Blue daffodil

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Blue daffodil
Blue daffodil logo
language German
publishing company Journalism and Youth Culture Association Chemnitz eV
First edition September 1, 2004
Frequency of publication 1–3 issues per year
Editor-in-chief Felix Menzel
Web link www.blauenarzisse.de

The Blue Narcissus (BN) was a youth magazine from Chemnitz . It has been published since 2004 and has been supplemented by a website since 2006. Since 2010 the Blue Narcissus has only been available as a website. The founder and editor-in-chief is the publicist Felix Menzel . The magazine is devoted to both youth and political issues. According to its own statement, it takes a conservative stance. Political science regards the BN as belonging to the New Right .

Manifestations

School newspaper

The Blue Narcissus was first published in September 2004 as a school newspaper for all of Chemnitz. It appears irregularly with one to three issues per year. According to publisher Felix Menzel, the Blue Narcissus initially deliberately avoided political issues and dedicated itself exclusively to culture. In the meantime, however, a large part of the magazine consists of articles on society and politics.

According to Menzel, the name is composed of the “ blue flower ” of romanticism , as a symbol “for unadulterated freedom and the search for the beautiful”, as well as the narcissus , which should emphasize the focus on the individual. By February 2010 a total of twelve issues appeared at irregular intervals. Since then, the magazine has only been published online.

Online magazine

The sale of the blue narcissus caused resistance at some Chemnitz grammar schools . The Johannes-Kepler-Gymnasium , the Johann-Wolfgang-von-Goethe-Gymnasium, the Einsiedel-Gymnasium and the Georgius-Agricola-Gymnasium forbade the distribution of the magazine. The Blue Narcissus responded to this with an online offer from March 2006. Under the slogan Read and Act , the Blue Narcissus website offers commentary on politics, society and current affairs as well as reviews and interviews with some of well-known artists, musicians and authors. The offers are subdivided into the categories "Initiation", "Sighted", "Review" and "Sale". Comments can be posted under each post.

The journalism and youth culture Chemnitz eV association , headed by Felix Menzel, has existed since December 2009 . It acts as the publisher of the Blue Narcissus and is designed as a support association . In addition to the publication costs, the income has also been used to finance a part-time position in the editorial department of the magazine since January 2010.

Interviews

The Blue Narcissus gave several public figures interviews. Mathias Brodkorb called the blue narcissus one of Menzel's instruments for “right-wing milieu formation” and explained: “How the JF www.blauenarzisse.de tries, for example, not unsuccessfully, to motivate respected lateral thinkers to interviews and thus to benefit from their symbolic capital.” The interview partners include a. the author Henryk M. Broder , the AfD politician Björn Höcke and the youth representative of the right-wing extremist citizens' movement pro Cologne .

Orientation and content

According to its self-portrayal, the blue narcissus deals “with controversial questions of politics, culture and historiography”. "We report and comment on events in day-to-day politics from a conservative point of view and think about the alternatives to Islamization and foreign infiltration in Europe, the decline of the government system and party clique in Germany." In addition, articles that deal with "right" ( Menzel quote) Occupying the future, giving space. The use of new media is understood not only "as a tool, but also as an invitation to German lawmakers to try out new strategies and approaches in an open-minded manner."

Right-wing extremism researcher Helmut Kellershohn (2009) from the Duisburg Institute for Linguistic and Social Research located the blue narcissus primarily in the ideological proximity of the conservative-subversive campaign around Götz Kubitschek , which in turn was close to Junge Freiheit at the time . The editorial he describes as "colorful mixture bündisch or burschenschaftlich embossed young people". Kellershohn sees it now (2015) firmly anchored in a “ young conservative network”.

Mathias Brodkorb (2010) described the authors of the Blue Narcissus as a "group that has not yet fully outgrown puberty , mainly of young men who are looking for a connection with Junge Freiheit [...] and [the] Institute for State Policy". He saw these efforts as "bad copies" and as "processes of imitation that are not really politically significant."

Martin Gerster and Alexander Geisler (2009) pointed out that the Blue Narcissus displays xenophobic sentiments, for example by criticizing the use of foreign-born football players in national teams, portraying people of Turkish origin as uncivilized and categorically comparing foreigners as perpetrators with Germans only as victims . This scheme will only be broken if it is a question of putting “left-wing” Germans in a bad light.

According to Samuel Salzborn (2015), the magazine, which ostensibly operates on the Internet, serves to “popularize new right ideas”. Right-wing extremism researcher Alexander Häusler (2015) and historian Wolfgang Benz (2015) also attribute the journal to the new right spectrum.

According to Volker Weiß, the magazine positions itself in an anti- universalist and anti-Semitic spirit when it writes that “Jewish organizations” mostly represent “left-wing extremist positions” and “strongly agitate for multiculturalism and against patriots”.

Criticism and controversy

Appearance at JU seminar

In September 2008, Felix Menzel's appearance at a congress of the Hamburger Junge Union (JU) made headlines in July of the same year. Menzel had given a lecture in Hamburg's Ludwig-Erhard-Haus under the motto Strike back with the same weapons and in it presented the procedures and actions of the KSA. Members of the JU Hamburg Mitte then stormed an event of the citizens' initiative “ A school for everyone ” in September , where they bought T-shirts with the inscription “Every child is unique! No to the single school! ”, Which the Blue Narcissus also reported. Thereupon bild.de described Menzel as an “ultra-right fraternity member” and assumed that JU-Mitte chairman Nikolas Haufler was close to right-wing extremism. The taz also criticized the incident.

Thereupon Felix Serrao defended Menzel in the Süddeutsche Zeitung : Neither he nor the blue narcissus are right-wing extremists. The Office for the Protection of the Constitution also stated that it was not watching the blue daffodil for this reason.

Charge of deception

In October 2009 the Austrian band Ja, Panik der Blauen Narzisse gave an interview. After the conversation was published on the magazine's website, Ja, panic frontman Andreas Spechtl accused the magazine of having deceived the band about the political orientation of the Blue Narcissus and publicly distanced himself from it. Albert Koch made similar allegations, who had also given the magazine an interview without, according to his own statement, being aware of the contents. He asked Menzel not to publish the interview, but Menzel refused. He also rejected the accusation of deception and regretted that Koch "does not simply stand by his free word."

Insult to Claudia Roth

In 2010, Felix Menzel gave a lecture at the Bielefeld ideas workshop of the Normannia-Nibelungen fraternity in Bielefeld with the title My Perfect Right Newspaper , which was later published on the Blue Narcissus website, and in which he was the then federal chairman of Bündnis90 / Die Grünen , Offended Claudia Roth . In December 2010, Roth filed a complaint against Menzel and the journalism and youth culture association Chemnitz e. V.

A spokesman for Roth said that the event at which Menzel had appeared had the aim of making right-wing extremist worldviews socially acceptable. He called the incident alarming and said it encouraged Roth in her "determined fight against right-wing extremism , anti-Semitism and xenophobia". Menzel rejected the charge of right-wing extremism. Although he accepts the designation as “new right, right, conservative or right-wing conservative ”, he is not right-wing extremist. The Chemnitz District Court saw the offense of insult by Menzel's statements and sentenced him to a fine in April 2012. The judgment was also upheld by the higher court after an appeal was lodged.

Michel Houellebecq against the use of his name

In February 2015, the French author Michel Houellebecq protested against the use of his name in the context of the 2014 "Michel Houellebecq Youth Culture Prize" announced by the Blue Narcissus . His German publisher DuMont wants to examine legal steps against the naming of the award. Houellebecq said he had not been asked for permission and that he did not want to be politically taken over by the blue daffodil .

Publications

  • Felix Menzel: Political Processes. Claudia Roth and other cases. BN-Impulse, Volume 1. Journalism and Youth Culture Association, Chemnitz 2012, ISBN 978-3-944901-00-8 .
  • Felix Menzel, Philip Stein : Young Europe. Scenarios of upheaval. BN-Impulse, Volume 2. Journalism and Youth Culture Association, Chemnitz 2013, ISBN 978-3-944901-01-5 .

literature

  • Alexander Geisler, Martin Gerster : Football as an extreme sport - the infiltration of popular sport as a strategy of the extreme right. In: Stephan Braun , Alexander Geisler, Martin Gerster (eds.): Strategies of the extreme right. Background - analyzes - answers. VS Verlag, 2009. ISBN 3531159119 , pp. 189-208. Online version
  • Helmut Kellershohn : Resistance and Provocation: Strategic Options in the Environment of the “Institute for State Politics.” In: Stephan Braun, Alexander Geisler, Martin Gerster (eds.): Strategies of the extreme right. Background - analyzes - answers. VS Verlag, 2009. ISBN 3531159119 , pp. 259-289. Online version
  • Cry or fight - www.blaue-narzisse.de. Interview with Felix Menzel. In: Secession 21, December 2007, pp. 32–34. Online as PDF.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alexander Geisler, Martin Gerster: Football as extreme sport - the infiltration of popular sport as a strategy of the extreme right. In: Stephan Braun, Alexander Geisler, Martin Gerster (eds.): Strategies of the extreme right. Background - analyzes - answers. VS Verlag, 2009. ISBN 3531159119 , pp. 193f. Online version
  2. ↑ Benno Hafeneger : The Identitarians. Temporary phenomenon or new movement? In: Expertise for Democracy 1/2014. Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung , 2014, accessed on November 25, 2014 . P. 3 speaks of the "conservative, new-right internet magazine Blaue Narzisse "
  3. ↑ Blue Narcissus: Print Editions. ( Memento from January 17, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) www.blaue-narzisse.de, January 8, 2010. Retrieved on February 4, 2010.
  4. ↑ a b cry or fight - www.blaue-narzisse.de. Interview with Felix Menzel. In: Secession 21, December 2007, pp. 32–34.
  5. ↑ Source: Apabiz: Ökologie von rechts , accessed July 5, 2020.
  6. ↑ Robert Scholz: Officially confirmed: "Blue narcissus is non-profit." Www.endstation-rechts.de, May 19, 2010
  7. ^ Mathias Brodkorb: Open letter to Felix Menzel (Blue Narcissus) . Right end , February 24, 2008.
  8. ^ Mathias Brodkorb : Young Freedom 2.0 - The young conservative project www.blauenarzisse.de . In: Störungsmelder , February 21, 2008.
  9. ↑ Kay Sokolowsky : Muslim enemy . Rotbuch Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86789-083-0 , p. 92.
    Mathias Brodkorb : Young Freedom 2.0 - The Young Conservative Project www.blauenarzisse.de . In: Störungsmelder , February 21, 2008.
    Marc Felix Serrao : "Expropriated Springer!" . sueddeutsche.de, May 17, 2010.
    Fabian Wolff: The angry clown . In: Jüdische Allgemeine , March 22, 2012.
  10. ↑ Achim Pollmeier , Kim Otto , Peter Onneken (Red.): Alternative for Germany - How a party is tilting more and more to the right ( Memento from September 12, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ). Monitor ( ARD ), September 11, 2014.
  11. ↑ Hans Peter Killguss, Jan Schedler: Youth work of the extreme right and the example of PRO KÖLN and PRO NRW . In: Alexander Häusler (Ed.): Right-wing populism as a "citizen movement". Campaigns against Islam and the construction of mosques and communal counter-strategies . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3-531-15919-5 , p. 148.
  12. ↑ Felix Menzel: Imprint of www.blauenarzisse.de. February 2, 2007. Retrieved February 4, 2010.
  13. ↑ Helmut Kellershohn: Resistance and Provocation: Strategic Options in the Environment of the "Institute for State Policy." In: Stephan Braun, Alexander Geisler, Martin Gerster (eds.): Strategies of the extreme right. Background - analyzes - answers. VS Verlag, 2009. ISBN 3531159119 , p. 261.
  14. ^ Helmut Kellershohn : The Institute for State Policy and the Young Conservative Hegemony Project . In: Stephan Braun , Alexander Geisler, Martin Gerster (eds.): Strategies of the extreme right: Backgrounds - Analyzes - Answers . 2nd updated and expanded edition, Springer Fachmedien, Wiesbaden 2015, ISBN 978-3-658-01983-9 , p. 441.
  15. ↑ a b page no longer available , search in web archives: Blitzkrieg-Popkultur: Right online magazine glues indie bands. @1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.on3-radio.de on3 , November 3, 2009. Retrieved February 4, 2010.
  16. ↑ Alexander Geisler, Martin Gerster: Football as extreme sport - the infiltration of popular sport as a strategy of the extreme right. In: Stephan Braun, Alexander Geisler, Martin Gerster (eds.): Strategies of the extreme right. Background - analyzes - answers. VS Verlag, 2009. ISBN 3531159119 , p. 194.
  17. ^ Samuel Salzborn : Right-wing extremism: manifestations and explanatory approaches . 2nd, updated and expanded edition, Nomos (UTB), Baden-Baden 2015, ISBN 978-3-8252-4476-7 , pp. 73 f.
  18. ↑ Alexander Häusler : Decay or Establishment ?. The Alternative for Germany (AfD) as a party of right-wing populism. In: Zeitschrift für Geschichtswwissenschaft 63 (2015) 9, pp. 741–758, here: p. 752.
  19. ↑ Wolfgang Benz : Triumphant discomfort. The political protest of the Pegida movement. In: Zeitschrift für Geschichtswwissenschaft 63 (2015) 9, pp. 759–776, here: p. 766.
  20. ↑ Volker Weiß: The authoritarian revolt. The New Right and the Fall of the West. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2018, p. 225
  21. ↑ Olaf Schiel: How right is the Junge Union? Neo-Nazi at party seminar. bild.de , October 14, 2008. Retrieved January 5, 2010.
  22. ^ Andreas Speit : Advice from right-wing extremists: Young Union becomes creative. taz.de , September 24, 2008. Retrieved February 5, 2010.
  23. ↑ Marc Felix Serrao: “Dispossessed Springer!” ( Memento from March 1, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) sueddeutsche.de, October 19, 2008. Accessed October 5, 2010.
  24. ↑ In conversation with the band "Ja, Panik": "The anger of our generation is so suppressed that it is no longer noticed." ( Memento from October 21, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) www.blauenarzisse.de, 17. October 2009. Retrieved February 5, 2010.
  25. ↑ Hubertus Gärtner: Roth files criminal charges against Menzel. nw-news.de, December 17, 2010. Accessed January 30, 2011.
  26. ^ Fine for insulting Claudia Roth. www.nw-news.de, April 28, 2012. Accessed April 29, 2012.
  27. ^ Right "youth culture award": Michel Houellebecq defends himself against Pegida appropriation , Spiegel article from February 12, 2015