{"id":4719,"date":"2022-05-19T10:16:58","date_gmt":"2022-05-19T10:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/veranstaltung\/reden-wir-tacheles"},"modified":"2026-04-21T11:22:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T11:22:19","slug":"lets-talk-straight","status":"publish","type":"kreisky_event","link":"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/en\/veranstaltung\/reden-wir-tacheles","title":{"rendered":"\u201eLET'S TALK STRAIGHT\u201c"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>YouTube premiere \"From Kreisky's living room\"<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<h4>Rudolf Scholten in conversation with Nikolaus Kowall<\/h4>\n<h4>\u201eLET'S TALK STRAIGHT\u201c<br \/>\nOn political culture and co-determination in times of crisis<\/h4>\n<p><em><strong>Nikolaus Kowall<\/strong><\/em>, born in Vienna in 1982 and raised in Lower Austria, has been passionate about politics since his youth. At grammar school in Lilienfeld, he was head boy and set up a local group of the SP\u00d6-affiliated Action of Critical Pupils (AKS). In 2000, he and his team won the elections for the regional student council and were elected as the first social democratic AHS regional school spokesperson in Lower Austria and shortly afterwards as deputy federal school spokesperson. In 2001, he took over the chairmanship of the AKS. During his studies at the Vienna University of Economics and Business, he was active in the Association of Socialist Students. In 2008 (?), he founded \u201eSection 8\u201c in the Viennese district of Alsergrund as a social democratic NGO, which was intended to provide space for civil society involvement within a party.<\/p>\n<p>After completing his doctorate at the Vienna University of Economics and Business in 2014, Kowall moved to D\u00fcsseldorf, where he headed the office of the Research Institute for Social Development, which is funded by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. He then worked as a deputy professor for International Economics at the Berlin University of Applied Sciences. Nikolaus Kowall has been back in Vienna since 2019 and holds an endowed professorship for International Macroeconomics at the BFI School of Economics, Management and Finance. His research focuses on the significance of the effects of free trade, location competition and globalisation on political polarisation in western industrialised countries and the European Union's socio-economic capacity to act in this context.<\/p>\n<p>Since May 2021, he has been running the political video blog \u201e<a href=\"https:\/\/kowall.at\/\">Kowall talks straight<\/a>\u201c, he has been Vice-Chairman of the SP\u00d6 Alsergrund since September 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Rudolf Scholten has invited Nikolaus Kowall to Kreisky's living room for a chat. They discuss political culture and co-determination, rampant democratic fatigue and what can be done about it, as well as topics that concern people in these crisis-ridden times.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nikolaus Kowall<\/strong>, economist, lecturer in international macroeconomics at the BFI School of Economics, Management and Finance in Vienna, deputy chairman of the SP\u00d6-Alsergrund, operator of the political video blog \u201eKowall redet Tacheles\u201c (Kowall talks tough)\u201c<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rudolf Scholten<\/strong>, President of the Bruno Kreisky Forum for International Dialogue<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube Premiere \"Aus Kreiskys Wohnzimmer\" Rudolf Scholten im Gespr\u00e4ch mit Nikolaus Kowall \u201eREDEN WIR TACHELES\u201c \u00dcber politische Kultur und Mitbestimmung in krisenhaften Zeiten Nikolaus Kowall, 1982 in Wien geboren und in Nieder\u00f6sterreich aufgewachsen, brennt seit Jugendtagen f\u00fcr Politik. Im Gymnasium in Lilienfeld war er Schulsprecher und baute eine lokale Gruppe der SP\u00d6-nahen Aktion kritischer Sch\u00fclerInnen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4720,"template":"","format":[33],"meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"schwerpunkt":[38],"class_list":["post-4719","kreisky_event","type-kreisky_event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","schwerpunkt-demokratie-diversitaet-und-zusammenhalt","format-on-the-record"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>\u201eREDEN WIR TACHELES\u201c - Kreisky Forum<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/en\/event\/lets-talk-straight\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"\u201eREDEN WIR TACHELES\u201c - Kreisky Forum\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"YouTube Premiere &quot;Aus Kreiskys Wohnzimmer&quot; Rudolf Scholten im Gespr\u00e4ch mit Nikolaus Kowall \u201eREDEN WIR TACHELES\u201c \u00dcber politische Kultur und Mitbestimmung in krisenhaften Zeiten Nikolaus Kowall, 1982 in Wien geboren und in Nieder\u00f6sterreich aufgewachsen, brennt seit Jugendtagen f\u00fcr Politik. 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