Emily Schultheis

Emily Schultheis was based in Berlin, focusing on the rise of right-wing populism. Her research focused primarily on Germany, but also explored parallels with populist parties in neighboring countries including Austria, Hungary and Poland. Prior to receiving an ICWA fellowship, Emily worked as a freelance journalist in Berlin covering German politics and the rise of populist parties in more than a dozen countries. Her reporting has appeared in The Atlantic, Foreign Policy, Politico Europe, CBS News, The Los Angeles Times, NBC News, World Politics Review, BBC Online, Spiegel Online International, Deutsche Welle and Der Tagesspiegel, among other outlets. Emily is a native of the San Francisco Bay Area and received her B.A. in English literature from the University of Pennsylvania.

Posts and Dispatches from Emily Schultheis:

• With the coronavirus outbreak, a return to a Europe of borders
  Far-right dreams of closing countries off have temporarily come true as the idea of European solidarity faces new challenges....

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• In the shadow of Auschwitz, a town seeks to tell its own story
  The politics of memory are visceral and emotional in Poland, but some in Oswiecim are embracing and highlighting the complexity of their local history. ...

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• Cooperating with the far right, German lawmakers break major taboo
  Center-right politicians join the AfD to oust a state premier, a first in postwar politics....

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• Auschwitz survivors’ thinning ranks
  loom over liberation commemoration
  With the demise of firsthand witnesses, history is increasingly a pawn in an era of rising intolerance and revisionism....

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• Pride, shame and responsibility:
  Confronting history in a changing Germany
  The AfD is working to co-opt patriotism and alter the way Germans view their past. But most find the issue far more complicated....

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• Rising anti-Semitism has Germany’s Jewish community on edge
  But despite increasing threats, some in Berlin are optimistic about a new, vibrant Jewish culture....

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• As Germany marks Berlin Wall anniversary, east-west split still divides new generation
  30 years after the fall of the Wall, Germans born in 1989 reflect on why right-wing populism is ascendant in the east....

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• AfD lays claim to East German identity
  On the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Germany’s populist far-right party promises disaffected voters in the east a new ‘Peaceful Revolution.’...

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• BLOG: A center-right victory provides little clarity for Austria’s future government
  Sebastian Kurz’s People’s Party made significant gains in Sunday’s snap elections, but a renewed coalition with the far-right Freedom Party seems unlikely....

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• Austrian support for far right remains resilient
  Despite a massive scandal and government collapse, the Freedom Party’s appeal to traditional culture keeps it in the running to govern again....

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