Janek Treiber, Research Fellow
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Research Associate
NameMr Janek Treiber M.A.
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Career:
- Born in 1998 in Mühlhausen/Thuringia
- 2016 to 2021 Studies of Political Science and Sociology at the TU Dresden
- since 08/2021 Research Associate at the Chair of Political Systems and Comparative Politics
- since 12/2021 Doctoral student, focus on party exclusion proceedings
Work and core research areas:
- Scientific monitoring and evaluation of citizen dialogs
- Political culture and political protest in Saxony and Thuringia
- Internal organization of political parties
Interviews and media appearances (selection):
Supra-regional politics
- 10.04.2025 Formation of government by CDU, CSU and SPD (phoenix)
- 06.05.2025 Representation of East Germany in the new federal government (ARD Fakt)
- 10.06.2025 Dress code and rules of conduct in the Bundestag (DLF nova)
- 03.09.2025 Coalition committee ( DLF Kultur)
- 25.09.2025 MPK-Ost (Deutschlandfunk)
- 06.10.2025 Press conferences of the parties (phoenix)
- 24.10.2025 Cityscape debate in the political science classification (Sächsische Zeitung podcast)
- 28.10.2025 Chancellor Merz's inaugural visit to Saxony (phoenix)
- 12.01.2026 Press conferences of the parties at the beginning of the year (phoenix)
- 19.02.2026 Results of the Germany Monitor (Deutschlandfunk)
- 10.03.2026 Role of top candidates in state elections (DLF nova)
- 16.03.2026 SPD in a difficult situation after the state election in Baden-Württemberg (DLF nova)
Politics in Saxony
- 21.06.2025 Party political questions regarding the agreement on the Saxon state budget 2025/2026 (ZDF)
- 11.09.2025 Change of leadership at the Saxon BSW (DLF)
- 29.09.2025 Mayoral election in Freiberg (Freie Presse)
- 06.10.2025 Current poll for the state election in Saxony (Sächsische Zeitung)
- 26.10.2025 Campaign by the Dresden Left Party on false utility bills (Sächsische Zeitung)
- 28.10.2025 Classification of the results of the Lord Mayor election in Freiberg (Freie Presse)
- 27.12.2025 Permanent flagging in the Saxon districts (MDR)
- 04.01.2026 Lawsuit against the result of the Lord Mayor election in Freiberg (Freie Presse)
- 17.01.2026 Implications of the internal camp protests in Connewitz for the DIE LINKE party (MDR)
- 02.04.2026 Political considerations on the reform of the MDR Interstate Broadcasting Treaty (Sächsische Zeitung Podcast)
Publications (selection):
- 2025. East Germany in the light of the state elections. Does the East vote abnormally? Berliner Debatte Initial 36/1, 34-50. http://dx. doi.org/10.25162/bdi-2025-0003
- 2024. expelling controversies: assessing the effectiveness of party expulsion procedures to resolve internal conflicts. European Politics and Society, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/23745118.2024.2395840 (Open Access)
- 2023 (with A. Tietze, T.-M. Weber and P. Schweizer-Strobel, eds.). Municipal conflict moderation. A practical guide for municipal administrations, civil society institutions and moderators, available at SpringerLink
- 2022. "Nobody intends to demolish a canteen". Citizen participation based on false facts. In: Bochmann, C. (ed.), Citizen dialogs in times of crisis. Ethnomethodological case studies from Saxony, available at SpringerLink
- 2022. unbending protest? Dealing with corona deniers and opponents of measures from the perspective of citizen participation in Saxony, in: Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen 1/22, 237-249. available at De Gruyter
Lectures:
- Lecture "The Political System of the Federal Republic of Germany in Comparison" (summer semester 2026)
- Lecture series "Political Science at the TU Dresden" (Organization of the RV, winter semester 2025/2026)
- Policy field analysis of intergenerational justice (seminar, winter semester 2021/2022)
- Political stakeholders in the social media (seminar, winter semester 2022/2023 | summer semester 2024| summer semester 2025| summer semester 2026)
- Policy field analysis of transport policy (seminar, summer semester 2023)
- Protest and extremism in Saxony (seminar, winter semester 2023/2024)