Alix Fassmann

Alix Faßmann at the Capitalism Tribunal, Vienna 2016

Alix Faßmann (born 1983 in Hanover ) is a German journalist , book author and co-founder of the free art project " Haus Bartleby ", a center for career refusal, which has since been discontinued .

life and work

After graduating from Matthias-Claudius-Gymnasium Gehrden , she went to London as an au pair for a year . Then she studied social sciences in Osnabrück . During her studies, she did an internship at Elmshorner Nachrichten , where she developed a new supplement and received the local journalist award in 2005 for it. After completing her studies, she first became a trainee and then an editor at the Berliner Kurier . From 2010 she worked as an independent editor for the news office of the SPD party executive, quit this job in 2011 and went to Italy for a year . Back in Berlin , she worked for the Berliner Kurier again for about another year.

Her first book, Arbeit ist nicht Unser Leben, was published in 2014 at Bastei Lübbe in Cologne. The subtitle is "Instructions for career refusal". The book was reviewed in many major German media and as prototypical attitude of Generation Y , respectively.

Also in 2014, together with the dramaturge, journalist and writer Anselm Lenz , whom she met during the olive harvest in Sicily, and the actor and voice actor Jörg Petzold in the Berlin district of Neukölln, she founded Haus Bartleby eV , a "center for career refusal". The house Bartleby eV propagates the systematic denial of career and explains as follows: "The dominant ideology in the neoliberal era was but that each have opportunities that rise and happiness were almost ahistorical and universally accessible. You just have to make an effort. However, it can be seen that impoverishment , depression and burnout are rampant. There are already civil war-like conditions in the middle of Europe. ”In 2015 she published - together with Anselm Lenz, Jörg Petzold and Patrick Spät - the book project Sag alles ab! with pleadings for the lifelong general strike, which received considerable media coverage. In 2016, this institution organized in cooperation with brut Wien , the Club of Rome , the Heinrich Böll Foundation and the Wiener Passagen Verlag - in Vienna - "The Capitalism Tribunal", in which specific cases were indicted and negotiated. The event series was broadcast in two languages, in German and English, via a live stream on the Internet and accompanied by three book publications by Passagen Verlag.

In 2016 she was co-editor of The Capitalism Tribunal. On the revolution of economic rights , published by Passagen Verlag in Vienna.

Book publications

• Work is not our life: guidance on career refusal. Bastei Lübbe , Cologne 2014, ISBN 978-3-7857-6104-5 .
• Bartleby House (Ed.): Cancel everything! Appeals for a lifelong general strike. Edited by Alix Faßmann, Anselm Lenz , Jörg Petzold and Patrick Spät . Edition Nautilus , Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-89401-824-5 .
• Bartleby House (ed.): The Capitalism Tribunal. On the Revolution of Economic Rights (The Red Book). Edited by Alix Faßmann, Anselm Lenz and Hendrik Sodenkamp . Translated by Corinna Popp, Viktor Kucharski, Anselm Lenz. Haus Bartleby eV Passagen Verlag , Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-7092-0220-3 .
• Alix Faßmann: Thesis 46: Here we are, we can do it differently. In: Wilhelm Genazino (Ed.): Freedom and Responsibility, 95 theses today. JB Metzler , Stuttgart 2016, ISBN 978-3-476-02686-6 , p. 137 ff.

Awards

• 2016: Nomination for the Nestroy Theater Prize with Haus Bartleby (special prize for the Capitalism Tribunal)
• 2005: Local Journalist Award

Web links

• Article by Alix Faßmann in the Berliner Kurier
• Haus Bartleby , Center for Career Denial (Berlin), official website

swell

• Alix Faßmann , article in the mirror

Individual evidence

1. ↑ aquamagica.de ( Memento from May 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ spd.de
3. ↑ Tobias Becker : career refusal - you would rather not . In: Der Spiegel . January 22, 2015, accessed May 10, 2016.
4. ↑ Gesa Schölgens: This is how the career refusal works . In: Frankfurter Rundschau . September 12, 2014, accessed May 10, 2016.
5. ↑ Bartleby House's career refusal center . In: Contraste , the monthly newspaper for self-organization. Retrieved May 7, 2016.
6. ↑ Center for career refusals: Turn off your mind No thanks! In: N21 Press. October 2, 2015, accessed May 9, 2016.
7. Jump up to the general strike - a utopia without a target group . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . December 14, 2015, accessed May 7, 2016.
8. ^ House Bartleby: The Capitalism Tribunal ( Memento of May 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). Wednesday 4th to Tuesday 10th May 2016, accessed on 7 May 2016.