Heiko Heinisch
Heiko Heinisch (* 1966 in Offenbach am Main ) is an Austrian historian and author . The subject area in which he publishes extends from anti-Semitism and the Nazi persecution of Jews to human rights , integration and Islam .
Life
After completing a history degree , Heinisch u. a. as a freelancer at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Historical Social Science in Vienna and at the Institute for Islamic Studies at the University of Vienna . After dealing with the topics of anti-Semitism and the National Socialist persecution of Jews, his interest in the history of ideas grew . That is why he has since dealt increasingly with the issues of freedom , human rights and democracy .
He gives lectures and published books on Christian hostility towards Jews, National Socialist foreign policy and the extermination of the Jews and has been devoting himself for a number of years to the problems that Europe is confronted by the immigration of conservative sections of the population from predominantly Islamic countries. He is also a member of the Expert_Forum Deradicalization, Prevention & Culture of Democracy of the City of Vienna.
Heinisch wrote columns for The European and today writes regularly for the online debate magazine diekolumnisten.de and occasionally comments in the Austrian daily newspapers Wiener Zeitung , Der Standard and Kurier .
On October 2, 2017, Heiko Heinisch, together with the former Austrian Foreign and Integration Minister Sebastian Kurz , presented one of his and Imet Mehmedi et al's at a press conference in Vienna. prepared a research report on “ The role of the mosque in the integration process ” on behalf of the Austrian Integration Fund (ÖIF) . The report examines and analyzes "the Viennese mosque landscape and the content of the sermons of the mosques with the greatest reach and Muslim religious houses". In summary, the report, which Heinisch describes as “not representative”, shows that “only two of the [16] mosques investigated actively support and encourage integration into Austrian society. In more than a third of the mosques examined, however, the integration is counteracted ”.
reception
The book Europe, Human Rights and Islam - a Kulturkampf ? , written together with Nina Scholz . was positively received by the reviewer Heinrich Schmitz. The authors would defend the constitutional results of the Enlightenment with convincing justifications, but also show “that uncompromising adherence to inalienable human rights neither prevents the well-understood integration of believing Muslims nor restricts the individual religious freedom of believers, but does mean rejection of compulsory ones "Restrictions on individual rights that violate human rights through special rights enforced by collectives for their members".
In the Falter, Kirstin Breitenfellner praises the book Charlie versus Mohammed: Plea for Freedom of Expression, which was also written together with Nina Scholz, as impressive. The greatest merit of the book consists in “not only issuing a justified warning, but also providing the reader with tools to counter the problem: in the form of central definitions of terms that are able to address the heated, fearful, To direct allegations and counter-allegations certain debate, in which the roles of perpetrators and victims are increasingly reversed, in more sensible channels ”.
Jérôme Segal understands Charlie versus Mohammed: The plea for freedom of expression in the daily newspaper Der Standard not as one against Islam, but as a voice for an aggiornamento of it, because for the authors, Islam is part of Europe, “just when jokes about it and criticism are just as natural in him as in other religions and world views ”. Segal goes on to say that the discussion on “Islamic (Sti) cal kindergartens” in Vienna shows how important this book is. This debate is still not possible without the accusation of " Islamophobia " emerging, and the Austrian Islamic associations would again miss the opportunity to hold an aggiornamento.
Fonts
- with Nina Scholz : "... the Christians will not put up with anything." Viennese pastors and the Jews in the interwar period. 2001, ISBN 978-3-7076-0120-6
- with Eleonore Lappin , Dieter A. Binder , Heinz P. Wassermann : "Feindbild Jude": On the history of anti-Semitism (historical and socio-political writings). 2003, ISBN 978-3950097139
- Hitler's hostages. Hegemonic plans and the Holocaust (contemporary history passages). 2005, ISBN 978-3851656626
- with Nina Scholz: Europe, human rights and Islam - a culture war? 2012, ISBN 978-3709200162 ( review by Heinrich Schmitz on theeuropean.de).
- with Nina Scholz: Charlie versus Mohammed: Plea for freedom of expression (Passages topic). 2015, ISBN 978-3709201923 .
- with Nina Scholz: Everything for Allah: How political Islam is changing our society , Molden Verlag, March 2019, ISBN 978-3222150296
Individual evidence
- ↑ Heiko Heinisch . In: TheEuropean . May 22, 2015 ( theeuropean.de [accessed June 2, 2017]).
- ↑ Heiko Heinisch . In: The Columnists. Personally. Party. Provocative. ( diekolumnisten.de [accessed June 2, 2017]).
- ↑ http://diekolumnisten.de/
- ↑ Lisa Nimmervoll: Historian Heinisch: "The school should be a headscarf-free room" . In: derStandard.at . ( derstandard.at [accessed June 2, 2017]).
- ^ The role of the mosque in the integration process , ÖIF, Oct. 2017
- ↑ Briefly presented mosque study , kurier.at, October 2, 2017
- ^ Heinrich Schmitz: Review of "Human Rights and Islam" . In: TheEuropean . June 11, 2013 ( theeuropean.de [accessed June 2, 2017]).
- ↑ Nina Scholz, Heiko Heinisch: Charlie versus Mohammed - book review | falter.at. Accessed June 2, 2017 (German).
- ↑ Jérôme Segal: Everyone has a right to be offended by Charlie . In: derStandard.at . ( derstandard.at [accessed June 2, 2017]).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Heinisch, Heiko |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1966 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Offenbach am Main |