Claus Leggewie

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Claus Leggewie, 2016
Claus Leggewie, 2010

Claus Leggewie (born March 27, 1950 in Wanne-Eickel ) is a German political scientist and was Director of the Institute for Cultural Studies in Essen from 2007 to July 31, 2017 . Leggewie is co-editor of the papers for German and international politics .

Life

Leggewie is the son of the classical philologist Otto Leggewie (1910-1991), who was director of a grammar school in the 1950s and later a ministerial official. He studied history and social sciences in Cologne and Paris . In 1979 he was with a thesis on the French colonial system in Algeria August University Göttingen Georg (GAU) to the doctorate ; his doctoral supervisor was Bassam Tibi . Leggewie later completed his habilitation at the GAU.

From 1989 to 2007 he was Professor of Political Science at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen . Leggewie had several guest professorships and research visits, for example at the Institute for Advanced Study Berlin (2000-2001), the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) in Vienna (1995, 2006) and at the University of Paris X . From 1995 to 1997 he was the first holder of the Max Weber Chair at New York University .

In April 2001 he became managing director of the Center for Media and Interactivity at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen. The center was co-founded by him.

In 2007 Leggewie succeeded Jörn Rüsens as the new director of the Institute for Cultural Studies Essen (KWI), a joint scientific institution of the Universities of Bochum, Dortmund and Duisburg-Essen (UAMR). In the humanities and cultural sciences, the KWI has the role of the “Wissenschaftskolleg Nordrhein-Westfalen”. His term of office as director at KWI ended on July 31, 2017. From September 2017 to 2018 he was a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS).

In December 2008 Leggewie was appointed a member of the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU). He is also a member of Attac's scientific advisory board .

On May 21, 2008 Leggewie was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Theological Faculty of the University of Rostock . In 2007 he received the University Prize of the University of Duisburg-Essen.

In 2016 Leggewie received the Volkmar and Margret Sander Prize from New York University . In 2017 he received the Order of Merit of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia .

Leggewie was appointed by the President of the Justus Liebig University as the first incumbent to the Carl Ludwig Börne Professorship at JLU in the 2015/16 winter semester .

He is a member of the Council for Migration Association .

Act

As a by-product of his Algeria research, Leggewie was confronted with “a completely different story” during his research in Algeria: the Algerian War of Independence and its support by a broad sympathetic scene in the early Federal Republic. In dealing with her, he reconstructed the history of the beginnings of left-wing internationalism in the Federal Republic and adopted the term " luggage carrier " from the French for its protagonists .

“The actors, mostly less prominent» anti-heroes «, I call the Algerian generation, although they actually don't belong to one age group, but come from different life and time histories. There are those "old men" who, even before the Nazi terror, made left-wing politics and resisted it. Then came the 1920s who had been robbed of their youth by the Nazis, the generation of the Scholl siblings, so to speak, and finally the boys who [...] had to work as pioneers of the West German left in difficult restoration times. [..] What " Spain " was to the older ones , "Algeria" was to them - a prehistoric layer of the protest movement of the 1960s. For most of them, Algeria was not the main venue, but a continuation of the first West German peace movement by other means, a needle with which one could prick the calcifying social democracy a little, and the score with which one could listen to the pathetic organ sound of the prescribed German- French reconciliation was able to mix in a few anti-colonial tones. "

- Claus Leggewie : porter. The Algeria Project of the Left in Adenauer Germany, pp. 9-10

The other research and publications by Leggewie, who describes himself as " 68er ", deal with cultural globalization, the European culture of remembrance , democracy and democratization in non-Western societies, political and scientific communication in digital media, political iconography and the energy transition. Leggewie is co-editor of the political-scientific monthly magazine Blätter for German and international politics . An overview of Leggewie's work is given in the 2010 Festschrift Kultur im Conflict (Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld) on the occasion of his 60th birthday with contributions by well-known colleagues. In it, Navid Kermani wrote a commentary entitled Thinking in Contradictions. Claus Leggewie's book MULTI KULTI twenty years later , in which he certifies the author's forward-looking thinking: “In 1990, Claus Leggewie did not treat the multicultural society as something that one rejects or advocates, welcomes or says goodbye, but finally as a reality that is in its diversity to be described, analyzed and designed. Even this self-evident claim of a social scientist became a plea in 2010. "

At the start of the UN Climate Change Conference in Katowice in 2018 , Leggewie, together with climate scientist Hans Joachim Schellnhuber and economist David Löw Beer , proposed the establishment of a state fund as a market-based instrument for climate protection with a volume of up to 0.6 billion euros, the aim of which is Setting a clear signal in the direction of a sustainability transformation. The fund is to be fed from higher taxes on greenhouse gas emissions from carbon dioxide and - for the purpose of pricing CO2, also from past emissions - from a higher inheritance tax . Funds would either flow directly into infrastructure projects or into the sovereign wealth fund, which invests in companies with benefits for climate protection and the energy transition according to defined criteria .

Fonts (selection)

  • Porter: The Left's Algeria Project in Adenauer Germany . Rotbuch, Berlin 1984, ISBN 3-88022-286-X .
    • Porter: The Algeria Project in the 50s and 60s and the Origins of “Internationalism” in the Federal Republic , in: Politische Vierteljahresschrift, Vol. 25, No. 2 (June 1984), pp. 169-187.
  • The mind is on the right. Excursions into the think tanks of the turning point , Rotbuch 1987, ISBN 3-88022-320-3 .
  • Multi cultural Rules of the game for the multi-ethnic republic , Rotbuch 1990, ISBN 3-88022-038-7 .
  • Dead land. About Bosnia, the destruction of culture and our future , Herder 1995, ISBN 3-451-23873-X , together with Zoran Filipovic, Hans Koschnick .
  • The 89s. Portrait of a generation. Hamburg. 1995, ISBN 3-455-08372-2 .
  • From Schneider zu Schwerte , Hanser 1998, ISBN 3-446-19491-6 .
  • America's world. The USA in our heads , Hoffmann and Campe 2000, ISBN 3-455-11137-8 .
  • Politics in the 21st Century , Suhrkamp 2nd edition 2001, ISBN 3-518-12221-5 , together with Richard Münch.
  • Prohibition of the NPD or living with right-wing extremists. The positions. Suhrkamp 2002, ISBN 3-518-12260-6 , together with Horst Meier.
  • Globalization and its opponents , CH Beck 2003, ISBN 3-406-47627-9 .
  • Globalization worlds. Culture and society in an unleashed world , Halem 2003, ISBN 3-931606-65-1 , together with Marcus S. Kleiner, Hermann Strasser, Anthony Giddens, Pierre Bourdieu .
  • Interactivity. A transdisciplinary key term , Campus 2004, ISBN 3-593-37603-2 , together with Christoph Bieber
  • Turkey and Europe. The positions. Suhrkamp 4th edition 2004, ISBN 3-518-12354-8 .
  • A place to go to , Hanser 2005, ISBN 3-446-20586-1 , together with Erik Meyer.
  • From politics to society advice. New ways of public consultation , Campus 2007, ISBN 3-593-38220-2 .
  • Mosques in Germany - Religious homeland and social challenge ; with Bärbel Beinhauer-Koehler. Becksche series, Verlag CH Beck, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-58423-7 .
  • The end of the world as we knew it: climate, future and the chances of democracy , S. Fischer 2009, together with Harald Welzer , ISBN 978-3-10-043311-4 .
  • The struggle for European memory , together with Anne Lang; CH Beck Verlag, Munich 2011 ISBN 978-3-406-60584-0 .
  • Courage instead of anger: departure for a new democracy. Edition Körber Foundation, 2011, ISBN 3-89684-084-3 .
  • Political times. Observations from the sidelines . C. Bertelsmann Verlag, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-570-10200-8 .
  • with Patrizia Nanz : The Consultative. More democracy through citizen participation , Wagenbach, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-8031-2749-5 .
  • Anti-european. Breivik, Dugin, al-Suri & Co. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-518-07145-8 .
  • Europe first! A declaration of independence. Ullstein, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-8437-1621-5 .
  • "André Gorz and the second left. The topicality of an almost forgotten thinker. Edited by Claus Leggewie and Wolfgang Stenke. Wagenbach, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-8031-2785-3
  • 50 years '68. Cologne and its protest history. Greven, Cologne 2018, ISBN 978-3-7743-0693-6 .
  • Now! Opposition, protest, resistance. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2019, ISBN 978-3-462-05329-6 .

Essays and articles (selection)

  • Clinton on the Net. The internet is not responsible for neglecting political mores. In: taz, 12./13. September 1998
  • The illuminating shallows of the banal. About the negative heroes of history and mediocrity [response to H. Schlaffer's criticism of the Schneider / Schwerte book]. In: FAZ, October 13, 1998
  • Politics in the Merz building. In the leading culture : we have enough cultural scientists. In: FR, November 2, 2000
  • On tour. Histotainment and the Finkelstein Debate. In: FR, February 10, 2001
  • Texan mantra. George W. Bush flirts with communitarianism. In: FR, March 6, 2001
  • The shadows of Shatilla. Under Arik Sharon, Israel is threatened with isolation. In: FR, June 21, 2001
  • (With Erik Meyer), don't switch off! Memorials in the Economy of Attention. In: NZZ, August 9, 2001
  • Think the war. Recollecting instead of withdrawing: Tasks of the university. In: FR, October 30, 2001
  • Participatory democracy. And more public debate: progress in genetic engineering poses questions that cannot be dealt with solely with conscience. In: FR, January 30, 2002
  • New forms of democratic participation '.' in: transit. .European Review, vol. 44, pp. 72–85, 2013 (with Patrizia Nanz ). English translation: “The future council. New forms of democratic participation ”, in: Eurozine.
  • Interview in Die WELT on December 28, 2013, Cities of the Future "Poverty has a cardinal direction"

Awards

Web links

Commons : Claus Leggewie  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tibi wrote in his 1998 book “Europe without Identity?” About Leggewie: “As a doctoral supervisor to whom Leggewie was assigned as an assistant, I did not succeed in convincing him while writing his dissertation on Algeria how important Islam is for the analysis is (political economy was more valid then); Today this German multiculturalist is teaching me about the civilization in which I grew up, Islam! "(Bassam Tibi:" Europe without identity? Leitkultur oder Wertebeliebigkeit ", Siedler / Goldmann, January 2001, p. 360)
  2. ↑ Bianca Schröder: Claus Leggewie conducts research as a Senior Fellow at the IASS on sustainability in politics. In: IASS Potsdam. Institute for Transformative Sustainability Research. Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies eV (IASS), September 6, 2017, accessed on November 12, 2019 .
  3. ^ Scientific advisory board founded by Attac
  4. ↑ Charlotte Brückner-Ihl: Prof. Claus Leggewie receives the Order of Merit of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia. Justus Liebig University Giessen, press release from January 19, 2017 at the Informationsdienst Wissenschaft (idw-online.de), accessed on January 19, 2017.
  5. ↑ Ludwig Börne Professorship - ZMI. In: www.uni-giessen.de. Retrieved June 8, 2016 .
  6. ↑ rat-fuer-migration.de (last accessed on September 2, 2018)
  7. ↑ http://www.tagesspiegel.de/wissen/die-bunte-gesellschaft-die-vielvoelker repeat-hat-wenig-talent-heimat-zu-haben-eine-alternative-gibt-es-aber-nicht-/ 6228632- 2.html
  8. ↑ Navid Kermani: Thinking in contradictions. Claus Leggewie's book MULTI KULTI twenty years later . In: Culture in Conflict. Claus Leggewie revisited , edited by Christoph Bieber, Benjamin Drechsel and Anne-Katrin Lang. transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2010, ISBN 978-3-8394-1450-7 , pp. 230-232.
  9. ↑ Bollmann, R. (2018). Katowice Conference: Radical Plan for Climate. FAZ.net, December 1, 2018. http://www.faz.net/aktuell/wirtschaft/forscher-stellen-raduellen-plan-fuer-klima-konferenz-in-kattowitz-vor-15919764.html
  10. ↑ Book Review: Climate Change - The End of the World? , goethe.de/klima: October 2009
  11. ↑ Ministerialblatt (MBl. NRW.) . Edition 2017 No. 4 from February 3, 2017, pages 59 to 70. Accessed February 5, 2017.
  12. ^ State Chancellery of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia. . Awarded the State Order of Merit on January 18, 2017. Retrieved on February 5, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Leggewie, Claus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist and author
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Wanne-Eickel