Anton Maegerle

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Anton Maegerle (author name; * around 1962) is a German journalist and author . His topics are the organizational and personal interrelationships in right-wing extremism , right-wing radicalism and the new right . In addition to non-fiction and magazine articles, he writes for various television programs.

Act

Since the founding of the party Die Republikaner in 1983, Maegerle has observed both right-wing extremists and right-wing conservative scenes in Germany and internationally. He is a member of the SPD , a consultant for the Friedrich Ebert Foundation and a member of the right-wing extremism working group of the SPD in Baden-Württemberg. He regularly writes articles for the SPD-related magazine Blick nach Rechts , occasionally for the taz , the Frankfurter Rundschau , the ARD program Report Baden-Baden , the magazine Tribüne , the Spiegel , the Stern as well as for the Federal Agency for Civic Education and that Network against Nazis . He was also the author of the 2006 anti-right-wing information service . Between 1991 and 1994 some of his articles appeared in the anti-fascist magazine Der Rechts Rand .

Maegerle works with the Duisburg Institute for Language and Social Research (DISS). Together with his archivist Martin Dietzsch, he published books and articles. Maegerle also produces critical reports for television programs, including for the NDR , there for the media magazine Zapp , for the ARD magazines Panorama , Report Mainz and Monitor . On the basis of a report he wrote by Report Mainz in autumn 2000, right-wing extremists' bank accounts were exposed and terminated by the banks.

Uncovering organizational and personal interdependencies between different groups, media and institutions in the field of right-wing extremism and new rights is one of Maegerle's main concerns. To this end, in the course of his research, he built up a comprehensive private archive, which, with 550,000 individual entries and around 17,000 personal files, is one of the largest archives on this subject in Germany. On request, he makes information from this available to other journalists and federal authorities, including offices for the protection of the constitution.

In 2001, together with the then President of the Protection of the Constitution of Baden-Württemberg, Helmut Rannacher and his deputy Hans-Jürgen Doll, he published the anthology for right-wing extremism in Baden-Württemberg , which is published by the Baden-Württemberg State Center for Civic Education . By constantly evaluating the media and conducting her own research, Maegerle continuously logs acts of violence and other offenses with a right-wing extremist, xenophobic and anti-Semitic background. The chronicles of these incidents are regularly consulted and published by initiatives and media that campaign against them.

In 2020, the state of Baden-Württemberg set up a documentation center for right-wing extremism at the General State Archives in Karlsruhe , which will in future collect information about right-wing extremist structures and networks and make it accessible to the public and research. The core of the documentation center is Anton Maegerle's extensive collection, which he donated to the General State Archives. Around 2,500 files with material from the right-wing political spectrum as well as a database, magazines and other publications come from him.

reception

Attacks

Because of his professional activity, Maegerle and his family are exposed to hostility and threats, including calls for murder from neo-Nazis . At times he was therefore dependent on state personal protection . He therefore does not publish personal data and has chosen a pseudonym under which his articles, books and TV reports appear.

Right-wing extremists and right-wing extremists such as Hans-Helmuth Knütter , Alfred Mechtersheimer and Norman Kempken, as well as the media of this spectrum, launched a campaign against Maegerle in 1996, during which they made his real name and address known in order to intimidate him and expose him to further threats. The right-wing extremist Germar Rudolf , condemned as a Holocaust denier , used Anton Mägerle as one of his pseudonyms for his writings to discredit Maegerle's research into Holocaust denial.

In 2007, Felix Krautkrämer , an editor of the new right Junge Freiheit , claimed in a dossier he wrote that Maegerle wrote for several constitutionally relevant left-wing extremist publications. After Maegerle's successful injunctions , Junge Freiheit had to undertake to withdraw these allegations and not to repeat them. Michael Klonovsky and the weekly magazine Focus , who had spread a similar false statement, had to refrain from doing so after Maegerle's complaint. According to Adrian Peter, editor at Report Mainz , attempts are being made again and again in the neo-Nazi scene to "move Anton Maegerle into the left-wing extremist spectrum in order to make him implausible, to discredit his work."

Praise and awards

Maegerle's collection of essays From Obersalzberg to NSU: The extreme right and the political culture of the Federal Republic of 1988 - 2013 received positive reviews as documentation for “Maegerle's commendable commitment and his remarkable expertise in the field of the extreme right”. The author offers “accurate analyzes of the development of the extreme right in the Federal Republic and shows the high degree of continuity in extreme right thinking and acting; an overarching interpretation, however, has to be developed by the reader himself. "

On November 16, 2007, the journalists' association Netzwerk Recherche honored Maegerle together with Andrea Röpke and Thomas Kuban with the lighthouse prize it donated for “special journalistic achievements”. The reasoning states:

“The winners work at high personal risk. They start their research where others stop. Without the commitment of the three specialist journalists, the dark field of right-wing extremism in Germany would be even darker. "

Publications

  • Criticon: Young Freedom in magazine format. In: Helmut Kellershohn (ed.): The plagiarism. The Völkisch Nationalism of the Young Freedom. Duisburg Institute for Language and Social Research V., 1994, ISBN 3-927388-44-0 .
  • "Anti-German agitation". In: Helmut Donat , Arn Strohmeyer : Liberation from the Wehrmacht? Donat Verlag, Bremen 1997, ISBN 3-931737-42-X , p. 200 ff.
  • Right-wing extremist publication organs and strategies. Publishers, second-hand bookshops, magazines and the Internet . In: Thomas Fliege, Kurt Möller (Ed.): Right-wing extremism in Baden-Württemberg. Hidden structures of the right . December 2001, pp. 85-101, ISBN 3-89902-019-7 .
  • Authors from Grabert-Verlag and Hohenrain-Verlag . Their function and importance in the right-wing scene . In: Martin Finkenberger, Horst Junginger (Ed.): In the service of lies. Herbert Grabert (1901–1978) and his publishers . Alibri-Verlag, Aschaffenburg 2004, ISBN 3-932710-76-2 , pp. 155-174.
  • Author network in the gray area. In: Stephan Braun , Daniel Hörsch: Right networks - a danger. Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2004, ISBN 3-8100-4153-X , pp. 35–44.
  • Leaves against zeitgeist and decadence. Profiles and relationships with the latest periodicals using examples. In: Wolfgang Gessenharter , Thomas Pfeiffer (Eds.): The New Right - a Danger for Democracy? Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2004, ISBN 3-8100-4162-9 , pp. 199–220.
  • Globalization from the perspective of the extreme right . Educational Association Work and Life Lower Saxony East, Braunschweig 2005, ISBN 3-932082-12-5
  • Right and right-wing extremists in protest against Hartz IV. Educational Association Work and Life Lower Saxony East, Braunschweig 2006, ISBN 3-932082-22-2 .
  • Study Center Weikersheim. In: Wolfram Wette (Ed.): Filbinger, a German career. Zu Klampen, Springe 2006, ISBN 3-934920-74-8 , pp. 123-146 ( full text online ; PDF; 71 kB).
  • Trade unions targeted by right-wing extremists and right-wing extremists . Educational Association Work and Life Lower Saxony East, Braunschweig 2007, ISBN 3-932082-30-3 .
  • Political and journalistic career of authors of the "Junge Freiheit" . In: Stephan Braun, Ute Vogt (ed.): The weekly newspaper "Junge Freiheit" . Critical analyzes of the program, content, authors and customers . VS publishing house for social sciences. Wiesbaden 2007, ISBN 978-3-531-15421-3 , pp. 193-215.
  • Extreme right lawyers. In: Stephan Braun, Alexander Geisler, Martin Gerster (eds.): Strategies of the extreme right: Backgrounds - Analyzes - Answers. Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2009, ISBN 3-531-15911-9 , pp. 378-403.
  • From Obersalzberg to NSU. The extreme right and the political culture of the Federal Republic 1988–2013. Nazi glorification, racist murders of migrants, anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial . Edition Critic, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-9814548-6-4 .

With Martin Dietzsch

  • The plagiarism. The Völkisch Nationalism of the Young Freedom . Duisburg Institute for Language and Social Research V., 1994, ISBN 3-927388-44-0 .
  • Digital brown. The use of new media by neo-Nazis . In: Jens Mecklenburg (Ed.): Handbook of German right-wing extremism . Berlin (Elefanten Press) 1996, ISBN 3-88520-585-8 .
  • Right-wing extremists and new media . In: Jens Mecklenburg (Ed.): Antifa Reader. Anti-fascist manual and guide. Berlin (Elefanten Press) 1996, ISBN 3-88520-574-2 .

With Friedrich Paul Heller

  • Right-wing extremists and new media. In: Jens Mecklenburg (Ed.): Antifa Reader. Anti-fascist manual and guide. Elefanten Press, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-88520-574-2 .
  • Right-wing extremist German homepages. In: The Net of Hate. Racist, right-wing extremist and neo-Nazi propaganda on the Internet. Deuticke, 1997, ISBN 3-216-30329-2 , pp. 47-77.
  • Thule. From folk occultism to the New Right . Butterfly Verlag , 2nd updated and revised edition, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-89657-090-0 .
  • The language of hate. Right-wing extremism and ethnic esotericism: Jan van Helsing and Horst Mahler . Butterfly Verlag, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-89657-091-9 .
  • Thule. From folk mythologies to the symbolic language of today's right-wing extremists . Butterfly publishing house, 3rd revised edition, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 3-89657-092-7 .

Professional article (selection)

TV reports (selection)

Web links

Single receipts

  1. ↑ a b Barbara Junge: Left journalist in the sights of the right. taz, January 3, 1997
  2. ^ Tribune - magazine for the understanding of Judaism: Editorial .
  3. ↑ a b c d e Annett Heide: Collectors and hunters. In: Berliner Zeitung, April 15, 2002.
  4. ↑ New documentation center for right-wing extremism established. In: Baden-Württemberg.de , July 15, 2020.
  5. ^ Andreas Fauth: Documentation Center for Extremism in Karlsruhe In: SWR Aktuell Baden-Württemberg , July 2020.
  6. ↑ BNR Issue 23/1996: Anti-Antifascism as a Mission: The enemy is on the left (archive, fee required ); ARD television magazine Panorama , broadcast on October 28, 1996; Der Spiegel, February 3, 1997: Careers: Dove in a steel helmet
  7. ↑ BNR, reports 12/07: "Junge Freiheit" must refrain from providing false information (fee for non-members); Volker Schmidt: Wine, women and freedom of expression. The strange alliance of a Focus editor with the right-wing postil "Junge Freiheit" against SPD politicians. Frankfurter Rundschau, December 31, 2007/1. January 2008, Volume 63 No. 303, p. 31
  8. ^ Mathias Brodkorb : The young freedom and their opponents . In: Berliner Republik , 1/2008, Berliner Vorwärts Verlag, ISSN 1616-4903.
  9. ^ Controversial facts - The "Focus" and its anniversary, NDR (ZAPP), March 5, 2008
  10. ↑ Lars Legath: Review of Anton Maegerle: From Obersalzberg to NSU: The extreme right and the political culture of the Federal Republic from 1988 to 2013 . In: Sehepunkte. Review journal for the historical sciences , issue 14 (2014), No. 7/8.
  11. ↑ Leuchtturm 2007 goes to Andrea Röpke, Anton Maegerle and Thomas Kuban
personal data
SURNAME Maegerle, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH around 1962