Günter Maschke

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Günter Maschke in October 2015

Günter Maschke (born January 15, 1943 in Erfurt ) is a German writer who was initially a left-wing political activist , later became a private scholar and publicist of the New Right .

Life

Maschke came with his family from Erfurt to Trier as an adopted child in 1949 , where he completed an apprenticeship as an insurance salesman after graduating from secondary school. In 1960 he joined the German Peace Union , shortly afterwards the KPD, which has been illegal since 1956 . At the Technical University in Stuttgart he heard from Max Bense . There he met Gudrun Ensslin and her sister Johanna. Maschke and Johanna Ensslin moved to Tübingen and married in 1965. There Maschke studied philosophy with Ernst Bloch and was editor of the student newspaper Notes from 1963 to 1964 . In 1964 he joined the radical left situationist “ Subversive Action ” in Tübingen. After its dissolution in 1966, Maschke became involved in the Socialist German Student Union (SDS). Because he refused military service as well as alternative service for political reasons , he avoided imminent arrest by emigrating to Austria , where he joined the “Vienna Commune” around Robert Schindel . After a Vietnam demonstration, Maschke was arrested there on October 9, 1967. With effective media demonstrations, the “Kommune Wien” succeeded in delaying the threatened extradition to the Federal Republic until Maschke was able to travel to Cuba , where he received political asylum .

The experiences of his two-year stay in Cuba from 1968 to 1969 resulted in a political reorientation. Maschke criticized openly, refused career offers from the regime and was finally expelled from Cuba. He later reported that several Cuban acquaintances were executed shortly afterwards as conspirators allegedly involved in a plot to assassinate Fidel Castro and that he himself had been sentenced to ten years in prison in absentia. He returned to the Federal Republic. Here he served a year imprisonment for desertion , first in Munich and then in Landsberg . The magistrate who convicted him in January 1970 was the target of an incendiary attack a few weeks later. The action was attributed to the terrorist group " Tupamaros Munich ", which had previously demanded Maschke's release in a threatening letter.

On the mediation of Hans Magnus Enzensberger , the edition Suhrkamp published the volume of poems translated by Maschke Outside the Game Heberto Padilla . As a résumé of his experiences in Cuba, he published a description of Cuban economics in the course book and in the Fischer series the essay Critique of the Guerillero (1973). In the following years he was a lecturer at the Naval School of La Punta (Peru), where he taught the theory and strategy of counter-partisan combat, as well as working as a freelancer for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . The anti-revolutionary turn went hand in hand with studying the work of Carl Schmitt . Maschke became a connoisseur and personal friend of the theorist, who was criticized for his support for the Nazi regime. After a journalistic controversy with Jürgen Habermas , Maschke left the FAZ in 1985.

Since turning away from the radical left, Maschke has mainly published in magazines from right-wing conservative to right-wing extremist circles such as Staatsbriefe , Criticón , Junge Freiheit , Empresas políticas (where a special issue was published as a commemorative publication in 2008 for his 65th birthday) or Etappe , where he wrote from 1993 served as co-editor until the 20th edition in 2010. He published numerous articles, in particular on the works of Juan Donoso Cortés and Carl Schmitt. His annotated edition of Carl Schmitt's essays is described as the work of a “dogmatic legal interpreter”, but at the same time it is taken seriously because of its wealth of knowledge.

Act

Günter Maschke has been regarded as a pioneer of the New Right since his departure from the left and his reception of Carl Schmitt in the 1970s . For the Office for the Protection of the Constitution he is an avowed enemy of the constitution, who rates the Basic Law as a “prison”. He described democratic values ​​as "cannibal humanity and gypsy liberalism" . In Maschke's thinking, democracy is totalitarian. Analogous to the “old right” he speaks of the “dictate of Versailles ” .

Together with the left to right-wing exchanged former weapons student Horst Mahler , and Reinhold Upper Lercher published Maschke on the website of the German College on 24 December 1998 and in the far-right magazine State Letters 1/1999 a "canonical explanation for the movement of 1968" , in which they give the 68 movement a national revolutionary interpretation. They asserted that the movement of 1968 stood up neither for communism nor for capitalism, neither for third-worldly nor Eastern nor for Western concepts and power interests, but "solely for the right of every people to national revolutionary and social revolutionary self-liberation" .

Publications

Monographs
  • Criticism of the guerrilla. On the theory of the people's war. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1973, ISBN 3-10-047201-2 .
  • The death of Carl Schmitt. Apology and polemics. Karolinger, Vienna 1987, ISBN 3-85418-030-6 .
    • New edition: The Death of Carl Schmitt. Edition revised and increased by texts from the years 1988–2007. Karolinger, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-85418-146-0 .
  • The armed word. Articles from 1973-1993. Karolinger, Vienna / Leipzig 1997, ISBN 3-85418-080-2 .
Editing
  • Carl Schmitt. State - Greater Area - Nomos. Works by Carl Schmitt from the years 1916-1969. Duncker & Humblot Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-428-07471-8 .
  • Carl Schmitt. Peace or Pacifism? Works on international law and international politics 1924-1978. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-08940-5 .
Translations
  • Heberto Padilla: Outside the game. Poems. Translated from Spanish. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1971.
Interviews
  • Sebastian Maaß (Ed.): Traitors don't sleep. Günter Maschke in conversation. Ad Rem, Vol. 2. Regin, Preetz 2011.

literature

  • Lorenz Jäger: Scholar without office. War theory: for Günter Maschke's sixtieth birthday . In: FAZ. January 15, 2003, p. 35.
  • Willi Winkler : The temptation to run amok. A German milieu: how does a right-wing communist live today? In: Süddeutsche Zeitung September 18, 1998, p. 3.
  • Empresas Políticas. Año VII, Número 10/11. 1 er / 2 semester 2008. (= Número especial: Liber Amicorum ofrecido a Günter Maschke - Festschrift for Günter Maschke - special issue) ISSN  1695-6117
  • Guillermo de Ujúe: Selected bibliography Günter Maschke. In: Festschrift for Günter Maschke. Pp. 325-331.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Anton Maegerle: Political and journalistic career of authors of the "Junge Freiheit". In: Stephan Braun, Ute Vogt (eds.): The weekly newspaper "Junge Freiheit": Critical analyzes of the program, content, authors and customers. Springer, 2007, pp. 193-215, p. 198.
  2. ↑ Left: Return from the moon. In: Der Spiegel of May 7, 1973, accessed on March 21, 2014
  3. ↑ Timo Frasch: Survived. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, October 20, 2013, p. 10
  4. ^ Wolfgang Kraushaar : Murder charges: Hans Magnus Enzensberger's bad brother Ulrich. In: Welt.de of June 17, 2013, accessed on March 21, 2014
  5. ↑ Heberto Padilla (1932–2000) received the highest Cuban literary prize in 1968 for his poetry collection Fuera del Juego , but was shortly afterwards sentenced to house arrest for the content of his poems critical of the regime. The "Padilla Affair" brought the regime a worldwide loss of sympathy among intellectuals
  6. ↑ Lorenz Jäger: German Moment, in: FAZ, June 18, 2013, p. 25
  7. ↑ Magazin Kunst , Volume 51, 3rd quarter 1973, p. 70
  8. ↑ Germany Archive (1993), p. 1398
  9. ↑ See the imprint of the 20th stage, summer 2010
  10. ↑ s. Review by Reinhard Mehring at H-Soz-u-Kult
  11. ↑ For example Michael Stolleis in Frankfurter Rundschau , s. also the summary at Perlentaucher
  12. ↑ Verfassungsschutzbericht 2003, published in 2004, there it is formulated more sharply: Maschke, who in an earlier JF interview described himself as an “enemy of the constitution” and elsewhere assessed the constitution as a prison, defamed democratic values ​​as “cannibal humanity and gypsy liberalism”. P. 90f.
  13. ↑ Günter Maschke in an interview, “The space of intellectual freedom has almost evaporated”. In: Young Freedom. 06/1991, p. 3.
  14. ↑ Günter Maschke, "The Angel of Destruction" , In: Junge Freiheit. 15/2003, p. 17.
  15. ↑ Günter Maschke in an interview, "With the youth at that time was discussed" , In: Junge Freiheit. 35/2000, p. 7.
  16. ↑ Günter Maschke in an interview, “The Germans become vassals of the USA without wages” , In: Junge Freiheit. 14/1999, p. 4f.
  17. ↑ Talk of the "Versailles Diktat" also in Maschke: The Death of Carl Schmitt. Vienna 1987, p. 133.
  18. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from November 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.reich4.de
  19. ^ Yearbook Extremism & Democracy. Volume 22, Bouvier Verlag 2010, p. 247.
  20. ↑ Horst Mahler, Günter Maschke, Reinhold Oberlercher: "Canonical Declaration on the Movement of 1968". In: State letters. 1/1999, p. 16; The quote was published in at least three secondary sources, here Klaus Biesenbach: To the idea of ​​terror. Volume 2 of On the Presentation of Terror: The RAF Exhibition. Steidl Verlag 2005, p. 135.
personal data
SURNAME Maschke, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Erfurt