/The Greens and Frankfurt as a city councilor.

Awards

• Hermann Cohen Medal for Jewish Culture Philosophy 2003 Hermann Cohen Academy

(Books )

• The Anti- Old - Against the terrible peacefulness, Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 3- 8218-0453 -X ( reaction and criticism Brumlik to some publications of the journalist Franz Alt).
• The Gnostics. The dream of the self-redemption of man, Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 1992, ISBN 3-8218-0426-2. Re: Philo, Berlin- Vienna 2004, ISBN 978-3-86572-207-2.

• Re: Philo and EVA, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 978-3-86572-626-1.