Mrs. Friday

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Ms. Freitag (* 1968 ; real name unknown here ) is the pseudonym of a German teacher, blogger and book author .

Life

The author "Frau Freitag" is a teacher for English and art. According to Tagesspiegel , she is from Berlin . In a Radio Eins interview in June 2012 she stated that she worked in Berlin-Neukölln.

The author describes her profession as the most beautiful in the world. She wants her students to become strong people, that they find themselves in this difficult transition from child to adult, that they recognize their strengths and that they are proud of themselves.

Texts

Blog posts

Since 2009, "Frau Freitag" has been writing about her everyday professional life in the blog Well, how was school? . The blog was read by an average of 4,500 people every day in 2012. All of the blog entries from "Ms. Friday" together can be viewed as a blog novel .

Hard copies of parts of the blog

In 2011, the entries from the 2009/2010 school year were published as the book Chill mal, Frau Freitag . For five weeks this was number 1 on the Spiegel bestseller list for non-fiction books in paperback form . The follow-up volume, published in July 2012, is fully strict, Ms. Friday! was number 1 on the bestseller list for a week. In September 2013 “Frau Freitag” was published, the book Echt Easy, Frau Freitag . The title made it to number 14 on the bestseller list

Detective prose

"Frau Freitag" publishes together with her friend "Frl. Crisis “a series of printed crime novels . As the first volume in this series, a book was published in 2013 with the title: Der Altmann ist tot (highest ranking: 11th place), as the second volume in 2014 Exaggerated dead: Miss Crisis and Frau Freitag determine . In 2015 the novel Gangster was published in the auditorium .

Embassies

None of the students that Ms. Freitag teaches (has) is a “ foreigner ” for her , as her students were born in Germany and are completing their compulsory education in Germany, and are therefore being prepared for a future in Germany. She considers the idea of ​​tracing peculiarities and deficits monocausally to the origin of a student to be just as absurd as if the failure of colleagues were justified with the "grandma from a Bavarian village".

In an interview with “ Stern ”, “Frau Freitag” defends Muslim “bad boys” who show sympathy with Islamist terrorists and utter “the worst anti-Semitic slogans”. Often they only fulfilled the role expectations that members of their milieu asked them to do. “Not everyone who says something like this is on the verge of fighting in the Islamic State . In one-on-one conversations it sounds completely different in the vast majority of cases. ”In a contribution from January 12, 2015, however,“ Ms. Friday ”is by no means clarified, but rather shocked at the reaction of her former students and now 20-year-old“ Facebook friends ” ", With whom she can no longer hold teacher-student" one-on-one "conversations, on the attack on the Charlie Hebdo editorial team on January 7, 2015.

Authenticity of the stories

To maintain your anonymity, "Ms. Friday" has taken some precautionary measures:

  • The first-person narrator is not addressed by her first name in the books, even by friends.
  • The names of the students have been changed; they are generally not referred to by their last name.
  • The names of colleagues and “non-school students” are not mentioned or are also pseudonyms.
  • So that readers don't think of Berlin, the first-person narrator in Chill times, Ms. Friday, takes the bus instead of the underground.

It is unclear how high the proportion of inventions is in their blogs and in their books. For example, "Ms. Friday" occasionally declares previously published items to be falsified or "stylistic exercise" in her blog. Focus Schule judges “Ms. Friday” and her friend “Miss. Crisis ":" The anonymous bloggers are not too good for a soul striptease, but they also do not treat their protégés gently. There is blasphemy, what goes on the keyboard, and at least Miss. Crisis and Ms. Friday with relish serve every prejudice about uneducated classes at a big city comprehensive school. Is Volkan really that insolent, Leila so left, Hamid so lazy? Maybe yes, maybe pure fiction. "

Quote

Friday : "Sarrazin, does anyone know who that is?" Yusuf : "Sarrazin is such an acid". (from Chill mal , p. 253).

reception

Sylvia Meise rates the book as real satire , as does Angelika Reiser-Fischer. Monika radio keeps the novel for "amusing, honest, insightful," the women's magazine girlfriend for "to scream funny!" Karoline Laarmann "honest, warm and turbulent" for.

A representative of the school ministry in North Rhine-Westphalia rated “Frau Freitag's” approach as risky: Freedom of expression and freedom of the press for teachers were limited by “ the duty of loyalty , the duty of moderation, official secrecy and the prohibition of escaping to the public”. The restriction applies to both salaried teachers and civil servants. A Hessian ministry spokesman warns: If the students can be identified, “a teacher can make himself liable to prosecution. They are not allowed to reveal private secrets publicly ”. There are reports from blogging teachers who confirm that the warning is legitimate.

Publications

Books

Audio books

literature

  • Jeff Gomez: The narrative singularity. Telling stories in the digital age . In: Future of Publishing . From politics and contemporary history , issue 41–42 / 2012, October 8, 2012, pp. 15–21. (on-line)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ms. Friday. Biographical information. In: ullstein-buchverlage.de . Retrieved July 28, 2020.
  2. ↑ Interview in Tagesspiegel from June 16, 2012.
  3. ↑ fraufreitag: The most beautiful job in the world . May 23, 2009
  4. ↑ Guest: Ms. Friday ( Memento from March 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) West.art Talk, broadcast by WDR on March 13, 2011, accessed on October 3, 2015.
  5. ↑ Ms. Freitag shows how creative blogs can be turned into successful book projects . In: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung . September 11, 2012.
  6. ↑ Single view in "Book Report" ( memento of the original from October 2, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. As of October 21, 2012.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.buchreport.de
  7. ↑ Single view in “Book Report” ( memento of the original from October 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. As of October 21, 2012.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.buchreport.de
  8. ↑ Single view in "Book Report" , as of January 13, 2014.
  9. ^ Rowohlt Verlag: Frau Freitag
  10. ↑ Single view in "Book Report" , as of July 29, 2013.
  11. ↑ fraufreitag: We are just foreigners . June 20, 2009
  12. ↑ fraufreitag: There are no foreigners in Germany! . December 8, 2009
  13. ↑ “You have to radiate authority, always!” In: Der Stern . March 24, 2016, p. 118 ( online )
  14. ↑ fraufreitag: Je suis Charlie . January 12, 2015
  15. ↑ fraufreitag: WHAT THAT? . March 10, 2011.
  16. ↑ fraufreitag: What hello ??? . May 16, 2010.
  17. ↑ Teacher Blogs - Why All the Bother? In: Focus School. 2/2012.
  18. ↑ Sylvia Meise: Satire on being a teacher: Ms. Friday spies in school . September 8, 2011.
  19. ^ Reproduction of reviews on the website of the Ullstein publishers
  20. ↑ Karoline Laarmann: Page no longer available , search in web archives: Scandals and rampages. on: einslive.de , March 21, 2011.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.einslive.de
  21. ↑ Mathias Hamann: Blogging teachers - "Everyone can do high school". on: Spiegel-online. (Schulspiegel), March 16, 2011.
  22. ↑ Anonymous teachers: We blog as we like it . The teacher friend . December 7, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Friday mrs
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher, blogger and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1968