Category: Essays
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History @ SFB 1604 | Interview with Gerhard Kromschröder for the “Production of Migration” podcast.
On 21 October 1985, “Ganz unten” by Günther Wallraff was published. Almost exactly three years earlier, on 14 October 1982, another undercover report in “Stern” had already drawn attention to the everyday racism experienced by migrants from Turkey in Germany. The following year, journalist Gerhard Kromschröder published his observations and experiences in the book “Als…
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Right-wing Populist Politics of History for Destabilising Democratic Systems | Summary of the Essay by Valentin Loos in Historia Prima, 2. 2025
This post is an abridged version of an essay in the second issue of Historia Prima, which appeared in May 2025 under the title “‘What we are experiencing here is 1933 on a global level, that is, the total seizure of power.’ The Functionalization of History as a Political Argument Using the Example of Corona…