Paul Schreyer

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Paul Schreyer (2017)

Paul Schreyer (* 1977 in Rostock ) is a German author of non-fiction books . He also writes as a freelance journalist for various internet platforms.

family

Paul Schreyer is the son of the writer Wolfgang Schreyer (1927–2017). Born in Rostock and raised in Fischland , he graduated from high school in 1996 in Damgarten . From 1998 to 2000 he was a sound engineer at Torus GmbH in Cologne and from 2000 he was a freelance commercial artist . In the summer of 2017, Schreyer published an interview with his father about his life and work.

Publications and reception

Since 2006, Schreyer has published six non-fiction books as well as numerous articles on Telepolis , Globalresearch , KenFM , Free21, Rubikon and NachDenkSeiten . The journalist and author Matthias Holland-Letz counts Schreyer in an article for the New Germany , in which he deals critically with Ken Jebsen , to his environment. As his interview partner, Schreyer emphasized that he did not subscribe to everything that ran on KenFM , but that his and Jebsen's political views were similar in many respects. According to journalist Christoph Dorner, Schreyer represents “left-wing positions” and above all questions the narratives that are used to justify political decisions in a representative democracy. According to Dorner, Schreyer has “no fear of contact with questionable alternative media” when choosing his publication locations. Schreyer has been writing book reviews for WDR since 2019 .

9/11 attacks, 2006 to 2013

Between 2006 and 2013, Schreyer published three books on individual aspects of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 , which he regards as unresolved.

In 2014, the social scientist Andreas Anton described the “official” and the “alternative” declarations equally as “ September 11th conspiracy theories ” and contrasted them. Like others, Schreyer believes, for example, an accidental failure of the US air defense to intercept the hijacked aircraft in time is unlikely. Schreyer suspect a deliberate delay and consider a government conspiracy to be conceivable. He sees possible motives in the government plan Continuity of Government and in the Project for the New American Century (PNAC).

Political scientist Markus Linden assigns Schreyer, together with Mathias Bröckers, to the “certainly more intelligent representatives of so-called conspiracy theories ” with reference to their “critical statements on the supposedly unsolved questions about the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001” . According to Linden, both represent “a fundamentally critical position vis-à-vis the USA” without “slipping into completely dubious arguments and assumptions”.

We're the good guys, 2014

Schreyer's book Wir sind die Guten (2014), written with Mathias Bröckers, deals with the war in Ukraine since 2014 and its media representation. The book reached rank 5 in the category “paperback non-fiction” on the Spiegel bestseller list and was translated into Russian and Czech .

Markus Linden assigns Schreyer to a spectrum of authors in alternative media who share “views with a conspiracy-theoretical character”. In this context, he assesses the book by Schreyer and Mathias Bröckers as "argumentatively quite remarkable pamphlet against the supposedly one-sided media coverage of the Ukraine conflict" and as a "fact-based criticism". The book shows deficits in media reports on the Ukraine conflict, which the public also perceives, and was received by critics "surprisingly benevolent". It made Russia's reactions appear as a result of US aggression and demanded that German politicians remember not only Germany's “community of fate” with the Americans, but also the geographical “community with the Russians, to whom the Germans still belong are guilty of something ". This makes the excellently readable book “even more one-sided than the criticized media discourse”.

Klaus von Beyme describes Schreyer with other authors as " Putin- staunch". According to Beyme, they defend themselves “against a 'values imperialism ' and a 'human rights bellicism ' which obscures the fact that the Western interventions in Afghanistan , Iraq or Libya were not primarily about human rights and Western values, but about power - and business interests with regard to raw materials and resources. "

Who rules the money, 2016

Schreyer's book Who rules money? (2016) deals with the creation of book money and financial issues. The ORF praised it as "educational work" that shows "that private banks also create money" and makes it clear "how money creation works and who gets what benefit from it".

Guido Speckmann ( Neues Deutschland ) emphasizes that Schreyer is doing "important educational work and demands state control" with the book. He cleared up misconceptions about the modern monetary system and conveyed the "complicated matter [...] in a very understandable and legible manner". However, the “one-sided view of a monetary system - however designed - on the sphere of circulation ” does not take into account the connections with the “ capitalist sphere of production ”.

The Fear of the Elites, 2018

Christoph Dorner mentions in the Süddeutsche Zeitung that Schreyer represents left-wing positions. A non-partisan consensus in the left-wing liberal camp in Germany that he had struck up with Schreyer: “Democracy is great - as long as the wrong people are not elected.” According to Schreyer, a “globally operating money elite” evades the control of the German parliament. Accusations of populism against the AfD would "primarily serve to protect the elites, because in the ongoing dispute over the dominant culture and Islam there was no debate about the unequal distribution of wealth".

According to Anna Ernst (ZDF-Online-Redaktion Das Literarisches Quartett ), Schreyer wants more direct democracy. He laments an “oligarchy of the rich in the center of Europe”, which has turned parliaments into “the facade of various power interests of so-called elites”. He discovered that the documented “crisis of representation” hides an “increasingly new, general fear of democracy”. This is important for federal politics.

Fonts (selection)

  • The legend - What happened on September 11th (with Wolfgang Schreyer), Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-360-01289-0
  • Inside 9/11 - New facts and backgrounds ten years later (editor: Jürgen Elsässer ), Kai Homilius Verlag , Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-89706-399-0
  • Fact check 9/11 - Another perspective 12 years later , Kai Homilius Verlag, Werder (Havel) 2013, ISBN 978-3-89706-430-0
  • Snowden and the change in the German media. Comment. In: Dieter Deiseroth, Annegret Falter (ed.): Whistleblower in security policy. Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-8305-3333-7 , pp. 157-164
  • Who rules the money? - Banks, Democracy and Deception , Westend Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2016, ISBN 978-3-95471-523-7
  • The Fear of the Elites - Who Fears Democracy? , Westend Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2018, ISBN 978-3-86489-209-7
  • with Mathias Bröckers: We are always the good ones - views of those who understand Putin or how the Cold War is being rekindled. Westend Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2019, ISBN 978-3-86489-742-9 ; extended new edition of: We are the good guys - the views of a Putin understanding or how the media manipulate us. Westend Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2014, ISBN 978-3-86489-080-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sophie Martin: In the footsteps of the GDR author Wolfgang Schreyer. In: Ostsee-Zeitung . July 22, 2017. Retrieved February 14, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Dieter Deiseroth , Annegret Falter (ed.): Whistleblowers in Security Politics - Whistleblowers in Security Politics: Award Ceremony - Awards 2011/2013 (Chelsea E. Manning; Edward J. Snowden). BWV Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag , Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-8305-2950-7 , p. 233
  3. ^ A b Matthias Holland-Letz: Approaching an Internet Phenomenon. New Germany, December 14, 2017
  4. ↑ a b Christoph Dorner: What's next, democracy? . Süddeutsche Zeitung , July 15, 2018.
  5. ↑ Unökonomie In: Gutenbergs Welt . WDR, September 7, 2019; Digital ideals . In: Gutenberg's world. WDR, November 9, 2019
  6. ^ Andreas Anton: Conspiracy Theories for September 11th. In: Andreas Anton, Michael Schetsche , Michael K. Walter (Eds.): Conspiracy: Sociology of Conspiracy Thought. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2014, ISBN 978-3-531-19323-6 , pp. 169-173
  7. ↑ a b Markus Linden: Mathias Bröckers / Paul Schreyer: We're the good guys. Views of someone who understands Putin or how the media manipulate us. Review on the portal for political science, Frankfurt am Main, December 4, 2014
  8. ↑ Book report data page We are the good guys
  9. ↑ Брёкерс, Матиас - "Мы хорошие". Точка зрения человека, понимающего Путина, или Как средства массовой информаци ... Russian State Library , accessed February 26, 2018 .
  10. ^ Mathias Bröckers, Paul Schreyer: My jsme ti dobří: názory toho, kdo se snaží chápat Putina aneb Jak námi média manipulují. Nakladatelství Jaro, Prague 2014 (DNB = 1069195154; Czech language)
  11. ↑ Markus Linden: Everything is a lie! Conspiracy theories are explaining the world to more and more people. It doesn't bode well for the rest of society. The European , November 11, 2014
  12. ↑ Markus Linden: The Voices of the Digital Underground , NZZ, October 10, 2015
  13. ↑ Klaus von Beyme: The Russia Controversy. An analysis of the ideological conflict between those who understand Russia and those who criticize Russia. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2016, ISBN 978-3-658-12030-6 , p. 47
  14. ↑ ORF / Ö1: “Who rules money?” Context, April 29, 2016
  15. ↑ Guido Speckmann: The money phantasm. Neues Deutschland, March 30, 2016 (paid; full article )
  16. ↑ Anna Ernst: The fear of the elites. ( Memento of March 24, 2019 in the Internet Archive ) ZDF / Das Literarisches Quartett, April 20, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Schreyer, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author and freelance journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostock