Volker Weiss

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Volker Weiss
Volker Weiss Leipziger Buchmesse 2017.jpg
Weiss at the Leipzig Book Fair in 2017
Born1972 (age 5253)
Alma mater University of Hamburg
University of Leipzig
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Occupation(s)Historian, journalist, writer
Known forResearch on the extreme right and 19th and 20th century German history

Volker Weiss (born 1972) is a German historian, writer, and commentator on extreme right movements. His research focus is the extreme right and German history in the 19th and 20th century. Volker Weiss is a Fellow of the Center for Research on Antisemitism in Berlin. [1] [2]

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Biography

Volker Weiss studied literature studies, social and economical history as well as psychology at the University of Hamburg. In 2009, he finished his PhD in history with a study of Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, a major conservative intellectual in the late 19th and early 20th century that greatly influenced the Nazi Party. [3]

Weiss has since taught at the University of Hamburg, Leipzig University and the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU). In 2021, he was a guest professor at the University of Innsbruck. [4] [5]

As a journalist and writer, Weiss has published articles in a variety of media outlets, including Süddeutsche Zeitung , Der Spiegel and Die Zeit . [6] [7] He has written regularly for the Berlin weekly newspaper Jungle World since 2003, primarily on the extreme right in Germany. His 2017 book Die autoritäre Revolte. Die Neue Rechte und der Untergang des Abendlandes (the authoritarian revolt. The New Right and the Downfall of the West) was nominated for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize, [8] and made his work known to a wider audience. He has also published a commentary on Theodor W. Adorno's work Aspects of the New Right-Wing Extremism, which was translated into English [9] and Polish. [10] He is considered an journalistic expert on the extreme right in Germany. [10]

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References

  1. "Dr. Volker Weiß". Institute of contemporary history, University of Innsbruck (in German). Retrieved 30 May 2024.
  2. "Volker Weiß". University of Hamburg (in German). Retrieved 30 May 2024.
  3. Becker, Nikola (2013). "Rezension von Volker Weiß: Moderne Antimoderne". Rezensionsjournal für die Geschichtswissenschaften (in German). 13 (9).
  4. "Dr. Volker Weiß". Institute of contemporary history, University of Innsbruck (in German). Retrieved 30 May 2024.
  5. "Volker Weiß". University of Hamburg (in German). Retrieved 30 May 2024.
  6. "Autor: Volker Weiß". Die Zeit. 28 August 2023. Retrieved 30 May 2024.
  7. Weiß, Volker (February 19, 2016). "Neue Rechte: Ab wann ist konservativ zu rechts?". Die Zeit.
  8. "Sachbuch/Essayistik - Nominierungen für den Preis der Leipziger Buchmesse 2017". Leipzig Book Fair Prize (in German). Archived from the original on 21 March 2017.
  9. Tunney, Kathleen Webb (4 July 2021). "Aspects of the New Right-Wing Extremism Aspects of the New Right-Wing Extremism , by Theodor W. Adorno, Translated by Wieland Hoban. Cambridge, UK, Polity Press, 2020, 72 pp., $12.95 (paperback), ISBN: 9781509541454: by Theodor W. Adorno, Translated by Wieland Hoban. Cambridge, UK, Polity Press, 2020, 72 pp., $12.95 (paperback), ISBN: 9781509541454". Terrorism and Political Violence. 33 (5): 1120–1121. doi:10.1080/09546553.2021.1939524.
  10. 1 2 Kałabunowska, Agata (2023). ""A refreshing history lesson?" On the Polish edition of Theodor Adorno's lecture". Przegląd Zachodni (2023): 207–223. doi:10.60972/PZ.ENG.2023.207.
  11. Zuber, Johannes (May 30, 2011). "V. Weiß: Deutschlands Neue Rechte". H-Soz-Kult (in German). Ferdinand Schöningh.