Jürgen Elsässer

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Elsässer as a speaker at LEGIDA , October 2015

Jürgen Rainer Elsässer (born January 20, 1957 in Pforzheim ) is a German journalist , publicist and political activist .

From around 1975 to 2008 he was an author, editor and co-editor of various left-wing print media such as Arbeitserkampf , Bahamas , Jungle World , Junge Welt , Beton and Neues Deutschland . From 1990 to 2002 he represented anti-German and from 2003 anti-imperialist positions in the German radical left.

Since then he has gradually turned more and more to right-wing populism and right-wing extremism . In 2009 he founded the “popular initiative against finance capital ”, which was open to new rights . Since the end of 2010 he has been editor-in-chief of the monthly magazine Compact . In 2014 and 2015 he appeared at the vigil for peace , the Dresden demonstration alliance Pegida and its Leipzig branch Legida . Since 2016 he has positioned Compact as an election campaign organ for the right-wing populist party Alternative for Germany (AfD). He represents anti-American , homophobic , racist , nationalist and ideological conspiracy positions, which he wants to spread as widely as possible with a lateral front . Some of his statements are classified as anti-Semitic .

Journalist in the German left

After completing his studies, Elsässer initially worked as a high school teacher. In the early 1980s he became a member of the Communist League (KB) in Stuttgart and wrote for its newspaper Arbeiterkampf . With his article “Why the Left Must Be Anti-German” (1990), he co-founded this trend in the radical left. In the 1990s he co-edited the group K magazine Bahamas .

In the early 1990s, Alsatian fought against nationalist tendencies on the left, criticized German reunification as an "annexation" of the GDR and warned of its political consequences (dismantling of the welfare state in Germany, Germany's striving for great power in Europe, historical revisionism in relation to the Nazi era). In a specific article in 1995, he said that no argument would help against the “tirades” of the historian Ernst Nolte (meaning his statements since the historians' dispute of 1986/87), only “one on the mouth”; No essays help against anti-Semitism, only “baseball bats”. Nolte's statements prepared the right-wing extremist DVU's program . This call for violence was hardly heeded publicly at the time.

Elsässer's book Antisemitism - the old face of the new Germany (1992; 2003) and his essay Honorable Antisemitism? (1994) were received with approval, for example his references to the stereotype of world Jewry , which also persists in moderate German parties , to "numerous set pieces of anti-Semitism in left-wing propaganda" and to the self-criticism of the revolutionary cells that the left is not immune to anti-Semitism because it in the hijacking in 1976 by Palestinian and German terrorists " selection Jewish" murder victim had come to "ethnic policies".

From 1994 to 1997 Elsässer was editor of the newspaper Junge Welt , from April 1 to October 19, 1994, together with Kathrin Gerlof and Günter Kolodziej, also its editor-in-chief. After a conflict with the management of the young world , which was striving for an orthodox-communist orientation, he co-founded Jungle World in 1997 and edited it until 2000. Like other leftists, he rejected the NATO war against Yugoslavia in 1999 and rejected its official justifications in 2000 as propaganda lies. Later, however, Elsässer said goodbye to "anti-German" positions, wrote again for the Junge Welt and, according to the extremism researchers Eckhard Jesse and Uwe Backes , exemplified the line based on Lenin's theory of imperialism , which rejects the state of Israel and sympathizes with radical Palestinian organizations.

In his brown book DVU (1998) Elsässer classified the right-wing extremist party, the German People's Union, as “national revolutionary” and declared that leftists had problems recognizing “the socialist in fascism”, even in the NSDAP . These assessments have been rejected by various authors.

From April 1999 to December 2002, Elsässer was the editor of the political section of the monthly magazine concrete . In 2002, months of violent internal conflicts broke out there over the attitude towards the impending Iraq war . A group around the publisher Hermann L. Gremliza said that possible attacks by the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein on Israel obliged the German left to agree to the overthrow of this regime with German participation. Elsasser, on the other hand, saw it as a departure from the motto “Never again war”, which had formed the pacifist “minimal consensus” of the West German left since 1945 , with the help of fluffy “war lies from the left”. After he had raised this accusation against concrete in the young world , Gremliza dismissed him.

From 2003 to 2006 he wrote for the online magazine Telepolis . From April 2008 to January 15, 2009 Elsässer worked for the daily newspaper Neues Deutschland , wrote again articles for the Junge Welt and the weekly newspaper der Freitag .

Jürgen Elsässer at the press festival of the newspaper Neues Deutschland (end of 2008)

Turning to the political right

From 2000 onwards, Elsässer increasingly took sides for panserbism and for convicted Serbian war criminals . He justified the ethnic politics of Slobodan Milošević and in 2006 welcomed the alliance of the Slovak Social Democrats with the right-wing extremist Slovak National Party as a "cross-front alliance" against the USA, which questions the positions of German anti-fascists.

In March 2006, Alsatian contradicted anti-Semitism allegations against the film Valley of the Wolves - Iraq and demanded that the peace movement should use the film as an argument against the US policy on Iraq. According to the Austrian journalist Karl Pfeifer , Elsässer turned to a " national community ", "in which the right and left want to ally themselves against the common enemy with Islamists and Turkish chauvinists."

In the summer of 2006, Elsässer gave an interview to the right-wing French newspaper Le Choc du Mois , which appeared there alongside interviews with right-wing extremists Jean-Marie Le Pen and Bruno Mégret ( Front National ). In it, following the French new right Alexandre del Valle , he claimed a secret alliance between the USA and Islamists and advocated further conspiracy theories : the real rulers in the USA are the neoconservatives Dick Cheney , Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz . They wanted to cause worldwide chaos in order to sell US arms and oil more easily and more expensively, and on September 11, 2001 they would have attempted an assassination attempt on US President George W. Bush . Elsässer later published the interview as a book ( How jihad came to Europe ) in the Swiss publishing house "Xenia Editions". At that time, Elsässer advised the Left Party.PDS for the committee of inquiry into the journalist scandal .

In November 2006, Elsässer wrote that “ multiculturalism , gender mainstreaming and the gay subculture are being promoted with state funds , while the proletariat is set on Hartz IV and often cannot afford a daycare center, swimming pool or warm apartment”. This was taken as a plea for a cross-front policy of the left-wing faction. In his book Left or Lame? (2006) advocated plebiscites as a way to socialism, which the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela had shown. In his publication Attack of the Locusts on the " Locust Debate " he pleaded for mobilizing "modernization losers" to defend the nation state against the " globalist attacks of the USA".

In October 2007, Elsässer pleaded in a lecture to the national-conservative Prussian Society in Berlin-Brandenburg for a cross-front alliance “from the left to the democratic right” or “from Lafontaine to Gauweiler ”. He succeeded the right-wing extremist Horst Mahler , who had welcomed Oskar Lafontaine's advocacy of the Tobin tax in 1999: For the first time since Adolf Hitler , a German politician had "made a difference between the creative capital and the hard-working capital". Elsässer and Lafontaine performed together more often until 2007. In 2009 Elsässer's lecture was published as a book ( Nationstaat und Globalisierung ). In it he described the financial crisis from 2007 following Sahra Wagenknecht as the "rule of finance capital" and the nation state as the only effective protection of the "working people" against it. He titled the final chapter "All power to the people". Without justifying the need for a cross front with rights, he was already calling for the “popular initiative” that he then founded.

On January 10, 2009, Elsässer called in Berlin to set up a “popular initiative against finance capital”. A broad alliance “from Lafontaine to Gauweiler” should fend off the “conscious attack by Anglo-American finance capital” in the current economic crisis. The nation state plays “a decisive role” in this. The “ Popular Front ” must push through “the nationalization of the financial sector without compensation ”. To this end, Elsässer announced a congress that would by no means be Marxist . He ruled out a collaboration with the NPD . However, the NPD vice-chairman Holger Apfel had welcomed Elsässer's approach the day before: Elsässer wanted to "overcome the dualism of right and left on a national basis by creating an anti-globalist and anti-imperialist justice movement". The NPD and the new right-wing magazine Junge Freiheit promoted Elsässer's appeal. When the popular initiative was announced, neo-Nazis were also present. As early as 2007, the NPD board member Jürgen Gansel had praised Elsässer's "rejection of fringe group cult, US bondage and Israeli delicacy".

The left faction, on the other hand, distanced itself from Elsässer's initiative; Norman Paech canceled a discussion with him. Because Elsässer "docked with right-wing slogans" and because of the "popular initiative" he founded, which should also be followed by "national" or "old-European-oriented capital", New Germany announced on January 15, 2009 the Author contract. However , he was allowed to present his initiative to the Bremen regional association of the Left Party on January 19, 2009. Other leftists criticized his appeal as a final move towards a nationalist cross-front in the tradition of the National Socialist Otto Strasser and the right-wing conservative Kurt von Schleicher (Reich Chancellor before Hitler).

In June 2009, Elsässer welcomed the re-election of President Mahmud Ahmadineschād in the 2009 presidential election in Iran as a “fine defeat for imperialism” in the USA. He counted the inner-Iranian opposition among his henchmen (according to Elsässer, “Discomies, Tehran drug junkies and the hustlers of finance capital”) and welcomed their suppression . In 2012 Elsässer took part in a trip to a private audience with Ahmadineschād in Iran, organized by Yavuz Özoguz (operator of the Islamist online portal Muslim Market ), and interviewed the Iranian President. The visit was sharply criticized as legitimizing the Iranian injustice regime, as Ahmadineschād represented Holocaust denial and denied Israel's right to exist . Elsässer then replied that one would have to “take a sharp stand” if someone “justifies or belittles the Holocaust”. It is “something else”, however, “whether you subject a foreigner in your country - the interview took place in Tehran - to German laws”.

Editor-in-chief of Compact

In December 2010, Elsässer became editor-in-chief of the monthly magazine Compact and co-editor alongside Andreas Abu Bakr Rieger and publisher Kai Homilius . Elsässer stated that he wanted to use the paper to initiate debates between left and right that go beyond “ political correctness ”. However, he won predominantly new right and right-wing conservative authors who also write in Junge Freiheit. From the second edition he made anti-Americanism and anti-imperialism the main line of the paper. Rieger left the editorial team in November 2014 because of “racist and nationalist positions”, for example on Pegida and the Russian crisis.

Compact is classified as a "cross-front magazine" or "right-wing populist magazine with a penchant for conspiracy theories " or "central organ for conspiracy theories" and "current spearhead of perfidious agitation against the refugee policy of the federal government " and has been classified by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution as a so-called suspected case since March 2020 .

Speaker at vigils and Legida

From April 21, 2014 Elsässer appeared several times as a speaker at the “peace vigils” initiated by Lars Mährholz and praised the participants, including NPD representatives, as “the real anti-fascists ” who are currently fighting a new world war. “Not left, not right, but forward” is his watchword. The common opponent of the "people" is the "international financial oligarchy ", as the representative of which he named "Messrs. Rockefeller , Rothschild , Soros , Khodorkovsky ". These were used by the Federal Reserve Bank "to throw the whole world into chaos". The highlighting of individual Jewish bankers as the alleged rulers of the global financial system and masterminds of international crises has been criticized as a traditional anti-Semitic cliché. The publicist Jutta Ditfurth described Elsässer with reference to similar statements at the vigil as "ardent anti-Semites". Elsässer filed a lawsuit against this designation in May 2014 and won the right in two court instances (July and December 2014). He announced this as a "final victory over Ditfurth". German and Israeli journalists criticized the reasoning of the first instance's verdict as narrowing the concept of anti-Semitism to the Nazi era.

Elsässer's appearances caused considerable conflict at the vigil, which the new keynote speaker Pedram Shahyar , a former Attac activist, tried to resolve from May 2014. Thereupon Mario Rönsch , the right-wing extremist organizer of the Erfurt vigil and likely operator of the racist inflammatory website "Anonymous.Kollektiv", demonstratively invited Alsatian to be the main speaker in Erfurt. In a public appeal, Shahyar criticized the fact that Elsässer "repeatedly appears with serious attacks against specific people and groups of people" and appealed to the vigils to protect a "basic humanistic consensus". Against the demarcation of the first Berlin vigil from racism, anti-Semitism and homophobia, a second Berlin vigil was formed on Alexanderplatz in July 2014 , which allowed Elsässer to speak again. He spoke again about a “ New World Order ” controlled by the “elites” , equating Zionism and fascism and calling Israeli politics genocide . On October 3, 2014, at the Berlin vigil, Elsässer made Chancellor Angela Merkel personally responsible for numerous grievances and called for people to “carry the protest into the heart of the beast. There is no other way. ”After hooligans against Salafists (HoGeSa) had used violence against the police at a rally in Cologne, Elsässer said on his blog that he would invite the HoGeSa“ to the next demonstration for peace and sovereignty. Sunday, November 9th, 1 p.m., in front of the Federal Chancellery. […] “Elsässer supports the“ Pegida ”movement and its demonstrations. He described the participants there as “good-hearted []” people and said: “I like these simple people who feel more than they argue. Those who have no time to think about hard work, but who immediately feel every threat instinctively. ”At the end of December 2014, he wrote on his blog of“ agitation against Pegida ”and described the Central Council of Jews in Germany as“ this mouthpiece of Zionist politics ” . On January 21, 2015, he appeared as a speaker at a “Legida” demonstration in Leipzig , from which the Pegida management had recently distanced itself. In March 2015, some representatives of the peace movement demanded that Alsatians be excluded from the vigil.

In September 2016, Elsässer reported at a Compact event that in the early days of the Pegida movement, consideration had been given to calling the protests “Pegada”, for “Patriotic Europeans against the Americanization of the West”. However, the decision was then made in favor of the term “ Islamization ” because it was assumed that it would be able to mobilize the people better. Elsasser said he had no illusions about the dangers of Americanism. However, this is too abstract for a direct campaign, especially since the German population has already internalized American culture in contrast to Islamic culture. Therefore, one must first defeat the specific opponent Islam in Europe before one can take action against the more subtle influences of the USA. According to Volker Weiß , this distinction between the "vulnerable enemy on one's own territory" and the "hidden, for the time being inaccessible main culprit USA [...] bears clear features" of the distinction made by the Nazi lawyer and state theorist Carl Schmitt between "real hostility" (the visible Enemy, the evocation of which develops immense pulling power within one's own followers) and "absolute enmity" (the total negation with which the "opposite side as a whole is declared criminal and inhuman").

In 2016, in the special edition No. 9 of Compact entitled “ Censorship in the FRG ” , Elsässer emphasized the thrust of the movement he was aiming for: “Back then it was the nobility dynasties like the Windsors , Habsburgs and Romanovs , today it is Dynasties of money, the Rockefellers and Co. The people are bleeding, now as then. But it fights. We know his heroes from the history books: They were Robin Hood , Klaus Störtebeker , Thomas Müntzer and Wilhelm Tell . They were neither left nor right, that didn't exist back then. They were simply for the people: for us down there, against those up there. "

Approaching the AfD

Elsässer has been getting closer to the AfD since 2012 and invited their representatives Frauke Petry and Karl Albrecht Schachtschneider to the "Sovereignty Conferences" of Compact 2013 as keynote speakers . For his part, he was often invited to AfD events and publicly declared himself an AfD supporter in Berlin in April 2014. In October 2014, the AfD Witten invited him to speak on the subject of “Are the media governing us?” At a “knowledge congress” planned for March 2015.

For the “4. Sovereignty Conference ”in October 2015, Elsässer invited the AfD representatives Alexander Gauland and Björn Höcke , who canceled due to deadlines. The main topic of the conference was to be a “Plan for Resistance to the Abolition of Germany” developed by Schachtschneider and the right-wing extremist publicist Götz Kubitschek .

On March 4, 2016, Elsässer appeared at an AfD event in Ingolstadt. An alliance of trade unions, established parties and fan groups of FC Ingolstadt 04 protested against the appearance.

In August 2017, Elsässer spoke in Magdeburg at the so-called "Russia Congress" of the AfD. At the AfD's Political Ash Wednesday in February 2018 in Nentmannsdorf, Elsässer was among the speakers alongside André Poggenburg , Björn Höcke , Andreas Kalbitz and Jörg Urban . In February 2019, Elsässer moderated an event in Burladingen by AfD members who were considered to be "ultra-right" and who can be attributed to the inner-party "Stuttgart Call" , such as Christina Baum , Stefan Räpple , Jens Ahnemüller , Jessica Bießmann and Doris von Sayn-Wittgenstein , and against which at the time of the meeting were party or parliamentary group exclusion procedures.

In February 2019, Elsässer assisted Björn Höcke in the course dispute within the AfD by writing that the “AfD's unique opportunity” should not be “gambled away”: “You need the whole range, from the wonderful Alice Weidel to the wonderful fighter Björn Höcke."

Attitude to Russia and the Ukraine conflict

The transatlantic historian Andreas Umland calls Elsässer "Kremlin propagandist" and attests to him a conservative family image, opposition to NATO and anti-Americanism. He is cooperating with the Russian foreign television broadcaster RT , while his activities and assessments are the subject of benevolent reporting by Russian state broadcasters such as Rossija or the Voice of Russia . Government- related or state Russian institutions such as the think tank Institute for Democracy and Cooperation and the Berlin Russian House supported Elsässer's activities, e. B. the organization of political conferences. Elsasser uses, among other things in connection with the Crimean crisis , the same apologetic argumentation and interpretation patterns as the Russian government and spread anti-American conspiracy theories. His declared goal is an alliance with Russia based on the ideology of Eurasism ; In 2013, for example, Elsässer interviewed the Russian right-wing extremist and leader of the international Neo-Eurasian movement, Alexander Geljewitsch Dugin . Furthermore, Elsässer supported the wing of the AfD around Alexander Gauland that was in favor of an understanding with Russia .

According to an ARD report, Elsässer plays an important role in attempts to influence Germany in the interests of the Russian government. According to the media magazine Zapp , Elsässer has contacts to the Tolstoy Institute, founded in Berlin, whose task is to influence the German public accordingly. According to the Eastern European historian Anna Veronika Wendland , Vladimir Putin's policies in Germany are predominantly supported by the right or the left. This is exemplified by Elsässer, who began as a rather left-wing author and later fought against the USA together with right-wing extremists and campaigned for understanding for Russia.

Attitude to the refugee crisis

In view of the refugee crisis in Germany from 2015 onwards , on September 13, 2015 , Elsässer called in his blog the soldiers of the Bundeswehr to secure the German borders on their own against the further influx of what he believed to be illegal migrants . Angela Merkel's public assurance that Germany would at least grant refugees from civil war countries a right to stay was what he described as “the self-destruction ordered by the Chancellor”, against which the soldiers should use their “instruments of power”. In the daily newspaper it was suspected that Elsässer wanted to deliberately provoke an investigation with this hardly concealed call for a violent overthrow in order to draw attention to the next "sovereignty conference" of his magazine Compact . Germany is, according to Elsässer, in "fatal danger" from "culture enrichers with hormone accumulation".

In July 2016, after 18-year-old David Sonboly shot nine people in and around Munich's Olympic shopping center , Elsässer wrote of a “war against Germany” and that it was about “national defense”. Police officers who have "information that has been suppressed 'from above'" should transmit this to his magazine. The Bundeswehr must be called in to close the borders, seal off "refugee centers", "[s] immediate closure of mosques " and "[s] immediate arrest of those who threaten Islam." If "at least SEVERAL HUNDRED of these guys were not in custody", "one must assume treason," wrote Elsässer: Just hours later it turned out that the assassin himself had an apparently right-wing extremist sentiment and that all those killed had or had a migration background were German Sinti .

After the incidents on New Year's Eve 2015/16 in Cologne , Elsässer wrote: “In the stream of millions of immigrants, tens of thousands of violent criminals came to Germany, lurking for prey even in the smallest provincial kaff: It's about our cell phones, our wallets, our women, in extreme cases our lives . "

Scientific and journalistic reception

As early as 2006, the anti-fascist journalist Karl Pfeifer pointed out that Elsässer had developed into a national Bolshevik and was publicly flirting with cross-front strategies.

Elsässer was sharply criticized for the founding of his “popular initiative against finance capital”. In Die Welt, Thomas Vitzthum analyzed a cross-front strategy in order to establish a collaboration between right-wing and left-wing radical anti-capitalists with an emphasis on nationalism. The left daily assumed that the wording of his declaration was formulated in such a way as to enable “right-wing extremist circles to be explicitly integrated into his alliance”. The editorial staff of Neues Deutschland accused him of having “docked with right-wing slogans” that were “extremely dangerous” and ended his collaboration with the author.

In 2010/11 Mathias Brodkorb ( terminus on the right ) attested him a change “from anti-German to anti-imperialist”. In addition, he now wants to "position the nation state against finance capital".

The political scientist Clemens Heni (2010) considers Elsässer to be “mentally drifted for some time”. He "now hugs the ideology and language of National Socialism and today's right-wing extremism". Heni sees in Elsässer - similar to Henning Eichberg - a "friend of political Islam" and an opponent of universalism .

Andreas Peham from the Documentation Archive of the Austrian Resistance described Elsässer as “left national”.

The historian Volker Weiß (2014) attested Elsässer, who had developed “from shrill left to shrill right”, a “pro-Russian course”. Alsatian has a "populist talent" and skillfully personifies a cross-front strategy.

The historian Olaf Glöckner (2015) states that Elsässer is “meanwhile certified to work increasingly with right-wing populist groups and with the Saxon PEGIDA movement.” He maintains - as in the past - certain enemy images and the like. a. "International Finance Capital", "Arsonists" and "Washington, London and Jerusalem". He used provocation and demagogy. One could benevolently interpret this as a “diffuse conspiracy-theoretical rampage”.

As a "shrill [r], neurechte [r] Hasardeur []" he was described by the sociologist Oliver Nachtwey (2015).

Right-wing extremism researcher Helmut Kellershohn (2015) also sees Elsässer as a “cross-frontist” and a “ national Bolshevik ”. Alexander Häusler calls him a "right-wing cross-front publicist".

Right-wing extremism expert Andreas Speit u. a. (2015) considers Elsässer to be a “new addition to the new right camp”.

According to Richard Stöss , political scientist, Elsässer originally came from left-wing extremism . With his monthly magazine he is pursuing a “cross-front strategy”. His “intellectual contribution to contemporary right-wing conservatism [move] within modest limits”. It is more about nurturing "enemy images, conspiracy theories and hateful slogans".

The political scientist Jürgen P. Lang (2016) described Elsässer as a former “communist” teacher who today has influence in an “informal, anti-American and pro-Russian network” and who strives for a “cross-populist front”. Elsässer developed from an “anti-German publicist” to a “(right-wing) populist agitator”, with gradual transitions from “anti-German to anti-imperialist and then to German national”. With his choice of words, Elsässer has recently flirted with "remarkably often [...] deliberately by a hair's breadth on the language used by the National Socialists". Lang attested him a "ride on the edge of the abyss to racism". In addition, "[his publications] went unstoppably the way into the quagmire of conspiracy theories".

The sociologist Felix Schilk (2020) describes Elsässer as "an important protagonist of a» right-wing mosaic «which welds together a heterogeneous milieu based on division of labor through strategic issues, continuous agitation and the persistent cultivation of effective enemy images."

For Fabian Fischer, Elsässer was nationalist from the start. This is shown above all by his early creation of the word “anti-German”. This is directed "ostensibly against the national and ironically constructs it at the same time".

Publications

author
  • Against financial dictatorship. The popular initiative: principles, concepts, goals. Kai Homilius, 2009, ISBN 978-3-89706-410-2 .
  • Nation state and globalization. Manuscriptum, Waltrop / Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937801-47-6 .
  • Terrorist target Europe. The dangerous double game of the secret services. Residence, 2008, ISBN 3-7017-3100-4 .
  • How jihad came to Europe. Divine warriors and secret services in the Balkans. (2005) Kai Homilius, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-89706-840-7 .
  • War lies. The NATO attack on Yugoslavia. (2004) Kai Homilius, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-89706-511-6 .
  • Attack of locusts. Pahl-Rugenstein, Cologne 2007, ISBN 3-89144-376-5 .
  • The German special way. Diederichs, 2003, ISBN 3-7205-2440-X .
  • Germany is at war. Konkret, 2002, ISBN 3-930786-37-0 .
  • Make Love and War. Pahl-Rugenstein, Cologne 2002, ISBN 3-89144-295-5 .
  • German Democrats. How radical are the CDU and CSU? Werkstatt-Verlag, 2001, ISBN 3-923478-94-1 .
  • The face of its own story. From the Goldhagen debate to the war in Yugoslavia. Elefantenpress, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-88520-756-7 .
  • Never again war without us. Konkret, 1999, ISBN 3-930786-23-0 .
  • Brown Book DVU. Konkret, 1998, ISBN 3-930786-18-4 .
  • Forward and forget? A dispute about Marx, Lenin, Ulbricht and the desperate topicality of communism. Konkret, 1996, ISBN 3-930786-06-0 .
  • If the Führer had been allowed to experience that: 29 congratulations on the German victory over the Allies. Konkret, 1995, ISBN 3-930786-02-8 .
  • Europe as a hot spot. Nationalism - regionalism - war. Werkstatt-Verlag, 1994, ISBN 3-923478-89-5 .
  • Anti-Semitism, the old face of the new Germany. Dietz, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-320-01795-0 .
editor
  • Wladimir Putin. Speeches to the Germans. Compact-Magazin GmbH, Werder 2014.
  • Malte Olschewski: Arab Spring: Twitter and Flitter, Sex and Secret Service between Tripoli and Damascus. Kai Homilius, Berlin 2011, ISBN 3897064294
  • Wilhelm Hankel, Karl Albrecht Schachtschneider: The euro before the collapse: How do we save our money? Kai Homilius, Berlin 2011, ISBN 3897064278
  • Andrea Ricci: Gaza - The war crimes of Israel. Kai Homilius, 2nd edition, Berlin 2010, ISBN 3897064138
  • Wolfgang Freisleben: FED - The Central Bank of Money: The world's secret power center. Kai Homilius, Berlin 2010, ISBN 3897064200
  • Jan Gaspard: Freemasons and Illuminati: What has never been written about secret societies. Kai Homilius, Berlin 2010, ISBN 3897064251
  • Rudolf Hansel: Game Over !: How killer games destroy our youth. Kai Homilius, 2010, ISBN 3897064006
  • Iran. Facts against western propaganda. Kai Homilius, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-89706-414-0 .

literature

Web links

Commons : Jürgen Elsässer  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Jürgen P. Lang: Biographical portrait: Jürgen Elsässer , Baden-Baden 2016, p. 225.
  2. ^ A b Jürgen P. Lang: Biographical portrait: Jürgen Elsässer , Baden-Baden 2016, p. 226f.
  3. ↑ a b c Volkmar Wölk: The (S) choc (k) of the month - Or: How Jürgen Elsässer came to the extreme right (2006)
  4. ↑ Steffen Kailitz : The political culture of interpretation as reflected in the "historians' dispute": What's right? What's left? Westdeutscher Verlag, Wiesbaden 2001, ISBN 3-531-13701-8 , p. 72 f. and footnote 339-340
  5. ^ Matthias Brosch: Exclusive Solidarity: Left Anti-Semitism in Germany: From Idealism to the Anti-Globalization Movement. Metropol, Berlin 2007, ISBN 3938690283 , p. 399, fn. 27
  6. ^ Annette Mingels: Dürrenmatt and Kierkegaard. Böhlau, Cologne 2003, ISBN 3412104027 , p. 136 f. and footnote 80
  7. ^ Lars Rensmann: Democracy and the image of the Jews. Anti-Semitism in the political culture of the Federal Republic of Germany. Springer, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 978-3-322-80454-9 , p. 318, fn. 1134
  8. ↑ a b Melanie Amann: "Jürgen Elsässer: This is what the chief ideologist of the New Right thinks." Www.spiegel.de, January 13, 2018
  9. ↑ Anke Fiedler, Michael Meyen : Who is young, reads the Junge Welt - the history of the GDR newspaper with the highest circulation . Lit Verlag, Berlin / Münster 2013, ISBN 978-3-86153-749-6 , p. 264.
  10. ↑ Reinhard Brühl, Lothar Schröter (Ed.): Bundeswehr Reform - Reform of the Bundeswehr: German military policy and the Bundeswehr at the beginning of the new century. Society for Messaging and Dissemination , 2002, ISBN 3898191095 , p. 84 and footnote 14
  11. ↑ Eckard Jesse, Uwe Backes (ed.): Yearbook Extremism & Democracy, Volume 20, 2008. Nomos, 2009, ISBN 3832944524 , pp. 241f.
  12. ↑ Jens Mecklenburg (ed.): Brown danger: DVU, NPD, REP. History and future. Elefanten Press, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-88520-721-4 , pp. 39 and 108f.
  13. ↑ Peter Nowak (taz, December 7, 2002): “Konkret” makes politics
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personal data
SURNAME Elsasser, Jürgen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Elsässer, Jürgen Rainer (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and political activist
DATE OF BIRTH January 20, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Pforzheim