Bioderman

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Since the 1990s, German citizens without a migration background have been referred to as bio- German in individual districts . The word alludes to a distinction between biological and cultural belonging to Germany. It was initially used by people with a migrant background as a joking description from others, but has been reinterpreted as a positive self-description or as a Geusen word , especially in the right-wing spectrum since the 2010s .

history

The German-Turkish cartoonist Muhsin Omurca first used the term “Bio-German” in a cartoon in the taz in 1996 . In it a man says to his neighbor with a black mustache and a tea glass: “The difference between you and me is Hüsnü: You are a faked German! Forgery! And I ... I am an original! An organic German ”. The Turkish-born Green politician Cem Özdemir has been using the word since the 2000s . Özdemir had attended an Omurca event in Stuttgart and announced that it would adopt the term. In various speeches from 2009 Özdemir argued that there should be no difference between “bio-Germans” without a migration background and only “passport Germans”. The word was then used in the left spectrum as an ironic self-description. The decisive factor was the association of the prefix bio with an ecologically conscious lifestyle, which is particularly cultivated in an urban milieu without a migration background.

Since the 2010s the word in the right spectrum has been used as an unironic self-description. For the poll for the bad word of the year 2016, “Biodeutscher / biodeutsch” landed on the list of the ten most frequent entries, but did not meet the jury's criteria. In 2017, AfD politician Ralph Weber called on Facebook that “'Biodeutsche' with two German parents and four German grandparents” should work to ensure that “our homeland will still be shaped and shaped by a German dominant culture in 30 years ”. Weber concluded with the slogan: "Germany for the Germans". After reporting from the Nordkurier , Weber changed his entry and deleted several of the formulations quoted by the Nordkurier. Weber was later reprimanded by the AfD for the formulation. In 2019, Michael Rasch, business correspondent for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung in Frankfurt, wrote in an article that "the so-called organic Germans, i.e. Germans without a migration background" no longer make up the absolute majority of the population in many cities, which leads to uncertainty. He used the hashtag #biodeutsche on Twitter . After protests, the NZZ deleted the term from the article.

Variants of use

The Iranian-born Green politician Omid Nouripour jokingly uses the term in his book Kleines Lexikon für MiMiMis und Bio-Germans (2014). On the contrary, he defines “fellow citizens with a migration background” (“MiMiMi”). The SPD politician and former district mayor of Berlin-Neukölln Heinz Buschkowsky uses the word “biodeutsch” in his book Die Other Gesellschaft (2014) in quotation marks to identify people without a migration background. The Moroccan-born journalist Mohamed Amjahid uses the term Biodeutsche in his book Unter Weißen (2017) consistently and without quotation marks to illustrate their privileges to people without a migration background. The word achieved a frequency class HK19.

See also

Individual evidence

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  10. Word: biodeutsch Number: 44 Rank: 357,342 Frequency class: 19. Accessed on March 16, 2020.