Jochen Stay

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Jochen Stay (2014)

Jochen Stay (* 1965 in Mannheim ; † January 15, 2022 in Suerhop ) was a German environmental activist , peace activist and publicist . Since 2008 he was spokesman for the anti-nuclear organization .broadcast .

Political activities

peace movement

Jochen Stay has been politically active outside of parliament since 1980, initially in the South Africa and Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign before joining the peace movement . From 1985 to 1988 he was involved in the non-violent blockades against the deployment of US Pershing 2 missiles in Mutlangen . During his studies of German and politics at the University of Mannheim (1988, dropped out in 1992), he was the coordinating editor of the non-violent anarchist monthly newspaper Grassroots Revolution for five years (1990 to 1995). Through resistance to the planned Wackersdorf reprocessing plant , he came to the anti-nuclear movement in Germany .

Castor protests in Wendland

Since 1992 Stay was mainly active in the Wendland resistance against the Castor transports to Gorleben. From 1996 to 2008 he was spokesman for the X-tausendmal quer initiative , one of the largest groups within the German anti-nuclear movement at the time. As a symbol in the dispute over nuclear waste and nuclear power, the initiative propagates “civil disobedience” as a form of action against state nuclear policy. The mobilization and blockade concept developed by Stay led to the largest and longest-lasting sit-in campaigns in the history of the anti-nuclear movement; the Castor transports were sometimes held up for several hours by the protest actions; at the same time, they received increased media attention.

spokesman for .broadcast

Since 2008, Stay has been one of the leading figures of the non-governmental organization " .broadcast "

Other stations, activities, honors

From 1995 to 2011, Stay was one of the main coordinators of the resistance for all 13 Castor transports to Gorleben. From 2000 to 2001 and from 2003 to 2004 he was a board member of the Lüchow-Dannenberg citizens' initiative for environmental protection , and from 2001 to 2002 he was a public relations officer at the environmental protection organization Robin Wood . In 2006, he initiated the "Do it yourself nuclear phase-out" campaign, with which all major environmental organizations called for people to switch electricity providers. From 2002 to 2010 Stay was supported by the Bewegungsstiftung as a movement worker. From 2005 to 2010 he was a consultant for the funded projects of the Bewegungsstiftung. Stay was on the Board of Trustees from 2002 to 2005 and 2013 to 2016 as a representative of the funded projects. In 2010 he received the "Utopia Award" in the category "Role Models". In 2015, Stay received the “Electricity Rebel of the Year” award from the Schönau Electricity Works . On September 15, 2017, Jochen Stay received the Nuclear-Free Future Award in Basel in the category "Special Recognition".

publishing activity

Stay wrote articles on the subject of nuclear power and nuclear waste, including for the taz , jungle world , newspapers for German and international politics , and numerous movement publications; he has also published guest articles in the Süddeutsche Zeitung , the Welt , the Frankfurter Rundschau and the Tagesspiegel . Stay was a guest on the TV talk shows Maybrit Illner , Roche & Böhmermann and Leo Busch .

In 1994 he founded the publishing house "Tolstefanz - Wendländisches Verlagsprojekt" and in the following years published three illustrated books and many other publications about the Castor resistance and the anti-nuclear movement.

Arrested in 2001

The three-day police custody of Jochen Stay in the run-up to the Castor transport to Gorleben in 2001 caused a stir . According to the police, this measure was intended to prevent "the impending commission or continuation of a criminal offence". According to the explanation, Stay, as the "main initiator" of the X-thousand-times-query campaign, "called for a breach of the peace (Section 125 of the Criminal Code)" and "called for criminal offenses several times". The point of contention was his speech at a demonstration prior to the Castor transport in Lüneburg on March 24 to participate in sit-ins. The Higher Regional Court of Celle retrospectively declared the detention illegal. This was justified, among other things, by the fact that the "content of Stay's speech (...) was only reproduced in part and out of context" and that, after closer examination, the "reproduced quote from the speech does not meet the facts of the call for a breach of the peace ".

Books

  • Castor - the book: Pictures of the resistance against the Castor transport to Gorleben 1994/95; published by Katja Tempel and Jochen Stay, Tolstefanz Wendländisches Verlagsprojekt: Jeetzel 1995, ISBN 3-928117-05-X .
  • We oppose each other, pictures of the resistance against Castor transports, Castor book 2; published by Katja Tempel and Jochen Stay, Tolstefanz Wendländisches Verlagsprojekt: Jeetzel 1997, ISBN 3-932270-01-0 .
  • Gorleben is alive!: Pictures of the resistance against the Castor transports to Gorleben, Castor Book 3; published by Katja Tempel and Jochen Stay, Tolstefanz Wendländisches Verlagsprojekt: Jeetzel 1998, ISBN 3-932270-10-X .
  • Entry or exit?: Questions and answers on the "nuclear consensus"; Tolstefanz Wendland publishing project: Jeetzel 2000.
  • What if...: 70 photographic comparisons of nuclear power, published by .aussendung, photographs by Alexander Neureuter, texts by Silke Freitag, Jochen Stay and Alexander Neureuter. Hamburg 2012. ISBN 978-3-9815677-0-0 .

web links

itemizations

  1. ↑ Jochen Stay ist tot. Retrieved January 18, 2022 .
  2. ↑ Resistance in Wackersdorf - Interview with Jochen Stay - (YouTube approx. 6 min., January 23, 2014).
  3. ^ "Memory of the nation: Against nuclear transports Youtube video from January 23, 2014, approx. 4 minutes.
  4. ↑ Nation's memory: Blockade against Castor transports YouTube video from January 23, 2014, approx. 10 minutes.
  5. ^ "atomausstieg-selber-machen.de" .
  6. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of April 13, 2016 at the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ ews-schoenau.de
  8. ↑ Frankfurter Rundschau: Atomic power: Jochen Stay receives "Nuclear Free Award" . In: Frankfurter Rundschau . ( fr.de [accessed October 10, 2017]).
  9. ↑ Texts Jochen Stay web archive jungle world, accessed on May 26, 2015.
  10. ↑ Texts Jochen Stay web archive sheets for German and international politics, accessed on May 28, 2015.
  11. ↑ Talk show Roche & Böhmermann " Jochen Stay " YouTube film of the program from September 15, 2012.
  12. ↑ Talk show May-Britt Illner " Atomic warrior " YouTube recording of the show from November 2010.
  13. ↑ Leo Busch talk show “ Showdown in Gorleben ” broadcast on November 5, 2010.
  14. ↑ tolstefanz-verlag.de ( Memento from December 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  15. ↑ Gorleben Rundschau: Detention of Jochen Stay legally questionable Article from November 2001
personal data
SURNAME Stay, Jochen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German environmental activist, peace activist and publicist
BIRTH DATE 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Manheim
DATE OF DEATH January 15, 2022
PLACE OF DEATH Suerhop