Karel Vodička

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Karel Vodička (born March 27, 1949 in Ústí nad Labem , Czechoslovakia ) is a Czech - German political scientist .

Life

Karel Vodička studied law at the Charles University in Prague , 1978 state examination with distinction, dissertation, 1981 doctorate. Since 1982 he worked as a research assistant at the Masaryk University , in parallel, he graduated in distance learning scientific postgraduate .

In 1985 Vodička fled with family into political exile in the Federal Republic of Germany . The communist judiciary sentenced him to the maximum sentence in absentia for the "crime of flight from the republic", 3 years imprisonment without parole. In exile he was involved in the anti-communist resistance, mediated between human rights organizations and the Czech dissent , was active in journalism; the congress of the Social Democratic Party in Exile in 1989 elected him to the Central Executive Committee.

Professionally, Vodička worked as a research assistant at the Collegium Carolinum in Munich , at the Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg , Institute for International Politics, and at the Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarian Research at the TU Dresden , parallel to this from 1998-2008 as a lecturer at the Karls -University of Prague , Faculty of Social Sciences .

research

In the spring of 1989, Vodička pointed to the impending collapse of communism in the Eastern Bloc (essay "Motivational crisis: cancer of real socialism"). He is one of the few political scientists who announced this in good time. Current research focus:

Fonts (selection)

  • Ignition spark from Prague. How in 1989 the courage to be free changed history with Hans-Dietrich Genscher . dtv, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-423-28047-1 .
  • The Prague Embassy Refugees 1989. History and Documents. With prologue by Hans-Dietrich Genscher and with the collaboration of Jan Gülzau and Petr Pithart. V&R unipress, Osnabrück 2014, ISBN 978-3-8471-0345-5 .
  • From the Eastern Bloc to the EU , System Transformations 1990–2012 in Comparison, Günther Heydemann / Karel Vodička (eds.), Bonn, 1st edition 2013. ISBN 978-3-8389-0353-8 .
  • From the Eastern Bloc to the EU , System Transformations 1990–2012 in Comparison, Günther Heydemann / Karel Vodička (eds.), Göttingen, 1st edition 2013. ISBN 978-3-525-36960-9 .
  • Czech Republic in: Heydemann / Vodička (ed.), From the Eastern Bloc to the EU , System Transformations 1990–2012 in Comparison, Bonn, 1st edition 2013. pp. 165–192. ISBN 978-3-8389-0353-8 .
  • Bulgaria in: Heydemann / Vodička (ed.), From the Eastern Bloc to the EU , System Transformations 1990–2012 in Comparison, Bonn, 1st edition 2013. pp. 289–318. ISBN 978-3-8389-0353-8 .
  • Post-communist EU area: Consolidation status and perspectives in: Heydemann / Vodička (ed.), From the Eastern Bloc to the EU , System Transformations 1990–2012 in Comparison, Bonn, 1st edition 2013. pp. 319–380. ISBN 978-3-8389-0353-8 .
  • Politický systém České republiky. Historie a současnost , ( The Czech Political System. Past and Present ), with Ladislav Cabada, Prague, 3rd edition 2011. ISBN 978-80-7367-893-7 .
  • The Political System of the Czech Republic , Wiesbaden 2005. ISBN 978-3-8100-4083-1 .
  • The Czech political system. in: Wolfgang Ismayr (Ed.): The political systems of Eastern Europe. Wiesbaden 2010, pp. 275-316. ISBN 978-3-531-17181-4 .
  • Czech Republic: Political Consolidation Process 1989–2009. in: Clemens Vollnhals: (Ed.): Years of upheaval. Göttingen 2011, pp. 299-314. ISBN 978-3-525-36919-7 .
  • “No entry for Jews, gypsies and dogs!” Roma in National Socialist Slovakia. , in: von Weikersthal u. a. (Ed.): The National Socialist Genocide of the Roma in Eastern Europe. Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 2008, pp. 43–82. ISBN 3-412-20181-2 .
  • The division of Czechoslovakia. in: Österreichische Osthefte. 46th year, issue 1–2 / 2004, pp. 5–20. ISSN  0029-9375 .
  • Dělení Československa. Deset let poté… ( The partition of Czechoslovakia. Ten years later… ), Volvox Globator publishing house, Prague 2003, (Ed. And co-author). ISBN 80-7207-479-2 .
  • Farewell to Czechoslovakia , causes and consequences of the Czech-Slovak separation, ed. Co-authored, Cologne 1993. ISBN 3-8046-8803-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Literaturspiegel, Scientific Information and Discussion Forum, vol. 34, ASJA, Bad Honnef, pp. 3–52.
  2. ↑ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of November 23, 1989, pp. 13 and 14.
personal data
SURNAME Vodička, Karel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech-German political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Ústí nad Labem