- Alphons Silbermann
Alphons Silbermann (
August 11 ,1909 –March 4 ,2000 ) was a GermanJewish sociologist, musicologist,entrepreneur andpublicist .Born in
Cologne , he studied musicology, sociology and law at the Universities of Cologne,Freiburg i. Br. andGrenoble . After he gained his doctorate (Dr. jur.), the rise ofNazism led Silbermann to emigrate toNetherland and 1938 fromAmsterdam viaParis toSydney . InAustralia he started as a dishwasher but went soon from rags to riches with his own fast food restaurant "Silver's Food Bars". He actually initiated the first fastfood chain of Australia and was a very successful entrepreneur. [ Alphons Silbermann, 1989: Verwandlungen. Eine Autobiographie;Bergisch Gladbach ] .His academic career startet 1944 in Sydney at the "State Conservatory 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. 1964 he was called at the University of Lausanne as a successor ofVilfredo Pareto and later at the University ofBordeaux (1974-1979). [ [http://www.exil-archiv.de/html/biografien/silbermann.htm Exil-Archiv Biografien] ]Alphons Silbermann was a member of the "Cologne School" ("Kölner Schule") along with
René König and others. He was one of the editors of theKölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie (KZfSS) and foundet the "Institut für Massenkommunikation" (Institute ofMass Communication ). [ [http://www.cologne-info.de/prominente/alphons-silbermann/alphons-silbermann.html Cologne-Info.de] ] He was an important German pioneer of empirical methods, as against the ideological biases of many contemporal colleagues like his favorite opponentTheodor W. Adorno . [ [http://www.zeit.de/1999/32/Aufrecht_flanieren?page=1 Aufrecht flanieren. Willi Jasper. DIE ZEIT, 32/1999] ]Bibliography
* 1949: "...Of musical things." Sydney
* 1963: "The Sociology of Music." London. ISBN 978-0837194554
* 1969: "Morale chez Vilfredo Pareto." In: "Cahiers Vilfredo Pareto, 18;" Lausanne.
* 1973: "Soziologie der Massenkommunikation". Stuttgart.
* 1981: "Communication de Masse. Eléments de Sociologie empirique"; Paris.
* 1986: "Comics and Visual Culture : Research Studies from Ten Countries". Editor with: H.D. Dryoff. Munich. ISBN 3-598-10604-1
* 1989: "Verwandlungen. Eine Autobiographie". (Autobiography). Berlin.
* 2000: "Grovelling and Other Vices: The Sociology of Sycophancy". (Folklore). Translated by Ladislaus Lob. London.References
External links
* [https://portal.d-nb.de/opac.htm?method=simpleSearch&query=silbermann+alphons Alphons Silbermann in the "German National Library catalogue"]
* [http://www.mmz-potsdam.de/content/bibliothek/index.php?catId=CAT420cd1f27a505&cid=a02cG1Dw00t Literary remains]
* [http://www.netzturbulenzen.de/silbermann.html Portrait netzturbulenzen]
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