Lecture: "Ethnic settlers and their networks"

The event is part of the series "Heimat,Volk und Scholle - Rechts(d)ruck im ländlichen Raum".

Speaker: Andrea Röpke

Childcare, organic farming, craft cooperatives, traditional festivals and national villages. They present themselves as family-oriented and friendly in order to build trust.
Ethnic settlements are emerging, particularly in sparsely populated areas such as Mecklenburg or the Lüneburg Heath. The political goal is to create a homogeneous ethnic community
. The Völkische share their ideology with the influential "wing" of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) and the Identitarian Movement (IB). For
its actions, the IB prefers to recruit the offspring of right-wing clans, as they have been drilled in guild or völkisch organizations and have a firm
political world view.

Speaker Andrea Röpke is the leading German journalist on the subject of right-wing extremism. In the course of her research into the right-wing extremist scene, she has been physically attacked several times
. She works for "Panorama", "Fakt" and "Spiegel TV", among others, and publishes her articles in "Spiegel", "Süddeutsche Zeitung", "Focus" and "Stern". She has received numerous awards for her journalistic work.

More information about the series at: http://gegen-rechtsdruck-veranstaltungsreihe.de/