Heike Kleffner

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Heike Kleffner (* 1966 ) is a German journalist and author .

Career

Kleffner grew up in Hamburg and studied political science at the Free University of Berlin . With the Action Reconciliation Service for Peace , she spent a year and a half of voluntary service in Washington, DC, combined with a work stay in Nicaragua and El Salvador . In 1997/98 she completed a traineeship at the Protestant School of Journalism in Berlin. As a freelance journalist , she writes about right-wing violence, neo-Nazis and the situation of refugees for taz , Zeit Online , Tagesspiegel , Jungle World , Jetzt and the Frankfurter Rundschau, among others . She is the managing director of the Association of Counseling Centers for those affected by right-wing, racist and anti-Semitic violence. Until 2013 she was a consultant for the Left Party in the Bundestag in the NSU investigative committee . From 2004 to 2009 she headed the mobile advice service for victims of right-wing violence in Saxony-Anhalt.

Reviews

Under Saxony

This in March 2017 with texts by Kleffner and co-editor Matthias Meisner and around forty other authors such as Toralf Staud , Robert Feustel , Olaf Sundermeyer , Sebastian Leber , Dirk Laabs , Arndt Ginzel , Imran Ayata , Jaroslav Rudiš , Anna Kaleri and Michael Bittner published the book "Unter Sachsen", according to the FAZ, "divided the Free State - and showed how Saxony deals with critics." The city ​​did not want to allow the book to be presented at the Meißen Literature Festival with a panel discussion in the town hall. In Berlin, the Saxon state representation refused to provide a room for a reading, whereupon this took place in the Thuringian state representation .

Johanna Roth ( taz ) found that anyone who “looks closely” and doesn't just want to complain about drooling Pegida demonstrators and Saxon conditions should read this book , because it looks at the situation in Saxony from different perspectives. Kleffner and Meisner would not want to teach, but tell and show, and "that it was once written down so knowledgeably and above all with multifaceted description" is important. It would not only be of interest to those who shouted "Merkel must go" every Monday, but also to the others for whom a lot has changed in their country and life as a result of the Pegida and its marginal phenomena.

Kleffner and Meisner's book tell the story, let “everything revive”, “get painfully close”, draw “in detail the long years of political trivialization of right-wing violence” and paint “a big picture of Saxony”, was reviewed by Bernhard Honnigfort ( Frankfurter Rundschau ). He saw the “noticeable anger of some authors” as a weakness in the collection of “reports, reports [and] stories of varying quality” by the “more than 40 authors”. The contributions by Heinz Eggert and Frank Richter would have made “the book neither better nor more interesting, just thicker”. He found the devastating contribution about Uwe Steimle irritating, which would have been "carved into the ground with a big hammer and unpleasantly".

“Clearly and without irony”, Cornelius Pollmer ( Süddeutsche Zeitung ) considered the analysis of the “situation in the Free State between Pegida , anti-refugee slogans and right-wing extremism ” compiled by Kleffner and Meisner to be “pretty good”. Deficiencies such as repetitions, one-sidedness and a lack of research were felt by Pollmer as “tolerable” in view of the otherwise clear statement that in 25 years of CDU government “right-wing attitudes and violence” were consistently played down, unlawful areas emerged and - as Pollmer Martin Dulig cited - Saxony became "Democratic developing country" was.

Generation Hoyerswerda

The disproportionately large number of right-wing extremist offenders in East Germany and the higher risk of victimization for the below-average number of people with a migration background make an analysis of right-wing extremism all the more important for Harald Bergsdorf . The anthology by Kleffner and Spangenberg focuses on right-wing extremism in Brandenburg since the riots in Hoyerswerda and describes in detail the actions and networks of neo-Nazis from a social science and civil society perspective . "With a lot of empathy for (potential) victims of violence", "the band makes an important contribution on the one hand to highlight the high potential for aggression and escalation of neo-Nazi groups in Brandenburg" and, last but not least, could promote civic engagement. Bergsdorf found the deficiency that the contributions would tend to remain superficial instead of doing deeper research into the causes, for example about the widespread use of right-wing extremism in East Germany or the instrumentalization of the asylum issue by right-wing extremists.

Books

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Author profile Heike Kleffner. In: Unrast Verlag .
  2. ↑ Heike Kleffner. In: Protestant School of Journalism .
  3. ^ Author profile Heike Kleffner. In: taz .
  4. ^ Author profile Heike Kleffner. In: Zeit Online .
  5. ^ Author profile Heike Kleffner. In: Tagesspiegel .
  6. ^ Author profile Heike Kleffner. In: Jungle World .
  7. ↑ Heike Kleffner: Strikes that don't make headlines. In: Frankfurter Rundschau . December 9, 2013.
  8. ^ The NSU committee of inquiry in North Rhine-Westphalia - opportunities, requirements and pitfalls. In: Center for Action, Culture and Communication . October 27, 2014.
  9. ↑ Advisory Board. In: Mobile advice for victims of right-wing violence.
  10. ↑ Stefan Locke: One will probably be able to remain silent about that. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . June 12, 2017.
  11. ↑ Dorothee Nolte: "Unter Sachsen" - a book about a difficult federal state. In: Tagesspiegel . October 11, 2017.
  12. ^ Johanna Roth: Dull is trump. In: taz . April 27, 2017.
  13. ^ Bernhard Honnigfort: Stories of misunderstood people. In: Frankfurter Rundschau . 3rd April 2017.
  14. ^ Cornelius Pollmer: Sachsenland under. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . 20th May 2017.
  15. ↑ Harald Bergsdorf : High aggression potential. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . June 27, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Kleffner, Heike
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1966