An Universitäten werden zunehmend Professorinnen und Professoren entlassen oder von hohen Ämtern degradiert, weil sie irgendwie stören. Aber wann stört ein Professor? In den Medien liest man von missliebigen Äußerungen, falschen Haltungen, Mobbing oder Machtmissbrauch. Das ist aber nur ein Teil der Geschichte. Das Buch blickt auf die Strukturen hinter den Fällen und zeigt, dass es vor allem Frauen und Bildungsaufsteiger trifft. Und einige andere, die auch meinen, dass Leistung zählt.
Heike Egner, born in Heidelberg (Germany) in 1963, is a geographer, researcher and mediator. She studied journalism, political science and geography in Mainz, where she also completed her doctorate and habilitation in geography. Egner has held visiting professorships in Frankfurt am Main, Kassel, Munich, Vienna and Innsbruck. Starting in 2010 she was a university professor of geography and regional research at the University of Klagenfurt (Austria) until her unexpected dismissal in 2018.
Anke Uhlenwinkel, born in Bremen (Germany) in 1963, is a university professor of geography and economics education at the University of Salzburg (Austria) since 2021. She studied Geography, English, Politics and Education at the University of Göttingen. She completed her doctorate and habilitation at the University of Bremen. From 2008, she held a professorship of geography education at the University of Potsdam (Germany), but was not granted tenure in 2013 after an irregular internal procedure that was not codified in the Higher Education Act.
