Thorsten Hinz

Thorsten Hinz, born 1962 in Mecklenburg, East Germany, studied German in Leipzig. He is a freelance author in Berlin (writing for the ‘Junge Freiheit,’ amongst others). In 2004 he was awarded the Gerhard-Löwenthal-Preis for journalists.

Debating the GDR:Injustice State and Antifa “Justice”
Rare pushback in a country conditioned by red-green ideology

The communist leaders who returned to the East Zone from Soviet exile in 1945 to bring socialism to Germany knew from their own experience that the Stalinist system was a murderous one. Nevertheless, they acted as his satraps.

30 years after the ‘turnaround’:The smoldering conflict
The AfD is riding high before crucial east German state elections

Slogans like “Complete the turnaround!” and “Then as now. We are the people” evoke associations with the upheaval of 1989.

New German megalomania:From A High Horse
Politicians, journalists, churches and even business representatives treat migrant ship captain as a quasi-saint

German hyper-morality, born as a reaction against the amoral Nazi past, has turned into a turned into a “moral imperialism”.

Witch-hunt against the Right:Acute Panic in the Establishment
The third German ideological state has begun

Germany is releasing its neo-totalitarian potential.

Follow-up to the ‘Ibiza affair’:Standards Are Being Ruined
Two models of democracy are on collision course

Democracy is a backdrop, consisting of simulations, fictions and self-delusions, behind which decisions are made that the demos neither wants nor has legitimized.

Young migrants:Fighting the ‘Potato Culture’
AKA 'The Germans'

Some migrants, and some Germans with migrant background, believe they are owed positive discrimination.

Escalation is a fact:Journalist Rogues vs Identitarians
A politically motivated extermination campaign against a non-violent movement

Some in the media express a furtive, conditional intent to kill.

‘Climate Greta’:Beware of False Prophets
The current civil religion has found an idol for itself

Criticising the Swedish girl is sacrilege for some.

Political power structures:Preferring to Discuss Blood Sausage
A brainless Huxley reality may become a brutal Orwell reality

The gap between quantity and quality of the political discourse is wide.

‘The Atoners’:Psychoses in the Emotionally Guided Hippie State
Germany today suffers under “moralistic infantilization”

Baby boomers in charge of Germany today display a worrying lack of maturity in intellect and character.

The German Right:Under Permanent Stress
Persecuted by political opponents, the media, and incited thugs

From whence should a society of hangers-on possibly draw the strength to resist?

Freiburg and the dimension of sexual violence:Defenseless Prey
The majority of Germans don’t understand their situation

Perpetrators present themselves and conquerors.

The media on Chemnitz:New Myths Leveled Against the Right
Rallies critical of the government are scandalized

Immature authors assume the attitude of colonial masters.

Trial against Identitarian Movement:Powerless, Distraught, Angry
The court case is the punishment

The authorities can only win, even if they lose legally.

US leaving the UNHRC:Trump as a Chance for Germany
Germans can now ignore the human rights council when setting their immigration policy

Without the weight of the US backing the UN Human Rights Council, countries are liberated from its hyper-morality.

Hope in Eastern Europe:Will the Old Cold War Divide Save the Continent?
The only option we’re left with

In the face of massive non-European immigration in the west, the region's cultural identity could be maintained east of the river Elbe.

The Film ‘Inglorious Basterds’:Kosher Revenge Porn
On revoking the mourning's solidarity with the dead

There is a sinister reason for the movie’s popularity in Germany. Here, the living have revoked a fundamental solidarity with the dead. A solidarity exemplified by ancient Greek dramatic heroine Antigone.