Bijan Kaffenberger

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Bijan Kaffenberger (born May 25, 1989 in Darmstadt ) is a German politician ( SPD ), economist , author and YouTuber .

education and profession

Kaffenberger attended the Edith Stein School in Darmstadt and graduated from high school in 2008. He then studied economics at the Goethe University in Frankfurt . After completing his bachelor's degree in 2012, he studied the master's program in International Economics and Economic Policy and completed it in 2015 with his thesis with Reint E. Gropp . Then Kaffenberger began a doctoral degree at the Chair of Banking Management with Mark Wahrenburg at the Goethe University in Frankfurt.

From January 2016 until his election to the Hessian state parliament, he worked as a consultant for broadband expansion and digitization in the Thuringian Ministry of Economics, Science and Digital Society .

Television and youtube

Kaffenberger has had Tourette's syndrome since he was six . On this subject, he was seen in various television and YouTube formats, including a. with Eckart von Hirschhausen at Hirschhausen's Quiz des Menschen , 37 degrees , at Aktion Mensch , with Fabian Siegismund at Bottle Bros and SpiegelTV . It was part of the series “Ask a cliché” from hyperbole.tv, a video network that won the 2015 Grimme Online Award . “Ask a cliché” was presented as a video column in the Süddeutsche Zeitung , among others . As part of the youth broadcaster Funk , he moderated the Tourettikette format , produced by hyperbole.tv , in which he asked viewers questions on topics, etc. with a lot of irony and wit. a. answered from politics, career and love. The newspaper Die Welt referred to him in this context as a “Muppet under heavy current”.

politics

Kaffenberger has been a member of the SPD since 2008. Among other things, he was a member of the district board of Jusos Hessen-Süd and deputy state chairman of Jusos Hessen for several years . In 2011 he was elected to the community council in Roßdorf and has been a member of the district council of the Darmstadt-Dieburg district since 2016 . In November 2017, he ran for the Federal Jusos Congress as deputy to the newly elected chairman Kevin Kühnert .

In the Hessian state elections in 2018 he ran in constituency 50 (Darmstadt II) and won the direct mandate there with 28.3% of the first votes. In the state parliament, he is a member of the digital and data protection committee and the sub-committee for financial and administrative control.

Kaffenberger is also a member of the administrative committee at the Darmstadt State Theater .

Others

Kaffenberger is a member of the Netzwerk Plurale Ökonomik eV and is one of the founding members of the Frankfurt regional group at the Goethe University, which advocates a greater variety of ideas with regard to economic schools of thought beyond the neoclassical model .

Among other things, he was part of the supporting program of the Lichter Filmfest Frankfurt International as the group's spokesman in 2015 . As part of the Z2X Festival of Zeit Online's new visionaries , he appeared in Leipzig as a guest speaker and was part of the festival program in Berlin, where u. a. Also Jan Böhmermann occurred. In 2018 he appeared as a guest speaker at the joint annual conference of the Tourette-Gesellschaft Deutschland eV, ADHS Deutschland eV and Aspies eV.

In January 2019 his book What do politicians actually do professionally? Questions to those up there at Rowohlt Verlag .

Since the premiere on April 11, 2019, Kaffenberger has been playing in the play Chinchilla Arschloch, waswas , a co-production by Rimini Protokoll , Schauspiel Frankfurt and the Künstlerhaus Mousonturm , which was invited to the Berlin Theatertreffen in 2020 . The radio play of the same name, in which he also participated, won the ARD German Radio Play Prize in 2019 .

Web links

Commons : Bijan Kaffenberger  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Echo Newspapers GmbH: Here are tips with tics . ( echo-online.de [accessed on July 26, 2018]).
  2. ↑ Economist, politician and enlightener - News from the Goethe University Frankfurt. Retrieved on July 26, 2018 (German).
  3. ↑ Through life with tics and clips . ( tlz.de [accessed on July 26, 2018]).
  4. ↑ Eckart von Hirschhausen meets Bijan Kaffenberger. May 12, 2017. Retrieved July 26, 2018 .
  5. ↑ We think differently. Retrieved February 3, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Aktion Mensch: Just ask me: How is life with Tourette? (Audio description). October 20, 2017. Retrieved October 12, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Battle Bros: Tourette Hot Chili Peppers: Bottle Bros II with Bijan! December 7, 2016, accessed October 12, 2018 .
  8. ^ SPD politician with Tourette syndrome. Spiegel TV GmbH, accessed on July 26, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Ask a cliché Archives. Retrieved July 26, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Süddeutsche de GmbH, Munich Germany: Do you have problems with sex? Retrieved July 26, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Tourettikette. Retrieved October 12, 2018 .
  12. ↑ Antje Hildebrandt: Jugendkanal Funk: Desperate attempt by ARD and ZDF. Die Welt, October 10, 2016, accessed July 26, 2018 .
  13. ^ Bijan Kaffenberger. Rowohlt, accessed September 3, 2018 .
  14. ↑ Harnischfeger on the Hesse level. In: Echo-Online. November 22, 2017. Retrieved September 3, 2018 .
  15. ↑ Preliminary final result: list of winners in the constituencies. In: Spiegel Online . October 29, 2018, accessed October 29, 2018 .
  16. ↑ Bijan Kaffenberger | Hessian state parliament. Retrieved May 17, 2019 .
  17. ↑ Economist, politician and enlightener. In: Goethe University Online. August 1, 2017, accessed September 3, 2018 .
  18. ^ Money Island - AGORA Island. In: lichter-filmfest.de. Retrieved September 3, 2018 .
  19. ↑ Bijan Kaffenberger at Z2X³: "Participation must be fought for". (Video, 4:39 minutes) In: Zeit Online . April 21, 2017. Retrieved September 3, 2018 .
  20. ↑ Zeit Online is again organizing a festival for “2X year olds”. In: Zeit Online. June 17, 2017, accessed September 3, 2018 .
  21. ↑ Invitation to the joint annual meeting of the Tourette Society Germany eV with ADHD Germany eV and Aspies eV - People in the Autism Spectrum. (pdf, 555 kB) German Society for Neurology , May 12, 2018, accessed on October 12, 2018 .
  22. ↑ Kaffenberger, What do politicians actually do for a living? (Paperback). Rowohlt, accessed October 12, 2018 .
  23. ^ Judith von Sternburg: I blow up every performance. In: Frankfurter Rundschau . Retrieved April 13, 2019 .
  24. ↑ "Chinchilla Arschloch, waswas" - German radio play award goes to the makers of a play about Tourette's syndrome. Retrieved on November 19, 2019 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Kaffenberger, Bijan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German YouTuber
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Darmstadt