Albert Scharenberg

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Albert Scharenberg (born April 24, 1965 in Leer , East Frisia ) is a German political scientist and historian. He is co-director of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation's international office in New York City. Before that he was a lecturer for politics and North American studies at the Free University of Berlin as well as editor and partner of the papers for German and international politics .

Scharenberg studied at the University of Marburg , the University of Illinois and at the Free University of Berlin, where he obtained a master's degree in modern history with Jürgen Kocka and with Wolf-Dieter Narr with his work on Black Nationalism in the USA. The Malcolm X Revival for Dr. phil. PhD.

In September 2007 it became known through media reports that the Presidium of the Free University of Berlin was blocking Scharenberg's appointment as junior professor for North American politics - apparently for political reasons. According to this, Scharenberg's work on the board of trustees of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation should be a thorn in the side of the FU President Dieter Lenzen . In October 2007, more than 200 scientists supported Scharenberg's appointment in an open letter to Lenzen.

Albert Scharenberg was a member of the working committee of the Committee for Fundamental Rights and Democracy eV from 1999 to 2011 and chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung from 2009–2011.

literature

  • Martin Luther King. A biographical portrait, Herder Verlag: Freiburg 2011.
  • Black nationalism in the USA. The Malcolm X-Revival, Verlag Westfälisches Dampfboot: Münster 1998.
  • Racism in the US Labor Movement. Lines of development from 1865 to 1915, argument: Hamburg / Berlin 1993.
  • The end of politics? Globalization and the structural change of the political, Verlag Westfälisches Dampfboot: Münster 2003 (with Oliver Schmidtke).
  • The sound of the city. Music industry and subculture in Berlin, Verlag Westfälisches Dampfboot: Münster 2005 (with Ingo Bader).
  • Class and classification. The symbolic dimension of social inequality, VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften: Wiesbaden 2001 (with Anja Weiß, Cornelia Koppetsch and Oliver Schmidtke).
  • Berlin: Global City or Bankruptcy Assets? Karl Dietz Published by Berlin 2000.
  • Article by Scharenberg in the papers for German and international politics, online
  • Not you! Stories from the life of Alfons Kujat, BoD Verlag: Norderstedt 2005.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Spiegel Online :: Hickhack about junior professorship. Left number at the FU Berlin. dated September 10, 2007
  2. ^ Sheets for German and international politics: For the freedom of science. Open letter to the President of the Free University of Berlin, Prof. Dr. Dieter Lenzen, the appointment of junior professor Dr. Concerning Albert Scharenberg of October 14, 2007
  3. ↑ Dr. Albert Scharenberg - Co-Director. (No longer available online.) Rosa Luxemburg Foundation - New York Office, archived from the original on February 9, 2015 ; Retrieved February 9, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rosalux-nyc.org
personal data
SURNAME Scharenberg, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Leer (East Frisia)