Kai Ehlers

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Kai Ehlers, left, in 2006 in Mongolia

Kai Ehlers (born April 19, 1944 in Brüx ) is a German publicist who primarily deals with the development of the post- Soviet space and its consequences for global change. He publishes reports and political comments in online media, for example in Russland.ru and Eurasian Magazine . He has lived and worked in Hamburg since 1969.

life and work

Ehlers was born in 1944 in Brüx on the southern edge of the Ore Mountains , lived a restless post-war youth in changing family circumstances and in different places in West Germany. In 1964 he passed the Abitur examination at the modern-language-humanistic grammar school in Melle near Osnabrück; According to his own statements, he then studied German, journalism and theater studies in Göttingen, and from 1967 in Berlin.

Left political activism

There he was active in the extra-parliamentary opposition and had close contact with the commune movement . In 1969 he moved to Hamburg, where he was co-founder of the artist and political commune “Ablassgesellschaft”, in 1971 of the Communist Federation KB-Hamburg and editor and press law officer of its newspaper Arbeiterkampf (AK, later analyze & kritik ). As an author, he wrote mainly on the subjects of democracy and law, the police and the protection of the constitution, fascism and anti-fascism and general questions of state development, initially under the pseudonym "F.", from 1978 under his full name. To this end, he worked between 1972 and 1989 as the initiator and head of the “Antifascism Commission”, the “Anti-Repression Commission” and the “Initiative Committee for Workers Aid” of the Communist Federation.

When in October 1977 after the suicide of the RAF detainees, in the night of death of Stammheim in the newspaper AK criticized the investigation results of the prosecution, Ehlers was the press law in charge of the newspaper indicted for slandering the state , but dropped the charges later.

Transformation in the post-Soviet space

Since the early 1980s, Ehlers has been increasingly concerned with the changes that were about to take place in the Eastern Bloc . From 1983 he made a number of trips to the Soviet Union and later to Russia and later to Mongolia and China .

From 1989 and after the August coup in Moscow in August 1991, he was mainly active in Russia. Since the mid-1990s he has initiated several scientific congresses on transformation in Russia, partly in cooperation with the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation .

From 1997 he expanded his focus to Central and Central Asia, Mongolia and, since 2002, to China's role in the reorganization of Eurasia and the process of globalization . In this context he also translated and published rediscovered early epics of Eurasian peoples living in Russia.

Ehlers has been working for the online newspaper Russland.RU since 2014 .

Organizations

  • Founding member of the Communist Federation in 1971 and editor of its newspaper Arbeiterkampf (AK), later analysis & criticism
  • Founder and chairman of “Nowostroika e. V. “, which aims to promote the East-West dialogue and support self-determined initiatives in the countries of the former Soviet Union.
  • Foundation of the “Culture of the Yurt” and “Create two, three, many yurts” initiatives, which are committed to supporting an ecologically oriented modernization of Mongolian yurt communities and cultural exchange between Mongolians and Germans.
  • Initiator of the "Integrated Society Forum", which advocates the development of intercultural dialogue between various alternative currents, social concepts and cultural scenes.
  • Member of "LIT", the Hamburg Literature Center, Attac and the "Basic Income Network"
  • Initiator and head of the "School of the Labyrinth"

Fonts

  • Gorbachev is not a program. Encounters with critics of perestroika. Konkret-Literatur-Verlag, Hamburg 1989, ISBN 3-922144-93-4
  • Soviet Union. Forced to Democracy? In the labyrinth of rebirth between Asia and Europe. Galgenberg, Hamburg 1991, ISBN 3-87058-110-7
  • Beyond Moscow. 186 and a story of internal decolonization. A documentary narrative, portraits and analyzes in three parts. Butterfly publishing house, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-926369-07-8
  • Challenge Russia. From coercive collective to self-determined community? A balance sheet of privatization. Butterfly-Verlag, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-89657-070-6
  • Communities and Privatization. Conference documentation, November 2003
  • The eroticism of the informal. Impulses for a different globalization from the Russian world beyond capitalism. From the need of self-sufficiency to the virtue of self-organization. Edition 8, Zurich 2004, ISBN 3-85990-049-8
  • Bridge over the Amur? Guest workers in Russia. Documentation of an international research seminar, December 2004
  • Russia: New beginnings or upheavals? Between old power and new order. Conversations and impressions. Pforte, Dornach 2005, ISBN 3-85636-184-7
  • Basic income for everyone. Stepping stone to an integrated society. Pforte, Dornach 2006, ISBN 978-3-85636-191-4
  • Asia's leap into the present. Russia - China - Mongolia. The development of a cultural space. Pforte, Dornach 2006, ISBN 3-85636-189-8
  • The future of the yurt. Kulturkampf in Mongolia? Conversations in Ulaanbaatar with Prof. Dr. Dorjpagma Sharav and Dr. Ganbold Dagvadorj. Mankau, Murnau 2007, ISBN 3-938396-01-6
  • Russia - the heartbeat of a world power. In conversation with Yefim Berschin. Pforte, Dornach 2009, ISBN 978-3-85636-213-3
  • We always have potatoes. Survival in Russia between the supermarket and the dacha. Horlemann, Bad Honnef 2010, ISBN 978-3-89502-293-7
  • Attil and Krimkilte. The Chuvash epic on the saga of the Nibelungs. Translated and edited by Kai Ehlers in collaboration with Mario Bauch and Christoph Sträßner, Rhombos-Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-941216-50-1
  • The power of the "superfluous". Man in global perestroika. Pahl-Rugenstein, Bonn 2013, ISBN 978-3-89144-463-4
  • 25 years of perestroika. Conversations with Boris Kagarlitzki. Laika-Verlag, Hamburg 2014
    • Volume 1: Gorbachev and Yeltsin. 1983–1996 / 97: perestroika, putsch, revolt, transition to restoration. ISBN 978-3-944233-28-4
    • Volume 2: Yeltsin's departure, Putin and Medvedev. 1997 until today: stabilization, restorative normalization, entry into the global crisis. ISBN 978-3-944233-29-1

Contributions to edited volumes

Editions

  • Anti-fascist Russell series. Reents, 1977-1978

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ kai-ehlers.de
  2. ↑ russland.news
personal data
SURNAME Ehlers, Kai
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publicist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Brüx near Prague