Volker Weiss

This article deals with the historian Volker Weiß. For other people see Volker Weiss .

Volker Weiß on the blue sofa at the Leipzig Book Fair 2017

Volker Weiß (* 1972 ) is a German historian and freelance journalist . He researches the past and present of the extreme right in Germany and German history in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Life

Weiß studied literature, social and economic history and psychology at the University of Hamburg. In 2009, Weiss received his doctorate as a historian with a monograph on the young conservative cultural theorist Arthur Moeller van den Bruck . The work was supervised by Franklin Kopitzsch and Moshe Zuckermann .

Weiß worked as a lecturer in Hamburg, Leipzig and Munich and also works freelance, v. a. for the time and time story . He has been reporting on the extreme right in Germany for the Berlin weekly newspaper Jungle World for years, and since spring 2014 he has been writing his column “Notes from Neuschwabenland ” specifically on the New Right.

Volker Weiß lives with his family in Hamburg.

Others

Weiß received a doctoral scholarship from the Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst and is a member of the Villigst Research Forum on National Socialism, Racism and Anti-Semitism eV He is a fellow at the Center for Research on Antisemitism at the TU Berlin.

On the occasion of the 200th birthday of Moses Hess, Weiß wrote a play for the stage in 2012, which was performed with Robert Stadlober and Henning Venske in the leading roles. The musicians Andreas Spechtl (Ja Panik!) And Thomas Wenzel (Goldene Zitronen) provided the musical accompaniment. In 2015 a monograph on Moses Hess followed for Greven Verlag in Cologne.

His 2017 book The Authoritarian Revolte. The New Right and the Fall of the Occident was nominated for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize in the category of non-fiction / essay writing in 2017 .

reception

Germany's New Right (Schoeningh 2011) on the Sarrazin debate was positively received by the criticism: “In contrast to the popular 'Germany abolishes itself', White's reply can be seen as a serious and constructive contribution to the German debate on migration.” “The special one It is the quality of Weiß's font that a very differentiated and balanced (historical) classification of the often contradicting and therefore sometimes elusive political worldview of Sarrazin is achieved. […] If the author critically reflects on Sarrazin’s theses, he is undoubtedly doing a very valuable educational work. ”“ A sober, analytical consideration of the 'Sarrazin phenomenon' as presented by the Hamburg historian and literary scholar Volker Weiß (is) most welcome . "Johannes Zuber wrote in a review:" All in all, Volker Weiß 'investigation, which is based primarily on historical theoretical analysis, is logical, structured, understandable and methodically expedient. Future similar studies will be able to profitably build on the knowledge gained by Weiß with new, as yet unresolved scientific questions. "

In the monograph on Arthur Moeller van den Bruck (Schoeningh 2012) based on his dissertation, a review in the historical journal complained that "the author's core theses [...] are politically motivated, which in turn corrupts the entire course of knowledge" (HZ 298, 2 / 2014). In contrast, other reviewers came to the opposite conclusion. The FAZ decided that Weiss's book was “an important contribution to a better understanding of the ideological situation in the run-up to National Socialism” (FAZ of December 14, 2012). The conservative Political Academy of the ÖVP found the book to be “well researched” and wrote “Bourgeois conservatives must be grateful to the author [...]. White works out the differences between genuine conservative thinking and non-conservative thinking that merely pretends to be conservative. ”A review by the Zeitschrift für Ideengeschichte emphasized:“ White not only succeeds in following the biographical and political development of Moeller [...] with the to interweave the social and historical context, but to finally clear up Moeller myths through an archive find. ”(ZIG 1/14, pp. 111–113) Armin Pfahl-Traughber judged in the Politische Vierteljahresschrift:“ With his work, Weiss has meticulously processed and well-researched study submitted on the subject. In doing so, he repeatedly succeeded in making important corrections to the circulating misjudgments of Moeller van den Bruck's positions. ”(PVS 4/2013, pp. 749–751) Kurt Lenk emphasized in the papers for German and international politics that white is“ that outstanding succeeded in what could be described as political psychology ”. (BdiP July 1, 2014) Finally, the American historian Geoff Eley called the work “one of the most important and illuminating studies of the pre-Nazi German right to have been published in recent years”. (Central European History 48 (2015), May 1, 2015)

Publications

• Germany's New Right. Attack of the elites - From Spengler to Sarrazin . Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2011, ISBN 978-3-506-77111-7 .
• Claudia Globisch, Agnieszka Pufelska, Volker Weiß (eds.): The dynamics of the European right. History, continuities and change . Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2011, ISBN 978-3-531-92703-9 .
• Modern anti-modern. Arthur Moeller van den Bruck and the change in conservatism . Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn a. a. 2012, ISBN 978-3-506-77146-9 (dissertation Universität Hamburg [2012], 548 pages with illustrations).
• Moses Hess . Rhenish Jew, revolutionary, formerly Zionist. Greven, Cologne 2015, ISBN 978-3-7743-0614-1 .
• The authoritarian revolt. The New Right and the Fall of the West. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2017, ISBN 978-3-608-94907-0
• “Furor Teutonicus” , Jüdische Allgemeine , July 6, 2017
• Epilogue to: Theodor W. Adorno: Aspects of the new right-wing radicalism. A presentation. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2019, SBN: 978-3-518-58737-9.

Web links

Commons : Volker Weiß  - Collection of Images

• Literature by and about Volker Weiß in the catalog of the German National Library
• Volker Weiß portfolio at torial.com
• “Your opponent is America” , Friday , March 25, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Volker Weiss | Villigst research forum. Retrieved February 15, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Secessionists split up. Retrieved February 15, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Volker Weiß: Modern Antimodern . Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2012, p. 15 .
4. ↑ Center for Research on Antisemitism at the Technical University of Berlin (ed.): Activity report 2017-18 . Berlin 2019, p. 128 .
5. ^ Central Council of Jews in Germany Kdö.R .: See !: The Red Rabbi | Jewish general. Retrieved February 15, 2017 . 
6. ↑ Nominations for the Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair 2017. Accessed on February 16, 2017 . 
7. ^ David Hamann: Review of Germany's New Rights . In: ZfG . 59 year, issue 12, 2011, p. 1069 .
8. ^ Stefan Kubon: Review of Germany's New Rights . In: Journal of Politics . Year 58, No. 4 , 2011, p. 476–478, here p. 478 .
9. ^ Georg Koch: Review of Germany's New Rights . In: contradiction. Munich magazine for philosophy. No. 53, 2011, p. 116–120, here p. 117 .
10. ^ Zuber, Johannes: Review of: V. Weiß: Deutschlands Neuerechte. In: H-Soz-Kult . Retrieved February 24, 2017 . 
11. ↑ POLAK - Modern Antimodern . In: archive.is . May 1, 2014 ( POLAK - Moderne Antimoderne ( Memento from May 1, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ) [accessed on February 15, 2017]). POLAK - Modern Antimodern ( Memento from May 1, 2014 in the web archive archive.today )