Meinhard Meuche-Mäker

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Meinhard Meuche-Mäker, 2018

Meinhard Meuche-Mäker (* 1958 in Hamburg ) is a German political scientist and party researcher . He is the managing director of the Hamburger Landesstiftung and head of the Hamburg regional office of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation .

biography

Meuche-Mäker was born in Hamburg-Lokstedt and graduated from the Kaiser-Friedrich-Ufer high school . He completed his political science studies at the University of Hamburg in 1985 with a diploma. In the nineties he was a member of the Marxist night school Hamburg whose board he belonged later. In 1996 he was a founding member of the Hamburg Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung , meanwhile worked in the Hamburg office of the PDS - parliamentary group and as a political advisor .

For the 2002 elections ran Meuche-Mäker in the constituency Hamburg-Eimsbüttel as a direct candidate for the PDS. He said: “I don't see myself as a professional politician. Above all, I want to counteract the cliché that you can't change anything about it anyway; who do what they want up there ', but oppose it [...] ”.

He has headed the Hamburg office of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation since 2006.

Work and reception

About DIE LINKE. Where is it changing the republic to? wrote Mario Candeias , the work plots “possible development scenarios for different political projects” and provides “empirical analyzes of the actors' view of the formation of the new party”. Anke Rösener remarked that the book offers impetus "for a strategy discussion of the left as a whole".

Harald Bergsdorf commented on The PDS in the West 1990-2005: Conclusions for a new left , Meuche-Mäker - who “explains why the West was a difficult place for PDS campaigners at least until 2005” - leave differences between the West and East Germans Disregard left . For example, "left-wing extremist anarchism in the West and SED-trained anti-pluralism often hardly go together." In the Annotated Bibliography of Political Science , reference is made to the treatise as a “concrete guide for a successful transformation of the PDS in the West German federal states”.

According to Florian Hartleb , with the rise and fall of Ronald Barnabas Schill - sketches on Schill's variant of West German right-wing populism , the authors "took a detailed position on the Schill party ". In view to right the writing was discussed as "informative brochure".

Apart from his scientific work , Meuche-Mäker is co-editor and co-author of two travel guides . In the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung was southern France. A travel book described as "multifaceted" and "informative". It is "refreshingly drawn against clichés and against prejudices" and offers "things that you otherwise rarely get to read, for example about the Les Milles camp ".

Fonts (selection)

Books and articles in compilations

  • with Andreas Speit and Heino Windt: Rise and Fall of Ronald Barnabas Schill - Sketches on Schill's variant of West German right-wing populism (= Hamburger Skripte. Volume 6) . Rosa-Luxemburg-Bildungswerk, Hamburg 2004 ( PDF ).
  • The PDS in the West 1990–2005 . Conclusions for a new left ( = texts / Rosa Luxemburg Foundation . Volume 25) . Dietz, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-320-02073-0 ( PDF ).
  • Die Linkspartei.PDS on the way to the new left: Requirements for a politically competent party. Hamburg 2006 ( PDF ).
  • The view from the inside. The view of actors on the formation of the DIE LINKE party . In: Michael Brie , Meinhard Meuche-Mäker, Cornelia Hildebrandt (eds.): DIE LINKE. Where is it changing the republic to? ( = Texts / Rosa Luxemburg Foundation. Volume 40). Dietz, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-320-02123-8 , pp. 46-89 ( PDF ).

Technical article

Non-professional publications

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Meinhard Meuche-Mäker, Jürgen Zichnowitz (Ed.): Southern France. A travel book . VSA, Hamburg 1991, ISBN 978-3-87975-548-6 , author's note.
  2. ↑ Contact. In: Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Hamburg. Retrieved August 30, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Oliver Driesen : "Marxist Evening School Hamburg" - Marx lives . In: Deutsches Ärzteblatt . Volume 93, Issue 23, June 7, 1996 ( PDF ).
  4. ↑ Knut Henkel: Insight: Marxist evening school Hamburg . In: The daily newspaper . August 3, 1996 ( online ).
  5. ↑ a b Mark Bloemeke: Bundestag election. The candidates for Hoheluft. We introduce them to you. (PDF) In: Hoheluftbrücke - Freely distributed, independent district magazine. November 2002, accessed August 16, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Ralf Jaksch: Hamburg's PDS is the party's problem child. In: The world. January 6, 2000, accessed December 25, 2018 .
  7. ↑ You want your vote on September 22nd. In: Hamburger Morgenpost. 2002, accessed December 25, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Mario Candeias: Taking care is not enough. In: New Germany. Neues Deutschland Druckerei und Verlag, May 22, 2008, accessed on December 25, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Anke Rösener: Review of: Michael Brie, Cornelia Hildebrandt, Meinhard Meuche-Mäker (eds.): DIE LINKE. Where is it changing the republic to? Berlin 2007. In: Portal for Political Science. July 23, 2008. Retrieved August 18, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Harald Bergsdorf: With and without a mask. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. May 22, 2006, accessed December 25, 2008 .
  11. ^ Christian Zettl: Review of: Meinhard Meuche-Mäker: The PDS in the West 1990-2005. Berlin 2005. In: Portal for Political Science. June 25, 2007, Retrieved February 7, 2019 .
  12. ^ Florian Hartleb: Right and left populism: a case study based on the Schill party and PDS . 1st edition. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-531-14281-X .
  13. ↑ Volker Stahl: A swan song for Ronald Barnabas Schill ( Memento from July 10, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) In: Blick nach Rechts . June 2, 2004, accessed December 27, 2018.
  14. ^ Review of "Südfrankreich" by Meinhard Meuche and Jürgen Zichnowitz . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . June 13, 1991.
personal data
SURNAME Meuche-Mäker, Meinhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg