Alphons Silbermann
Alphons Silbermann | |
|---|---|
| Born | 11 August 1909 |
| Died | 4 March 2000 (aged 90) |
| Education | University of Cologne; University of Freiburg; University of Grenoble |
| Occupations | Sociologist; musicologist; entrepreneur; publicist |
| Known for | Member of the Cologne School; founder of the Institut für Massenkommunikation |
Alphons Silbermann (August 11, 1909 – March 4, 2000) was a German Jewish sociologist, musicologist, entrepreneur and publicist.
Born in Cologne, he studied musicology, sociology and law at the Universities of Cologne, Freiburg i. Br. and Grenoble. After he gained his doctorate (Dr. jur.), the rise of Nazism led Silbermann to emigrate to the Netherlands and 1938 from Amsterdam via Paris, where he worked as a waiter, to Sydney. In Australia he started as a dishwasher but went soon from rags to riches with his own fast food restaurant Silver's Food Bars. He initiated the first fastfood chain of Australia, becoming a successful entrepreneur.[1]
His academic career started in 1944 in Sydney at the New South Wales State Conservatorium of Music. As an empirical culture-sociologist, he went back to Europe (especially Paris) in 1951. In 1958 René König brought him back to Cologne, where he taught at the university. In 1964 he was called to the University of Lausanne as a successor of Vilfredo Pareto and later at the University of Bordeaux (1974–1979).[2]
Alphons Silbermann was a member of the "Cologne School" (Kölner Schule) along with René König and others. He was one of the editors of the Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie (KZfSS) and founded the Institut für Massenkommunikation (Institute of Mass Communication).[3] He was an important German pioneer of empirical methods, as against the ideological biases of many contemporary colleagues like his favorite opponent Theodor W. Adorno.[4]
Bibliography
[edit | edit source]- 1949: ...Of musical things. Sydney
- 1959: Musik, Rundfunk und Hörer. Die soziologischen Aspekte der Musik am Rundfunk. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- 1963: The Sociology of Music. London. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- 1963: Vom Wohnen der Deutschen. Eine soziologische Studie über das Wohnerlebnis. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- 1966: Bildschirm und Wirklichkeit. Ullstein. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- 1968: Vorteile und Nachteile des kommerziellen Fernsehens: Eine soziologische Studie. Econ-Verlag.
- 1969: Morale chez Vilfredo Pareto. In: Cahiers Vilfredo Pareto, 18; Lausanne.
- 1973: Empirische Kunstsoziologie: eine Einf. mit kommentierter Bibliographie. Enke. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- 1973: Mediensoziologie: Film. Econ Verlag. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- 1973: Mediensozialogie: Rundfunk. Econ Verlag. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- 1973: Soziologie der Massenkommunikation. Stuttgart.
- 1981: Communication de Masse. Eléments de Sociologie empirique; Paris.
- 1981: Der ungeliebte Jude. Zur Soziologie des Antisemitismus. Edition Interfrom. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- 1981: Einführung in die Literatursoziologie. Oldenbourg. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- 1984: Was ist jüdischer Geist? Fromm Druckhaus A. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- 1985: Der Übersetzer: eine berufs- und literatursoziologische Untersuchung. Harrassowitz. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- 1986: Comics and Visual Culture : Research Studies from Ten Countries. Editor with: H.D. Dryoff. Munich. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- 1986: Lübbes Mahler-Lexikon. Lübbe. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- 1989: Verwandlungen.' Eine Autobiographie. (Autobiography). Berlin.
- 1991: Das imaginäre Tagebuch des Herrn Jacques Offenbach. Piper. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- 1991: Neues vom Wohnen der Deutschen (West). Verlag Wissenschaft und Politik. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- 1993: Badezimmer in Ostdeutschland: eine soziologische Studie. Verlag Wissenschaft und Politik. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- 2000: Grovelling and Other Vices: The Sociology of Sycophancy. (Folklore). Translated by Ladislaus Lob. London.
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Alphons Silbermann, 1989: Verwandlungen. Eine Autobiographie; Bergisch Gladbach
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- ^ Cologne-Info.de
- ^ Aufrecht flanieren. Willi Jasper. DIE ZEIT, 32/1999
External links
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- German music critics
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- Jewish sociologists
- Academic staff of the University of Cologne
- Commanders Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 2000 deaths
- 1909 births
- German male non-fiction writers
- Sociomusicologists
- 20th-century German musicologists
- Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the Netherlands
- Emigrants from Nazi Germany to the Netherlands