Basha Mika

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Bascha Mika at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2017

Barbara "Bascha" Mika (born January 17, 1954 in Komprachcice ) is a German journalist and publicist . From 1998 to 2009 she was editor-in-chief of the taz and from 2014 to 2020 she held the same position at the Frankfurter Rundschau .

Life

Mika was born in Komprachcice , a village near Opole , in 1954 and moved to Aachen with her family in 1959 .

After a bank apprenticeship, Mika graduated from high school. She studied philosophy, German and ethnology in Bonn and Marburg . During her studies, she worked as a freelancer for radio and various newspapers before making journalism her main occupation when she was in her early thirties.

In 1988 Mika took a permanent position in the newsroom of the taz , became a member of the chief editor in 1998 and in 1999 she became the sole editor-in-chief with two deputies. Mika left the paper in mid-July 2009.

Mika's biography about Alice Schwarzer , published in 1998, sparked a public controversy because it depicts an ambivalent psychogram of Schwarzer. While their services to the women's movement are expressly and with admiration, according to Mika, some of Schwarzer's other positions testify to “contempt for women” and “defense against one's own gender” and are thus misogynistic.

Mika has been an honorary professor at the Berlin University of the Arts since 2007 . Until March 2014, she and her partner Carsten Großeholz headed the cultural journalism course .

From April 1, 2014, Mika was editor-in-chief of the Frankfurter Rundschau in a dual leadership with Arnd Festerling . On March 1, 2019, Arnd Festerling was replaced by Thomas Kaspar and on March 31, 2020, Mika resigned from the editor-in-chief.

Memberships

From 2003 to 2009 Mika was a member of the media council of Medienanstalt Berlin-Brandenburg . She is also on the Board of Trustees of Journalists Network . In January 2018 Mika was appointed to the Board of Trustees for the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade .

Awards

Fonts

  • Alice Schwarzer. A critical biography. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1998; Paperback, ibid. 1999, ISBN 3-499-60778-6 .
  • The cowardice of women. Role traps and hostage mentality. A pamphlet against self-deception. Bertelsmann, Munich 2011; Goldmann, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-442-15720-4 .
  • Test of courage. Women and the hellish game of getting older. Bertelsmann, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-570-10170-4 .
  • with Arnd Festerling : freedom. Where our freedom begins and who threatens it. Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2016, ISBN 978-3-95542-238-7 .

Web links

Commons : Bascha Mika  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heik Afheldt: Taz boss Bascha Mika. In: Der Tagesspiegel , March 1, 2007, accessed on November 24, 2014.
  2. ↑ Patrick Schwarz: The Queen is leaving the taz. In: Die Zeit , June 25, 2009, accessed February 15, 2011.
  3. ↑ Bascha Mika leaves the “taz”. In: Spiegel Online , June 25, 2009, accessed April 29, 2020.
  4. ^ Henryk M. Broder : A macho in rock . In: Der Spiegel . No. 12 , 1998, pp. 48-62 ( online ).
  5. ↑ Bascha Mika and Arnd Festerling new tip fr.de, February 19, 2014
  6. ↑ Thomas Kaspar becomes the new FR editor-in-chief fr.de, February 27, 2019
  7. ↑ Bascha Mika is leaving the editor-in-chief of Frankfurter Rundschau fr.de, March 17, 2020
  8. ↑ Bascha Mika on the Board of Trustees of the Peace Prize , deutschlandfunkkultur.de, published and accessed on January 30, 2018
  9. ↑ Andreas Schäfer: Problems in pink - women are to blame. In: Der Tagesspiegel , February 3, 2011 3:15 p.m., accessed on March 30, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Mika, Bascha
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mika, Barbara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH 17th January 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Komprachcice