Lothar Probst

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Lothar Probst (* 1952 in Minden ) is a German political scientist and professor emeritus at the University of Bremen . He was the managing director of the Institute for Intercultural and International Studies at Faculty 8 at the University of Bremen and head of the research area for election, party and participation research at the Institute for Political Science at the University of Bremen. His research and teaching focus is on party and election research. Further research areas concern phenomena of populism, questions of democracy theory, questions of political cultural research with a focus on Germany and the development of new social movements and citizens' movements.

Scientific career

From 1971 to 1975 Lothar Probst studied German, history and politics at the Bielefeld University of Education . From 1987 to 1989 he studied political and cultural science at the University of Bremen , where he obtained a doctorate in political and cultural studies in early 1993. phil. PhD. From 1989 to 2002 he was a research assistant (from 1993 managing director) of the Institute for Cultural Studies in Germany (FB 10) at the University of Bremen. In 2002 he was appointed Academic Councilor at the Institute for Political Science and moved to the Institute for Intercultural and International Studies (FB 8) at the University of Bremen in the role of Scientific Director. In 2007 he was appointed professor. In 2012 he received the Berninghausen Prize for excellent teaching and innovation .

Memberships and engagement

Until 2016, Probst was Scientific Director of the Institute for Intercultural and International Studies (InIIS, FB 8) at the university and from 2007 to 2016 headed the research area for election, party and participation research at the Institute for Political Science at the University of Bremen.

From 2010 to 2012 he was Program Director of the Anglo-German Postdoctoral Fellowship Program - a joint project of the Universities of Bremen, Göttingen and Oxford, which was funded by the Volkswagen Foundation.

At the Institute for Political Science at the University of Bremen, he was Erasmus officer for the Political Science degree programs at the University of Bremen from 2005 to 2016 and was a member of the BA examination board for the Political Science degree.

He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Green Academy of the Heinrich Böll Foundation .

His other functions have included his work as a Tutor of Heinrich Boell Foundation and the chair of the Alumni -Sektion Political Science of the alumni network of the University of Bremen. Between 1995 and 2005 Probst was a member of the board of directors and the jury of the Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thinking in Bremen.

Probst commented on all state, federal and European elections for the Phoenix television channel from 2009 to 2017 . He is also regularly represented with interviews, guest comments and contributions on television, radio and in newspapers (including ZDF, ARD, Radio Bremen, NDR, BR, SWR, HR, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Weser Kurier, Handelsblatt, Rheinische Post, Kölner Stadtanzeiger, Hannoversche Neue Presse, Lübecker Nachrichten, Financial Times, Washington Post, New York Times, Liberation).

Publications (selection)

  • The fight for second place. The German party system in transition. In: Indes. Journal for Politics and Society , issue 2/2018, pp. 114–121.
  • On the difficulty of finding democratic answers to the new right-wing identity politics. In: Politikum , issue 4/2018, pp. 24–31.
  • Is the German party system about to change? A review of the Europeanization thesis. In: Carsten Kochschmieder (ed.), Parties, party systems and political orientations. Current articles in political party research, Wiesbaden 2017, pp. 113–133.
  • What is politics? For a political science beyond mathematics and moral philosophy . In: Blätter für Deutsche und Internationale Politik 10/2016: 106–114
  • Who is the third generation in East Germany ? Reflections on their positioning in the context of GDR and German unity , in: Third Generation East. Who we are, what we want , Ch. Links Verlag , Berlin 2012, pp. 216–229, ISBN 978-3-86153-685-7 .
  • Political institutions, parties and elections in the state of Bremen (Ed. Lothar Probst), Münster: LIT-Verlag 2011.
  • The discovery of freedom. America in Thinking Hannah Arendt (Ed. Together with Winfried Thaa), Berlin: Philo Verlag 2003.
  • PDS: From the state to the ruling party. A study from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Hamburg 2000.
  • Cuts - Hannah Arendt's Political Thinking Today (Ed. Together with Antonia Grunenberg), Bremen 1995.
  • East German Citizens' Movements and Perspectives of Democracy , Cologne: Bund-Verlag 1993.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Institute for Intercultural and International Studies. In: www.iniis.uni-bremen.de. Retrieved September 4, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Probst, Lothar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Minden