Christoph Giesa

Christoph Giesa (born September 20, 1980 in Nuremberg ) is a German columnist and publicist .

Life

After graduating from high school in Idar-Oberstein in 2000 , Giesa studied business administration ( diploma ) at the University of Mannheim . He studied at the University of Lusófona in Lisbon as part of the Erasmus program .

Giesa was chairman of the Young Liberals in Rhineland-Palatinate. In the 2004 European elections , he ran unsuccessfully as the Rhineland-Palatinate top candidate for the FDP . In 2010 he co-organized a non-partisan Facebook campaign for Joachim Gauck, who was proposed by the SPD and the Greens for the election of the Federal President .

Giesa lives and works in Hamburg . Until 2015 he published a regular column for the debate magazine The European . He also wrote for the Hamburger Abendblatt , Die Welt , Tagesspiegel , Zeit Online , the Jüdische Allgemeine , the magazine Business Punk and for the political feuilleton of Deutschlandradio Kultur .

reception

His book New Business Order (2014) was reviewed by Zeit Online with: “The book provides many stimulating thoughts. Many principles in the digital economy can be transferred to your own life and also used for your own company ideas. The book can just as easily be misunderstood. Then it delivers an overly optimistic view of what is actually a gloomy version of the working world of the future. "

According to the political scientist Armin Pfahl-Traughber, the work Dangerous Citizens: The New Right Seizes the Middle (2015) is “rather fragmentary and superficial” and ignores the state of research on the New Right . The authors treated a topic that was previously foreign to them; there is a lack of definitions and appropriate weightings. They "construct [...] a unity and homogeneity of the intended protagonists that does not exist at all". Ultimately, the book is "well meant, but not well done".

Fonts (selection)

• Elite in the hamster wheel. Manifesto for a fresh start for the creative class . With a foreword by Jorgo Chatzimarkakis , Edition Windjammer (tredition), Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-86850-655-6 .
• Citizen. Power. Politics . With a foreword by Joachim Gauck , Campus Verlag , Frankfurt am Main a. a. 2011, ISBN 978-3-593-39465-7 .
• with Lena Schiller Clausen: New Business Order. How start-ups are changing the economy and society . Carl Hanser Verlag , Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-446-43874-3 .
• with Liane Bednarz : Germany is going crazy . The truth about the AfD . Carl Hanser, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-446-24894-6 ( e-book from Hanser Box).
• with Liane Bednarz: Dangerous citizens: The new right reaches out to the middle . Carl Hanser, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-446-44461-4 .
• Christoph Giesa: The right way to deal with right-wing extremist slogans . Communication advisor. Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom , Potsdam 2017 ( freiheit.org [PDF]).

Web links

• Literature by and about Christoph Giesa in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Christoph Giesa  in the German Digital Library
• Search for Christoph Giesa in the SPK digital portal of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
• Short biography and reviews of works by Christoph Giesa at perlentaucher.de
• Website and weblog from Christoph Giesa
• Profile of Christoph Giesa at the debate magazine The European
• Christoph Giesa at Carl Hanser Verlag

Videos

• Melanie Thun: Hatred and Exclusion - Language as a Memento of the New Right ( Memento from September 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). ttt - titel, thesen, temperamente ( ARD ), September 6, 2015.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ pau / dpa: A Hamburger advertises Gauck . In: Abendblatt.de , June 29, 2010.
2. ^ Bernhard Honnigfort: Blogging for Joachim Gauck . In: fr-online.de , June 8, 2010.
3. ↑ Sophia Seiderer: The Gauck maker . In: welt.de , March 18, 2012.
4. ↑ Sabine Hockling: Are we all start- ups now? . In: Zeit Online , April 7, 2014.
5. ↑ Armin Pfahl-Traughber : A book about the "new rights". Well meant, but not well done . In: Humanistic Press Service , August 26, 2015.