95 Tage Trump: Wo stehen die USA?

In the organizer's words:

Since taking office on January 20, President Donald Trump and his administration have been driving fundamental change at a rapid pace, keeping the public on tenterhooks. 95 days after being sworn in, we want to examine the sometimes confusing situation: What political course has already been set and how are American society, the legislative and judicial branches, the media and international partners reacting? Which topics dominate the public discourse in the USA - from economic and migration policy to cultural change and the role of democratic institutions? What concrete effects can be felt and what can we expect from the Trump administration in the coming years?

We will discuss these and other questions with

Erik Kirschbaum is a book author and freelance journalist. Born in the US, he spent 27 years reporting from Germany and Austria for the Reuters news agency and worked for the Los Angeles Times, South China Morning Post and Independent (UK). He writes for German media such as Welt and ZEIT Sprachen and frequently appears as a studio guest on Welt TV, NTV, Phoenix, ZDF and ARD . He was director of the German-American exchange program RIAS Berlin Commission for 8 years. He has written four books, including Rocking the Wall about a Bruce Springsteen concert in East Berlin in 1988.

Prof. Dr. Regina Schober is an Americanist with a focus on literature and cultural studies. After studying and completing her doctorate at Leibniz Universität Hannover, she moved to the University of Mannheim, where she habilitated in 2019. Study and research visits took her to Maynooth (Ireland) and the USA (Harvard, University of Virginia, University of California, Santa Barbara). Regina Schober has been W3 Professor of American Literature and Cultural Studies at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf since 2020.

Prof. Dr. Jared Sonnicksen is Professor of Political Systems at the Institute of Political Science at RWTH Aachen University. He studied German and Political Science at Wabash College in Indiana, USA. In 2001, he came to Germany on a Fulbright Scholarship and studied political science, modern German literature and history at the University of Bonn. In 2013, he also received his doctorate from the University of Bonn with a dissertation on the governance system of the European Union and its democratization. From 2013 to 2019, he was a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute of Political Science at the Technical University of Darmstadt, where he habilitated on the topic of tensions between federalism and democracy in the USA. His research and teaching interests include the analysis and comparison of political systems, especially in Europe and North America, federalism and multi-level systems, and a particular interest in the challenges of democratic governance under conditions of complexity.

Dr. Andreas Turnsek is a freelance television journalist, media trainer, presenter and lecturer at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. He has worked as an author, reporter and live reporter for WDR television since 1996 (including foreign reports from Argentina, Cuba, China, Japan, Iceland and Ukraine). Andreas Turnsek completed his doctorate in 2014 on travel in the work of Heinrich Heine and Kurt Tucholsky and has since lectured on literary studies and media studies at international universities. He is an author and performer of musical and literary readings. Since 2017, he has been the first chairman of the Heinrich Heine Kreis e.V.

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