Andreas Peham

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Andreas Peham (2019)
In an interview with ORF Vorarlberg (2019)

Andreas Peham (* 1967 in Linz ) is an Austrian right-wing extremism and anti-Semitism researcher who also published under the name Heribert Schiedel .

Live and act

Andreas Peham grew up in Upper Austria . Both the proximity to the Mauthausen Memorial and the fact that his family and those around him came to terms with the past , which was not always unproblematic, aroused his interest in history and politics. From 1990 to 2000 he studied political science at the University of Vienna . Later he published a. a. in the journal PolitiX of the Vienna Institute for Political Science.

Since 1996 he has worked as an employee in the Documentation Archive of the Austrian Resistance (DÖW), right-wing extremism research department (curator of the collection), focusing on research on right-wing extremism, neo-Nazism among young people, fraternities, anti-Semitism and racism, Holocaust education and Islamism . There he publishes, for example, about right-wing extremist activities in the section News from the Right (with Anton Maegerle, among others ) and is included in articles for the DÖW yearbook . He also oversees the campaign against anti-Semitism in Austria, founded in 1995 . Peham was a longtime reporter for the Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Anti-Semitism and Racism at Tel Aviv University and worked as an editor and author of the Viennese magazine Context XXI . Technical articles by him have also appeared in scientific journals (including the sheets for German and international politics ), as well as in anti-fascist organs such as Der Rechts Rand , Antifaschistisches Infoblatt and Lotta as well as in the information service against right-wing extremism , on hagalil.com and in the left-wing weekly newspaper Jungle World . Since the late 1990s he has also been involved in teacher training and political education in schools with a focus on racism and anti-Semitism, adolescence and pathological group formation. He has also been an expert on the Mauthausen Committee Austria for thematic tours of monuments and memorials in the inner city since 2016 .

Andreas Peham was interviewed and quoted as an expert on right-wing extremism in Austria , FPÖ and German national fraternities by German, Austrian and Swiss national quality media such as Die Presse , Der Standard , ORF , Die Zeit , Der Spiegel , the tageszeitung and NZZ . Among other things, he took part in the 2011 conference “'And what does that have to do with me?' - Perspectives on conveying history to Nazism and the Holocaust in the migration society "of the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies and in 2013 in the panel discussion" 'Frei.Wild' - The heirs of the 'Böhsen Onkelz'? "Of the German Federal Agency for Civic Education .

In a review in Falter, Nina Horaczek calls him one of “the leading experts on right-wing extremism in German-speaking countries”. According to Katharina Schmidt from the Wiener Zeitung , he is one of "the few proven experts" in the field of right-wing extremism in Austria. The social scientist Samuel Salzborn considers him "one of the best and most intimate experts on Austrian right-wing extremism".

Positions

Andreas Peham differentiates between (1) right-wing populism (as a young form of right-wing extremism), (2) right-wing extremism and (3) fascism / Nazism . These differed mainly in the reference to (historical) National Socialism and fascism. While the former are rather distant, the latter have a split relationship and the latter tend to agree. Furthermore, according to Peham, the following tendencies can be observed:

  • "The different social orientation (the more right-wing, the more social-democratic),
  • the ideological foundation of daily politics (the more right, the more ideological),
  • the existence of anti-Semitism (the more right-wing, the more anti-Semitic),
  • the relationship with the USA (the more right, the more anti-American)
  • and the attitude to the democratic (the more right-wing, the more anti-democratic). "

Right-wing extremism is generally a " biologization of the social". Traditional right-wing extremism in Austria is primarily characterized by the reference to " völkisch " (German). The "party-like right-wing extremism" and above all "right-wing populism" had made an arrangement with democracy as a form.

According to Peham, the Austrian “party-like right-wing extremism disintegrates into a neoliberal (post-Fordist) and a national social (Fordist) faction”, which it connects on the one hand with the BZÖ and on the other with the FPÖ . Peham attributed to the participation of the FPÖ in government and the associated greater weighting of fraternities in particular , that since the 2000s there has been no separate “right-wing extremism report” from the Austrian Ministry of the Interior , as the links between the FPÖ and relevant corporations were presented there. The behavior of the fraternities, which in the 1950s and 1960s still carried right-wing extremist, even neo-Nazi ideology at universities and in which FPÖ politicians were socialized, was essential for Haider's election as party leader.

“In narcissistic or homosocial groups” - such as the fraternities - the man is socialized both as a “subject” and as a “leader”. In contrast, Schiedel sees free comradeships grouped around so-called " alpha animals ". Like other student associations, the fraternities function ultimately as a kind of cadre forge, where many “honorable personalities” can be found. Peham criticizes the subject of corporation and a. a "structural [] incompatibility of man bundling and democracy". Especially with the Austrian (German national) fraternities there are points of contact with new right, anti-liberal ideas and continuities with the old right. The problem here is the folk tradition, which has since turned into a racist one. According to the student historian Hans-Georg Balder, Schiedel deliberately misunderstood the principle of the “people-based concept of the fatherland”, which he called “Aryan paragraphs”.

For the assassins of September 11th and neo-Nazis, the USA is equally "evil", and from an "anti-Semitic" point of view , New York City in particular stands for everything that is hateful and identifiable with "the Jews" ("modernity, secularity, multiculturalism, urbanity, liberality" ). In addition, in his guest article published in Standard - on the occasion of the first anniversary of the attacks in 2002 - Peham cited the “lust for revenge” that neo-Nazis harbored with reference to the collapse of the Third Reich.

Book reviews

In 2007, Andreas Peham published a study on right-wing extremism in Austria under the name of Heribert Schiedel in the Viennese book publisher Edition Steinbauer, entitled The Right Edge . This is - as Christian Böhmer commented in the Kurier - "the first major analysis on the subject" since the handbook of Austrian right-wing extremism . Schiedel works “meticulously” and shows a number of “cross connections between right-wing extremist associations, the FPÖ and fraternities”. Ralf Leonhard highlighted in a review in taz magazine “the demanding analysis of the different forms and causes of right-wing extremism” by the author. According to Samuel Salzborn , who reviewed in the DÖW-Mitteilungen , “he clearly names anti-democratic and anti-enlightenment positions with a national background, regardless of who has voiced them”. In addition, "right-wing extremism is not a cheap label for him, but a political ideology characterized by numerous moments". The book is "easy to read" with "theoretical reflections" and underpinned with "precise specialist knowledge". For Karl Pfeifer (hagalil.com), Schiedel ultimately shows in his "comprehensive" book the salon ability of right-wing extremism in Austria.

In his monograph Extreme Rights in Europe (2011), Peham describes the personal and content-related networking of European right-wing extremists. According to Nina Horaczek , the author approaches the subject in the main part "scientifically-descriptive". Katharina Schmidt counts "numerous sources". Schiedel distinguishes "meticulously between the stages of improvement" of the extreme right. The bottom line is that it is a “well-founded and frightening study”, which unfortunately, due to the sometimes “very scientific language”, is not entirely effective. He makes it clear "how congruent the positions of successful right-wing parties and neo-Nazi or neo-fascist actors are sometimes," said Lisa Mayr in Ö1 . The book is "a meticulous collection of data [...] embedded in a critical analysis" and helps "to understand the causes, dimensions and dangers of right-wing extremist ideology".

Publications (selection)

Stand-alone monographs

Contributions to edited volumes

  • Anti-Semitism and Volkish Ideology. Is the FPÖ a right-wing extremist party? , in: Stephan Grigat (Ed.): AfD & FPÖ. Anti-Semitism, ethnic nationalism and gender images . Nomos, Baden-Baden 2017, ISBN 978-3-8487-3805-2 , pp. 103-119
  • Frei.Wild: A right-wing rock band that doesn't want to be (anymore) in: Britta Schellenberg , Martin Becher (Hrsg.): Civil society engagement against racism and right-wing extremism. Challenges and success factors in dealing with right-wing extremism, anti-Semitism and racism. A German-Czech anthology (= non-formal political education ). Wochenschau Verlag, Schwalbach 2015, ISBN 978-3-7344-0143-5 , p. 106 ff.
  • in: Wolfgang Benz (Hrsg.): Handbuch des Antisemitismus . Hostility to Jews in the past and present . On behalf of the Center for Research on Antisemitism at the Technical University of Berlin. De Gruyter Saur, Berlin a. a. (Part of the Anne Frank Shoah Library )
  • Leopold Stocker Verlag (Austria, since 1917) , in: Volume 6: Publications . 2013, ISBN 978-3-11-025872-1 , 424-426.
  • Bund Free Youth (Austria) , in: Volume 5: Organizations, institutions, movements. 2012, ISBN 978-3-598-24078-2 , pp. 83-85.
  • Community building and paranoia. Theses on the peculiarity of the Austrian syndrome , in: Stephan Grigat (Ed.): Postnazismus revisited. The Afterlife of National Socialism in the 21st Century . Ça Ira, Freiburg im Breisgau 2012, ISBN 978-3-86259-106-0 , pp. 265–284.
  • Enemy and explanation of the world. On the current relevance of anti-Semitism , in: Wolfgang Neugebauer , Christine Schindler (Red.): Research on National Socialism and its aftermath in Austria. Festschrift for Brigitte Bailer . Edited by the Documentation Archive of Austrian Resistance, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-901142-61-1 , pp. 353–367.
  • Holy hatred. On the right-wing extremist Iranian friendship , in: Stephan Grigat, Simone Dinah Hartmann (Hrsg.): Iran in the world system. Alliances of the regime and perspectives for the freedom movement . Studien Verlag, Innsbruck / Vienna / Bozen 2010, ISBN 978-3-7065-4939-4 , pp. 165-173.
  • Education for what? Holocaust and right-wing extremism in school (with Elke Rajal), in: Focus: Mediation work with young people and adults , ed. by the documentation archive of the Austrian resistance, editing: Christine Schindler, Lit Verlag, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-901142-56-7 , pp. 38–65.
  • in: Students' Union at the University of Vienna (Hrsg.): Völkischeverbindungen. Contributions to the German national corporation disorder in Austria . Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-200-01522-7 .
  • Corporated Legends. For fraternity rewriting history . P. 20 ff.
  • Phobia and Germanomania. Functions of the men's association (with Sophie Wollner). P. 102 ff.
  • in: Yearbook of the Documentation Archive of Austrian Resistance . ed. by the Documentation Archive of the Austrian Resistance, Lit Verlag, Vienna.
  • The first lie. A psychoanalytically oriented critique of anti-Semitism , in: Focus: Anti-Semitism , Editing: Andreas Peham, Christine Schindler and Karin Stögner, 2008, ISBN 978-3-8258-1181-5 , pp. 46–69.
  • "Revisionism" and the Mauthausen concentration camp. On the genesis and topicality of “revisionism” (with Brigitte Bailer-Galanda and Wilhelm Lasik), in: Focus: Mauthausen , Editor: Christine Schindler, 2004, ISBN 3-8258-7580-6 , pp. 135–149.
  • The Protocols of the Wise Men from the Pentagon - On the extreme right wing of the recent anti-war movement , in: Mary Kreutzer , Thomas Schmidinger (ed.): Irak. From the republic of fear to bourgeois democracy? . Ça Ira, Freiburg im Breisgau 2004, ISBN 3-924627-85-1 , pp. 271-281.
  • Jörg Haider, the FPÖ and anti-Semitism (with Wolfgang Neugebauer), in: Anton Pelinka , Ruth Wodak (ed.): "Dreck am Stecken". Politics of exclusion. Czernin Verlag, Vienna 2002, ISBN 978-3-7076-0152-7 , pp. 11–31.
  • We Austrians choose who we want! ". Haider and the Austrian normal state , in: Siegfried Jäger , Jobst Paul (Ed.): " These rights are still part of our world ". Aspects of a new conservative revolution . Duisburg Institute for Language and Sozialforschung , Duisburg 2001, ISBN 3-927388-78-5 , pp. 119-139.
  • The FPÖ on the way to becoming a ruling party. On the success story of a right-wing extremist party (with Brigitte Bailer and Wolfgang Neugebauer), in: Hans-Henning Scharsach (ed.): Austria and the right temptation . Rowohlt-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Reinbek near Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-499-22933-1 , pp. 105–127.
  • (In) possibilities of the political struggle against right-wing extremism in Austria , in: Anton Szanya (Ed.): "Through purity to unity." Psychoanalysis of the right. Studien Verlag, Innsbruck / Vienna / Munich 1999, ISBN 978-3-7065-1352-4 , pp. 190–220.
  • "New rights" and right-wing extremist intellectuality - comments on a not so new phenomenon , in: Helmut Reinalter , Franko Petri, Rüdiger Kaufmann (ed.): The world view of right-wing extremism. The structures of the desolidarization . Studies publishing house, Innsbruck u. a. 1998, ISBN 978-3-7065-1258-9 , pp. 225-242.
  • The Thule Seminar , in: Foundation Documentation Archive of Austrian Resistance (Ed.): The network of hatred. Racist, right-wing extremist and neo-Nazi propaganda on the Internet . Deuticke, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-216-30329-2 , pp. 193-196.
  • in: Wolfgang Purtscheller (Ed.): The right in motion. Clusters and networks of the "new right" . Picus-Verlag, Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-85452-289-4 .
  • Personnel for the Third Republic. The Studiosi: From RFS to FSI to RFS (with Klaus Zellhofer). P. 46 ff.
  • Which wine in which bottles? The Freedom Party on the eve of the Third Republic . P. 59 ff.
  • The extreme right "in the service of the new European order" . P. 68 ff.
  • Cultural politics from the day before yesterday and anti-anti-fascism . P. 100 ff.
  • in: Wolfgang Purtscheller (ed.): The order they mean. “New rights” in Austria . 2nd Edition. Picus-Verlag, Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-85452-256-8 .
  • Theories of the “New Right” (with Wolfgang Purtscheller). P. 15 ff.
  • Haider's think tanks: The Völkisch avant-garde (with Markus Perner and Klaus Zellhofer). P. 47 ff.
  • "Mother Earth" instead of "Blood and Soil". The ecological-spiritual renewal of fascism . P. 124 ff.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kerstin Kellermann: The tragic hero affects many young people . Interview with Andreas Peham . In: Wiener Zeitung , No. 218, November 8, 2014, p. 38.
  2. ↑ a b Presentation of the participants in the panel discussion for the symposium “New Tones from the Right?”, Which is distributed online as audio by the Federal Agency for Civic Education
  3. ^ Andreas Peham on the website of the Documentation Archive of the Austrian Resistance
  4. ↑ cf. Roni Stauber (Ed.): Antisemitism Worldwide 2010, General Analysis . Tel Aviv University (The Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism / The Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry), o. P.
  5. ↑ cf. Karl Pfeifer : "Christianity and Islam": The Viennese magazine Context XXI . hagalil.com , January 5, 2005.
  6. ^ Andreas Peham, Elke Rajal: Anti-Semitism in Austria's classrooms. An educational challenge . The International School for Holocaust Studies (ISHS), accessed April 4, 2016.
  7. ↑ The experts ( Memento of the original from April 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , denkmalwien.at, accessed on April 1, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.denkmalwien.at
  8. ↑ cf. The time and time online ; Ralf Leonhard: "Stinking against those up there" (interview). In: the daily newspaper , October 7, 2006, p. 11; Jutta Sommerbauer: "This parliamentary group wants a civil war across Europe" (interview). In: Die Presse , November 16, 2011, p. 9; Barbara Gansfuß : The normalization of right-wing extremism: advance via anti-Islamism (conversation). Guest in Journal ( OE1 . ORF.at ), July 20, 2007; Red .: Schiedel: "Islamism is foreign right-wing extremism" (Interview), derStandard.at , August 27, 2007; Red .: "The FPÖ is something like the avant-garde in the New Right" (Interview), derStandard.at , July 25, 2011; Charles Hawley: The Likud Connection: Europe's Right-Wing Populists Find Allies in Israel . Spiegel Online , July 31, 2011; Colette M. Schmidt: Expert: "They are fighting a battle of retreat" (interview), derstandard.at , February 15, 2014; Meret Baumann: Right-wing extremism: Braune, Flecken in Upper Austria . NZZ Online , May 23, 2013.
  9. ↑ Conference report: “And what does that have to do with me?”: Perspectives on conveying the history of Nazism and the Holocaust in the migration society, November 17-20, 2011 Vienna, in: H-Soz-Kult, January 17, 2012, < http : //www.hsozkult.de/conferencereport/id/tagungsberichte-4002 >.
  10. ↑ political orange: "Frei.Wild" - the heirs of the "Böhsen Onkelz"? . BpB, December 3, 2013.
  11. ↑ a b Nina Horaczek : From anti-Semitism to anti-Islamism and back . In: Falter 47/11, November 23, 2011, p. 13.
  12. ↑ a b Katharina Schmidt: In rank and file against Roma, Jews and homosexuals . In: Wiener Zeitung , No. 323, November 30, 2011, p. 11.
  13. ^ A b Samuel Salzborn : Schiedel, Heribert: The right edge. Extremist sentiments in our society . In: DÖW-Mitteilungen , episode 185, February 2008, p. 7.
  14. ^ Bernhard Weidinger: "In the national defensive struggle of the borderland Germans": Academic fraternities and politics in Austria after 1945 . Böhlau, Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-205-79600-8 , p. 37.
  15. ^ Bernhard Weidinger: "In the national defensive struggle of the borderland Germans": Academic fraternities and politics in Austria after 1945 . Böhlau, Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-205-79600-8 , p. 237.
  16. ^ Bernhard Weidinger: "In the national defensive struggle of the borderland Germans": Academic fraternities and politics in Austria after 1945 . Böhlau, Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-205-79600-8 , p. 275.
  17. ^ Bernhard Weidinger: "In the national defensive struggle of the borderland Germans": Academic fraternities and politics in Austria after 1945 . Böhlau, Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-205-79600-8 , p. 306 f.
  18. ↑ Gudrun Hentges : “Bridges for our country in a new Europe?”. Minority and ethnic group politics in Austria . In: Christoph Butterwegge , Gudrun Hentges (Ed.): Immigration under the sign of globalization: Migration, integration and minority policy (= intercultural studies . Vol. 5). 3rd, updated edition, VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2006, ISBN 978-3-531-14957-8 , p. 200.
  19. ^ Matthias Falter: Critical Thinking Beyond Horseshoe. "Extremism" and its political functionality . In: Forum for critical right-wing extremism research (ed.): Order. Power. Extremism: Effects and Alternatives of the Extremism Model . VS Verlag, Wiesbaden 2011, ISBN 978-3-531-17998-8 , p. 94.
  20. ^ Brigitte Bailer : Party instead of metapolitics. "New Rights" and FPÖ in Austria . In: Wolfgang Gessenharter , Thomas Pfeiffer (eds.): The new right - a threat to democracy? . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-8100-4162-9 , p. 169.
  21. ^ Bernhard Weidinger: "In the national defensive struggle of the borderland Germans": Academic fraternities and politics in Austria after 1945 . Böhlau, Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-205-79600-8 , p. 268.
  22. ^ Mario Born, Robert Andreasch: Focus North Rhine-Westphalia: 'Autonomous Nationalists' in the Ruhr area and Rhineland . In: Jan Schedler, Alexander Häusler (Ed.): Autonomous Nationalists: Neo-Nazism in Movement (= right-wing extremism edition ). VS Verlag, Wiesbaden 2011, ISBN 978-3-531-17049-7 , p. 232.
  23. ↑ Thomas Seifert: Springboards to Power: Kaderschmieden in Austria . Ueberreuter, Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-8000-3702-5 , p. 45.
  24. ↑ Robert Weichinger: Silentium! Comment, Convent and Kommers . In: Heiner Boberski , Peter Gnaiger, Martin Haidinger , Thomas Schaller, Robert Weichinger (eds.): Mighty - male - mysterious: secret societies in Austria . Ecowin, Salzburg 2005, ISBN 3-902404-16-7 , p. 262.
  25. ^ Bernhard Weidinger: "In the national defensive struggle of the borderland Germans": Academic fraternities and politics in Austria after 1945 . Böhlau, Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-205-79600-8 , p. 323.
  26. ^ Bernhard Weidinger: "In the national defensive struggle of the borderland Germans": Academic fraternities and politics in Austria after 1945 . Böhlau, Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-205-79600-8 , p. 401.
  27. ↑ Robert Weichinger: Silentium! Comment, Convent and Kommers . In: Heiner Boberski , Peter Gnaiger, Martin Haidinger , Thomas Schaller, Robert Weichinger (eds.): Mighty - male - mysterious: secret societies in Austria . Ecowin, Salzburg 2005, ISBN 3-902404-16-7 , p. 259.
  28. ↑ Hans-Georg Balder : History of the German Burschenschaft . WJK-Verlag, Hilden 2006, ISBN 3-933892-25-2 , p. 25.
  29. ↑ Hans Rauscher : Israel, Europe and the new anti-Semitism. An updated manual . Molden, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-85485-122-7 , p. 218.
  30. ↑ Christian Böhmer: Behind the bald heads . In: Kurier , September 21, 2007, p. 4.
  31. ^ Ralf Leonhard: The Austrian patient . In: taz Magazin , July 19, 2008, p. VII.
  32. ^ Karl Pfeifer : The Right Edge: Extremist Sentiments in Our Society . hagalil.com , November 10, 2007.
  33. ↑ Lisa Mayr: Extreme rights in Europe. Heribert Schiedel on the shift to the right in the EU . OE1 . ORF.at , November 24, 2011; see. ders .: International nationalism: Heribert Schiedel's analysis of right-wing extremism in Europe . In: Die Presse , January 14, 2012, p. 8.
  34. ↑ Further book review in Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME) , December 19, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Peham, Andreas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schiedel, Heribert (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian right-wing extremism and anti-Semitism researcher
DATE OF BIRTH 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Linz