Birsel Lemke

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Birsel Lemke (* 4. July 1950 in Istanbul as birsel Altin ) is a Turkish political scientist and human rights activist.

Life

From 1975 to 1985 she lived in Germany. From 1987 to 1990 she was a member of the Greens in Turkey , in 1990 she founded the citizens' initiative HAYIR (“no”) against gold mining projects on the Turkish Aegean coast . Under the motto "Olives are our gold", the citizens' initiative HAYIR protested against the destruction of the millennia-old cultural landscape.

Birsel Lemke was awarded the Right Livelihood Award (Alternative Nobel Prize) in 2000 for her “long-lasting struggle to protect her country from destruction through the mining of gold using hydrogen cyanide ”.

Birsel Lemke is married to Jochen Lemke, with whom she runs the Club Orient Hotel Resort in Burhaniye . The actress Ayşe Romey is their daughter.

Esra controversy

The distribution of the key novel Esra (2003) by Maxim Biller , which contains biographical details about Lemke and Romey, was prohibited by a court because Romey was able to enforce her injunction . On February 13, 2008, the Munich Regional Court I sentenced the author and the publishing house Kiepenheuer & Witsch , who published the book, to pay his former girlfriend Ayşe Romey € 50,000 in compensation. This decision was overturned by the BGH in November 2009. As a result, the book remains banned, but the author and the publisher do not have to pay pain and suffering.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birsel Lemke , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 01/2004 of December 22, 2003, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
  2. ↑ Kerry Walters, Robin Jarrell: Blessed Peacemakers. 365 Extraordinary People Who Changed the World. Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2013, ISBN 978-1-60899-248-5 , p. 183.
  3. ↑ Away from the tourist crowds , werder-kurier.de of November 7, 2015
  4. ^ Judgment of the Federal Court of Justice of June 21, 2005, Az. VI ZR 122/04
  5. ^ Order of the Federal Constitutional Court of June 13, 2007, Az. 1 BvR 1783/05
  6. ^ LG Munich I: compensation for pain and suffering for "Esra" , beck aktuell, February 14, 2008.
  7. ↑ Maxim Biller does not have to pay any compensation for pain and suffering . on: Spiegel Online. November 24, 2009.

Web links

  • Biography , The Right Livelihood Award, 2000 (English)
personal data
SURNAME Lemke, Birsel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Romey, Birsel (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish environmentalist
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Istanbul