Robert Misik

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Robert Misik, 2015 in Berlin

Robert Misik (born January 3, 1966 in Vienna ) is an Austrian journalist and political writer .

Life

Misik joined the Revolutionary Marxists (GRM) group in 1983 at the age of 17 . His journalistic activity began in 1989 at the now closed Arbeiter-Zeitung . From 1992 to 1997 he was a correspondent for the news magazine profil in Berlin . He has been working as a freelance writer since 2002. He writes and positions himself in journalistic contributions with articles, columns, conversations and interviews - as a questioner and as an answerer - constantly in the daily newspaper taz , regularly in the magazines Falter and Format published in Austria , occasionally in newspapers and magazines such as Friday , Junge Welt , Neues Deutschland , Neue Zürcher Zeitung and more often in Die Zeit , to cite examples only from the field of print media.

Misik is a non-fiction author and ran a video blog with 582 episodes on the homepage of the daily newspaper Der Standard until January 2019 . His topics include the criticism of capitalism and globalization , Austrian and German daily politics, the history of social democracy and the relationship between consumer culture and the production of goods. Misik is particularly involved in theoretical and political debates. At the Bruno Kreisky Forum for International Dialogue , he leads the Genial series of events . The guests included Nobel laureate Robert Shiller , the parliamentary group leader of the Left Party in the German Bundestag Sahra Wagenknecht and Greece's ex-finance minister Yanis Varoufakis . Misik is the biographer of the former Austrian Chancellor Christian Kern (who is almost exactly the same age to the day) and is considered his friend.

During his time in Berlin in the 1990s, he was friends with the German screenwriter Thomas Strittmatter (1961–1995).

Prizes and awards

Books

  • World market myth , 1997.
  • The Search for the Blair Effect , 1998.
  • Republic of Courage. Against the Verhaiderung , (edited together with Doron Rabinovici ), 2000
  • Marx for those in a hurry , 2003.
  • In contrast , 2005.
  • The glamor and misery of commercial culture , 2007.
  • Politics of Paranoia , 2009.
  • Instructions for improving the world: We'll do that with our left hand , 2010.
  • Capitalism. Will capitalism die, and if so, would that make us happy? 2016, ISBN 978-3-351-03635-5 . A review of this book at Buch.de ( e.g. by Werner Plumpe, FAZ)

all in the Aufbau-Verlag , Berlin.

  • God forbid! Verlag Carl Ueberreuter , 2008
  • Half freedom. Why freedom and equality belong together , Suhrkamp Verlag , 2012
  • Explain the financial crisis to me! How we got in there, and how we get out of it , Picus Verlag , 2013
  • Can our politics still be saved? Ways out of the angry dead-end street , Picus Verlag, 2013.
  • Supermarket europe. On the sellout of our democracy , together with Michael Reimon, Czernin, Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-7076-0520-4 .
  • What left think. Ideas from Marx about Gramsci to Adorno, Habermas, Foucault & Co. Picus Verlag, Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-7117-2030-6 .
  • A strange hero. The grandiose, unknown Victor Adler. Picus Verlag, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-7117-2044-3 .
  • Christian Kern. A portrait. Residenz Verlag, Salzburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-7017-3411-5 .
  • Love in times of capitalism: Our society in ten theses , Brandstätter Verlag, Vienna 2018, ISBN 978-3-7106-0132-3 .
  • Rule of wickedness: why we don't want to be governed like that! , Picus Verlag, Vienna 2019, ISBN 978-3-7117-2080-1 .
  • The false friends of the common people , Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-518-12741-4 .

Web links

Commons : Robert Misik  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Robert Misik, We have lost our Siegi, misik.at of April 27, 2015
  2. ↑ The Great Regression - What to do ?, in: Friday, May 8, 2017.
  3. ↑ "Kurz is politically very flexible", in: Junge Welt, October 10, 2019.
  4. ↑ What the left should do in times of crisis. Robert Misik and Tom Strohschneider in conversation, in: Neues Deutschland, May 31, 2016.
  5. ↑ What's true this year? The media and the mainstream suspicion, in NZZ, September 17, 2016.
  6. ↑ European Union. Thanks to Brexit, we love Europe again - a self-deception !, in: Die Zeit, September 13, 2019.
  7. ↑ FS-Misik. In: standard.at , online , accessed on April 16, 2017
  8. ↑ Guest lists since 2012 in the annual reports of the Kreisky Forum, online , accessed on April 17, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Misik, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Misik, Robert Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian journalist and book author
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd January 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna