Michael Lausberg

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Michael Lausberg (born April 17, 1972 in Linnich ) is a German political scientist and freelance journalist .

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Lausberg attended high school in Hückelhoven and after completing community service he studied philosophy , history , politics and education at the universities of Cologne , Aachen and Amsterdam . After graduating as a qualified pedagogue and MA, he studied intercultural pedagogy at the University of Cologne. He received his doctorate in 2005 with a thesis on Kurt Hahn at the University of Lüneburg , and in 2011 at the RWTH Aachen with the dissertation Die extreme Rechts in Nordrhein-Westfalen 1946–1971 . Lausberg has been working at the academic Duisburg Institute for Linguistic and Social Research (DISS) since 2007, focusing on extreme rights , antiziganism , migration and political theory and is a freelance journalist. He publishes regularly in the Jenenser magazine for critical thinking TABVLA RASA , haGalil , Kritischlesen , Migazin, Netz gegen Nazis and DISS-Journal . In 2013 he published a study on antiziganism in Duisburg in MiGAZIN with Alexandra Graevskaia .

Lausberg reviewed the 2013 book Zigeuner. Encounters with an unloved people by Rolf Bauerdick 2014 in the young world . In 2015 he published a book about immigration from Bulgaria and Romania , where he showed the “ middle extremism ” in dealing with migrants and criticized the author Thilo Sarrazin , the economist Hans Werner Sinn and the writer in addition to local politicians from Duisburg and Dortmund Rolf Bauerdick as a multiplier of a racist agitation against migrants from Romania and Bulgaria. Lausberg exposes himself as a representative of intercultural philosophy, where cross-cultural communication between religions and philosophies is postulated that transcends the level of civilizational coexistence and leads to non-violent intercultural understanding.

Lausberg criticizes above all the approach of the extremism theory of the protection of the constitution and its representatives, who try to make their concept a majority in the social and political sciences. According to Lausberg, this approach ignores the fact that extremisms of different stripes may have certain similarities, especially on the phenomenon and symptom level, but that “right-wing extremism” and “left-wing extremism” differ significantly, even fundamentally, in terms of content. The extreme positions of the left-right axis in this concept necessarily represent the same adversaries with a view to the center, which is defined as democratic the "Mitte-Studien" published by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation refuted. According to Lausberg, anti-democratic tendencies or potential dangers could appear in all political parties, trade unions or social groups.

The theory of extremism uses - based on Aristotle - a center between two extremes in order to make one's own point of view appear legitimate and exemplary. The extreme right is not seen as a social phenomenon that resonates in the middle of society and continues to spread. There is an interaction between the extreme right and the "middle" of society and the political establishment. To this extent, the extremism theory represents an ideologically motivated state instrument against anti-fascist politics and actions, which hinders resistance to right-wing thought patterns and violence.

Lausberg deals with the extreme right in Germany both historically and currently. He did his doctorate on the extreme right in the post-war period in North Rhine-Westphalia and presented a comprehensive inventory of the neo-Nazi parties and activities in East Germany from 1990 to 1998. Currently he is mainly concerned with regional phenomena of the extreme right. He presents the actors, goals and programs of the pro-movement in Cologne, deals with other scientists from the Duisburg Institute for Linguistic and Social Research (DISS) with the ethnic nationalism of Junge Freiheit and examines developments in Western Pomerania, where it is there is a very high density of neo-Nazi comradeships. He proves that neo-Nazi ideas and anti-Polish racism are omnipresent, especially on the holiday islands of Rügen and Usedom.

Fonts (selection)

  • Landauer's Philosophy of Libertarian Socialism Unrast, Münster 2018
  • Art and architecture in St. Petersburg , Marburg 2017
  • Spiritual pioneers of humanism , Tectum, Marburg 2017
  • Kropotkin's Philosophy of Communist Anarchism , Unrast, Münster 2016
  • Antigypsyism in Germany. Immigration from Romania and Bulgaria. Tectum, Marburg 2015
  • The extreme right in East Germany 1990–1998 . Tectum, Marburg 2012.
  • The extreme right in North Rhine-Westphalia 1946–1971 . Tectum, Marburg 2012 (dissertation RWTH Aachen 2011).
  • The pro movement. History, content, strategies of the “Pro Cologne Citizens Movement” and the “Pro NRW Citizens Movement” . Unrast, Münster 2010.
  • Kant and education . Tectum, Marburg 2009.
  • GDR 1946–1961 . Tectum, Marburg 2009.
  • Bakunin's philosophy of collective anarchism . Unrast, Münster 2008 (Master's thesis, University of Cologne).
  • Huguenots in Germany. The immigration of French religious refugees . Tectum, Marburg 2007
  • Children should discover themselves. Kurt Hahn's experiential education . Tectum, Marburg 2007 (dissertation Uni Lüneburg 2005).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Michael Lausberg , Portfolio.
  2. ^ Michael Lausberg , at the Duisburg Institute for Linguistic and Social Research.
  3. Articles and reviews in newspapers / magazines , at DISS.
  4. "Out with the gypsies!" - Antiziganistic realities: The example of Duisburg , MiGAZIN, July 23, 2013.
  5. Michael Lausberg: Questionable Multiplier , Junge Welt, February 20, 2014.
  6. Michael Lausberg: Antiziganism in Germany: Immigration from Bulgaria and Romania , Marburg 2015, p. 97 ff.
  7. Michael Lausberg: Antiziganism in Germany: Immigration from Bulgaria and Romania , Marburg 2015, p. 247 ff.
  8. Michael Lausberg: The extreme right in North Rhine-Westphalia 1946–1971 , Marburg 2012, p. 22.
  9. Michael Lausberg: The extreme right in North Rhine-Westphalia 1946–1971 , Marburg 2012, p. 23 f.
  10. Michael Lausberg: The extreme right in North Rhine-Westphalia 1946–1971 , Marburg 2012, p. 23 f.
  11. ^ Michael Lausberg: The extreme right in North Rhine-Westphalia 1946-1971 . Marburg 2012.
  12. ^ Michael Lausberg: The extreme right in North Rhine-Westphalia 1946-1971 . Marburg 2012.
  13. Michael Lausberg: The Pro Movement. History, content, strategies of the “Pro Cologne Citizens Movement” and the “Pro NRW Citizens Movement” . Unrast, Münster 2010.
  14. Michael Lausberg: The topic of migration in the Junge Freiheit and in the German voice. in: H. Kellershohn (ed.): The "German voice" of the "Junge Freiheit". Readings of völkisch nationalism in central publications of the extreme right . Unrast-Verlag, Münster 2013, pp. 195–224
  15. Michael Lausberg: "National Liberated Zone"? Neo-Nazism in Western Pomerania. In: hagalil.com. February 12, 2016, accessed June 9, 2017 .
  16. Michael Lausberg: The other Rügen. In: hagalil.com. August 5, 2015, accessed June 9, 2017 .