Kurt Greussing

Kurt Greussing (* 1946 in Lauterach , Vorarlberg ) is an Austrian social scientist .

Kurt Greussing originally studied at the University of World Trade in Vienna and after switching to Iranian Studies and Political Science at the Free University of Berlin with the Dr. phil. completed. During his studies in Vienna he was a functionary of the Association of Socialist Students ( VSStÖ ). He was an employee of the VSStÖ magazine “Theory and Practice” and co-editor of the magazine Neues Forum . At the age of twenty-two he was a participant in the 31st Bergedorf Conversation . In the early 1990s, Greussing worked as a project manager for the establishment of the Jewish Museum Hohenems and as a research assistant at the Institute for Religious Studies at the University of Bremen . 1993–2003 he was responsible for development projects in southern Africa, including 2001–2003 as regional director for Oxfam GB. Since 2004 he has been working primarily on issues of social development in Vorarlberg and on topics of current Islamic theology .

Publications (selection)

• End of education dropout? Second chance education. Learning paths for the low-skilled in Vorarlberg (together with Eva Häfele), Feldkirch 2013
• Apostasy in Islam - Acting Against Nature or Human Rights? A debate in the area of ​​tension between orthodoxy and radical reform. In: R. Laudage-Kleeberg / H. Sulzenbacher (eds.): Come in! Step out! Why people change their religion. Berlin 2012, pp. 250-259
• Fate precariousness? Measures for Vorarlberg (together with Eva Häfele). Feldkirch 2008
• God's Long Shadow - Islamic Controversies Over Freedom and Thought. In: Konrad Paul Liessmann (ed.): The freedom of thinking (Philosophicum Lech, Volume 10). Vienna 2007, pp. 265–289
• "Donkeys with books", agents and conspirators. From the Koran's images of Jews to modern Islamic anti-Semitism. In: Hanno Loewy (ed.): Rumors about the Jews. Anti-Semitism, Philosemitism and Current Conspiracy Theories. Essen 2005, pp. 149–170
• Power struggle and ideological conflict after 1867. Vorarlberg's political camps and the Jews. In: Eva Grabherr (ed.): Jews in Hohenems. Catalog of the Jewish Museum Hohenems. Bregenz 1996, pp. 138-145
• The generation of anti-Semitism in Vorarlberg around 1900. Bregenz 1992
• The Reds in the Country: Labor Movement in Western Austria (ed.). Steyr 1989
• From “good king” to imam: State power and society in Iran. Bregenz 1987
• In principle: hope. Labor movement in Vorarlberg 1870-1946 (ed.). Bregenz 1984
• “Third World” in Europe. Problems of labor immigration (Ed. With Jochen Blaschke). Frankfurt 1981 (new edition Berlin 1985)
• Religion and Politics in Iran (ed.). Frankfurt 1981

Web links

• Internet publication on Alevi Islam
• Internet publications on Vorarlberg contemporary history (website of the J. A. Malin Society)
• Literature by Kurt Greussing in the catalog of the Vorarlberg State Library
• Entries on Kurt Greussing in the radio and television archive of the Vorarlberg State Library
• Literature by and about Kurt Greussing in the catalog of the Austrian National Library
• Literature by Kurt Greussing in the British Library
• Literature by and about Kurt Greussing in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Kurt Greussing in the bibliographic database WorldCat