Thomas Pfeiffer (social scientist)

Thomas Pfeiffer (* 1970 ) is a German journalist and political scientist .

Life

Pfeiffer first studied political science in 1990 at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn , then from 1990 to 1996 journalism (diploma) at the Institute for Journalism at the University of Dortmund and from 1994 to 2007 at the School of Communications at Dublin City University . He was at the beginning of 2001 Wilhelm Bleek with the dissertation media of a new social movement from right at the Faculty of Social Science at the University of Bochum for Dr. rer. soc. doctorate , where he has since worked as a lecturer at Britta Rehder's chair .

In 1990 Pfeiffer worked for the local editorial office of the Westfälische Rundschau . He then worked as an intern at Agence France Presse in Bonn, at the United Nations in New York and at Radio Berlin 88.8 . From 1992 to 1993 he completed an internship at the Leipziger Volkszeitung .

Since 2002 he has been a research assistant in the Office for the Protection of the Constitution at the Ministry of the Interior in North Rhine-Westphalia .

research

The focus of his work is right-wing extremism research , in particular the New Right and right-wing extremism on the Internet and in music . In 2003 he organized the symposium of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution in North Rhine-Westphalia on the subject of the new rights - a threat to democracy? and together with Wolfgang Gessenharter published the documentation of the conference as a book in 2004.

Publications (selection)

• “Schumi, du Regengott”: themed staging in daily newspapers, in: Willems, Herbert and Jurga, Martin (ed.): Staging Society. An introductory manual, Opladen / Wiesbaden 1998, pp. 489–505 (with Günther Rager and Ricarda Hartwich-Reick)
• "Every subscription a conservative revolution". The “Young Freedom” in the Crisis, in: Die Neue Gesellschaft / Frankfurter Hefte, 46th vol. (1999), no. 8, pp. 731–735
• Narrowed Bits 'n' Bytes. Thule network wants to create “counter-publicity” for right-wing extremists, in: Büttner, Manfred (Ed.): Brown seeds in young heads. Basic knowledge and concepts for teaching and education against neo-Nazism and legal violence, Hohengehren 1999, pp. 124–142
• German and national. On the symbolic integration of a new social movement from the right, in: Forschungsjournal Neue Sozialebewegung, 14. Jg. (2001), no. 3, pp. 111–115
• For the people and the fatherland. The media network of the right - press, music, internet, Berlin 2002
• “The internet is cheap, fast and clean. We love it". Right-wing extremists discover the computer, in: Federal Center for Political Education (Hrsg.): Right-wing extremism on the Internet. Research, analyzes, educational models for dealing with right-wing extremism, Bonn 2002 (CD-ROM)
• From the uprising of the decent press. Right-wing extremism reporting in German daily newspapers, in: Butterwegge, Christoph u. a .: Topics of the right - topics of the middle. Immigration, demographic change and national awareness, Opladen 2002 (with Kerstin Jansen, Tim Stegmann and Sandra Tepper), pp. 267–288
• "Hurray, hurray, a nigger is on fire". Function and significance of music for right-wing extremism in Germany, in: Bendikowski, Tillmann u. a. (Ed.): The power of tones. Music as a means of establishing political identity in the 20th century, Münster 2003, pp. 194–217
• Virtual mess with each other. The new right in the Internet, in: Federal Center for Political Education (Ed.): Right-wing extremism in the Internet. Research, analysis, educational models for dealing with right-wing extremism, 2nd edition, Bonn 2003 (CD-ROM)
• Culture as a question of power. The new rights in Germany (published by the Ministry of the Interior of North Rhine-Westphalia), 2nd edition, Düsseldorf 2004 (as PDF full text ( Memento from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ))
• The New Right - a Danger for Democracy ?, Wiesbaden 2004 (ed. With Wolfgang Gessenharter )
• "It's Derry - not Londonderry!". Symbols of division, symbols of hope, in: Knoll, Christian Ludwig (ed.): Northern Ireland on the way into the 21st century, Sieverstedt 2004, pp. 39–56
• Publications and publishers, in: Grumke, Thomas and Wagner, Bernd (Hrsg.): Handbuch Rechtsradikalismus . People - organizations - networks from neo-Nazism to the middle of society, Opladen 2002, pp. 105–115
• Right-wing extremists on the data highway. Function and importance of computer-aided communication for the networks on the right edge, Bonn 2004
• Experience right-wing extremism. Contempt for human beings with entertainment value, in: Robertson-von Trotha, Caroline Y. (Ed.): Right-wing extremism in Germany and Europe. Right outside - right 'center'? (= Interdisciplinary cultural studies, vol. 7), Baden-Baden 2012, pp. 119-133, ISBN 978-3-8329-5817-6

Web links

• Literature by and about Thomas Pfeiffer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Thomas Pfeiffer at the Ruhr University Bochum