{"id":1197,"date":"2007-09-21T19:59:59","date_gmt":"2007-09-21T17:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/2007\/09\/21\/german-science\/"},"modified":"2007-09-22T15:34:33","modified_gmt":"2007-09-22T13:34:33","slug":"german-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2007\/09\/german-science\/","title":{"rendered":"German science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.academics.de\/portal\/action\/magazine?nav=30343\">German portal academics<\/a> has a rather long narrative about the failure of German science &#8211; and an excerpt from &#8220;Richard M&uuml;nch, Die akademische Elite. Zur sozialen Konstruktion wissenschaftlicher Exzellenz, Frankfurt a.M.: Edition Suhrkamp, 2007&#8221;.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This reads in my translation<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nWhen you have finally reached at the age of 40 the independence of being now a professor, you have already lost it again. From now on you are one of the VIPs who have to work in a factory, that dictates every day the next step what to do: meet everytime with colleagues &#8211; also those that you would like to avoid &#8211; plan the next joint project, administer, go for internal or extramural proof or even let it evaluate, manage work shops, invite and host guests, write reports and announce activities in the public. Even if you free yourself from this internal machinery, there is an external machinery of reviewing, accrediting or working in commissions. Work in the old system &#8211; always at disposal of a professor &#8211; has been detached by the avalanche of grant application, report and public relation management. Being a late professor you will learn in your desired new role that you have lost all freedom of doing research.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!---\nIst also im Alter von 40 und mehr Jahren endlich die Unabh\u00e4ngigkeit einer Professorenstelle erreicht, hat man sie sogleich wieder verloren, weil man jetzt zu den heroischen Leistungstr\u00e4gern geh\u00f6rt, die sich in eine Maschinerie f&uuml;gen m&uuml;ssen, die ihnen tagt\u00e4glich vorgibt, was zu tun ist: st\u00e4ndige Sitzungen mit Kollegen - auch solchen, denen man lieber aus dem Weg gehen m\u00f6chte -, um ein Kooperationsprojekt zu planen, zu verwalten, intern zu pr&uuml;fen, zur Probe und im Ernstfall evaluieren zu lassen, Workshops durchzuf&uuml;hren, G\u00e4ste einzuladen und zu betreuen, Bericht zu erstatten und die Aktivit\u00e4ten in der \u00c3\u2013ffentlichkeit bekannt zu machen. Soweit man sich von dieser internen Maschinerie befreien kann, wird man von einer externen Maschinerie der Gutachter-, Akkreditierungs und Kommissionst\u00e4tigkeit vereinnahmt. Auch die alte Ordinarienherrlichkeit ist l\u00e4ngst von einer Lawine des Antrags-, Berichts- und Darstellungsmanagements begraben worden. Der sp\u00e4t zur Selbst\u00e4ndigkeit berufene Professor erf\u00e4hrt in seiner ersehnten Rolle, dass er nun erst recht alle Freiheit zur Forschung verloren hat.\n---><\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 11.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The German portal academics has a rather long narrative about the failure of German science &#8211; and an excerpt from &#8220;Richard M&uuml;nch, Die akademische Elite. Zur sozialen Konstruktion wissenschaftlicher Exzellenz, Frankfurt a.M.: Edition Suhrkamp, 2007&#8221;. &nbsp; CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 11.04.2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy-of-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}