Robert Jungk
Robert Jungk (May 11, 1913 in Berlin, † 14 July 1994 in Salzburg, actually Robert Baum ) was a publicist, journalist and one of the first futurist. Jungk in 1986 was the recipient of the Right Livelihood Award.
Life
Robert Jungk was the son of the playwright, actor and director David Wood ( stage name Max Jungk, 1872-1937 ) and actress Sara Bravo ( artist name Elli Branden, 1885-1948 ). As a student of humanistic Mommsen -Gymnasium in Berlin -Westend, he participated in the anti-bourgeois German - Jewish youth movement, was a member of the Socialist Students Federation ( SSB), an organization that was close to the Communist Party opposition, and at the International Workers Aid ( IAH). After graduation in 1932, he began his study of philosophy in Berlin and participated in the initiated by Harro Schulze- Boysen enemy circle.
Shortly after coming to power of the Nazis Jungk was arrested on the night of the Reichstag fire, but arrived with the help of his friend Sven Schacht, a nephew of the president of the Reichsbank, Hjalmar Schacht, again in freedom. Shortly afterwards, he emigrated to Paris in May 1933. This was followed by studies at the Sorbonne, filming in France and Spain, as well as activities for German -language press service of emigrants and 1937, a longer stay in Prague.
While Jungk had kept away until then " deeply divided " by the groupings of political emigration, he would in Prague a " close contact " to an exiled group of Marxist psychoanalyst Otto Fenichel order. Here he met Wilhelm Reich's book Mass Psychology of Fascism know, of which he was so fascinated that he made himself, a historical thesis "about the psychological reasons for the collapse of great empires " to write. However, the erkorene of him Doktorvater Karl Meyer, advised him, whereupon Jungk for the time being approved by the academic life.
From 1939 to 1945 he worked in Zurich for Swiss daily and weekly newspapers under various pseudonyms, especially as F. L. for the world week.
After 1945 he was in Paris, Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles correspondent for Swiss, German, Dutch and French publications. In 1957 he moved with his wife Ruth to Austria, first to Vienna. From 1970, they lived in Salzburg.
In 1952 he published his first work, The future has already begun to question the future of humanity.
Jungk was one of the most important pioneers of the international environmental and peace movements. He invented the future workshops and founded in 1985 by Robert Jungk library for future issues. Since 1964 he was co-editor of the book series models for a new world. In the same year he founded the Institute for Future Studies in Vienna. One of his employees at this Institute was Ernst Florian Winter. Robert Jungk in 1977 coined the term " nuclear state " and the eponymous book. From 1980, Jungk was active in the peace movement. In Hot autumn of 1983 he took part in the sit-in of the U.S. base in Mutlangen and was a speaker at the mass demonstration in Bonner Hofgarten.
Although he states in his own personal history to have been involved only since 1980 in the peace movement, he has done this has already been seen in 1960 in relation to the Easter march against nuclear weapons in East and West, appeared as a speaker at at closing rallies and designed in 1962 a call, following on from the statement in the first Ostermarsch leaflet of 1960 ( have faith in the power of the individual! ): "Who can prevent a third world war? DU - can prevent him (...) Make the most of your chance here and now, the life and liberty defending your family now! Just join the Easter marches against nuclear weapons each nation! "
In 1986 Jungk the Right Livelihood Award. In 1992 he joined as a candidate of the Green Alternative to in the election for President of Austria. He received 5.7 percent of the vote.
Robert Jungk was married to Ruth Suschitzky since 1948. 1952 has come to the world of their son Peter Stephan Jungk.
Robert Jungk was Buried in the Jewish cemetery in Salzburg.
Awards
Honors
The Cities Network NRW eV awarded in collaboration with the Robert Jungk Foundation, Salzburg, and the Ministry for Intergenerational Affairs, Family, Women and Integration of North Rhine -Westphalia from 1999, every two years the Robert Jungk price for civic engagement. The award in honor of pioneering projects and initiatives that sustained improvement with social responsibility and community -oriented activities on the quality of life of people in the towns and cities of North Rhine- Westphalia. The Cities Network NRW was 31 July 2011, to insolvency operations on.
The Robert Jungk High School in Berlin- Wilmersdorf and the Robert Jungk comprehensive school in sleeve ( Krefeld ) were named after him. The latter even has a tree - based on his real surname - the school logo.
Quote
- " Social change always begins with outsiders who feel what is necessary. "
Works
- The future has already begun. America's omnipotence and impotence. Heyne, Stuttgart 1952, ISBN 3-453-04010-4
- The future has already begun. Dehumanization - danger our civilization. Goldmann, Bern / Stuttgart 1952, ISBN 3-442-11355-5
- Brighter than a thousand suns. The fate of the atomic scientists. Stuttgart 1956; Reprint: Rowohlt, Reinbek 1988, ISBN 3-499-16629-1
- Rays from the ashes. Story of a rebirth. Bern 1959
- The big machine. On the way to another world. Heyne, München 1966, ISBN 3-453-05112-2
- Blindfolded for knowing progress. Food 1969
- Escalation of the new weapons. 1969
- Reaching for the atom. Stuttgart 1970
- The millennium man. Report from the workshops of the new company. Munich 1973 ( Excerpt )
- Plea for a humane revolution. A conversation with Adelbert Reif. Zurich 1975
- The nuclear state. By progress in the inhumanity. Kindler, Munich 1977, ISBN 3-463-00704-5 Theses against Super technique, review of Klaus Traube, Der Spiegel, No. 53, December 26, 1977
- How should the nuclear power - citizens be like? Review by Kurt Rudzinski, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, February 8, 1978
- Surprisingly date, hindsight of George Ehring, Germany Radio, September 20, 2010