Emily Laquer

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Emily Laquer ([ la'kɛʁ ], born May 24, 1987 in Nuremberg ) is a German-American activist . She became known as the spokesperson for a demonstration and co-organizer of the blockades against the G20 summit in Hamburg in 2017 . She is a member of the interventionist left and is assigned to the radical left scene by the protection of the constitution .

Life

Laquer grew up in Nuremberg and has German and American citizenship after her family of Jewish descent fled National Socialism to the United States . Laquer is related to the American historian and publicist Walter Laqueur .

After graduating from high school, Laquer became active in the climate protection and anti-nuclear power movement . She studied politics and law in the USA and Germany and eventually dropped out. She counts herself to the "Generation Heiligendamm", the protest against the G8 summit on the Baltic Sea in 2007 , at which she was "politically socialized". Laquer describes herself as a “communist in the 21st century”.

Since 2017 she lives in Hamburg-St. Pauli and works as press spokeswoman, from 2018 at Argument Verlag and since 2019 at VSA Verlag .

G20 summit in Hamburg 2017

In connection with the protests against the G20 summit in Hamburg in 2017 , she appeared in the media as a spokeswoman for the interventionist left and organized a large-scale demonstration entitled “Unlimited solidarity instead of the G20”. At the center of their demands were criticism of capitalism , disarmament , the protection of refugees and climate protection. Before and after the summit, she explicitly denied any distancing of the interventionist left from political violence and was described as "the face of violence in Hamburg".

Climate protection movement

Laquer is also involved in the climate protection movement and participated, among other things, in the demonstrations to protect the Hambach Forest . In 2019, the Hamburg Senator for the Interior, Andy Grote, criticized that she was "being passed around like an icon in Hamburg" and attempting to "subvert the climate rallies of schoolchildren" with the interventionist left.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sebastian Eder : "Interventionist Left": What do the radical left want? In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . July 5, 2017 ( faz.net [accessed May 30, 2020]).
  2. ↑ Interventionist Left: Actions and Actors (left-wing extremism in the context of the G20). In: hamburg.de. Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, Ministry of the Interior and Sport, accessed on May 30, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Nik Afanasjew and Eva Müller-Foell: Before the summit in Buenos Aires: Hamburg has been a divided city since the G20 riots. In: Der Tagesspiegel. November 29, 2018, accessed May 30, 2020 .
  4. ↑ a b How the “Interventionist Left” wants to instrumentalize democratic initiatives. In: hamburg.de. Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, Ministry of the Interior and Sport, April 11, 2019, accessed on May 30, 2020 .
  5. ^ VSA: Verlag Hamburg: Emily Laquer becomes press manager. In: Börsenblatt des Deutschen Buchhandels. July 30, 2019, accessed May 30, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Emily Laquer: Commentary on violence at G20: A mendacious discussion . In: The daily newspaper . July 5, 2017 ( taz.de [accessed May 30, 2020]).
  7. ^ Sigrid Neudecker: G20 summit: "A burned down car is still damage to property". In: The time. April 27, 2017, accessed May 30, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior, for Sport and Integration (ed.): Constitutional Protection Report Bavaria 2018 . Munich May 2019, p. 253 ( bayern.de [PDF]).
  9. ↑ Katharina Schipkowski: Emily Laquer on protests against G20: “The police are responsible” . In: The daily newspaper . July 13, 2017 ( taz.de [accessed May 30, 2020]).
  10. ↑ Stephan Hebel and Martín Steinhagen: "Radical struggles are sorely necessary". In: Frankfurter Rundschau. January 31, 2018, accessed May 30, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Thomas Schmoll: Dunja Hayali on G 20: Otto Schily runs against precocious left-wing extremist in top form . In: The world . July 6, 2017 ( welt.de [accessed May 30, 2020]).
  12. ^ Rudolf van Hüllen: Nothing new in Hamburg? “Anti-capitalist” riot and its social perception . Ed .: Konrad Adenauer Foundation. Sankt Augustin / Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-95721-415-7 , pp. 20 ( kas.de ).
  13. ↑ Jens Meyer-Wellmann and Stephan Steinlein : “Don't fight right-wing extremism with left-wing extremism”. In: Hamburger Abendblatt. May 20, 2019, accessed May 30, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Christoph Heinemann: Climate Demos: "Other groups want to use our success". In: Hamburger Abendblatt. April 11, 2019, accessed May 30, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Laquer, Emily
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German activist
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg