Das Deutsche Demokratische Reich. Buchvorstellung mit Volker Weiß

In the organizer's words:

How the far right is destroying history and democracy
Book launch with Volker Weiß

In his highly topical book, Volker Weiß offers an in-depth and historically sound diagnosis of the AfD and the far right. He astutely reveals how the extreme right is driven by the goal of overcoming Western liberalism and imposing an alternative interpretation of history. With impressive new details and an analysis of the right-wing counter-narrative, the author dissects the new right-wing scene.

The extreme right speaks of an intellectual civil war raging in Germany - and which it is simultaneously fueling. This battle is about nothing less than the sovereignty of interpretation over history and the present in order to detach Germany from the West. The contradictory, glorifying and often shrill historical constructions of the extreme right point to one goal: a "German Democratic Reich" as a synthesis of the authoritarian systems of Germany's past.

In his book, Volker Weiß follows on from his bestseller "The Authoritarian Revolt" and analyzes these new methods of cultural warfare, particularly in the fields of history and geopolitics. He shows the current development of new right-wing thinking and examines the most important currents and actors. In doing so, the author broadens the view to comparable actions of right-wing milieus in Russia and the USA.

MIT: Volker Weiß.
The historian Dr. Volker Weiß worked for many years as a specialist author for DIE ZEIT and ZEIT Geschichte, Jungle World, Frankfurter Rundschau, FAZ, Taz, Spiegel-Online and now writes exclusively for SZ. He is one of the best experts on the new right-wing scene. His book "Die autoritäre Revolte. Die neue Rechte und der Untergang des Abendlandes" is considered a standard work on the subject and was nominated for the 2017 Leipzig Book Fair Prize.

IN COOPERATION: Düsseldorf contributions "Respekt und Mut", Evangelische Stadtakademie, Gesellschaft für christlich-jüdische Zusammenarbeit Düsseldorf and VHS Düsseldorf

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Free admission. Reservations are requested.