Nils Heisterhagen

Nils Heisterhagen (* 1988 ) is a German publicist and political scientist.

Life

Heisterhagen is the son of a skilled worker and a bank clerk, and in 2014 he joined the SPD. He studied political science and economics at the Universities of Göttingen and Hanover . At the Humboldt University of Berlin he received his doctorate in philosophy in 2016 with a thesis on “Existential Republicanism” under Volker Gerhardt . He worked as an intern at Wirtschaftswoche and the political magazine Cicero and completed internships in the German Bundestag , in industrial companies and at the Progressive Center . Later he was a keynote speaker and speechwriter for the chairmen of IG Metall , until he switched to the state parliamentary group of the SPD in Rhineland-Palatinate as keynote speaker . In September 2018 it became known that Heisterhagen and the SPD parliamentary group had agreed on a dissolution agreement.

Since then, Heisterhagen has worked as a publicist and journalist. In numerous articles and two books he commented on the course of the SPD , saying that the SPD had left its clientele in the lurch and had to turn sociopolitically to the left and socially to the right.

Publications

• Books
  • The pursuit of freedom: essays against disorientation , Bonn: Dietz 2019, ISBN 978-3-8012-0561-4 .
  • Criticism of postmodernism: why relativism does not have the last word , Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden 2018, ISBN 978-3-658-18791-0 .
  • The liberal illusion: why we need left realism , Bonn: Dietz 2018, ISBN 978-3-8012-0531-7 .
  • Existential Republicanism: A Plea for Freedom , Bielefeld: transcript Verlag 2017, ISBN 978-3-8376-4029-8
  • Responsibility - For a new political sense of community in times of change , Bonn: Dietz 2020, ISBN 978-3-8012-0569-0

• Articles and interviews with Heisterhagen
  • Left realism is the way for social democracy Nils Heisterhagen , in: Vorwaerts.de, July 2, 2019
  • Future of the SPD "Germany is shut down by a culture war" - moralization, one-sided focus on multiculturalism and minorities: SPD policy advisor Nils Heisterhagen analyzes the weaknesses of the left in Germany. Interview with Heisterhagen in Tagesspiegel, June 17, 2018
  • Page with articles and interviews by Heisterhagen at Wirtschaftswoche
  • "Security through change" in: Frankfurter Hefte 2016
  • What's left? - The left have forgotten the social question , interview with Heisterhagen on Deutschlandfunk
  • "We have a blatant filter bubble and echo chamber problem in the SPD." In: ruhrbarone.de , February 18, 2020

literature

• Christoph Hickmann, Veit Medick : Left and right: The party elite dismissed a comrade who caused a sensation with theses against multiculturalism and the "left-wing liberal mainstream". Is there still room for such voices in social democracy? , in: Der Spiegel September 15, 2018, pages 30–31 Online with a different title, not free
• The critic of left-wing liberalism: Nils Heisterhagen is just 30 and one of the few intellectuals in the SPD. The Social Democrats have become too unrealistic for him. in Taz.de August 22, 2018

Web links

• Literature by and about Nils Heisterhagen in the catalog of the German National Library
• Contributions by Heisterhagen in the IPG-Journal
• Page with articles by Heisterhagen at Cicero
• Heisterhagen's Twitter channel

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Christoph Hickmann, Veit Medick: Left and Right , in: Der Spiegel September 15, 2018, pages 30–31
2. ↑ see information on the dissertation at http://d-nb.info/113127539X
3. ↑ Dispute over the reorientation of the SPD: SPD and Heisterhagen split up , in: Taz.de September 13, 2018, accessed August 25, 2019
4. ^ SPIEGEL ONLINE: SPD: Why Andrea Nahles doesn't want to know anything about Nils Heisterhagen. Retrieved November 4, 2019 . 
5. ^ Page of the Dietz publishing house about the book with numerous reviews
6. ^ Program for the presentation of the book "The Liberal Illusion" at the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung
7. ↑ see extensive review by Peter Flick about the book on Socialnet