Gunnar Kaiser

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Gunnar Kaiser (born 1976 in Cologne) is a German teacher, writer and political blogger and YouTuber.[1]

Life

Gunnar Kaiser studied philosophy, German philology, and Romance studies at the University of Cologne. After his state examination, he taught German and philosophy at grammar schools in Bonn and Cologne until 2021.[2] In 2014, the teacher Kaiser started his activism in the anti-American extreme left movement. He was part of the "Mahnwachen für den Frieden" and supported Vladimir Putin in the first Ukraine conflict. Until 2019 his activities stayed largely unnoticed. His Videos and Blogs just had a few hundred followers. This changed in 2019 when Kaiser turned to the extreme right. He published numerous videos with well known leaders of the "neue Rechte", such as Martin Sellner,[3] Oliver Janich, Ken Jebsen, Arnselm Lenz,[4] Schattenmacher or Shlomo Finkelstein.[5] This collaboration and his Videos against Covid subsequently led to a certain notoriety in this scene. Today Kaiser works at the mediaportal Apolut, the successor to the KenFm portal, which is monitored by the "Verfassungsschutz" the German counterpart to the FBI.[6][7]

Literary work

Kaiser's first novel, Unter der Haut (English: Under The Skin), was published in 2018. The paperback edition was printed by German publishing house Piper, and translations into French, Spanish, Italian, Greek and Turkish followed. In the view of Cornelia Wolter (Neue Ruhr Zeitung), it is a novel about aesthetics, classical and pop music, and bibliophilia.[8]

Positions and criticism

Milosz Matuschek (Guest Author at NZZ and Schweizer Monat) attests that Gunnar Kaiser has summed up the contradictions of the government measures surrounding funerals, schools, companies and restaurants by comparing them to anti-racism demonstrations in June 2020. Matuschek sees this as a colossal triumph in favor of skeptics of the danger of COVID-19.[9] Matuschek is a close privat friend of Kaiser and they did a bunch of projects together, like "Appell für freie Debattenräume". After this article, NZZ stopped the short cooperation with both of them.

In 2021 the NZZ Newspaper wrote "Kaiser is on a very wrong way" and attests him and his positions to be ideology-driven while criticising the Identitarian Movement.[10]

Kaiser and Matuschek published the "Appell für freie Debattenräume" (appeal for free debate spaces) about cancel culture and call-out culture.[11] In Kaiser's opinion, cancel culture is about "using threats, threats of violence, actual violence, bullying or shitstorms" to put people under pressure and force them out of the public debate, with perpetrators often remaining anonymous. Often third parties such as organizers, publishers, employers, and platforms are put under pressure to make people seem unacceptable and remove them from public discourse. This new quality is seen by Kaiser as a mix of "exuberant political correctness" towards art and culture and the lack of protest against it, with every kind of protest being politically stigmatized and marginalized.[12]

After moderating a debate on cancel culture for the Friedrich Naumann Foundation (affiliated with the German liberal party FDP),[13] the foundation opened discussions by questioning Kaiser for "spreading conspiracy theories that belong to the mindset of right-wing populism".[14] - an attitude by the liberal foundation that was noticed in a highly controversial manner.[15]

Gunnar Kaiser has spoken at demonstrations against protective measures taken against COVID-19 ("Querdenken").[16][17]

Bibliography (selection)

Non-fictional

  • With Florian Radvan: Ödön von Horváth: Geschichten aus dem Wiener Wald [...] Kopiervorlagen und Module für Unterrichtssequenzen edited by Dieter Wrobel, R. Oldenbourg-Verlag 2010. ISBN 978-3-637-01061-1[18]
  • Wie konnte es nur so weit kommen?, Sodenkamp & Lenz Verlagshaus 2021 ISBN 978-3982274539
  • Der Kult, Rubikon Verlag, 2022 ISBN 978-3-96789-028-0
  • Die Ethik des Impfens: Über die Wiedergewinnung der Mündigkeit. Europa Verlag 2022 ISBN 978-3-95890-504-7

Fictional

Sources

  1. ^ Gladić, Mladen (29 January 2021). "Gunnar Kaiser hat die rote Linie überschritten. Ein Kommentar". DIE WELT (in German). Retrieved 27 May 2022.
  2. ^ "About Gunnar Kaiser". gunnarkaiser.de (in German). Retrieved 31 December 2021.
  3. ^ Berlin, Alexander Kissler. "Ein Streitgespräch über Corona und die Grenzen des Liberalismus". Neue Zürcher Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 18 July 2022.
  4. ^ "Kaiser & Lenz: Gunnar Kaiser zur neuen Serie". apolut.net (in German). 25 November 2021. Retrieved 18 July 2022.
  5. ^ "YouTube rechtsaußen: "Der Schattenmacher", ein Möchtegern-Intellektueller". Belltower.News (in German). 14 February 2022. Retrieved 18 July 2022.
  6. ^ "Apolut: Das neue KenFM?". Belltower.News (in German). 17 November 2021. Retrieved 18 July 2022.
  7. ^ "Berliner Verfassungsschutz beobachtet KenFM". Der Tagesspiegel Online (in German). 27 May 2021. ISSN 1865-2263. Retrieved 18 July 2022.
  8. ^ Wolter, Cornelia (2 August 2018). "Gunnar Kaiser aus Köln mit seinem Debütroman "Unter die Haut"" (in German). Retrieved 31 December 2021.
  9. ^ Matuschek, Milosz (23 June 2020). "Corona-Demos und Black lives matter: Gelten hier Doppelstandards?". nzz.ch (in German). Retrieved 31 December 2021.
  10. ^ Rhonheimer, Martin. "Gunnar Kaiser: Wie der Philosoph auf Abwege geraten ist". Neue Zürcher Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 27 May 2022.
  11. ^ "Appell für freie Debattenräume". idw-europe.org. Intellectual Deep Web Europe. Retrieved 31 December 2021.
  12. ^ Volmer, Hubertus (19 September 2020). "Interview mit Gunnar Kaiser: Ein Aufschrei namens "Cancel Culture"". n-tv.de (in German). n-tv. Retrieved 31 December 2021.
  13. ^ "Die Naumann-Stiftung und die Freiheit Abgecancelt". cicero.de. Cicero. Retrieved 31 December 2021.
  14. ^ Karl-Heinz Paqué (19 December 2020). "Über die Grenze zwischen liberaler Gesellschaftskritik und Verschwörungstheorie". freiheit.org (in German). Die Welt. Retrieved 31 December 2021.
  15. ^ "Skandal um Naumann-Stiftung "Die Person Gunnar Kaiser"". welt.de (in German). Die Welt. 17 December 2020. Retrieved 31 December 2021.
  16. ^ "Corona-Demo am Samstag in Hannover: Auf schmalem Grat" (in German). taz. 10 September 2020. Retrieved 25 January 2021.
  17. ^ "Mal mit Masken, mal ohne". sueddeutsche.de (in German). Süddeutsche Zeitung. 28 June 2020. Retrieved 25 January 2021.
  18. ^ dnb.de

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