Career
Elsässer worked for 14 years as a teacher in a vocational school in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, before he started his career as a journalist for left wing magazines in 1994. Elsässer published his first works in the newspaper Arbeiterkampf (Workers Struggle), a magazine which was tied to the Kommunistischer Bund (communist league), an organisation of which he was a member for years. In 1990 he was a sharp critic of the German reunification, because he was afraid of the possible dawn of a Viertes Reich (Fourth Reich).
He was also co-editor of the largest left-wing monthly magazine konkret until 2003 he was dismissed because of his criticism of the upcoming Iraq War.
In 2010 he founded Compact magazine, of which he was also the editors During the 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine Elsässer was an outspoken supporter of Russian president Vladimir Putin"s regime and received a lot of criticism from the German media for this position.
Elsässer"s current political position is widely considered as right-wing populism and is a sharp critic of the migration policy of the German chancellor Angela Merkel.
