Anne Roth

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Anne Roth (2013)

Anne Roth is a German political scientist, author and network activist. Roth has been working as a consultant in the German Bundestag since 2014, and since September 2018 as a consultant for the Die Linke parliamentary group in the field of network policy. Roth writes and works on surveillance, domestic politics, media and feminism.

Life

Anne Roth studied political science and has been involved in the fields of surveillance, police and fundamental rights since the 1990s. Among other things, she was involved in founding the alternative left-wing publication and news platform Indymedia . She also worked as an online editor, journalist and translator.

She later worked as a Program Editor and Researcher at Tactical Technology Collective , where she dealt with digital security and was in charge of the "Me and my Shadow" project.

Terrorist investigation against Andrej Holm

Anne Roth gained public notoriety through reporting on her blog about the criminal investigation against her partner, the social scientist Andrej Holm , who was arrested on July 31, 2007 on suspicion of membership in a terrorist organization . The investigation was discontinued in 2010 after the allegations finally proved to be inaccurate.

Roth made her experiences from this time public from the beginning, in her blog she reported on the many facets of the investigation against her partner and the surveillance of her family.

Network political commitment

Through the publications and reports on investigations against her partner, Roth gained notoriety in the then emerging field of Internet politics. As a speaker, she not only spoke in various lectures about her own experiences and experiences in the context of the investigation, but also made general statements on the topics of surveillance and domestic politics. In December 2007 she spoke for the first time at the Chaos Communication Congress . Since 2008 she has appeared as a speaker at the Freedom Instead of Fear demonstration and at the re: publica conference to provide information about surveillance by state agencies and private individuals.

In the course of the surveillance revelations by Edward Snowden, Roth expressed himself critical of the federal government's security and domestic policy and accused it of failing to protect the fundamental rights of citizens. She gave numerous interviews on the subject. Several years later, Roth summed up that although the German public had gained “awareness of surveillance issues”, more “Snowden moments” were necessary for greater awareness. She called for greater control of the secret services.

Since 2018 Roth lecture increasingly on digital violence against women ( English tech abuse against women ), especially on the dark area of digital partnership violence , such as " Doxing ", publishing private data against the will of those concerned in order to harm them . Above all, she pleads for greater awareness of the issue at all levels and greater commitment from politicians and platform operators.

Feminist engagement

At the end of 2009, Roth publicly criticized the lack of presence and reception of women in the blogs, which were rapidly emerging at the time, for the first time, including at the re: publica 2010 and 2011. Overall, this led to a debate in German (primarily digital) media as to whether and in what form the internet reproduces patriarchal structures in the real world.

This led to her blog 50 percent - now a database - in which Roth has been collecting figures on the occupation of podiums and conferences since 2012 in order to point out the often strong imbalance between male and female participants on podiums.

Together with the non-profit group Rails Girls , which encourages and motivates women to get involved in programming, Roth initiated the so-called “speaker list” in March 2014. On the website, women from all walks of life can register as experts to encourage panel and conference organizers to invite more women.

Activity in the German Bundestag

From 2014 to 2017 Anne Roth worked as a consultant for the NSA committee of inquiry of the Left Party in the German Bundestag and worked, among other things, with the chairwoman of the parliamentary group in the committee, Martina Renner . She then worked from February to August 2018 as a research assistant to Anke Domscheit-Berg, member of the Bundestag (independent, for Die Linke). Roth has been the network policy officer for the Die Linke parliamentary group since September 2018.

Private

Anne Roth lives in Berlin with her partner Andrej Holm and their two children.

Appearances and publications

Anne Roth is the author of numerous publications, she writes irregularly for sites such as Freitag.de, Netzpolitik.org and Zeit Online, previously for the blogs of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and the New Germany. As a speaker, she spoke at numerous events such as the CCC Congress, re: publica, Elevate, Computers, Freedom and Piracy and Transmediale. Roth is regularly interviewed as an expert on network policy issues in German media.

Web links

Commons : Anne Roth  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Anne Roth: About. In: annalist.noblogs.org. Retrieved January 29, 2020 .
  2. ^ Anne Roth: 20 Years of Indymedia - Another Internet seemed possible. In: Rosalux. Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, November 24, 2019, accessed on January 29, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Anne Roth. Elevate Festival 2013, 2013, accessed January 29, 2020 .
  4. ↑ How do you become a terrorist? Content of the construct of the §129 (a) procedure. In: einstellung.so36.net. September 26, 2007, accessed January 29, 2020 .
  5. ^ A b Anne Roth: Articles in the category "Monitoring in everyday life" in Anne Roth's blog. In: annalist.noblogs.org. Retrieved January 29, 2020 .
  6. ^ Anne Roth: What is terrorism? And who is terrorizing whom? (Video) In: events.ccc.de. 24C3, December 27, 2017, accessed January 29, 2020 .
  7. ↑ 2011 census: census in secret | Sheets for German and international politics. Retrieved January 9, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Angela Gruber: The anger of the monitored grows. In: Zeit Online. September 7, 2013, accessed January 29, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Vera Linß, Dennis Kogel: Netzaktivistin Anne Roth - We need new "Snowden moments". In: broadband. Deutschlandfunk Kultur, September 21, 2019, accessed on January 29, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Martín Steinhagen: "Digital violence affects everyone". In: fr.de. Frankfurter Rundschau, January 29, 2019, accessed on January 29, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Katrin Heise: Social climate - what to do against hatred and agitation on the net? In: In conversation. Deutschlandfunk Kultur, November 2, 2019, accessed on January 29, 2020 .
  12. ↑ 'Suddenly you have hundreds of hateful comments on a tweet'. In: Hilfetelefon.de. Federal Ministry for Family and Civil Society Tasks, 2019, accessed on January 29, 2020 .
  13. ^ Anne Roth: Day and night in cyber parks. In: Zeit Online. October 6, 2017, accessed January 29, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Opinion maker : A blogger. (Video) In: dctp.tv. 2010, accessed January 25, 2020 .
  15. ^ Re: publica 2010 - The opposite sex: Sexism on the Internet. (Video) In: Youtube.com. re: publica, April 15, 2010, accessed January 25, 2020 .
  16. ↑ Cyberfeminists and Girls on Web - A Generational Talk. In: 11.re-publica.de. re: publica, April 15, 2011, accessed January 25, 2020 .
  17. ↑ Philippa Schindler: List of female speakers launched - gender ratio among speakers is unbalanced. Interview with the network activist Anne Roth. In: AVIVA-Berlin .de. March 9, 2014, accessed May 1, 2020 .
  18. ↑ Via the speaker list. In: speakerinnen.org. Retrieved September 27, 2014 .
  19. ↑ Oliver Leistert: The argument therefore shifts again and again to the question: who controls whom? (PDF) In: Diaphanes.net. 2015, accessed January 29, 2020 .
  20. ^ Anne Roth: Digital violence: day and night in cyber parks . In: The time . October 6, 2017, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed January 9, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Roth, Anne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German blogger and activist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century