Ferda Ataman

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Ferda Ataman (2018)

Ferda Ataman (* 1979 in Stuttgart ) is a German journalist .

Life

Ataman was born in Stuttgart in 1979 and grew up in Nuremberg . Her parents are from Turkey . She studied political science with a focus on the modern Middle East and migration at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg and the Otto-Suhr-Institut of the Free University of Berlin and graduated in 2005 with a diploma . She then worked as a speechwriter for NRW Integration Minister Armin Laschet , before starting training at the Berlin School of Journalism in 2007 and then as a journalist for Spiegel Online and theTagesspiegel was active. From 2010 to 2012 she headed the public relations and communication department of the Federal Anti-Discrimination Agency and from 2012 to 2016 the media service Integration, an information service for journalists of the Council for Migration .

From April 2018 to February 2020 she wrote the bi-weekly column "Heimatkunde" for Spiegel Online. Her book Ich bin von hier was published in March 2019 . Stop asking! and sparked a debate about belonging. The background was the Twitter hashtag #from here , which she started and which people used to report on social media why they perceive the question “Where are you from?” As marginal.

Ataman is co-founder and co-chair of the New German Media Makers Association and co-spokesperson for the New German Organizations Association . She lives in Berlin .

Controversy

In June 2018 Ataman wrote for a publication by the Amadeu Antonio Foundation : “Politicians who are currently talking about home are usually looking for an answer to the rampant ' fear of foreigners '. But that is extremely dangerous. Because in this context home can only mean that it is about blood and soil : Germany as the home of the people who were here first. ”A home ministry is above all“ symbolic politics for potential right-wing voters ”. Horst Seehofer was the first Federal Minister of the Interior to cancel his participation in the integration summit . He does not want to take part when Ataman "a participant connects my strategy for home in an article [...] with the National Socialists' concept of home." The former ARD correspondent Werner Sonne , who had set up the integration media service together with Ataman , criticized in Der Spiegel that it was “nonsense” to “blame Seehofer's rejection”, but that “the dispute with Angela Merkel continued to escalate” and that the term migration background should be abolished because people with this background in Germany "have long been in the majority". Ataman's assertion would “expressly include the many millions of displaced persons and refugees” “who had to leave their old homeland as a result of World War II.” This is an absurd attempt to “equate these people with immigrants who undeniably came to Germany from other cultures are "and be" grist to the mill of those who want to divide this country. "

Publications

Awards

  • 2018: 3rd place Political Journalist of the Year 2018 from Medium Magazin
  • 2019: Julie and August Bebel Prize for innovative and emancipatory contributions to political education by the August Bebel Institute

Web links

Commons : Ferda Ataman  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dominik Fürst: Ferda Ataman: Why the journalist annoyed Interior Minister Horst Seehofer. Süddeutsche Zeitung , June 13, 2018, accessed on December 3, 2019 .
  2. ↑ WIR interview: “In my first job I became a Turkish woman”. Freie Universität Berlin , July 15, 2015, accessed on March 26, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Wednesday Club in January: Ferda Ataman and Rana Göroglu, Mediendienst Integration. taz , accessed on March 26, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Local history. Spiegel Online , accessed March 26, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Martina Herzog and Julia Kilian: Social Debate: #vonhier - Is the question of origin still permissible? In: ZDF . March 8, 2019, accessed November 25, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Tweet from Ferda Ataman. In: Twitter . February 24, 2019, accessed November 25, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Frederik Schindler: The question of origin. In: taz . February 25, 2019, accessed November 25, 2019 .
  8. ↑ About us. New German Media Makers , accessed on March 26, 2020 .
  9. ↑ About us. New German Organizations, accessed on March 26, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Ferda Ataman: Germany, home of cosmopolitanism. Amadeu Antonio Foundation , June 12, 2018, accessed October 9, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Seehofer and Merkel meet at the crisis summit. In: FAZ. June 13, 2018, accessed September 10, 2018 .
  12. ↑ Debate about the concept of home: It should be the reason for Seehofer's summit cancellation: Ataman now expresses himself on allegations. In: Focus Online . June 13, 2018, accessed September 10, 2018 .
  13. ↑ Werner Sonne : Ferda Ataman's Seehofer criticism. A bad comparison . In: Der Spiegel . June 25, 2018 ( spiegel.de [accessed June 28, 2020]).
  14. ↑ Prize Journalist of the Year 2018 - Politics. In: medium magazine . Retrieved December 3, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Do media. Live diversity. Educating politically - conference and award ceremony. August Bebel Institute , accessed December 3, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Ataman, Ferda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart