Anselm Lenz

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Anselm Lenz (born 1980 in Hamburg ) is a German dramaturge , writer and journalist . He is a co-founder of the Haus Bartleby association and co-organizer of protests against state corona protection measures .

life and work

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Lenz was a marine, studied cultural studies , art history and, for a time, legal theory . At the same time he was a half-time worker in metal processing. He has been working as a dramaturge since 2006. He dealt with political and performative theater forms and has supervised productions in Hamburg, Vienna, Braunschweig and Berlin. At the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, he was wearing as house playwright responsible for the staging of the scene series of explosion as well as the Hamburg staging of directors Volker extinguishing and Alexander Riemenschneider . For this purpose he manufactured u. a. the new translation and dramatization of John Steinbeck's Von Mäusen und Menschen , published by the Munich theater publisher. The production received the Rolf Mares Prize in 2010.

The production Marat, what happened to our revolution? (based on Peter Weiss' Marat / Sade ), which brought speaking choirs to the professional ensemble after interviews about the social situation, was invited to the Theatertreffen at the Berlin Festival as the best production by the Schauspielhaus Hamburg . At the Theaterformen festival he then built a "Choir of 500" with Brunswick citizens for the staging of the Viennese director Claudia Bosse based on Aeschylus ' '' [[The Persians]] ''. A 2010 production at the Junge Schauspielhaus, which Lenz directed together with Johan Heß and Timo Kocielnik, had the programmatic title Don't worry, live. The others can do it too! Lenz dramatized and commented on the well-known non-fiction book by Dale Carnegie .

From 2010 to 2012 he produced the film game Taxi Altona together with Sarah Drath . He was a founding member of the Bar Golem at the Hamburg fish market , for which he wrote the weekly literary newsletter Golem Cogitationes . Dealing with the drinking habits of city dwellers also resulted in the volume Das Ende der Absthaltsamkeit ( The End of Abstinence) in 2013 - edited together with Alvaro Rodrigo Piña Otey .

He lives and works in Hamburg and Berlin. 2014 he founded together with Alix Faßmann and Jörg Petzold in Neukölln the house Bartleby eV , a center for career refusal. In 2015 he published the project the book Sag Alles ab! with a plea for a lifelong general strike, a programmatic anthology on the critique of work. In 2016 he organized with Haus Bartleby in cooperation with brut Wien , the Club of Rome , Wiener Passagen Verlag and the dramaturge Hendrik Sodenkamp - in Vienna - The Capitalism Tribunal , a free theater project in which specific cases were indicted and negotiated. The series of events was broadcast in German and English via a live stream on the Internet and is accompanied by a book publication by Passagen Verlag.

Since the Capitalism Tribunal was nominated for the Nestroy Theater Prize in 2016, Lenz has been one of around 200 Nestroy Academicians for life. The publishing house Edition Nautilus commissioned him with the foreword for the new translation of Oscar Wilde's The Soul of Man under Socialism . With regard to Wilde's work and the early socialists of the 18th and 19th centuries, Lenz presented an essayistic program in the process of elimination under the title The Koran of Bartleby - no book was ever written by a god, except this one before. Lenz puts the struggle for the achievements of the Enlightenment and their completion in the foreground.

As a journalist, he wrote for magazines and for the daily newspapers taz , Die Welt and Junge Welt , in each of which he published under different pseudonyms . After the end of the capitalism tribunal, Lenz worked for the young world for a year as an editor in the domestic department. a. during the protests against the policy of the G-20 summit in Hamburg . He also revealed for the feature pages reporting during the crisis phase (2016-2018) of the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxembourg-Platz from Berlin.

Hygiene demonstrations in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic

During the COVID-19 - pandemic in Germany organized Lenz in 2020 along with Hendrik Sodenkamp and activist Bathsheba N'Diaye the so-called hygiene demos on the Rosa Luxembourg Platz in Berlin. According to Erik Peter in a taz article, these are visited by a “scene of conspiracy theorists”. The journalists Julius Betschka and Christoph Kluge described these events in the Tagesspiegel as a " cross-front demonstration ". The Bartleby house and the head of the Berliner Volksbühne, Klaus Dörr, distanced themselves from Lenz after the demonstrations began. Peter Laudenbach from the taz wrote: “In the past, as a cultural company self-marketer, he pretended to be a political activist. Today he arrived at the opposite: He would like to be part of a Volksbühne he imagined and make himself a useful idiot for the right-wing extremists who visit his demonstration. ”At demonstrations on May 1st and August 29th, 2020, Lenz was taken away by the police briefly arrested.

Lenz is the author of the Rubikon blog and co-editor of the protest newspaper Democratic Resistance , which is distributed at demonstrations against the state's corona protection measures. In the aftermath of the demonstration "The End of the Pandemic - Freedom Day", in which, according to media and police reports, around 20,000 people took part, the newspaper distributed 1.3 million participants. On the website of the newspaper thereupon a " lying reporting of the synchronized system and corporate press " was alleged.

Lenz sees the Corona regulations as the "largest and most comprehensive attack on human rights since 1945" and sees an "attack on our constitution". When he was arrested on May 1, 2020, he relied on Article 20 paragraph 4 of the Basic Law . The political scientist Florian Hartleb sees the appeal to this article of the Basic Law as a misuse. Lenz's resistance is directed "against state sovereignty," said Hartleb. In an interview with Ken Jebsen , referring to the COVID-19 pandemic, Lenz claimed that the state "has allied itself with pharmaceutical and digital companies to abolish democracy". The "collapse of financial market capitalism as we knew it" is associated with the corona crisis. With reference to the SARS-CoV-2 virus, Lenz speaks on Deutschlandfunk of a “fanatical exaggeration of the danger of the virus”. The virus is "not exceptionally dangerous". Lenz refuses to wear mouth and nose protection , stating that masks are "proven to be completely useless [...] and even harmful [...]". The virus would "fly through this mask like a football through a barn door". On Deutschlandfunk four hours after the interview there was the article Corona and the demonstrations - classification of the interview with Anselm Lenz .

Publications as editor

Lenz and Haintz in Friedrichsau, 2020
  • (Ed.), Together with Alvaro Rodrigo Piña Otey: The end of abstinence. About bars, cocktails, self-empowerment and the beauty of decline. Edition Nautilus 2013, 272 pages. ISBN 978-3-89401-774-3 .
  • (Ed.), Together with Alix Faßmann , Jörg Petzold , Patrick Spät : Cancel everything! Appeals for a lifelong general strike. Bartleby House, Edition Nautilus 2015, 153 pages. ISBN 978-3-89401-824-5 .
  • (Ed.), Together with Alix Faßmann , Hendrik Sodenkamp, ​​Haus Bartleby: Das Kapitalismustribunal. On the Revolution of Economic Rights (The Red Book). Passagen Verlag 2016, 160 pages, ISBN 978-3-7092-0220-3 .

Web links

Commons : Anselm Lenz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kultur-Server Hamburg: Junge Schauspielhaus , May, June and July two thousand and ten, accessed on May 7, 2016.
  2. ^ Film screening: "Taxi Altona" with discussion and final party. Retrieved April 16, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Janny Schulte: Golem Hamburg - place of cultivated booze and serious conversation , Groupon Guide Hamburg, February 13, 2015, accessed on May 7, 2016.
  4. ↑ CASE: Anselm Lenz ( Memento of the original dated May 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fall-magazin.com archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed May 7, 2016.
  5. ↑ Contraste , The Monthly Newspaper for Self-Organization: Career Refusal Center Haus Bartleby , accessed on May 7, 2016.
  6. ^ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung : On to the general strike - A utopia without a target group , December 14, 2015, accessed on May 7, 2016.
  7. ↑ Haus Bartleby: The Capitalism Tribunal ( Memento of the original from May 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Wednesday 4th to Tuesday 10th May 2016, accessed on 7 May 2016.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / capitalismtribunal.org
  8. ↑ Anselm Lenz, in: Oscar Wilde: The soul of man in socialism: The Koran of Bartleby - no book was ever written by a god, except this one . In: utopias for hand and head . Edition Nautilus, Hamburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-96054-041-0 .
  9. ↑ Anselm Lenz: A Menetekel. In: young world. June 28, 2017. Retrieved April 20, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Erik Peter: Corona and conspiracy theorists: With the Basic Law against the mind . In: The daily newspaper: taz . March 31, 2020, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed April 26, 2020]).
  11. ↑ That's behind the cross-front demonstration in Berlin , Der Tagesspiegel , April 18, 2020
  12. ↑ Julius Betschka: Left counter-protest against the “hygiene demonstration” in Berlin. Coronavirus and conspiracy theories. Der Tagesspiegel, April 24, 2020, accessed on April 30, 2020 .
  13. ↑ a b Christoph Kluge: Conspiracy theories on the coronavirus - and a dispute about Bill Gates. “Hygiene demo” on May 1st. Tagesspiegel.de , May 1, 2020, accessed on May 1, 2020 .
  14. ^ Peter Laudenbach: self-marketer Anselm Lenz: aluminum hats on Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz. In: taz. May 7, 2020, accessed May 8, 2020 .
  15. ↑ a b Bernd Oswald: #Faktenfuchs: How the term "resistance" is misused. Bayerischer Rundfunk , June 27, 2020, accessed on August 15, 2020 .
  16. ↑ dpa / epd / gub / jr / sebe / lep / mre / cwu: Corona-Demo Berlin: 300-400 people occupied Reichstag stairs . In: welt.de . August 30, 2020, accessed August 30, 2020 .
  17. ↑ Joana Lehner: Security authorities warn of Russian propaganda in the Corona crisis - but see no direct influence on recent demos. businessinsider.de , August 5, 2020, accessed on August 15, 2020 .
  18. ↑ Sebastian Engelbrecht: Washing hands is not a civic duty. Deutschlandfunk Kultur , June 5, 2020, accessed on August 15, 2020 .
  19. ↑ Cornelie Barthelme: Who is behind the anti-Covid demo in Germany. The IT entrepreneur Michael Ballweg sees a "dictatorship" at work in Berlin. DerStandard.de , August 3, 2020, accessed on August 15, 2020 .
  20. ↑ Heated debate about corona measures. Deutschlandfunk , August 9, 2020, accessed on August 15, 2020 .
  21. ↑ Corona and the demonstrations - classification of the interview with Anselm Lenz , interview with Christina Sartori, 6:06 minutes, Deutschlandfunk August 8, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Lenz, Anselm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dramaturge, writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg