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Claus Leggewie
(b.1950) is director of the Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen. His most recent publication is Ein Ort, an den man gerne geht. Das Holocaust-Mahnmal und die deutsche Geschichtspolitik nach 1989 [A place one wants to go. The Holocaust memorial and German politics of history after 1989], co-edited with Erik Meyer (Munich: Carl Hanser Verlag 2005). For further details and bibliography see www.leggewie.de.
Eurozine Articles
Between national church and religious supermarket
Muslim organizations in Germany and the problem of representation
In Germany, "cultural Muslims" have challenged the authority of conservative Muslim organizations to represent "the Muslim community". The problem of representation has to do with the German state's corporatist approach to negotiation, writes Claus Leggewie. [more]
Equally criminal?
Totalitarian experience and European memory
Whoever wishes to give European society a political identity will rate the discussion of disputed memories as highly as treaties, a common currency, and open borders. [more]
From neighbourhood to citizenship
EU and Turkey
For those in favour of "deepening" the EU, the presumed otherness of Islam is cause for alarm; for those in favour of "widening", Turkey's economic and geo-strategic potential counts in its favour. [more]
Transnational movements and the question of democracy
Social movements can provide an early warning system to mainstream politics. But once institutionalized, their lack of democratic mandate raises problems of legitimacy. This paradox must be negotiated if democracy is to respond to the global situation. [more]