Ralf Melzer

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Ralf Melzer (2019)

Ralf Melzer (born February 17, 1967 in West Berlin ) is a German historian, journalist and foundation employee.

Career

Melzer attended the Beethoven grammar school in Berlin-Lankwitz . After high school he went to study history, German and journalism at the Free University of Berlin and received his doctorate there then as a fellow of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation (FES) in Modern History at Wolfgang Wippermann with a work on Freemasonry in the Weimar Republic and National Socialism. During this time he was also a member of the DRAmateure , a now disbanded independent theater group, for which he also wrote stage texts .

After completing his doctorate, he completed a post-doctoral fellowship as a scholar-in-residence at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) in Washington, DC

Until 2003 Melzer worked as a freelance historian, including for the German branch of the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation , and as a journalist for various media including the taz , the Berlin pages of the FAZ and the Jüdische Allgemeine .

Since 2004, Melzer has been working in changing functions inside and outside Germany as an employee of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation , including from 2009 to 2011 as FES office manager in Tunisia. From 2012 to 2016 he headed the “Against Right-Wing Extremism” department at the FES and in this capacity was the editor of three “ Mitte” studies of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation . During this time, he also made several contributions as a guest author on SPIEGEL Online .

Since 2020 Melzer has been head of the FES regional project "Dialogue Southeast Europe", based in Sarajevo . He is a member of the scientific advisory board of the Journal for International Freemason Research (IF).

Fonts (selection)

  • Berlin im Wandel, Berlin 1994, ISBN 978-3-87776-238-7 .
  • Conflict and adaptation. Freemasonry in the Weimar Republic and in the "Third Reich", Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-7003-1245-8 .
  • In the Eye of a Hurricane: German Freemasonry in the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich, in: Freemasonry in Context. History, Ritual, Controversy (Scottish Rite Research Society) Lanham / Maryland 2004, pp. 89-104, ISBN 0-7391-0781-X .
  • Cambodia 1975 - 2005: Weg durch die Nacht (Edited with Paul Pasch), Bonn (Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung) 2005, ISBN 3-89892-363-0 .
  • Tunisia can create democratic change, but success is by no means assured, in: Internationale Politik und Gesellschaft (IPG), 4/2011, pp. 18 ff., ISSN  0945-2419 .
  • The middle in transition. Right-wing extremist attitudes in Germany 2012 (Ed. For the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung), Bonn (Dietz-Verlag) 2012, ISBN 978-3-8012-0429-7 .
  • Misanthropy in times of upheaval. On the new study by the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung on right-wing extremist attitudes in Germany, in: Neue Gesellschaft / Frankfurter Hefte, 12 | 2012, p. 15 ff., ISSN  0177-6738 .
  • Right-wing extremism in Europe. Country analyzes, counter-strategies and labor market-oriented exit work (Ed. With Sebastian Serafin for the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (also as an English edition), Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-86498-521-8 .
  • Between Conflict and Conformity: Freemasonry during the Weimar Republic and the "Third Reich", Washington DC 2014, ISBN 978-1-63391-760-6 .
  • Fragile Center - Hostile Conditions. Right-wing extremist attitudes in Germany 2014 (Ed. For the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung) Bonn (Dietz-Verlag), 2014, ISBN 978-3-8012-0458-7 .
  • Anger, contempt, devaluation. Right-wing populism in Germany (edited with Dietmar Molthagen for the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung), Bonn (Dietz-Verlag) 2015, ISBN 978-3-8012-0478-5 .
  • Europe and its enemies from the right, in: Neue Gesellschaft / Frankfurter Hefte, 11 | 2015, p. 31 ff., ISSN  0177-6738 .
  • Divided Middle - Hostile Conditions. Right-wing extremist attitudes in Germany 2016 (Ed. For the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung), Bonn (Dietz-Verlag) 2016, ISBN 978-3-8012-0488-4 .
  • For discussion: unmasking instead of considering. On dealing with right-wing populism - a reply, in: Neue Gesellschaft / Frankfurter Hefte, 7/8 | 2016, p. 77 ff., ISSN  0177-6738 .
  • Right-wing extremism, in: Helmut Reinalter (Ed.), Handbook of Conspiracy Theories, Leipzig 2018, p. 216 ff .; ISBN 978-3-96285-004-3 .

Web links

https://www.schreib-gut.de/texte/tunesieninterview.html

https://de.qantara.de/inhalt/interview-mit-ralf-melzer-tunesiens-reformverarbeitung-ist-auf-einem-guten-weg

https://de.qantara.de/inhalt/interview-mit-ralf-melzer-in-libyen-wird-der-uebergang-schwieriger

https://www.publik-forum.de/Publik-Forum-22-2012/terror-ist-nur-die-endstufe

https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/rechtsextrem-und-rechtsradikal-wo-gende-der-vergleich-a-1099087.html

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tilmann Bendikowski: Review: Non-fiction book: Light and sun mystics . In: FAZ.NET . 2000 ( faz.net [accessed April 6, 2020]).
  2. ↑ https://www.zvab.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=30249475226&searchurl=hl%3Don%26isbn%3D9783464644645%26sortby%3D20&cm_sp=snippet-_-srp1-_-title2 , accessed on January 24, 2020
  3. ↑ https://www.fes.de/e/drei-fragen-an-dr-ralf-melzer-neuer-leiter-des-bayernforums-der-fes , accessed on January 24, 2020
  4. ↑ Right, extreme, populist, radical: In the jungle of terms. In: Spiegel Online . June 30, 2016, accessed May 16, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Ralf Melzer: Right-wing populism: The power of the simple, guest article Ralf Melzer. In: Spiegel Online . October 2, 2016, accessed May 16, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Ralf Melzer: Europe: Danger from right-wing populism is not averted. In: Spiegel Online . March 18, 2017, accessed May 16, 2020 .
  7. ^ IF - Journal for International Masonic Research Archive - StudienVerlag. In: studienverlag.at. Retrieved May 16, 2020 .
  8. ↑ https://www.frankfurter-hefte.de/artikel/ungeendung-aber-vernetzt-2319/?tx_ngfhpublications_showarticle%5Baction%5D=show&tx_ngfhpublications_showarticle%5Bcontroller%5D=Article&cHash=5bb7a79ba2bdee20 , accessed on 06.06
personal data
SURNAME Melzer, Ralf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian, journalist, employee of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation
DATE OF BIRTH 17th February 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH West Berlin