Right-wing actors such as the AfD are questioning democratically positioned educational practices with increasing vigour. They repeatedly refer to compliance with a supposed "neutrality requirement": Teachers at schools or civil society actors are accused of violations and threatened with sanctions - usually with the aim of restricting political positioning and practices of political education.

In her presentation, Jana Sämann will shed light on the strategic functions with which a "neutrality requirement" is popularly postulated and what consequences this can have for educational work. Afterwards, there will be space to discuss your own experiences, challenges and counter-strategies.

Speaker:
Jana Sämann is a research assistant in the Department of Political Science - Didactics of Social Science at the University of Siegen. Her work and research focuses on political education in the fields of action of youth work as well as invocations, interventions and demands for neutrality in youth education work.

The lecture will take place as part of the Oldenburg Weeks against Racism (18.03.2026 - 27.03.2026) will take place. The event is being organised in cooperation with Arbeit und Leben Niedersachsen and the DGB Weser-Ems region.

Participation in the event is free of charge and will take place at the PFL cultural centre in Oldenburg. Please register by 22 March 2026 using the online registration form on the homepage of the Office for University and Trade Union Co-operation.

The organisers reserve the right to exercise their domiciliary rights and to deny access to or exclude from the event persons who belong to right-wing extremist parties or organisations, are associated with the right-wing extremist scene or have already made racist, nationalist, anti-Semitic or other inhuman statements in the past.

Whether as a "tradwife", lifestyle influencer or self-proclaimed rebel against the "zeitgeist", right-wing women are present on social media in a variety of ways. With aesthetically perfected stagings of femininity, naturalness and domesticity, but also with representations of non-conformity and (intellectual) resistance, they embody right-wing ideologies.

In her lecture, Viktoria Rösch shows how these protagonists combine traditional and modern role models in order to convey the political messages of the extreme right. In doing so, she focuses not only on the classic, submissive female figures, but also on strategies of self-empowerment. It becomes clear how right-wing influencers develop a "feminine right-wing counterculture" through various image and narrative politics - integrating exaggerated femininity, protest, intellectuality and right-wing ideology.

Speaker:
Viktoria Rösch is a sociologist at the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences and works from various perspectives on the interrelationship between gender and the extreme right. Her work focuses on the image politics of right-wing female influencers. She is also a member of the network feminist perspectives and interventions against the extreme right (femPi).

The lecture is part of the event series "Right-wing networks: manifestations, explanatory approaches and counter-strategies" . The event is being organised in cooperation with Arbeit und Leben Niedersachsen, the DGB region Weser-Ems and the Office for University and Trade Union Co-operation in Osnabrück.

Participation in the event is free of charge and takes place online via BigBlueButton. Please register by 28 March 2026 using the online registration form on the homepage of the Office for University and Trade Union Co-operation.

The organisers reserve the right to exercise their domiciliary rights and to deny access to or exclude from the event persons who belong to right-wing extremist parties or organisations, are associated with the right-wing extremist scene or have already made racist, nationalist, anti-Semitic or other inhuman statements in the past.

Experience the city as a learning space and make history tangible at various locations. This is possible with the help of a city tour. With the city tour on National Socialism in Oldenburg, we would like to offer the opportunity to explore an important part of regional history.

The tour of National Socialism in Oldenburg covers almost four kilometres and ten stops from the Pferdemarkt through the city centre to the old Oldenburg State Parliament, ending at the memorial wall for the Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Aspects such as possible reasons for the early success of the NSDAP in Oldenburg, the war experiences of the city's inhabitants and the increasing anti-Semitism that ultimately led to the Holocaust are addressed at the memorial sites.

Information can be acquired independently at each station. The stations are designed to appeal to people with and without prior knowledge. A free digital version of the city tour via Actionbound also makes it possible to retrace individual parts or the entire tour individually.

Participation in the event is free of charge. The exact meeting point will be announced by email a few days before the start of the event. Please register by 07 June 2026 using the online registration form on the homepage of the Office for University and Trade Union Co-operation. The number of participants is limited to 25 people.

Speaker
Kevin Mennenga, Education Coordinator at Arbeit und Leben Niedersachsen

The city tour is part of the event series "Right-wing networks: manifestations, explanatory approaches and counter-strategies". The event is being organised in cooperation with Arbeit und Leben Niedersachsen, the DGB Weser-Ems region and the Cooperation Centre for Universities and Trade Unions in Osnabrück.

In recent years, extreme right-wing actors have been increasingly networking worldwide. In media reports, conference announcements and transnational partnerships, they spread the same themes in a sometimes confusing variety: Anti-immigration, anti-feminism, climate change denial and the fight against a supposed "global left". But who exactly are these right-wing actors? How are they organised and what international goals are they pursuing? And what can be done to counter them?

These and other questions are at the centre of Ulli Jentsch's lecture. As a member of the "Research against Global Authoritarianism" (ReGA) initiative, his aim is to understand the alliances and demands of the global far right so that local resistance can be effective. After all, it is the same authoritarian forces, both locally and globally, that want to make it more difficult to protect and defend human rights and criminalise efforts to achieve humanitarian goals. A resistant practice against the right should have these two levels in mind.

Speaker:
Ulli Jentsch is a freelance journalist from Berlin and has been active for decades in various anti-fascist initiatives and international networks, including "Research against Global Authoritarianism". He has been researching the extreme right in Germany for over twenty years. His work focusses on investigating the structures and ideologies of right-wing terrorism, Christian fundamentalism and the "protection of life" movement.

The lecture is part of the event series "Right-wing networks: manifestations, explanatory approaches and counter-strategies". The event is being organised in cooperation with Arbeit und Leben Niedersachsen, the DGB Weser-Ems region and the Cooperation Centre for Universities and Trade Unions in Osnabrück.

Participation in the event is free of charge and takes place online via BigBlueButton. Please register by 20 September 2026 using the online registration form on the homepage of the Office for University and Trade Union Co-operation.

The organisers reserve the right to exercise their domiciliary rights and to deny access to or exclude from the event persons who belong to right-wing extremist parties or organisations, are associated with the right-wing extremist scene or have already made racist, nationalist, anti-Semitic or other inhuman statements in the past.

Experience the city as a learning space and make history tangible at various locations. This is possible with the help of a city tour. With the city tour on National Socialism in Oldenburg, we would like to offer the opportunity to explore an important part of regional history.

The tour of National Socialism in Oldenburg covers almost four kilometres and ten stops from the Pferdemarkt through the city centre to the old Oldenburg State Parliament, ending at the memorial wall for the Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Aspects such as possible reasons for the early success of the NSDAP in Oldenburg, the war experiences of the city's inhabitants and the increasing anti-Semitism that ultimately led to the Holocaust are addressed at the memorial sites.

Information can be acquired independently at each station. The stations are designed to appeal to people with and without prior knowledge. A free digital version of the city tour via Actionbound also makes it possible to retrace individual parts or the entire tour individually.

Participation in the event is free of charge. The exact meeting point will be announced by email a few days before the start of the event. Please register by 02 October 2026 using the online registration form on the homepage of the Office for University and Trade Union Co-operation. The number of participants is limited to 25 people.

Speaker
Kevin Mennenga, Education Coordinator at Arbeit und Leben Niedersachsen

The city tour is part of the event series "Right-wing networks: manifestations, explanatory approaches and counter-strategies". The event is being organised in cooperation with Arbeit und Leben Niedersachsen, the DGB Weser-Ems region and the Cooperation Centre for Universities and Trade Unions in Osnabrück.

They are family members, friends, acquaintances, club members, double header players, tennis partners or members of the volunteer fire brigade. They have made up their minds: This Federal Republic is no longer their republic. We know them, they don't just sit in parliaments or talk shows, they also sit at kitchen tables or regulars' tables. They come from the so-called centre of society. Their revolt tends towards the authoritarian. The various spectrums of authoritarians from the Reich to alternative movements have a deep-seated longing for a pre-modern harmony in common. They are concerned about freedom and yet are afraid of it. This ambivalence exacerbates current crises and has a long tradition - in the Enlightenment and in fairy tales. In his lecture, Andreas Speit shows why anti-modern ideas dominate in broad sections of society and the consequences of their accompanying radicalisation: Doubting reality, rejecting the rule of law, delegitimising democracy.

Speaker:
Andreas Speit is a freelance journalist, author and editor of numerous books on right-wing extremism and neo-Nazism in Europe. He has been the author of the taz-nord column "Der Rechte Rand" since 2005 and regularly contributes to zeit-online, Deutschlandfunk Kultur and WDR. He has received several awards for his work, including from the German Journalism Association.

The lecture is part of the event series "Rechte Netzwerke: Erscheinungsformen, Erklärungsansätze und Gegenstrategien". The event is being organised in cooperation with Arbeit und Leben Niedersachsen, the DGB Weser-Ems region and the Cooperation Centre for Universities and Trade Unions in Osnabrück.

Participation in the event is free of charge and takes place online via BigBlueButton. Please register by 13 November 2026 using the online registration form on the homepage of the Office for University and Trade Union Co-operation.

The organisers reserve the right to exercise their domiciliary rights and to deny access to or exclude from the event persons who belong to right-wing extremist parties or organisations, are associated with the right-wing extremist scene or have already made racist, nationalist, anti-Semitic or other inhuman statements in the past.