Elmar Wigand

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Elmar Wigand (* 1968 in Cologne ) is a German author , publicist and online media concept developer .

Life

Elmar Wigand studied film with a focus on screenwriting at the International Film School in Cologne .

In 1992 he was one of the co-founders of the Cologne district initiative Antifaschistische Südstadt , which campaigned against xenophobia and right-wing extremism at the local level . In 1993 he was instrumental in the political implementation of an anti-fascist mural by the Aachen mural painter on a bunker wall in Cologne's Elsaßstrasse. The picture deals with a resistance action by the population against a march of the Sturmabteilung through their quarter on March 3, 1933. It was painted over twice by the city administration and renewed by the anti-fascist Südstadt until it was grandfathered through public pressure.

In 1999, Wigand co-founded the Neue Rheinische Zeitung , which was initially published as a print edition as part of the Junge Welt in Cologne ; There he was the editor responsible for the sports and multicultural departments. In the Zeitzeichen series , Wigand and journalist Jannis Skouras produced a radio feature on the 10th anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster , which was broadcast on April 15, 1999.

Together with Werner Rügemer , Wigand and Business Crime Control organized the conference “ArbeitsUnrecht”, which took place on March 14, 2009 in Cologne.

For the Cologne-based association Lobbycontrol , he set up the critical online encyclopedia Lobbypedia , which went online on October 28, 2010.

Activities on the topic of "Union Busting"

Together with the publicist Werner Rügemer , Wigand has been researching “the systematic fight against trade unions, works councils and employees as a professional service” since 2012 in a project funded by the Otto Brenner Foundation .

Since 2012 Wigand responsible editor of blogs arbeitsunrecht.de for documentation and critique of the systematic control of trade unions ( " union busting ") in Germany, which he runs together with Werner Rügemer and Jessica Reisner.

In January 2014 he was one of the founding members of the association aktion ./. Injustice at work - an initiative for democracy in business and companies that organizes solidarity with works councils and trade unionists who have become victims of bullying or bossing as a result of internal conflicts .

Since July 2015 he has been researching the fight against works councils in Germany as a fellow for data journalism of the Rudolf Augstein Foundation at the Correctiv research agency .

As spokesman for aktion./.arbeitunrecht, Wigand worked significantly to establish Friday the 13th as a day of action against harassed employers, horror jobs and lawyers of horror . The format started on March 13, 2015 with protests against the Neupack company and its major customers Milram and Lidl .

Awards

Elmar Wigand won the 2017 taz Panter Prize of the jury with the association Action against Labor Injustice and its PutzfrauenPower campaign .

The Elmar Wigand built and designed Lobbypedia won the Grimme Online Award 2012 Design.

Publications

Book publications

  • Sweat and Detergent not Bread and Roses. Behind the Shiny Surface of London's Financial Industry, Latin Cleaners Struggle for Dignity. [2] In: Dario Azzellini / Michael G. Kraft (eds.): The Class Strikes Back. Self-Organized Workers' Struggles in the Twenty-First Century , Boston 2017, ISSN  1570-1522 .

Journal articles (selection)

Online media (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ TV feature: No Nazis in Cologne's Elsaßstrasse! - A mural is being renewed on the bunker wall, 10 min., Rep., KAOS, 1993 (X), kaos-archiv.de , accessed Aug. 26, 2014.
  2. ↑ Jannis Skouras, Elmar Wigand: Zeitzeichen-Massenpanik in the football stadium Sheffield. Radio feature, 15 minutes, WDR radio5, first broadcast: April 15, 1999.
  3. ↑ Hans-Detlev v. Kirchbach: Against the atomization of man. on: nrhz.de , March 18, 2009, accessed January 3, 2013.
  4. ↑ Lorenz Matzat: Lobbypedia: Make lobbying transparent. on: blog.zeit.de , accessed on Aug. 26, 2014.
  5. ↑ Christian Teevs: Online pillory: lobby guards fight against powerful pullers. on: spiegel.de , October 28, 2010, accessed on August 26, 2014.
  6. ↑ Union Busting in Germany. on: otto-brenner-shop.de , accessed on Aug. 26, 2014.
  7. ↑ About us. at : arbeitsunrecht.de , accessed on January 3, 2013.
  8. ↑ Beware of Union Busting! on : arbeitsunrecht.de , accessed on January 3, 2013.
  9. ↑ [1] , action ./. Injustice at work, accessed Aug. 26, 2014.
  10. ↑ Uwe Ritzer: Made by my own boss , Süddeutsche Zeitung, July 5, 2017, accessed on September 12, 2017.
  11. ↑ Congratulations: Our first five Rudolf Augstein Data Fellows , correctiv.de , December 22, 2014.
  12. ^ David Schraven: The struggle for works councils , correctiv.de , July 13, 2015.
  13. ↑ action / injustice at work: now it's striking 13! What happened so far ,arbeitsunrecht.de, accessed on September 12, 2017.
  14. ↑ Elmar Wigand: We want to create a civil rights movement , interview with Radio Dreyeckland, Jan. 13, 2017, accessed on September 12, 2017.
  15. ↑ Peter Nowak : Schwarzer Freitag , Jungle World, March 19, 2015, accessed on September 12, 2017.
  16. ↑ action / injustice wins taz.Panter Prize 2017! on : arbeitsunrecht.de , September 18, 2017, accessed December 19, 2017.
  17. ↑ Annika Maretzki / Antonia Gross: A lot achieved together! the daily newspaper, September 18, 2017.
  18. ↑ Ulrich Müller: Lobbypedia wins Grimme Online Award. on: lobbycontrol.de , June 12, 2012, accessed on August 26, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Wigand, Elmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author, publicist and online media concept developer
DATE OF BIRTH 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne