Alexander Görlach

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Alexander Görlach
Görlach, on stage at TEDx Berlin in 2012
Görlach, on stage at TEDx Berlin in 2012
Born (1976-12-28) 28 December 1976 (age 44)
Ludwigshafen, West Germany
(now Germany)
OccupationColumnist, editor
NationalityGerman
GenreOpinion, news
SubjectPolitics, religion
Website
saveliberaldemocracy.com

Alexander Görlach is an academic journalist and entrepreneur. He was visiting scholar at the College of Harvard University, at Adams House, [1] John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow to Harvard's Center for European Studies[2] and fellow of the Harvard Divinity School.[3] Görlach is currently a senior research associate at Cambridge University, at the Institute on Religion and International Studies.[4] Prior to that he served at the Center for Humanities (CRASSH) at Cambridge University as fellow.[5] He is the founder of the debate-magazine The European, that he also ran as its editor in chief from 2009-2015.[6] Today he publishes www.saveliberaldemocracy.com[7] and serves as an op-ed contributor to the New York Times,[8] Neue Zürcher Zeitung,[9] and a columnist to the business magazine Wirtschaftswoche.[10]

Personal life[]

Görlach was born as the child of Turkish migrant workers in Ludwigshafen, Germany. Shortly afterwards, he was adopted and raised by a German family.[11]

Studies[]

After graduating from High School, Görlach received a scholarship from the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung and subsequently studied Catholic theology and philosophy at University of Mainz, Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome as well as Al-Azhar University in Cairo and the Faculty of Theology in Ankara.[clarification needed] He also studied German studies, Political Science and music[clarification needed]. He received his PhD in comparative religion from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in 2006 and in linguistics, in the field of language and politics, from University of Mainz in 2009.[12]

Political affiliation[]

Alexander Görlach is a member of the German Liberal Party (FDP) which he joined, in September 2016, after having been a member of the German Christian Democratic Party (CDU) for ten years.[13]

Professional life[]

Görlach has been working and publishing for several German media outlets, such as ZDF, German Television. He has been and is published in several German media outlets such as Die Welt, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Die Zeit and Focus magazine. From 2007 to 2009 he was executive editor of the online part of Cicero magazine.[14] Today he is focused on international publications: He is an op-ed contributor to the New York Times[15] and to The World Post.[16]

Intellectual positions[]

Unknown.

References[]

  1. ^ "In Defense of Democracy: Preserving the Post Enlightenment Narrative in the 21st Century – FDR Foundation". fdrfoundation.org. Retrieved 2019-07-31.
  2. ^ University, Harvard (2019-07-31). "Alexander Görlach". Center for European Studies at Harvard University. Retrieved 2019-07-31.
  3. ^ "Institut für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft » Görlach Alexander". publizistik.univie.ac.at. Retrieved 2020-01-11.
  4. ^ "» Overview". Retrieved 2019-07-31.
  5. ^ "Alexander Görlach – CRASSH". www.crassh.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-07-31.
  6. ^ "Alexander Görlach – The European". Retrieved 2019-07-31.
  7. ^ "Save Liberal Democracy". Save Liberal Democracy. Archived from the original on 2016-12-21. Retrieved 2019-07-31.
  8. ^ Görlach, Alexander (2018-07-03). "Opinion | The Political Earthquake About to Hit Germany". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-07-31.
  9. ^ Görlach, Alexander (2017-12-18). "Eine liberale Demokratie fällt nicht vom Himmel | NZZ" (in German). ISSN 0376-6829. Retrieved 2019-07-31.
  10. ^ "Alexander Görlach | Aktuelle Beiträge | WiWo". www.wiwo.de (in German). Retrieved 2019-07-31.
  11. ^ Görlach, Alexander (20 May 2014). "I, Firat Kaya". The European. Berlin. Retrieved 26 May 2014.
  12. ^ Personal Homepage: http://www.a-goerlach.com/
  13. ^ "Deswegen war der Wechsel zur FDP überfällig".
  14. ^ "Dr. Dr. Alexander Görlach". Kress. Berlin. Retrieved 4 May 2011.
  15. ^ "Germany's Retrograde Record on Gay Rights". 28 September 2016 – via The New York Times.
  16. ^ Institute, Alex Gorlach Founding publisher of the European Magazine; Sr Advisor to the Berggruen (26 May 2016). "Austria Is Just the Beginning of a More Polarized World".
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