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Klaus Neumann

Klaus Neumann is an Honorary Professor at Deakin University. Until recently he worked for the Hamburg Foundation for the Advancement of Research and Culture writing  a history of local German responses to refugees.

Essays & reportage Klaus Neumann 15 September 2025 What does a ban on men’s shirts have to do with Papua New Guinea’s independence?
International Klaus Neumann 29 August 2025 Should Angela Merkel be remembered for her humanity or for a momentous blunder? Essays & reportage Klaus Neumann 17 June 2025 Commemorating the German Peasants’ War and an early charter of human rights International Klaus Neumann 27 February 2025 And — following the weekend’s election — what’s eerily familiar? Books & arts Klaus Neumann 24 December 2024 Could a close look at Austria tell us where Western democracies are heading?
International Klaus Neumann 1 October 2024 Why have Germans suddenly joined the far right in opposing immigrants?
Books & arts Klaus Neumann 30 August 2024 An 800-page book and a four-hour film raise uncomfortable questions about an enduring Nazi past Books & arts Klaus Neumann 25 March 2024 Two new biographies of Hannah Arendt couldn’t be more different. Our reviewer was captivated by one of them International Klaus Neumann 6 February 2024 What’s behind the biggest protests in recent German history? Books & arts Klaus Neumann 8 May 2023 Who’s in and who’s out in the new Germany?
International Klaus Neumann 14 March 2023 Our correspondent casts a critical eye over an emerging German peace movement
International Klaus Neumann 3 December 2022 Our Hamburg-based correspondent scrutinises a much-used term, draws attention to deadly policies and practices, and ends on an optimistic note Books & arts Klaus Neumann 17 November 2022 Eighty years apart, a private diary from the Tatura internment camp and dispatches from the Manus detention centre recount the experiences of refugees held prisoner by Australia Books & arts Klaus Neumann 18 December 2021 The perceived threat posed by Europe’s postwar “Displaced Persons” helped shape today’s international refugee regime Essays & reportage Klaus Neumann 8 December 2021 Has the significance of the Tampa affair been exaggerated?
Essays & reportage Klaus Neumann 22 November 2021 Is Australia’s international reputation really that bad? And if so, should it matter?
Essays & reportage Klaus Neumann 1 October 2021 The predicament of refugees at the Polish–Belarusian border evokes deportations to Poland in 1938 and a novel published in 1940 International Klaus Neumann 28 September 2021 Almost every party claims to have done well in Sunday’s election, but forming a new government requires an unprecedented coalition of three parties International Klaus Neumann 14 September 2021 In the second part of our series on this month’s German election, our correspondent wonders about what has been left out of the debate International Klaus Neumann 31 August 2021 Our correspondent is not impressed by the choices on offer for September’s German election
From the archive Klaus Neumann 18 May 2021 Memories and identities have proved surprisingly adaptable in a society forged by migration
From the archive Klaus Neumann 7 May 2021 The centenary of the birth of Sophie Scholl, the Munich student executed in 1943, prompts reflections on the legacy of Germany’s anti-Nazi resistance International Klaus Neumann 20 April 2021 A Jew in Nazi Germany, a communist in Robert Menzies’s Australia, an Australian in East Germany — the remarkable life of Walter Kaufmann International Klaus Neumann 13 April 2021 Our correspondent detects parallels between the fortunes of German football and the travails of the Merkel government International Klaus Neumann 28 March 2021 What two men tell us about the evolution of German right-wing populism
International Klaus Neumann 15 December 2020 A sharp rise in Covid-19 cases shows how a small minority is exercising outsized influence in Germany
International Klaus Neumann 18 November 2020 Black Lives Matter, a princess from Zanzibar and Germany’s “memorial hygiene” International Klaus Neumann 12 May 2020 Germany’s anti-lockdown protests aren’t only about the coronavirus Books & arts Klaus Neumann 20 April 2020 Four recent books provide partial answers. But are they asking the right question? International Klaus Neumann 17 March 2020 Despite Europe’s failure to rise to the challenge in Greece, the “virus of insolidarity” is still being resisted