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Verwandlungen. Eine Autobiographie
Alphons Silbermann (1909-2000) war das, was man eine schillernde Figur nennt: Professor, Publizist, Jude, Emigrant, Homosexueller, Medienstar ein höchst geistreicher und origineller Querdenker. In seiner Autobiografie blickt er auf ein reiches, wahrlich abenteuerliches Leben zurück: Flucht vor den Nazis über die Niederlande und Frankreich nach Australien, wo er als Tellerwäscher begann und die erste Fastfood-Kette Australiens gründete. Danach war er Dozent in Sydney, Paris und Lausanne, schließlich Professor für Massenkommunikation und Kunstsoziologie in Köln und dann in Bordeaux. Prof. Silbermann war Membre correspondant de l'Académie française. Die ungewöhnlich offene Autobiografie eines Weltmannes, die ein farbiges Panorama des 20. Jahrhunderts entfaltet.
574 pages, Hardcover
Published October 1, 1989
About the author
Alphons Silbermann
57 booksAlphons Silbermann (1909 - 2000) was a German Jewish sociologist, musicologist, entrepreneur and publicist.
He studied musicology, sociology and law at the Universities of Cologne, Freiburg i. Br. and Grenoble. After he gained his doctorate, the Nazis' rise 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.
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. Seven years later, René König brought him back to Cologne, where he taught at the University. In 1964 he was called to the Lausanne as a successor of Vilfredo Pareto and later at the University of Bordeaux.
He studied musicology, sociology and law at the Universities of Cologne, Freiburg i. Br. and Grenoble. After he gained his doctorate, the Nazis' rise 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.
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. Seven years later, René König brought him back to Cologne, where he taught at the University. In 1964 he was called to the Lausanne as a successor of Vilfredo Pareto and later at the University of Bordeaux.
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