Panel discussion on right-wing extremism on May 4:
Right-wing radicalism increasingly becomes a problem in Germany. In 2006, an increase of right-wing violence by 14% to 18,000 offenses was recorded by the authorities,
as compared to the year before. Also successes of right-wing parties like NPD and DVU during recent elections in the East German States are alarming and underline
that the right-wing secene is gaining strength. Press articles about this phenomenon are abundant, but one needs to ask for the motives why and how people are
entering the scene that supports these sort of inhumane ideas, in order to do something against it. Even more importantly is to know something about the organisation
of its inner circles. Nobody is suited better than someone who has just exited the scene, as rarely as this occurs. On May 4 though, a drop-out will be standing questions
and provide answers. The name: Matthias Adrian who comes from Southern Hesse and who knows the scene well, having exited it some years ago. Since then he is engaged with
the organisation „Exit“, aiming to help others to drop out as well. But how can one make it back into the society? Matthias Adrian will talk
about his own biographie but also on his experience with “Exit”.
There is much writing by outsiders about the wright-wing scene, however rarely anyone knows them as well as Michael Weiss does, who is employed by the Antifaschistischen Pressearchiv und Bildungszentrum in Berlin. As such he is a renowned adept of the right-wing scene in the Capital City and the rest of the republic. Hardly anyone else who has observed the attraction of right-wing circles to young people, and the constant changes in their appearance as closely as Michael Weiss has.
Barbara Schäuble is specialised on “anti-Semitism among adolescents”. As such she is co-editor of a yearbook of the renowned Fritz-Bauer-Institute in Frankfurt, which was published recently. She tries to find answers to issues like: what feeds anti-Jewish reservations? How do react young people to that? How do schools behave in view of adverseness against Jews and what can we do about it?
This question also keeps Sabine Diederich busy, who is working with young people at the Jugendbegegnungsstätte Anne Frank in Frankfurt.
The panel discussion will be moderated by Ulrike Holler, a renowned former journalist at the Hessischer Rundfunk, who has devoted decades to talking and writing about the subject.
Location: Museum Mörfelden, Langgasse 45
Time: May 4, 2007, 7:30 pm
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