Thomas Feist

Thomas Wolfgang Feist ( born April 8, 1965 in Leipzig ) is a German politician of the CDU. The music and cultural scientist was secretary for culture work, intercultural work and music at the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony and also Chairman of the German Association for Cultural Work in the Protestant youth.

Life

In the GDR, Feist received as a non- FDJ member of academic parents home without access to the high school, so he took up an apprenticeship as a craftsman after completing the ten-year polytechnic secondary school and successfully graduated. After that he worked until 1993 as an operating craftsmen at Leipzig University, later. Than instructor for learning disabled and socially disadvantaged young people

Over the years, an increasing commitment apparent in political circles and the environmental movement of the Protestant Church. He is the founder of the musical theater "Cactus " in which a couple of years also " Kokolorus Not at all " ( whose real name is Titus Jany ) the band The Inchtabokatables drumming.

From 1995 on, he became a reporter for artistic- cultural and intercultural education at the National Youth Parish Saxony. There he studied musicology, sociology and theology degree " Master of Arts " (MA). He was phil in 2005 with a thesis on " Music as a cultural factor " to the Dr.. doctorate.

From 1999 to 2008 Feist was chairman of the working group music, today he works in the Federal Association of cultural work in the Protestant youth, is member of the German Music Council and the Society for Music Research. In 1997 he founded the Youth Culture Network CrossOver. He led from 2003 to 2012 the German Federal Association for Cultural Work in the Protestant youth belonging Sound Archive in Leipzig, which is located at the Science Institute of the liturgy VELKD at the Theological Faculty of the University of Leipzig since October 2012.

Since 2010, Feist Chairman of the German -Israeli Society of Leipzig and Chairman of the Regional Committee of Leipzig is music played by youth.

Feist is married and has three children.

Policy

At the 2009 federal election, he ran as a candidate for the CDU Bundestag direct mandate in the constituency Leipzig II and won the mandate, which had been in 2005 still fetched from the SPD candidate Gunter Weißgerber. He sat down beside it by, among others, against the former mayor of Leipzig and Federal Minister Wolfgang Tiefensee (SPD). In the general election in 2013 he was again elected directly.

In the 17th legislative period of the German Bundestag Feist is the Committee on Education, Research and Technology Assessment, the Subcommittee on Foreign Cultural and educational policies as well as representative of the committees: Petition, Foreign Policy, Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and European Assembly on Security and Defence / Assembly of Western European Union operates.

He is a member of the Parliamentary Association, the German - Israeli Parliamentary Group and the German -Iranian Parliamentary Friendship Group.

In June 2012, he was the Leipzig magazine cruiser because of his critical comments on the use of the area around the Leipzig Battle of the Nations monument to fun events dedicated to the satirical "Snail of the Month".

Works

• Thomas Feist: music as a cultural factor. On the Theory and Empirical of Christian popular music. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main [u a ] 2005, ISBN 3-631-53976-2
• Wolfgang Kabus in collaboration with Thomas Feist (ed.): Popular music and church. Volume 11, Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main [u a ] In 2008, ISBN 978-3-631-57721-9
• Thomas Feist: critique of social rationality. Cultural orientation patterns in post-modern society. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main [u a ] In 2009, ISBN 978-3-631-59292-2