Anna Veronika Wendland

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Anna Veronika Wendland (* 1966 in Remscheid ) is a German technology and Eastern European historian, eco-modernist and advocate of the use of nuclear power.

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Life

After graduating from high school, Wendland studied Eastern European history, political science and Slavic studies in Cologne and Kiev and received his doctorate in Cologne in 1998 on the subject of "The Russophiles in Galicia. Ukrainian Conservatives between Austria and Russia 1848–1915". The dissertation was awarded the Fritz Theodor Epstein Prize of the Association of Eastern European Historians. After intermediate stops in Leipzig and Munich, she has been working at the Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe in Marburg since 2009 , entrusted among other things with the research coordination department. Concern your research interests

  • Environmental and technical history of East and East Central Europe, especially "nuclear cities", nuclear energy and urban living environments in Russia, Ukraine and Lithuania 1965–2011
  • Nation-building processes, nationalism, social identities in East Central and Eastern Europe from the 18th to the 21st century.
  • Cultures of remembrance, places of remembrance, historical self-testimonies

In addition, there is her technical-historical research on the comparative history and present of reactor safety. To this end, Wendland has been working with the "Industrial Anthropology" method since 2013 as a participant observer of human-machine relationships in nuclear power plants in Eastern Europe and Germany. She also pays special attention to nuclear technology as a modern experience and as "imperial" integration technology in Eastern Europe, as well as the visual history of atomic energy.

Wendland is a member of the Petersburg Dialogue , co-editor of the journal for East Central European Studies and teaches at the University of Giessen. She works as a blogger on Eastern European and energy topics: after a short period of publication as a guest author at Axis des Guten , she switched to the salon columnists in autumn 2018 . Wendland is married and has three sons.

Commitment to nuclear policy

After initially participating in the anti-nuclear power movement, she turned into a nuclear power advocate and is now one of the most prominent figures in the German pro-nuclear power movement. Wendland is accordingly involved in the Nuklearia and Ökomoderne associations . She advocates nuclear power from a left perspective and distinguishes herself from right-wing populist nuclear power support. Wendland favors a nationalization of the energy supply. She considers the current German energy transition without nuclear power to be problematic and calls for a mix of renewable energies and nuclear power plants for successful climate protection. The latter both through continued operation of existing nuclear power plants and through the addition of plants of the latest available type, Generation 3+.

Wendland published a scientific paper on the role of nuclear technology in the energy transition in July 2020 together with Rainer Moormann , who opposed nuclear power . The authors come to the conclusion that in the interests of climate protection and security of supply, it is necessary to continue operating the six German nuclear power plants that are still running for a limited period and recommend creating the legal framework for this immediately. This would make it possible to quickly end around 60% of German lignite generation , which corresponds to a 10% reduction in CO 2 emissions. The authors also recommend that the question of building new nuclear power plants be discussed in 2030 if the technical prerequisites for an energy turnaround based largely on renewable energies have not been created by then and there is a risk of excessive fossil use beyond 2050.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ AVWendland: Inventing the atomograd. Nuclear urbanism as a way of life in Eastern Europe, 1970–2011. Specialist conference: The impact of disaster: Social and cultural approaches to Fukushima and Chernobyl, 261–287, 2015 - EB Publishers Berlin
  2. ↑ AVWendland: Region without nationality, without capital people, The Vilna area. https://www.comparativ.net/v2/article/download/1081/958
  3. ↑ AVWendland: Post-Austrian Lviv: War Commemoration, Interethnic Relations, and ban Identity in Lľviv, 1918-1939. Cambridge 2003. http://chtyvo.org.ua/authors/Anna_Veronika_Wendland/Post-Austrian_Lemberg_War_Commemoration_Interethnic_Relations_and_Urban_Identity_in_Lviv_1918-1939_a.pdf
  4. ↑ a b A.V. Wendland. Nuclear safety as future communication: Nuclear policy, nuclear debates and developments in nuclear technology in West Germany and Eastern Europe 1970-2015: On the relationship between safety and the future in history. 2017. doi: 10.5771 / 9783845286730-305
  5. ↑ AVWendland. Negotiating Nuclear Security under Social Stress: On-site Participant Observations on Human and Organizational Factors in Nuclear Facilities of the Global North. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) 2017 https://www.iaea.org/publications/12238/international-conference-on-nuclear-security-commitments-and-actions
  6. ↑ AVWendland: Forms of Knowledge in Nuclear Technology in a Transnational Comparison. 2014 doi: 10.5169 / seals-391851
  7. ↑ AVWendland: Nuclearizing Ukraine - Ukrainizing the atom. Soviet nuclear technopolitics, crisis, and resilience on the imperial periphery, Cahiers du monde russe, vol. 60, no. 2, 2019, pp. 335-368
  8. ↑ AVWendland: Tschernobyl: (Not) a visual history, in M. Arndt: Politics and Society after Tschernobyl, (Eastern) European Perspectives 2016, p. 182ff. ISBN 978-3-86153-890-5
  9. ↑ AVWendland: From the opponent of nuclear power to the advocate of nuclear energy. December 2019. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdXzEhH_YKo
  10. ↑ G.Böss , interview with AVWendland: Nuclear energy was once a left-wing progress project, March 2019, https://www.spiegel.de/politik/technikhistorikerin-kaempft-fuer-die-kernenergie-a-468e08e2-4fed-4986-9fed -3f6937a8feb1
  11. ↑ AVWendland: repairing nuclear power plants. October 2018. https://www.salonkolumnisten.com/kernkraftwerke-instandbesetzen/
  12. ↑ AVWendland: AfD and AKW, October 2019, https://www.salonkolumnisten.com/afd-und-akw/
  13. ↑ AVWendland: Technology is always political. July 2019 https://jungefreiheit.de/debatte/forum/2019/technik-ist-immer-politisch/
  14. ↑ AVWendland: Not without my nuclear power plant. July 2016, https://m.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/debatten/atomenergie-in-osteuropa-nicht-ohne-mein-kernkraftwerk-14311657.html
  15. ↑ R.Moormann, AVWendland: Why we still need German nuclear power plants now. Memorandum dated July 16, 2020. Together with accompanying documents on https://saveger6.de/
  16. ↑ R.Moormann, AVWendland: German Climate Strategy: Stop the nuclear phase-out! Die Zeit 30 (2020) https://www.zeit.de/2020/30/deutsche-klimastrategie-atomausstieg-co2-emissions-bundesregierung
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SURNAME Wendland, Anna Veronika
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Eastern European historian, eco-modernist and advocate of the use of nuclear power
DATE OF BIRTH 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Remscheid