Ulrike Guérot

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Ulrike Guérot (2016)

Ulrike Beate Guérot (* 1964 in Grevenbroich ) is a German political scientist and journalist . She is a professor at the department's policy on Europe and the Study of Democracy (DED) at the Danube University Krems , founder of the European Democracy Lab (EuDemLab) in Berlin and deals with the future of the European integration process .

Live and act

Guérot studied political science and received his doctorate in 1995 from the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster with a thesis on the "European political program of the French socialists" ( Parti socialiste ; PS).

From 1992 to 1995 Guérot was parliamentary assistant in the office of the foreign policy spokesman for the CDU / CSU parliamentary group, Karl Lamers , and worked on the 1994 Schäuble-Lamers paper on deepening the European Union. From 1995 to 1996 she was Director of Communication, Association for the Monetary Union of Europe (AMUE / AUME). From 1996 to 1998 she was a research assistant (assistant / Chargée de Mission) to the former President of the European Commission , Jacques Delors , at the Notre Europe organization in Paris.

From 1998 to 2000 she was Assistant Professor at the Paul H. Nitze School for Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University , Washington, DC, USA.

From 2000 to 2003 she headed the “Europe Program Group” at the German Society for Foreign Policy (DGAP) in Berlin.

In 2003 she also taught at INSEAD Business School in Singapore.

From 2004 to 2007 she worked as Director Foreign Policy & Senior Transatlantic Fellow at the German Marshall Fund . From 2007 to 2013 Guérot headed the Berlin office of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR).

In spring 2012, Guérot was a visiting researcher at the Deutsches Haus at New York University (NYU). In autumn 2014, she was visiting researcher at the Science Center Berlin (WZB). From 2013 to 2014 she taught at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder) and the Bucerius Law School in Hamburg.

In March 2014 she founded the European Democracy Lab (EuDemLab), a Berlin-based think tank at the European School of Governance (EUSG).

Since April 2016, Guérot has been a professor and head of the “Department for European Politics and Democracy Research” (DED) at the University for Continuing Education Krems . For the winter semester 2017/18 she received the Alfred Grosser visiting professorship at the Goethe University Frankfurt .

Positions

Ulrike Guérot, in May 2019 at the Römerberg Talks

Guérot publishes extensively in German and European magazines and newspapers, mainly on European and also transatlantic topics. She is regularly invited to comment on current topics and to present her theses in European media and encounters - "From author to activist", says Hannes Koch in the taz .

In April 2013, she and Robert Menasse published a manifesto for the “establishment of a European republic”. In it they plead for a re-establishment of European democracy, a European republic , and in this context they advocate the creation of a post-national Europe.

In February 2016, Guérot, together with Robert Menasse , questioned refugee policy aimed at integration in an article in Le Monde Diplomatique and advocated assigning building land to refugees in Europe where they could found their own cities. Europe is big and soon empty enough to build a dozen cities and more for newcomers. In the middle of Europe, New Damascus and New Aleppo, New Diyarbakir or New Erbil and New Dohuk, New Kandahar or New Kunduz for the Afghan refugees or New Enugu or New Ondo for the Nigerian refugees would arise. Closing the borders is not feasible, the EU must share its space with the people who want to go to Europe.

In April 2016 her first book, Why Europe Must Become a Republic! A political utopia in Dietz-Verlag and in November 2017 as a paperback by Piper-Verlag . In it she draws the utopia of a European republic based on the equality of all European citizens beyond national borders. The Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) praises the book as an "original, clever and radical contribution."

In May 2017, her second work was titled The New Civil War. The open Europe and its enemies published by Ullstein-Verlag . The NDR voted it the best non-fiction book of the month.

Guérot is co-initiator of the “Balcony Project” (2018) in which intellectuals and around 100 European cultural institutions participate and call for the foundation of a “European republic based on the principle of general political equality beyond nationality and origin”. From November 2019 together with Milo Rau as the “European Balcony Project” - the “Manifesto for the European Republic”, written with Menasse, is to be read out on as many theater stages in Europe as possible.

In a video for Deutsche Bank in March 2018, Guérot also called for the European nation states to be abolished. Guérot was of the opinion that the nation was not a bearer of identity; the Germans, previously only Rhinelander, Saxony, Hesse and Palatinate, were only made Germans by the general German health insurance . By introducing a European unemployment insurance, one would have a European nation formation.

Your essay How are you doing with Europe ? , published by Steidl Verlag in April 2019 . was voted 3rd place among the best non-fiction books for December by Die Welt , WDR 5 , Neue Zürcher Zeitung , ORF-Radio Ö1 in December 2019 .

European Republic, Europe of the Regions

With historical reference, she takes up the idea of ​​a Europe of the regions - Europe has only been made up of nation states for a relatively short time, but for much longer it has consisted of “around fifty to sixty old, historical regions: Savoy, Flanders, Veneto, Bavaria, Brabant, Emilia-Romagna , Brittany, Tyrol, Catalonia - all with around seven to fifteen million inhabitants ”, which create identity. Which also applies in "traditional cities like Augsburg, Hamburg, Cologne or Düsseldorf". The identity of the citizens is more firmly rooted here than in the “nation-state constructs such as Germany, Italy, France, the Netherlands, Belgium”.

Guérot postulates that the European regions should each send two senators to one chamber of the European Parliament. The members of the second chamber would vote the European citizens directly - "in contrast to today, but with equal voting rights for all". A federal government would no longer be needed between the regions and the democratically controlled government in Brussels.

criticism

After Heinrich August Winkler criticized Guérot's handling of alleged quotes from Walter Hallstein in 2017 , she admitted in 2018 that the article written by her and Robert Menasse contained quotes from Hallstein made up. According to her, Guérot had known nothing of the false quotations and at the time “did not have enough authority or sovereignty to admonish this”. In retrospect it was "stupid not to check that".

Guérot commented on the victory of the Conservative Party under the incumbent Prime Minister Boris Johnson in the 2019 British general election on Twitter with “That's how people must have felt in 1933” (German: “That's how people must have felt in 1933”) . The journalists Ulf Poschardt in the world, and Alexander Kissler as well as the Jüdische Allgemeine criticized the parallelization as a derailment, since it equated the victory of Johnson and his party with the seizure of power by the National Socialists .

Private

Ulrike Guérot was married to the French diplomat Olivier Guérot and is the mother of two adult sons.

Memberships

Guérot is a member of the Scientific Committee of the Institute of European Democrats (IED), she worked as a Senior Policy Fellow for the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), is a member of the Sydney Democracy Network (SDN) and a partner in the Institute for Media and Communication Policy (IfM) in Cologne.

Awards

Fonts (selection)

Books
  • Funeral of the Enlightenment? To recode democracy and freedom in the age of digital non-sustainability. Picus Verlag, Vienna 2020 (January 15), ISBN 978-3-7117-3015-2
  • What is the nation? Steidl Verlag, Göttingen 2019 (October 30), ISBN 978-3-95829-645-9 .
  • How do you feel about Europe? Steidl Verlag , Göttingen 2019 (April 30), ISBN 978-3-95829-644-2 .
  • Old and New Cleavages in Polish Society . 2019 (March 20).
  • Europe now! An encouragement. With Oskar Negt , Tom Kehrbaum and Emanuel Herold. Steidl Verlag, Göttingen 2018, ISBN 978-3-95829-431-8 .
  • What's wrong with France? JHW Dietz Nachf., Bonn 2017. ISBN 978-3-8012-0510-2
  • The new civil war. Open Europe and its enemies. Propylaeen, Berlin 2017. ISBN 978-3-549-07491-6 . - In Polish as Europejska wojna domowa . 2017 - In Dutch as De nieuwe burgeroorlog: hoe populisme het open Europa bedreigt . 2018 (March 28) - In Italian as La Nuova Guerra Civile: L'Europa aperta ei suoi nemici . 2019 (May 9).
  • Manifesto for the establishment of a European republic. With Robert Menasse . In: Ders .: Critique of European Reason. Trilingual (German, French, English). Bernstein, Siegburg 2017. ISBN 978-3-945426-28-9 .
  • Why Europe has to become a republic! A political utopia. JHW Dietz Nachf., Bonn 2016. ISBN 978-3-8012-0479-2 . - In Dutch as Red Europa!: Waarom Europa een republiek moet sein . 2017 - In English as Why Europe Should Become a Republic !: A Political Utopia. 2019 .
  • The PS and Europe. An examination of the European political pragmatics of the French socialists 1971–1995. Brockmeyer, Bochum 1996. ISBN 978-3-8196-0412-6 .
Contributions
  • Once a hot war - cold peace and back . In: Kursbuch, 188 (2016): pp. 60–87, ISBN 978-3-946514-30-5
  • Marine Le Pen and the metamorphosis of the French Republic. Leviathan, Volume 44, Vol. 43, Issue 02/2015, pp. 139-174. ISSN  0340-0425
Interviews
Essays

Web links

Commons : Ulrike Guérot  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Official websites:

Projects:

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prof. Dr. Ulrike Guérot , on fdp.de, accessed on March 4, 2020
  2. ↑ a b Ulrike Guérot appointed professor - Europe expert takes over professorship for European politics and democracy research at Danube University Krems , press release, University of Krems , May 4, 2016
  3. ↑ a b “Europe between spirit and demon. Nationalism and Concepts of the European Federation from a Historical Perspective ” - Inaugural Lecture Ulrike Guérot, Official Opening of the Department for European Politics and Democracy Research , University of Krems , April 28, 2017
  4. ↑ a b donau-uni.ac.at/ded - Department for European Policy and Democracy Research / Department for European Policy and the Study of Democracy (DED), Danube University Krems
  5. ↑ Guérot, Ulrike, 1964-: The PS and Europe: an investigation of the European political program of the French socialists, 1971–1995 . N. Brockmeyer, Bochum 1996, ISBN 3-8196-0412-X .
  6. ↑ Ulrike Guérot . In: DGAP e. V. ( dgap.org [accessed October 4, 2017]).
  7. ↑ Ulrike Guérot. Retrieved October 4, 2017 .
  8. ^ German House at NYU. Retrieved October 4, 2017 .
  9. ↑ friend or foe? ( archive.org [accessed October 4, 2017]).
  10. ↑ Home - European School of Governance. Retrieved October 4, 2017 (American English).
  11. ↑ Major guest professorship: Lecture by Prof. Ulrike Guérot , German-French Society Frankfurt am Main eV
  12. ↑ a b How does the future of Europe succeed? Please abolish Germany - Ulrike Guérot wants to "give back their homeland" to the people and dissolve the nation states in favor of a European republic. , Hannes Koch, taz FUTURZWEI N ° 11: December 10, 2019 / N ° 12: March 10, 2020
  13. ↑ Ulrike Guérot and Robert Menasse: Desire for a common world. A futuristic design for European boundlessness. In: Le Monde Dipomatique. February 16, 2016, accessed November 22, 2018 .
  14. ^ Verlag JHW Dietz Nachf. (Berlin, West; Bonn) .: Why Europe must become a republic! A political utopia . Bonn, ISBN 978-3-8012-0479-2 .
  15. ↑ Why Europe has to become a republic. Retrieved December 11, 2017 .
  16. ^ Isabell Trommer: Renaissance of the res publica . In: sueddeutsche.de . June 12, 2016, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed October 4, 2017]).
  17. ↑ Guérot, Ulrike, Propylaen-Verlag: The new civil war. Europe between humanism and demon . Berlin, ISBN 978-3-549-07491-6 .
  18. ^ NDR: Non-fiction books of the month June 2017. Retrieved on November 12, 2017 .
  19. ^ Robert Menasse and Elfriede Jelinek call for the establishment of a European republic , Wolfgang Böhm, Die Presse , October 19, 2018
  20. ↑ europeanbalconyproject.eu
  21. ^ Deutsche Bank: Ulrike Guérot: European Union without Nations. In: Deutsche Bank website. March 2, 2018, accessed March 8, 2018 .
  22. ↑ WELT: Best non-fiction books: WELT best list for December 2019 . In: THE WORLD . December 2, 2019 ( welt.de [accessed February 26, 2020]).
  23. ↑ Menasse's co-author says she knew nothing about false quotes , Die WELT, December 27, 2018
  24. ↑ How dare the British workers? , Welt-Online from December 13, 2019.
  25. ↑ The derailment of Ulrike Guérot , Cicero from December 13, 2019.
  26. ↑ German senior teachers , Jüdische Allgemeine, December 18, 2019
  27. ↑ Scientific Committee , iedonline.eu
  28. ↑ Ulrike Guérot , ecfr.eu
  29. ↑ Imprint , medienpolitik.eu
  30. ↑ www.bundespraesident.de: The Federal President / Speeches / Reception in the residence of the Ambassador, given by the Federal President and Daniela Schadt. Retrieved October 4, 2017 .
  31. ↑ Valeska von Dolega: Interview with Ulrike Guérot: Europe as a political roof. Retrieved November 18, 2019 .
  32. ^ Paul-Watzlawick-Ehrenring of the Medical Association for Vienna
  33. ↑ Ulrike Guérot receives Salzburg State Prize for Future Research. In: Salzburger Nachrichten . October 21, 2019, accessed October 21, 2019 .
  34. ↑ Picus-Verlag: Funeral of the Enlightenment? To recode democracy and freedom in the age of digital non-sustainability . Vienna, ISBN 978-3-7117-3015-2 .
  35. ↑ Curriculum Vitae Ulrike Guérot , on the occasion of the AFCO hearing in the EU Parliament (December 4, 2019), on europarl.europa.eu
personal data
SURNAME Guérot, Ulrike
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Guérot, Ulrike Beate (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Grevenbroich