Status Updates From Die Wiederkehr: Die AfD und...

She developed this idea in a radio lecture broadcast by Westdeutscher Rundfunk on July 11 , 1963

What did Hannah Arendt say about people and state? "The European nation-state, which inherited absolutism, is based on the trinity of people, teritory and state"

The cigarette smoke that envelops her in photos has a similar symbolic function to the tangled hair in the popular image of Albert Einstein decades earlier: ciphers of an outsider status proven productive by global scientific fame.

By identifying himself as an [Hannah] Arendt reader, Wundrak claimed a place for the AfD within the broad spectrum of the Federal republic mentality.

Like Bismarck’s empire, Kohl’s republic was described as saturated.

What exactly do you mean by that? [anti-German politics]

[General Joachim] Wundrak meant a policy against the German people- in the categorical sense: a policy directed not just against individual interests of this people, but against its continued existence”

The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution is monitoring the activities of the AfD on the suspicion that the party’s efforts are directed against the existence of the conditions desired by the Basic Law.

"He who coins the terms, shapes the language. Whoever shapes language shapes thinking. He who shapes thought, he shapes the political discourse and he who shapes the political discourse dominates politics, regardless of whether he is in the opposition or in the government." (Höcke 2018)

“Do we want to ban the German language because the Nazis spoke German?” he asked the judges. “How far should this go?”

IN: The Man Softening the Ground for an Extremist Germany
NYTimes, June 23, 2024.

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This is shown by the campaigns against gender language, which continue chauvinistic efforts to keep the German language pure ...

The “Identitarian Movement” is a radical nationalist avant-garde troupe that, like nationalist propagandists of earlier eras, uses contemporary artistic means”

The founding father of the social sciences, Max Weber, introduced himself is his inaugural lecture in Freiburg as a programmer of German nationalism

The new nationalism is a new national liberalism. In the terms of political zoology, one must speak of a chimera, a whim of evolution”

For [Hans-Olaf] Henkel and [Thilo] Sarrazin, the German nation itself is an individual who is being treated badly, the duped craftsman or small saver among the peoples”

They [lawyer Gereon Bollmann...] were dealing with a “planned pandemic”, the “planned use of a viral disease for political purposes”

[Cornelia] Koppetsch called her method “theory-led empathy”

PEGIDA Rally in Dresden, Fall 2014

He [Werner Patzelt] informed the readers of the FAZ that on the Pegida Mondays it was mostly “completely normal people” who walked through the Saxon state capital.

Gauland poses a fascinating puzzle for contemporary historians: he warned about the AfD before he founded it.

The AfD leadership is a union of fanatics and opportunists. Some top officials, Gauland above all, ...

The new nationalists are chauvinists of the second educational path.

The party's relationship to politics is deeply ambivalent.

( Die Zeit, 5th of September 2024)

The Kemmerich election has gone down in historical short-term memory as an experiment that must not be repeated

Linguistically, the unthinkability of alliances with Björn Höcke party is clearly marked.

Deep social psychology is a speculative discipline.

Germany seems to be repeating the fate of the late nation

If the AfD represented the opposition between East and West Germany even more clearly and, so to speak, irrevocably, sooner or later there would probably be the first AfD-led state government in the East.

Introduction

Nationalism is once again a political force in Germany. The Alternative for Germany party, founded in 2013, was elected to the Bundestag in 2017 on its second attempt.