Johanna Schiffner

Research associate

Johanna Schiffner is a research associate under Prof.*in Dr.*in Heike Radvan as part of the joint research project MAVIOPA - „Mapping far right violence against people with disabilities, resistance and professional approach“.

Johanna Schiffner focuses on

far-right violence against people with disabilities,
processes of societal transformation (with a focus on Eastern Germany)
masculinity in the context of far-right violence in the 1990s and 2000s.

Research projects

Current research projects:

MAVIOPA – "Mapping far right violence against people with disabilities, resistance and professional approach“, URL: https://fit.uni-tuebingen.de/Project/Details?id=12080

Further functions and activities

Podcast “Cottbus 92” (student project, BTU Cottbus–Senftenberg): Podcast on far-right violence and local memory in the 1990s. URL: https://www.b-tu.de/soziale-arbeit-ma-fh/studium-lehre/studierendenprojekte/podcast-cottbus-92

CV

Since June 2025: Research associate at the Institute for Research on Far Right Extremism (IRex) as part of the joint research project MAVIOPA – „Mapping far right violence against people with disabilities, resistance and professional approach“.
2024–2025: Research assistant University of Tübingen; Institute for Research in Far Right Extremism (IRex)
2022–2024: Research assistant BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg; Methods and Theories of Social Work
2021–2025: Master of Arts (M.A.) Social Work, BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg; Focus on societal transformation processes
2017–2021: Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Social Work, BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg

Publications

Obermüller, Christian/Radvan, Heike/Schiffner, Johanna (2023): „Es wäre gut, wenn Putin hier mal auskehren könnte“ – Analysen zu Mobilisierungen (extrem) rechter Akteure in Cottbus in Reaktion auf den russischen Angriffskrieg gegen die Ukraine, Ergebnisse eines Forschungsprojektes, MIKOWA Arbeitspapiere, MIKOWA – Forschungsplattform Migration, Konflikt und sozialer Wandel; Nr. 6, URL: https://www.b-tu.de/mikowa/publikationen (letzter Abruf 19.06.2025).
(Title: "It would be good if Putin could sweep out here" : analyses of mobilizations of (extreme) right-wing actors in Cottbus in reaction to the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine 2022)