Christian Brandes (Author)

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Christian Brandes at the Leipzig Book Fair 2018

Christian Maria Brandes (* 1981 in Vechta ), artist name Schlecky Silberstein , is a German author , actor and blogger . He runs the blog Schlecky Silberstein (formerly Spiegel Offline ) and is the head author and performer of the online comedy show Bohemian Browser Ballet .

Life

Christian Brandes grew up in Bremen and after school, Abitur and basic military service, took up a degree in economics in Potsdam , which he broke off after completing his intermediate diploma . He then started working as a copywriter for various advertising agencies, while from 2010 he also ran the Spiegel Offline blog under the new name Schlecky Silberstein , in which he collected curiosities from the Internet. In winter 2011 he renamed the blog Schlecky Silberstein . The name goes back to an anecdote from his grandmother, according to which a Mr. Silberstein in the Warsaw ghetto is said to have regularly written humorous sayings and aphorisms on the walls of houses.

Brandes was a comedy writer for various radio and television programs, including the Neo magazine Royale . He hosted the Schlecky Silberstein Radio Show on the Internet radio station DetectorFM . In June 2015 he published the book I can't eat Wurstzipfel about Spleens at Ullstein Verlag . He also became aware of a job advertisement according to which applicants with previous convictions were given preference.

Since 2016 he has been working as the head author of the Bohemian Browser Ballet format , which was commissioned by the media service funk . Well-known works include Lauf, dicke Sau , Das Arier-Reservat , Degentrification and Masters of Germany . The show sees itself as a "left-green thorn in the ass of the revolutionaries".

In March 2018 Schlecky Silberstein published the book Das Internet muss weg a critical examination of the social media age and advertised with the quote “The Internet is the greatest messing machine of all time”. The book advocates the thesis that the biggest problems of the 21st century - from rising rates of depression to online addiction to the renaissance of nationalism - can be traced back exclusively to the Internet.

After a satirical video on the events in Chemnitz in 2018, Brandes' production company received a visit from AfD MP Frank-Christian Hansel , of which the party posted a video on the Internet. Previously, the Berlin AfD had posted a video about the shooting of the satire, which they believed they could uncover as a fake video - despite existing references in the clip to the satirical character . As a result, Brandes said he received “massive anti-Semitic hate comments ” as well as death threats against him online.

Brandes is married and has one son.

Works

Web links

Commons : Schlecky Silberstein  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Radioeins.de, January 16, 2015: Studio guest of the week: Christian Brandes ( Memento of the original from July 1, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.radioeins.de
  2. ^ Re: publica, May 5, 2015: Christian Brandes
  3. ↑ Spiegel.de, May 30, 2015: The blogger Christian Brandes… collects spleens and quirks
  4. ↑ W&V, June 15, 2015: Schlecky Silberstein hires murderers and car thieves
  5. ↑ Advertise & Sell: It's a funk! | W&V. In: www.wuv.de. Retrieved December 16, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Anna Böcker: Satire video "Save the Aryans": Rammeln with Hitler salute . In: The daily newspaper: taz . July 21, 2017, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed September 23, 2017]).
  7. ↑ This video shows you how you can contribute to de-gentrification. Retrieved September 23, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Election campaign with diamond power: “Masters of Germany” video becomes a hit . In: Berliner-Kurier.de . ( berliner-kurier.de [accessed on September 23, 2017]).
  9. ↑ Ole Reissmann, bento: In this game Merkel fights with the " wave of refugees" against her opponents . ( bento.de [accessed on September 23, 2017]).
  10. ↑ Constanze Nauhaus, Felix Hackenbruch: After AfD parody: Anti-Semitic death threats against satirist Schlecky Silberstein. www.tagesspiegel.de, September 19, 2018
  11. ↑ Haiko Prengel: Schlecky Silberstein's best find , welt.de, November 18, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Brandes, Christian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brandes, Christian Maria (full name); Silberstein, Schlecky (stage name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author and blogger
DATE OF BIRTH 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Vechta