Nikolaus Brauns

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Nikolaus Brauns (* 1971 in Munich ) is a German journalist and historian .

Life

Brauns did his doctorate in Munich on Germany's Red Aid . He has published books and articles on the history of the labor movement in Germany as well as on the history and politics of Turkey , the Kurds and the Middle East . Since 1997 he has been a regular freelancer for the daily newspaper Junge Welt under the name Nick Brauns , whose Bavarian regional office he headed for one year in 2006. Since 2017 he has also been the author of the daily newspaper Yeni Özgür Politika and reports on German-Turkish relations .

In the extended reprint of the 1936 publication The German People Accuses his article Propaganda as a calling (about the communist newspaper maker and publisher Willi Munzenberg ) is printed on pages 383 to 392. He wrote the article on the Red Aid for the Bavarian Historical Lexicon Germany .

Brauns lives and works in Berlin . Since 2007 he has worked there as a research assistant for the domestic political spokeswoman for the left-wing parliamentary group Ulla Jelpke in the German Bundestag . Brauns is non-party.

He is chairman of the Hans Litten -Archiv eV (association for the establishment and promotion of an archive of the solidarity organizations of the workers' and social movements) in Göttingen .

Publications

Books

  • Get red help! History and activities of the proletarian aid organization for political prisoners in Germany (1919–1938). Bonn: Pahl-Rugenstein , 2003, ISBN 3-89144-297-1 , 345 pages.
  • Revolution and counterrevolution. Selected contributions to the history of the labor movement . Bonn: Pahl-Rugenstein, 2006, 169 pages.
  • with Brigitte Kiechle : PKK - Perspectives on the Kurdish struggle for freedom: between self-determination, EU and Islam . Stuttgart: Schmetterling-Verlag , 2010, ISBN 978-3-89657-564-7 , 512 pages.
  • ed. with Dimitri Tsalos : Near and Middle East - war, occupation, resistance. Bonn: Pahl-Rugenstein, 2007, ISBN 978-3-89144-385-9 , 209 pages.
  • ed. with Murat Çakır : Partisans of a New World - A History of the Left and Labor Movement in Turkey. Berlin: Die Buchmacherei, 2018, ISBN 978-3-9819243-4-3 , 527 pages.

Book contributions

  • Unification of the revolutionary proletariat ... in the Red Aid? Council communists, syndicalists and the Red Aid. In: Mühsam magazine. Issue 10, 2003, ISBN 3-931079-30-9 , pp. 85-193.
  • Proletarian class solidarity - The position of the Red Aid within the German labor movement. In: Sabine Hering , Kurt Schilde (ed.): Die Rote Hilfe. The history of the international communist "welfare organization" and its social activities in Germany (1921–1941). Leske and Budrich, Opladen 2003, pp. 73-94.
  • Erich Mühsam at the side of the political prisoners. In: Writings of the Erich Mühsam Society. Issue 28, Lübeck 2007, ISBN 978-3-931079-37-6 , pp. 42-56.
  • Power of true solidarity - Oskar Maria Graf and the Red Aid in Munich. In: Ulrich Dittmann, Hans Dollinger (ed.) Oskar Maria Graf 2008/09. Yearbook of the Oskar Maria Graf Society. Munich: Allitera, 2009, ISBN 978-3-86520-302-1 , pp. 9-65.
  • The Kurds in Iraq. From civil war to autonomy and ultimately to independence? In: Tyma Kraitt (Ed.): Iraq - A state is falling apart . Backgrounds, analyzes, reports. Vienna: Promedia, 2015, ISBN 978-3-85371-385-3 , pp. 129–150.
  • The Kurds in Syria and the self-government in Rojava. In: Fritz Edlinger (Ed.): The Middle East is burning - Between the Syrian Civil War and World War. Vienna: Promedia, 2016, ISBN 978-3-85371-410-2 , pp. 91–112.
  • Resistance is life. The Kurdish freedom movement and the democratic revolution in Rojava. In: Christopher Wimmer (ed.): "Where have all the rebels gone?" Perspectives on class struggle and countervailing power. Münster: Unrast, 2020, ISBN 978-3-89771-277-5 , pp. 221–243.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nikolaus Brauns: Fethullah Gülen: Puppeteer or Putschist? In: The time . July 16, 2016, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed July 23, 2017]).
  2. ↑ Audio: Fethullah Gülen and his movement. Retrieved July 23, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Erdoğan's Wolves - The War Alliance of MHP and AKP | Sicherheitsppolitik-blog.de. Retrieved July 23, 2017 .
  4. ↑ How the "Gray Wolves" came to Germany | Antifa information sheet. Retrieved July 23, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Kurdistan Report - On the breast of the AKP. Retrieved July 23, 2017 .
  6. ↑ ALMAN MALI TÜRK İŞİ. In: yeniozgurpolitika. September 8, 2018, accessed December 9, 2018 (tr-TR).
  7. ↑ Rote Hilfe Deutschland - Historisches Lexikon Bayerns. Retrieved on July 23, 2017 (German (Sie-Salutation)).
  8. ↑ Hans Litten Archive: Erich Mühsam and the Red Aid . In: hans-litten-archiv.de . Hans Litten Archive eV. Archived from the original on March 26, 2015. Retrieved March 26, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Brauns, Nikolaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich