Sebastian Voigt

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Sebastian Voigt (* 1978 in Ludwigsburg ) is a German historian .

Sebastian Voigt (2013)

Life

Sebastian Voigt grew up in Marbach am Neckar . His father is the historian Johannes H. Voigt . Sebastian Voigt studied history, German literature, philosophy and education at the Albert-Ludwigs-University in Freiburg im Breisgau , the University of Massachusetts / Amherst and the University of Leipzig from 2000 to 2007 . In 2006 he obtained his Magister Artium and in 2007 he passed the first state examination for high school teaching. During his studies, he received scholarships from the German National Academic Foundation , the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation and the Fulbright Commission . Between 2003 and 2013 Sebastian Voigt worked at the Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture in Leipzig .

In 2009 he received a doctoral scholarship from the Hans Böckler Foundation and received his doctorate from the University of Leipzig in 2013 with a thesis on the memory and family history of left-wing Jewish activists in post-war France. The publication appeared in 2015 under the title “The Jewish May '68: Pierre Goldman, Daniel Cohn-Bendit and André Glucksmann in post-war France” and was widely received both in the daily press and in specialist journals. In an interview, Daniel Cohn-Bendit commented positively on Voigt's idea that his Jewish origins had a meaning in the 1968 movement, even if it didn't play a subjective role for him at the time. Voigt has been working as a research assistant at the Institute for Contemporary History Munich - Berlin since 2013 . There he coordinates the graduate school “Social Consequences of Change in Work in the Second Half of the 20th Century”. Voigt is also the specialist editor of the review journal Sehepunkte and the IfZ series Zeitgeschichte in conversation .

From 2013 to 2015 he was a lecturer at the Chair of Contemporary History at the University of Leipzig. Since 2015 he has been a fellow at the Institute for Social Movements and a lecturer at the Ruhr University in Bochum. Voigt has written two monographs, edited several books and published numerous articles. He is co-founder and editor of the series “Relations. Essays zur Gegenwart ”, which has been published by Neofelis Verlag since 2014 . His main research interests include the history of trade unions and the labor movement , anti-Semitism , ( anti ) communism and the history of the left . He has also published numerous journalistic articles and commentaries, including in the TAZ , Jungle World , Tagesspiegel and the Jerusalem Post .

Voigt was also interviewed by major media outlets on various topics, including Deutschlandfunk on the death of André Glucksmann and ZDF on Willy Brandt's government declaration in 1969 and the state of the SPD today.

Controversy

Individual members of the left parliamentary group and parts of their party base criticize the Israeli Palestine policy violently. Sebastian Voigt and the political scientist Samuel Salzborn described anti-Israeli and anti-Semitic tendencies in the party in an essay in 2011 . The article first published in the Frankfurter Rundschau appeared later, somewhat revised, in the Zeitschrift für Politik . The essay was the occasion of a current hour requested by the CDU / CSU and FDP in the Bundestag. Some members of the party leadership were critical of the tendencies described, others denied them. In an article also published in the Zeitschrift für Politik, the sociologist Peter Ullrich and the political scientist Alban Werner criticized Voigt and Salzborn's contribution as "methodologically deficient" and "inconsistent". According to them, the authors proceeded selectively when dealing with the current state of research and did not adequately take into account different ways of interpreting the data.

Works (selection)

As an author

  • The Jewish May '68: Pierre Goldman, Daniel Cohn-Bendit and André Glucksmann in post-war France . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen / Bristol 2015, ISBN 978-3-525-37036-0 .
  • The dialectic of unity and difference. About the origin and validity of the principle of pluralism in the United States of America (university publications) . Trafo, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-89626-716-0 .

As editor

  • Sebastian Voigt, Wiebke Friedrich, Christoph Schwarz (eds.): Unions in the Democratic Process / Labor Unions in the Democratic Process , Edition of the Hans Böckler Foundation, Düsseldorf 2013, ISBN 978-3-86593-177-1 .
  • Sebastian Voigt, Heinz Sünker (ed.): Workers' Movement - Nation - Globalization. Inventory of an old debate , Velbrück Wissenschaft, Weilerswist 2014, ISBN 978-3-942393-71-3 .
  • Jewish and Non-Jewish Spaces in the Urban Context ; Neofelis Verlag, Berlin 2015; ISBN 978-3-943414-44-8 . (English)
  • Sebastian Voigt, Bernd Heyl, Edgar Weick (eds.): Ernest Jouhy - on the topicality of a passionate educator . Brandes & Apsel, Frankfurt am Main 2017, ISBN 978-3-95558-201-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituaries of Johannes H. Voigt | trauer.marbacher-zeitung.de. Retrieved on May 7, 2020 (German).
  2. ^ [1] Website of the H-Soz-Kult. Retrieved February 7, 2018.
  3. ^ [2] Review from the Süddeutsche Zeitung. Retrieved February 7, 2018.
  4. ^ [3] Review from Neues Deutschland, Sozialistische Tageszeitung. Retrieved February 7, 2018.
  5. ^ [4] Review from the journal Neue Politische Literatur. Last accessed on February 7, 2018.
  6. ^ Stiftung Demokratie Saarland SDS: The Jewish May '68 - May 30th, 2018. Retrieved February 8, 2019 .
  7. ^ [5] Cohn-Bendit in the Jewish General. Last accessed on April 3, 2018.
  8. ^ [6] Internet site of the Graduate School Change of Work. Retrieved February 7, 2018.
  9. ↑ [7] Sehepunkte profile of Sebastian Voigt.
  10. ^ Institute for Contemporary History: Contemporary History in Conversation. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 22, 2018 ; accessed on June 5, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ifz-muenchen.de
  11. ^ [8] Chair for Contemporary History at the University of Leipzig.
  12. ^ [9] Sebastian Voigt's staff member at the Institute for Social Movements.
  13. ↑ [10] Sebastian Voigt's profile at the Ruhr University Bochum.
  14. ↑ - ( Memento of the original from February 10, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. "Relations. Essays on the Present " @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.neofelis-verlag.de
  15. ↑ [11] Article by Sebastian Voigt in the TAZ.
  16. ↑ [12] "Shalom without Peace" by Sebastian Voigt in Jungle World.
  17. ↑ [13] "Positions from Israel's Side" by Sebastian Voigt in the Tagesspiegel.
  18. ↑ [14] "Let the left go forward" by Sebastian Voigt in the Jerusalem Post.
  19. ^ The SPD and grassroots democracy: Dare more Willy Brandt. Retrieved October 29, 2019 .
  20. ^ Samuel Salzborn / Sebastian Voigt: Anti-Semites as coalition partners? The Left Party between anti-Zionist anti-Semitism and the pursuit of governance. ( Memento from August 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Online advance publication, 2011.
  21. ^ Samuel Salzborn, Sebastian Voigt: Anti-Semites as coalition partners? The Left Party between anti-Zionist anti-Semitism and the pursuit of governance. In: ZfP 58, volume 3/2011 .
  22. ↑ the 110th meeting, p. 41 ff .; Recording online as a video  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. can be viewed in the Bundestag media library.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / dbtg.tv  
  23. ↑ Left angry about anti-Semitic tendencies. In: welt.de . June 3, 2011, accessed December 23, 2014 .
  24. ↑ M. Hollstein, P. Kuhn: Why the Left Party has a problem with Israel. In: welt.de . May 20, 2011, accessed December 23, 2014 .
  25. ↑ The “Left” and their relationship to Israel: “This is how one creates enemy images.” Hagalil.com
  26. ↑ Jan-Philipp Hein: Left Party: A Problem Called Israel. In: stern.de . May 23, 2008, accessed December 23, 2014 .
  27. ↑ Gaza Aid: Left-wing MPs rail against Israel. In: Focus Online . June 1, 2010, accessed December 23, 2014 .
  28. ↑ The fuss about anti-Israel leaflet on the website of the Left in Duisburg. The West
  29. ↑ Peter Ullrich, Alban Werner: Is 'DIE LINKE' anti-Semitic? About gray areas of the 'Israel criticism' and its critics . In: ZfP . tape 58 , no. 4 , p. 425-426 .
personal data
SURNAME Voigt, Sebastian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludwigsburg