Bijan Moini

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Bijan Moini (2019)

Bijan Moini (* 1984 near Karlsruhe ) is a German lawyer and writer .

Life

Bijan Moini is a lawyer , political scientist and civil rights activist with German-Iranian roots. He worked as a lawyer for a commercial law firm and today coordinates constitutional complaints of the Society for Freedom Rights . He deals with socio-political issues such as surveillance and data protection , his texts have appeared and others. a. on Spiegel Online and in the FAZ . He lives with his family in Berlin.

His dissertation “State warnings against released offenders” was published in 2013 as a book.

In 2019 he published his first novel, “Der Würfel”, for which he received the Seraph Fantastic Literature Prize in 2020 for the best debut and which was also awarded the German Science Fiction Prize in 2020 for the best German-language novel. In 2020 he published “Save Freedom! A wake-up call in the digital age ”.

Together with Matthias Bäcker , he obtained the judgment of the Federal Constitutional Court on the international-foreign telecommunications investigation of the Federal Intelligence Service on May 19, 2020.

The cube

The novel is set in Germany in the near future; society is dominated by a computer program, the cube, that encompasses all areas. This program is a combination of Facebook , Virtual Reality , Social Credit System and AI . Predictability has become the goal of most people because it increases income and opportunities. A few refuse, including the story's hero Taso Doff , a juggler who tries to fool the system wherever it can. He has incredibly few social points, makes decisions based on random principles so as not to be predictable, and consistently protects his privacy. Then he meets a woman ...

Florian Jung from WDR said:

“Apart from a somewhat predictable love story, the book is exciting, full of ideas and makes the reader think. How many good dystopias because they are already partially reality. "

Publications

  • State warnings against released offenders , Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2013
  • The Cube , Atrium, Zurich 2019, ISBN 978-3-85535-059-9

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Federal Constitutional Court - What is the Federal Intelligence Service allowed to do? Accessed January 17, 2020 (German).
  2. ↑ Federal Constitutional Court - Press - Abroad-Abroad telecommunications intelligence according to the BND Act violates fundamental rights of the Basic Law in its current form. Retrieved May 22, 2020 .
  3. ↑ https://www1.wdr.de/radio/wdr5/sendung/buecher/lesefruechte/der-wuerfel-100.html , accessed on November 24, 2019 - review
personal data
SURNAME Moini, Bijan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Germany