Tobias Jaecker

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Tobias Jaecker (born December 15, 1975 in Hamburg ) is a German communication scientist , journalist and non-fiction author.

Life

Jaecker studied journalism and communication science, political science and modern history at the Free University of Berlin from 1996 to 2004 . Since 2000 he has been working as a freelance editor at radioeins des Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB). In 2006 he worked as an Arthur F. Burns Fellow at National Public Radio (NPR) in Chicago. In 2013 he started with Hermann Haarmann at the Free University of Berlin with the dissertation Hass, Neid, Wahn. Anti-Americanism in the German media for Dr. phil. PhD . He has published in online and print media in the daily newspaper , the Tagesspiegel , the Netzeitung and the Jüdischen Allgemeine , among others .

Topics and lectures

Tobias Jaecker gives lectures and seminars on the topics of anti-Semitism , anti-Americanism , conspiracy theories and media criticism . In particular, he criticizes the allegations made after September 11, 2001 against the "oil mafia" or advisers to the US government. These are often not far removed from the speculations of Jan van Helsing . Official research results and pronouncements would only be used as evidence of the plausibility of their own opposing theories. Jaecker criticizes authors like Mathias Bröckers and Gerhard Wisnewski . Bröckers' approach would be somewhat more ironic than others, according to a typical conspiracy-theoretical pattern.

According to Jaecker, conspiracy theories arise in connection with social upheavals such as crises and wars, for which a "crystal clear solution" is presented. If for a long time only “isolated eccentrics” had received such theories, these are now increasingly advancing into society via social networks . Right-wing publishers in particular used "conspiracy theories as a business model".

Awards and grants

  • 2006 Arthur F. Burns Fellowship at NPR / Chicago Public Radio
  • 2004 Award of the alumni association "Friends of Journalism eV Alumni of Media and Communication Studies" for students and graduates of the Institute for Journalism of the Free University of Berlin (for his book on anti-Semitic conspiracy theories)

Audio

Fonts

  • Anti-Semitic conspiracy theories after September 11th. New variants of an old pattern of interpretation (= Political Theory and Culture , Volume 2). Lit, Münster [u. a.] 2004, ISBN 3-8258-7917-8 .
  • Hatred, envy, delusion. Anti-Americanism in the German media . Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2014, ISBN 978-3-593-50066-9 (Dissertation FU Berlin 2013)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Vita on Jaeckers site, accessed in May 2014.
  2. Article "Rothschilds, Rockefeller and the Aliens" in the Netzeitung ( Memento from October 6, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  3. Deutschlandradio-Kultur-Interview from August 8, 2006 on the occasion of the film Loose Change , accessed on the website in November 2008
  4. ^ Daniel Kaiser: Conspiracy theories are booming . NDR.de, February 3, 2016.
  5. Reviewed by Samuel Salzborn : Anti-Americanism as a delusional image of modern unease