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Niklas Ferch

Lecturer
at the Department of Political Science

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Justus Liebig University Giessen
Institute of Political Science

Karl-Gloeckner-Strasse 21E

D-35394 Giessen

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Office Hours

by individual appointment (via e-mail)

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Latest Publications

Niklas Ferch (2025):
„Keinen Millimeter nach rechts“ – Herbert Grönemeyer und die freiheitliche demokratische Grundordnung.
Momentum Quarterly, Vol. 13(3), pp. 99-116.

The article analyses the socio-political motifs in the song lyrics of the German popular musician Herbert Grönemeyer from a political science perspective. As a qualitative content analysis of his song lyrics shows, Grönemeyer pictures the fundamental pillars of Germany’s free democratic order – human dignity, the democracy principle and the rule of law – as normative ideals worthy of protection, while he explicitly names opposing actors and tendencies as dangers. The overall picture shows that Herbert Grönemeyer not only expresses this political stance in his song lyrics, but also continuously intervenes in civil society as a public intellectual in the sense of Antonio Gramsci. In this way, he actively participates in the struggle for public opinion and ultimately helps to secure the hegemony of the free democratic basic order.

Online (Open Access)

Niklas Ferch (2023):
Pandemie, Politik und populäre Musik - Formen politischer Partizipation populärer Musiker:innen in der COVID-19-Pandemie.
(The Pandemic, Politics and Popular Music - Forms of Popular Musicians' Political Participation during the COVID-19 Pandemic; publication in German language only)
In: Claudia Hattendorff, Simone Abendschön, Ansgar Schnurr & Nicole Zillien (Eds.): Bilder der Pandemie. Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf die Visualisierungen einer unsichtbaren Gefahr. Frankfurt am Main/ New York: Campus, pp. 123-149.

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Academic work experience

04/2019 – 12/2025

Research Associate (50%) with focus on teaching
at the Department of Political Sience of Justus Liebig University Giessen
07/2019 – 04/2022

Research Associate (25%)
at the Professorship for the German Political System and Comparative Politics (Prof. Dr. Dorothée de Nève) of Justus Liebig University Giessen

10/2019 – 12/2019

Research Associate (25%)
at the Centre for Media and Interactivity of Justus Liebig University Giessen
12/2018 – 06/2019

Research Associate (50%)
at the Professorship for the German Political System and Comparative Politics(Prof. Dr. Dorothée de Nève) of Justus Liebig University Giessen (as part of a externally-funded project on intra-party democracy, funded by Friedrich Ebert Foundation)
2015 –
2019

Lecturer
at the Department of Political Sience of Justus Liebig University Giessen
10/2018 – 12/2018

Academic Assistant
at the Centre for Media and Interactivity of Justus Liebig University Giessen

 

Academic training

 

10/2015 –  09/2018

Master studies in Social Policy (M. A. Sozialpolitik)
at Bremen University
09/2016 – 02/2017 

semester abroad (30 ECTS, M. Sc. Comparative Public Policy and Welfare Studies)
at the University of Southern Denmark (funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the EU)
04/2015 – 09/2015  

Master studies (M. A. Demokratie und Governance)
at Justus Liebig University Giessen
08/2013 – 01/2014

semester abroad (30 ECTS, M. A. Political Science)
at Aarhus University (funded by the Erasmus programme of the EU)
10/2011 – 03/2015

Bachelor studies (B. A. Social Sciences)
at Justus Liebig University Giessen

Research Areas

Research Areas

Focus in Research and Teaching

  • Germany's political and social system
  • political parties and participation
  • politics and popular music

 

Dissertation project

Populäre Musik und Politik. Ein politikwissenschaftliches Analysemodell zur Beziehung von populärer Musik und Politik mit einer Anwendung auf das Werk Herbert Grönemeyers (working title)
since 2020; Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dorothée de Nève

Teaching

Teaching

winter semester 2025/26

Summer semester 2025

  • Grundgesetz (seminar in German; teaching profession 'Politics and Economy')
  • Pop'n'Politics - Popular Music(ians) and Politics (Seminar in English, MA Demokratie & Governance, Module 11, plus International students)

winter semester 2024/25

  • Germany’s Political and Social System in Comparative Perspective (proseminar in English; BA Social Sciences, Module M1, plus International students)
  • Einführung in die politische Bildung: Politik & Gesellschaft in Deutschland (proseminar in German; teaching profession, basic module 'Civic Education')

Summer semester 2024

  • Unconditional Basic Income - Theories & Practices (seminar in English; BA Social Sciences, Module M13, plus International students)
  • Populäre Musiker:innen und Politik (proseminar in German; teaching profession 'Politics and Economy')

winter semester 2023/24

  • Germany’s Political and Social System in Comparative Perspective (proseminar in English; BA Social Sciences, Module M1, plus International students)
  • Populäre Musiker:innen und Politik (proseminar in German; teaching profession 'Politics and Economy')

Summer semester 2023

  • Unconditional Basic Income - Theories & Practices (seminar in English; BA Social Sciences, Module M13, plus International students)
  • Populäre Musiker:innen und Politik (seminar in German; teaching profession 'Politics and Economy')

 

Wintersemester 2022/23

  • Germany’s Political and Social System in Comparative Perspective (proseminar in English; BA Social Sciences)

 

summer semester 2022

  • Germany’s Political and Social System in Comparative Perspective (proseminar in English; BA Social Sciences)
  • Politikfeldanalyse Sozialpolitik in Deutschland (seminar in German; teaching profession 'Politics and Economy')
  • Politikfeldanalyse Sozialpolitik in Deutschland (B) (seminar in German; teaching profession 'Politics and Economy')

 

winter semester 2021/22

  • Germany’s Political and Social System in Comparative Perspective (proseminar in English; BA Social Sciences)
  • Das politische und soziale System Deutschlands (teaching profession 'Politics and Economy')

 

summer semester 2021

  • Politikfeldanalyse Sozialpolitik in Deutschland (seminar in German; teaching profession 'Politics and Economy')
  • Germany’s Political and Social System in Comparative Perspective (seminar in English; BA Social Sciences + Exchange students) (with Johannes Diesing)
  • Straßenwahlkampf zur Bundestagswahl 2021 (A) (seminar in German; teaching profession 'Politics and Economy') (with Johannes Diesing)

 

winter semester 2020/21

  • Politikfeldanalyse Sozialpolitik in Deutschland (proseminar in German; teaching profession 'Politics and Economy')
  • Comparative Social Policy (seminar in English; BA Social Sciences)
  • Introduction to Germany`s Political and Social System (seminar in English; BA Social Sciences)

 

summer semester 2020

  • Expert Interviews (seminar in English; BA Social Sciences)
  • Introduction to the German Political and Social System (seminar in English) (with Johannes Diesing)
  • (Eine) Zukunft nach dem Kapitalismus denken!? (seminar in German; BA Social Sciences) (with Johannes Diesing)
  • Politikfeldanalyse Sozialpolitik in Deutschland (seminar in German; teaching profession 'Politics and Economy')

 

winter semester 2019/20

  • Introduction to Social Policy Analysis (seminar in English; BA Social Sciences)
  • Unconditional Basic Income - Theories and Practices (seminar in English; BA Social Sciences)
  • Expert*inneninterviews (seminar in German; BA Social Sciences)
  • Comparative Social Policy (seminar in English; MA Demokratie und Governance)

 

summer semester 2019

  • DDR - 30 Jahre nach dem Mauerfall (Mo 10-12) (seminar in German; teaching profession 'Politics and Economy')
  • DDR - 30 Jahre nach dem Mauerfall (Mo 12-14) (seminar in German; teaching profession 'Politics and Economy')

 

winter semester 2018/19

  • Einführung in die Sozialpolitik (A) (seminar in German; BA Social Sciences)
  • Einführung in die Sozialpolitik (B) (seminar in German; BA Social Sciences)

summer semester 2018

  • Politisches und soziales System der BRD (A) (seminar in German; teaching profession 'Politics and Economy')
  • Politisches und soziales System der BRD (B) (seminar in German; teaching profession 'Politics and Economy')

 

summer semester 2017

  • Politisches und soziales System der BRD (seminar in German; teaching profession 'Politics and Economy')

 

summer semester 2015

  • Politisches System der BRD (seminar in German; teaching profession 'Politics and Economy')
  • Schlüsselprobleme in Gesellschaft und Schule (seminar in German; teaching profession)

Publications

Publications

Monographs and Editorships

 

Journal Articles (peer-reviewed)

  • Ferch, Niklas (2025): „Keinen Millimeter nach rechts“ – Herbert Grönemeyer und die freiheitliche demokratische Grundordnung. Momentum Quarterly, Vol. 13(3), pp. 99-116. https://doi.org/10.15203/momentumquarterly.vol13.no3.p99-116
  • Hunklinger, Michael & Niklas Ferch (2020): Trans* voting: demand and supply side of trans* politics in Germany. European Journal of Politics and Gender, 3(3), pp. 389-408. https://doi.org/10.1332/251510820X15780296516691
  • de Nève, Dorothée & Niklas Ferch (2018): LGBTIQ*-Wähler*innen in Berlin und Wien. Politische Präferenzen, Parteienwettbewerb und elektorale Resonanz. GENDER. Zeitschrift für Geschlecht, Kultur und Gesellschaft, 10(3), pp. 118-135. https://doi.org/10.3224/gender.v10i3.09
  • de Nève, Dorothée, Niklas Ferch, Michael Hunklinger & Tina Olteanu (2018): LGBTIQ*-Wahlstudie 2017 zur Bundestagswahl in Deutschland und zur Nationalratswahl in Österreich. Femina Politica. Zeitschrift für feministische Politikwissenschaft, 27(1), pp. 149-157. https://doi.org/10.3224/feminapolitica.v27i1.18

 

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