Heinz Steinert Library

From the music-sociological library of Heinz Steinert

We would like to thank the family of Heinz Steinert for the donation of his music-related estate of books and audio-visual media, which not only represents an essential enrichment of our library, but also helps to preserve his memory as someone who had been in active contact with our department.
 

Books and recordings in the Heinz Steinert Library

 

Heinz Steinert (1942–2011) studied philosophy, psychology, German, and English in Vienna. He completed his psychoanalytic training, was awarded a doctorate in psychology, and habilitated in sociology.

He was the co-founder and, until 2000, the academic director of the Institute for the Sociology of Law and Criminology in Vienna. From 1978 until his retirement in 2007, Heinz Steinert was a Professor of Sociology with a focus on “deviance and social exclusion” in the Faculty of Social Sciences at Goethe University Frankfurt.

In addition to numerous publications on social theory and social criticism, he was also intensively involved in the sociology of art and music. Analysing jazz in particular as a form of artistic expression that was both culturally industrial and also resistant was a major preoccupation for him, as he had started learning to play the saxophone in his later years.