Fereshta Ludin

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Fereshta Ludin (* 1972 in Kabul ) is a German teacher of Afghan origin. She was a symbol in the headscarf dispute in Germany from the late 1990s to the early 2000s.

Life

Ludin comes from a middle-class background and is the youngest of five children. Her mother was one of the first women in Afghanistan to study in the 1950s. She worked as a teacher after graduating. Her father was an engineer, worked as a consultant and later as a minister in the Afghan government. When Fereshta Ludin was four years old, her father became an ambassador in Bonn . After the Soviet troops marched into Afghanistan in 1979, the family went into exile in Saudi Arabia . Her father worked there as an engineer. The family lived in Riyadh . From the fifth year of school, Fereshta Ludin had to wear the headscarf there. After the father's death, the family moved to Germany in 1986 and applied for asylum. After graduating from high school, Ludin completed a teaching degree in English, German and social studies. In 1995 she received German citizenship. She finished her legal traineeship with a grade of 1.3. From 1997 to 1999 she was on the board of the Muslim Youth in Germany .

Since 1998, Ludin has been refused a job in the school service of the state of Baden-Württemberg by the authorities and the courts because she did not want to forego wearing a headscarf during lessons for reasons of faith . A lawsuit before the Federal Constitutional Court also failed in 2003. During her legal battle, she frequently appeared on talk shows and there was intense media coverage. In January 2015 the Federal Constitutional Court ruled again whether teachers should wear a headscarf. A blanket headscarf ban has now been rejected as it is incompatible with the constitutionally guaranteed freedom of religion. Only if there is a concrete danger to school peace or state neutrality, for example through proselytizing, the wearing of headgear can be prohibited as a fulfillment of religious duty.

After the headscarf ruling , Ludin taught at a state-recognized Islamic primary school in Berlin. Ludin was one of the organizers of the first Berlin Ramadan Peace March in June 2017.

Publications

  • Thank you, Mr. President! in: Manifesto of the Many. Germany is reinventing itself. Blumenbar, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-9367-3874-2
  • Unveiling of Fereshta Ludin: The one with the headscarf, autobiography, Fereshta Ludin, Sandra Abed, Deutscher Levante Verlag, Berlin 2015. ISBN 978-3943737-21-9

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Markus Deggerich: Revealed. Der Spiegel 14/2015. Pp. 52-53.
  2. ^ Order of the First Senate of the Federal Constitutional Court of January 27, 2015
  3. ↑ Andrea Dernbach: "I did not fight for the headscarf" , tagesspiegel.de of August 7, 2013, accessed on June 24, 2017.
  4. ↑ Andrea Dernbach: Almost 100 participants in the Ramadan Peace March, tagesspiegel.de of June 23, 2017, accessed on June 24, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Ludin, Fereshta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher of Afghan origin, did not want to do without wearing a headscarf in school
DATE OF BIRTH 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Kabul