Michael Krell
Michael Krell
Researcher
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- since 09/2024
Doctoral candidate at the Faculty of Environmental Sciences on the topic: “Municipal politics of the party Freie Sachsen” - since 04/2024
Research Assistant at the Chair of Human Geography at the TU Dresden - Winter semester 2023/24
Lecturer at the Chair of Human Geography at the TU Dresden - 08/2023 – 02/2024
Teaching traineeship - 07/2023
First State Examination for teaching secondary level - 2020 – 2023
Student Assistant at the Chairs of Human Geography and Didactics of Geography at the TU Dresden - 2017 – 2023
Studies of Geography and History at the TU Dresden
- Political geographies of the radical right and their effects,
Focus: Protests, discourses & local politics of the party "Freie Sachsen"
Editorial Work
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Autor*innenkollektiv Terra-R (2025): Das Ende rechter Räume: Zu Territorialisierungen der radikalen Rechten. Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot. (Open-Access/Print/Review)
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Krell, Michael; Böhme, Tom (eds) (2024): Sächsische Realitäten. Analysen aktueller Protestphänomene der radikalen Rechten in Sachsen. Dresden/München: Thelem. (Open-Access/Print/Review)
Journal Papers
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Krell, Michael; Köhler, Klemens; Böhme, Tom (accepted): „Das macht total was mit einem, […] wie man sich bewegt, wie man Bahn fährt, wie häufig man sich umdreht beim Nach-Hause-Weg": Eine raumsensible Untersuchung zu den Auswirkungen freier und lokaljournalistischer Arbeit zur extremen Rechten. In: Journalistik. Zeitschrift für Journalismusforschung 8 (3).
Englich version: "It really affects you, [...] how you move, how you travel by train, how often you look over your shoulder on your way home." A socio-spatial investigation into the effects of freelance and local journalism on the far right in East Germany. In: Journalism Research 8 (3). -
Krell, Michael (2025): „Stürmt mit uns die Rathäuser“. Eine skalensensible Argumentationsanalyse des sächsischen Kommunalwahlkampfes der radikal rechten Kleinstpartei Freie Sachsen im Jahr 2024. In: Berichte. Geographie und Landeskunde 98 (1), 26-48. Link
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Autor*innenkollektiv Terra-R (2024): For a Non-Exceptionalist Spatial Theory of Far-Right Mobilizations. In: Essex, Jamey; Gallaher, Carolyn; Luger, Jason (eds.): Intervention Symposium "Worldbuilding and Worldbreaking: New Spatialities of the Far-Right". Antipode Online.
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Krell, Michael; Meyer, Frank (2024): Freeports, elites, and loopholes: A socio-spatial exploration of the globalized geographies of contemporary art trade using the TPSN-heuristic. In: Erdkunde. Journal of Human and Physical Geography 78 (2), 111-128. Link
Book Chapters
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Luger, Jason; Seichter, Zita; Krell, Michael (2025): “It is, like any space, full of possibilities”: Intrrview on spatial contestations and far-right mobilizations in the digital age. In: Burri, Regula Valérie; Göbel, Hanna; Reimers, Inga (eds.): Grounding Digitalization: Technologies, Materialities, and Spaces. Bielefeld: transcript, pp. 179-194.
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Krell, Michael; Zschocke, Paul; Ludwig, Nils (2025): Performative Territorialisierung: von Montagsprotesten und Neo-Kameradschaften. In: Autor*innenkollektiv Terra-R: Das Ende rechter Räume: Zu Territorialisierungen der radikalen Rechten. Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot, 51-78. Link
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Krell, Michael (2024): Sachsen First. Die Raumfrage im Grundsatzprogramm der Freien Sachsen. In: Krell, Michael/Böhme, Tom (eds): Sächsische Realitäten. Analysen aktueller Protestphänomene der radikalen Rechten in Sachsen. Dresden/München: Thelem, 62-89. Link
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Böhme, Tom; Krell, Michael (2024): Freie Sachsen: Alter Wein in neuen Schläuchen? – Eine Einleitung. In: Krell, Michael; Böhme, Tom (eds): Sächsische Realitäten: Analysen aktueller Protestphänomene der radikalen Rechten in Sachsen. Dresden/München: Thelem, 6-26. Link
Guest Contributions and Journalistic Work
- Krell, Michael (22.09.2025): Wie AfD und CDU in Sachsen gemeinsam Demokratieprojekte verhindern. In: Zeit Online
- Krell, Michael (13.08.2025): Pride-Parade in Bautzen: Wie der Neonazi-Protest zur Randnotiz wurde. In: Zeit Online
- Krell, Michael (29.06.2025): So trainieren Anhänger des Dritten Wegs für den Straßenkampf. In: Zeit Online
- Krell, Michael (28.05.2025): Wenn die Kommunalpolitik nach rechts kippt. In: Zeit Online
- Krell, Michael (26.03.2025): Junge Neonazis halten den Dresdner Opfermythos am Leben. In: Zeit Online
- Krell, Michael; Kamuf, Viktoria (17.03.2025): Zeit für das Ende rechter Räume. A guest contribution in: Zeit Online
- Krell, Michael (29.01.2025): Elblandrevolte: Von TikTok in die Untersuchungshaft. In: Zeit Online
- Krell, Michael (28.11.2024): Queerfeindlichkeit: Neue Hauptgegner für eine neue Generation von Neonazis. In: Zeit Online
- Krell, Michael (29.07.2024): Freie Sachsen: War dieser Rücktritt erst der Anfang? In: Zeit Online
- Krell, Michael (09.07.2024): PEGIDA war nie wirklich weg. In: Zeit Online
- Krell, Michael (13.05.2024): Angriffe auf Politiker. Wie aus radikalem Wahlkampf Gewalt wird. A guest contribution in: Zeit Online
- 2021 - 2025
Member of DFG-Network „Territorializations of the Radical Right“ Terra R - 04/2025 - 10/2025
Head of teaching project "research oriented teaching on the far rigth under local conditions", funded by FOSTER: ENABLE2RESEARCH@TUD - 08/20203 – 04/2024
Co-Head of student research project „Analyses on current far right protests in the German federal state of Saxony“, funded by FOSTER: STUDENTRESEARCH@TUD
Winter semester 2025/26
- Exercise "Scientific work in the geosciences" Link
- Lecture "Geographies of rural areas" (in parts) Link
Summer semester 2025
- Project seminar "Extreme rights at the local level"
- Lecture "Regional Geography" (in parts)
Winter semester 2024/25
- Seminar "Geographies of the urban" (3 groups)
- Lecture "Regional Human Geography" (in parts)
- Exercise "Scientific work in the geosciences"
Summer semester 2024
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Seminar "Geographies of Inequality" (2 groups)
Winter semester 2023/24
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Seminar "Geographies of the urban" (1 group)
- Since July 2025: Speaker of the 11th Doctoral Council of TU Dresden
- Since July 2025: Non-voting member of the Senate of TU Dresden
- Since July 2025: Board member of the Graduate Academy of TU Dresden
- Member of the Terra-R authors' collective
- Member of the Association for Geography at German-speaking Universities and Research Institutions
- "Youth right-wing extremism as a challenge for education for sustainable development. An interdisciplinary world café on the importance of democracy education in the context of social transformations" as part of the DGfE conference "Education for Sustainable Development" Dresden. Together with Prof. Dr. Nicole Raschke and Carla Hermanussen (September 2025)
- Free Saxony - How the neo-Nazi scene managed to reorganize itself: Lecture at the congress "Datenspuren" of the CCC-Dresden (September 2025)
- Doctoral student: Internal Forum Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarianism Research (HAIT) Dresden, lecture: "Why do radical right-wing actors get involved in local politics? Reflections on the example of an empirical study of the
local election campaign 2024 of the Free Saxons" (July 2025) - DKJS conference Frankfurt a. M., lecture: "Municipalities under pressure - How right-wing strategies change municipal realities" (June 2025)
- Book discussion "The end of right-wing spaces", Dresden (May 2025)
- Workshop "Authoritarianism and the Land" Frankfurt a. M., Lecture: "Free Saxony and the Land" (May 2025)
- Book discussion "The end of right-wing spaces", Leipzig (March 2025)
- Discussion event "Free Saxony and the 2024 local elections", Dresden (June 2024)
- Book discussion "Saxon realities", Dresden (May 2024)
- 07.08.2025: Nachgefragt – Im Gespräch mit Michael Krell: Kommunen unter Druck – Wie rechte Strategien kommunale Realitäten verändern. Interview mit der Deutschen Kinder- und Jugendstiftung (DKJS)
- Summer 2025: Interview in the magazine “Lotta” under the title: „Räume sind ja nicht per se kriminell und gefährlich, sondern werden so markiert und konstruiert"
- 28-30.10.2024: Appearance as an expert at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg on the topic of attacks on journalists in the context of right-wing demonstrations as part of the "Journalists Matter Campaign", appearance on the "Europe Explained" podcast
- 20.09.2024: Article on the exposure of electoral fraud by the Free Saxons in the Dresden local elections in DUZ Magazine for Science and Society
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19.09.2024: Review of the anthology "Sächsische Realitäten" in the print version of the Sächsische Zeitung
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04.09.2024: Mention of own discovery of voting irregularities in the Dresden local elections in favor of the Free Saxons in an article by Zeit Online
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21.08.2024: Interview with T-Online about the Free Saxons in the context of state party funding
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22.06.2024: Guest in the podcast "Junge Politik in Sachsen" on the topic of right-wing successes in the Saxon local elections on Sachsenfernsehen
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21.06.2024: Presentation of the anthology "Sächsische Realitäten" in the "Büchermarkt" section on Deutschlandfunk radio
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26.05.2024: Coverage of the anthology "Sächsische Realitäten" in the Sächsische Zeitung during the local elections of the Free Saxons