Margarete Jäger Explained

Margret Jäger (author's name) or Margarete Jäger (born March 15, 1951, in Duisburg) is a German linguist and director of the (DISS).[1] [2]

Scientific biography

After studying economics (diploma) 1972-1977 and a second degree in German studies 1985–1990, both in Duisburg,[2] Jäger received his doctorate in 1995 at the Department of Literature and Linguistics at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg.

Her areas of work at the DISS are studies on political, media and everyday discourses in the Federal Republic of Germany with a focus on gender, racism, migration and right-wing extremism. Margret Jäger worked closely with her husband, the linguist Siegfried Jäger. Together they developed the research methodology of "critical discourse analysis" at the DISS, which is also known as the "Duisburg School" after its approach. It is a further development of the discourse theories of Michel Foucault, Jürgen Link and Siegfried Jäger.

Political biography

Together with Manfred Coppik, Karl-Heinz Hansen, Brigitte Kiechle, Herwart Achterberg, Harald Wolf, Marie Veit and others, she was a member of the 1st Federal Executive Committee. Federal Executive Committee (November 28, 1982, to January 14, 1984) of the Democratic Socialists party founded in 1982. Margret Jäger was also co-editor of the magazine Revier. Zeitung für das Ruhrgebiet, founded in 1978,[3] which was temporarily published by the Duisburg-based Margret Jäger Revier Verlag, which she managed from 1977 to 1985.

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References

  1. Web site: Dr. Margarete Jäger – Duisburger Institut für Sprach- und Sozialforschung . Duisburger Institut für Sprach- und Sozialforschung . de . February 5, 2024.
  2. Web site: Dr. Margarete Jäger . DISS . de . February 5, 2024.
  3. Luigi Wolf, Luigi: Strategien gewerkschaftlicher Erneuerung. In: t21 Marxismus & Gewerkschaften. Frankfurt am Main 2013, S. 31–78, hier S. 52–60 (Die 1970er Jahre: Laboratorium der gewerkschaftlichen Erneuerung), auch in: Netzwerk marx21 - Gewerkschaftsseminar. 2018, S. 3–8, hier: S. 8.