Daniel Strauss

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Daniel Strauss (* 1965 ) pioneered the civil rights movement of Sinti and Roma in Germany. Strauss is an association official in various institutions.

Life

Daniel Strauss was born in 1965 in the Hessian Lahn-Dill district as one of nine children. His father Heinz Strauss survived a. a. the concentration and extermination camps Auschwitz and Buchenwald . His mother Maria Strauss survived National Socialism and the liberation from the forced camp "Frankfurt-Dieselstrasse". His two oldest brothers, Adam and Georg, are co-initiators of the Sinti and Roma civil rights movement in Germany together with Romani Rose .

During his childhood and youth he was involved in his parents' showman business. As a result of the seasonal showman activity, which usually lasted from April to November, Daniel Strauss attended around 200 schools during his ten years at school. He completed an apprenticeship as a real estate agent and from then on worked as a self-employed person. Daniel Strauss is married with three children and two grandchildren. In the course of the civil rights movement of the Sinti and Roma that emerged in the 1970s, he was part of the first generation of the civil rights movement as a teenager. The memorandum published in 1979 by the Association of German Sinti, the International Romani Union and the Society for Threatened Peoples is not the only role model that Daniel Strauss guides in his work.

In 2012 he carried out the first educational study initiated and carried out by the minority itself, one of the few studies that has so far existed on this topic. On November 28, 2013, Daniel Strauss signed the state treaty negotiated between the state of Baden-Württemberg and the Association of German Sinti and Roma, State Association of Baden-Württemberg . Part of the treaty was the establishment of a council for the affairs of German Sinti and Roma, in which representatives of the country (parties, ministries, municipalities) and representatives of the minority meet to discuss matters, discuss common tasks and goals of the treaty and make appropriate recommendations to be addressed to the state government and parliament. With this, Strauss put the protection and promotion of the minority on a reliable, legal and financial basis.

On April 25, 2015, he was awarded the Order of Merit of the State of Baden-Württemberg .

Activities and functions

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Daniel Strauss has been involved in civil rights work since 1983. The focus of his activity is the establishment, development and institutionalization of minority institutions and NGOs.

  • 1983 to 1995 board member of the Association of German Sinti and Roma, State Association of Hesse
  • 1987 to 1994 collaboration in the concept development and implementation of the Documentation and Cultural Center of German Sinti and Roma in Heidelberg and head of the dialogue department.
  • 1994 to 1996 project manager "Teaching materials on the subject of antiziganism, the past and present of German Sinti and Roma in Germany" at the Fritz Bauer Institute, Frankfurt
  • From 1995 Chairman of the Board of the Association of German Sinti and Roma, Baden-Württemberg State Association
  • 1995 to 2014 deputy chairman of the Documentation and Cultural Center of German Sinti and Roma, Heidelberg. Board member from 2014
  • From 1995 member of the board of the Central Council of German Sinti and Roma, Heidelberg
  • 1996 to 2000 co-founder and head of the National Minorities Office in Marburg (Hessian State Institute for Education)
  • 1998 to 2002 co-founder and chairman of the board of the Society for Antiziganism Research eV Marburg. From 2002 Deputy CEO
  • 2000 founder of the educational advice center of the Association of German Sinti and Roma
  • From 2007 co-founder and managing director of the federal institution RomnoKher gGmbH, a house for culture, education and antiziganism research in Weinheim
  • 2012 co-founder and chairman of the board of the Hildegard Lagrenne Foundation (HLS), for inclusion and equal participation of Sinti and Roma, Mannheim
  • 2013 Contractual partner of the first international treaty with legal status. Between the Association of German Sinti and Roma, the Baden-Württemberg State Association and the State of Baden-Württemberg
  • 2014 founder of the Kulturhaus RomnoKher Baden-Württemberg in Mannheim
  • 2014 Co-development of the project "Permit that we are! A national minority introduces itself", which is regularly carried out at various schools in Baden-Württemberg to this day
  • 2015 Institutionalization of the RomnoKher-Berlin in the Aufbauhaus on Moritzplatz
  • 2017 Foundation and chairmanship of the Federal Working Group RomnoKher Deutschland eV

Publications (selection)

  • 2002 Author and editor, suggestions for teaching: Antiziganism, the past and present of German Sinti and Roma. Edited by the State Institute for Education and Teaching Stuttgart
  • 2011 Article in APuZ (From Politics and Contemporary History) on May 30th, 2011 edition 22-23/2011. On the educational situation of German Sinti and Roma
  • 2014 Specialist articles in Xenos project report, 1. "Responsibility for education concerns everyone: Politics, civil society and Sinti and Roma" and 2. Recommendations for action for better participation and inclusion of Sinti and Roma in Germany with a focus on education and employment
as editor
  • The Sinti-Roma storytelling . Documentation and Culture Center Dt. Sinti and Roma, Heidelberg 1992, ISBN 3-929446-00-6 .
  • Wilhelm Solms: "Gypsy Pictures" in German-language literature . Documentation and Culture Center Dt. Sinti and Roma, Heidelberg 1995, ISBN 3-929446-04-9 .
  • Co-editor, “Between Romanticization and Racism” - 600 Years in Germany. A handout on the history, culture and present of the German Sinti and Roma, 1998.
  • together with Ilona Lagrene (interviews): “… got away” reports and testimonies from Sinti who survived the Nazi persecution . Philo, Berlin / Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-8257-0172-7 .
  • together with Bertram Jenisch (Ed.): “60 years by now, repressed, forgotten?” Concentration camp deportation of the Herbolzheim Sinti family Spindler . City of Herbolzheim, Herbolzheim 2003, ISBN 3-00-010958-7 .
  • together with Udo Engbring-Romang (Ed.): Enlightenment and antiziganism contributions to antiziganism research. Volume 1 . I-Verb.de, Seeheim 2003, ISBN 3-9808800-0-1 .
  • together with Michail Krausnick: From Antiziganism to Gypsy Tales, information on Sinti and Roma . Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2009, ISBN 978-3-8370-5729-4 .
  • together with Michail Krausnick, Vito von Eichborn (ed.): From Deportation to Gypsy Tales, The Handbook on Sinti and Roma in Germany . Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2012, ISBN 978-3-8448-2996-9 .
  • as co-editor: Antiziganism in European manifestations, effects, counter-strategies. 2012.
  • As co-editor: Supplementary report to the report of the Federal Republic of Germany to the European Commission on the EU framework for the national strategy for the integration of the Roma up to 2020 . 2012.
  • Study on the current educational situation of German Sinti and Roma . I-Verb.de, Marburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-939762-10-2 .
  • Study on the Current Education Situation of German Sinti and Roma . I-Verb.de, Marburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-939762-11-9 (English).
  • Markus End, Tom Koenigs, Andreas Salm, Daniel Strauss: Report on Antiziganism - On the state of research and counter-strategies . I-Verb.de, Marburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-939762-14-0 .
Exhibitions
  • 2000 Publication of the traveling exhibition "... got away, farewell without return" 40 panels
  • 2009 Editor and co-author, permanent exhibition: “Typically Gypsy” - Myths and Realities in RomnoKher, Mannheim
  • 2010 Editor and co-author, traveling exhibition: “Typisch Gypsy” - Myth and Realities
  • 2015 Editor and co-author, traveling exhibition (comic): Realities of life for Sinti and Roma
  • 2016 Editor and co-author, permanent and traveling exhibition: Mari Parmissi - Our story

Technical articles (selection)

  • 1992 "Protects Sinti and Roma from Gypsy literature".
  • 1995 A critical revision of published fairy tales, forewords, publisher announcements and reviews
  • 1998 “Between Romanticization and Racism” - 600 years in Germany.
  • 1998 "You really have to turn off all humanity ..." On the post-war history of the Sinti and Roma in Germany
  • 2000 "Farewell Without Return"
  • 2003 "Himmler's Genocide Warrant"
  • 2003 On the post-war history of the Sinti and Roma in Germany
  • 2008 "Faces of Prejudice"
  • 2008 The Difficulty of Remembrance
  • 2011 "Failure of an education system - On the educational situation of German Sinti and Roma"
  • 2014 "Responsibility for education concerns everyone: politics, civil society and Sinti and Roma"
  • 2014 Recommendations for action for better participation and inclusion of Sinti and Roma in Germany with a focus on education and employment

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b VDSR BW: The Association. Retrieved February 21, 2018 .
  2. ^ Ministry of State: State treaty signed with Sinti and Roma. Retrieved February 21, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Super User: Home. Accessed March 1, 2018 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Strauss, Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil rights activist for Sinti and Roma
DATE OF BIRTH 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Lahn-Dill district