Lars Geiges

Lars Geiges (born October 30, 1981 in Rinteln ) is a German political scientist and journalist .

Life

After attending the Ernestinum Rinteln grammar school , he studied political science and sports science at the Georg-August University in Göttingen and in Italy from 2002 to 2007 . From 2007 to 2009 he did an internship at the daily newspaper Magdeburger Volksstimme . As a freelance journalist, he worked for Spiegel Online , Zeit Online and taz , among others .

Since 2011 he has been a research assistant at the Göttingen Institute for Democracy Research and editor of INDES - Journal for Politics and Society . Geiges was at Samuel Salzborn with a thesis on Occupy Germany for Dr. disc. pole. PhD . Among other things, he conducts research in the field of attitude, protest and movement research, and sports history.

Soccer in the workers, gymnastics and sports movements. A game doomed to fail? (= Göttingen young research . Vol. 11). ibidem-Verlag, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-8382-0225-9 .
with Stine Marg , Felix Butzlaff , Franz Walter (eds.): The new power of citizens. What motivates the protest movements? BP Society Study . Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-498-07254-4 .
Occupy in Germany. The protest movement and its actors (= studies by the Göttingen Institute for Democracy Research on the History of Political and Social Controversies . Vol. 9). Transcript, Bielefeld 2014, ISBN 978-3-8376-2946-0 .
with Stine Marg , Franz Walter: Pegida. The dirty side of civil society? . Transcript, Bielefeld 2015, ISBN 978-3-8376-3192-0 .
with Torben Lütjen : Frank-Walter Steinmeier. The biography . Herder, Freiburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-451-37826-3 .

personal data
SURNAME	Violin, Lars
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German political scientist and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH	October 30, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH	Rinteln