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Hadayatullah Hübsch (born January 8, 1946 in Chemnitz as Paul-Gerhard Hübsch ; † January 4, 2011 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German writer , publicist , activist of the 1968 movement and long-time press spokesman for the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat in the Federal Republic of Germany . V. He was Imam Dschuma (leader of the Friday sermon ) in the Nuur Mosque in Frankfurt .

Life and work

Paul-Gerhard Hübsch attended the Paul-Gerhardt-School in Laubach (Upper Hesse), from which the Laubach-Kolleg later emerged. Between 1965 and 1967 he was politically active as a member of the Hessian Committee of the Easter March and led Easter March groups and anti-Vietnam War demonstrations. Hübsch refused to do military service and was active in the left-wing scene during the student unrest of the APO , including in Commune I , and during this time had numerous drug experiences, especially with LSD .

In 1969 Paul-Gerhard Hübsch - after a spiritual experience during a trip to Morocco - joined the Islamic reform community Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat and was henceforth Hadayatullah (ھدایۃ ﷲ'The one guided by Allah'). As Imam Dschuma he worked at the Nuur Mosque in Frankfurt-Sachsenhausen, where he gave the Friday sermon in German. Hübsch was considered one of the most famous German converts .

Around 1970, several volumes of poetry were published by Luchterhand , Maro Verlag and the Dittmer publishing house under the name Paul-Gerhard Hübsch . For eight years, Hübsch worked for the features section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , which also published his poems, until in 1979, after his conversion to Ahmadiyya Islam, he received a notice that became known and stated that Hübsch was “an extraordinary, bourgeois one A phenomenon that bursts the frame of the Occident ”. He was a co-founder of the left-wing alternative Club Voltaire in Frankfurt and opened the “Heidi loves you shop” in Frankfurt-Bockenheim in May 1968, a head shop for the hippie scene, which was closed again by the authorities after a few months.

Hübsch continued to publish in various national daily newspapers such as Die Welt , taz , Süddeutsche Zeitung and Junge Welt as well as various alternative literary magazines such as Ulcus Molle Info , Der Metzger and Die Brücke - a forum for anti-racist politics and culture . From 1991 to 1998 he was chairman of the Association of German Writers in Hesse and worked for the state's ethics council.

In addition to poetry, Hübsch also wrote prose, essays, novels, several radio plays and satires as well as non-fiction books on Ahmadiyya Islam, pop and rock music, and devoted himself to the art of collage , which he exhibited. In total, he published over 100 books (an overview of his previous books appeared in 2002: The First Hundred ), mainly volumes of poetry and non-fiction books, many of which were about Islam from the perspective of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community ( The Way of Muhammad , Prophecies of Islam , Fanatic Warriors in the Name of Allah ). He also translated numerous books from English into German, including Jesus in India and the standard Islamic work Muslim saints and mystics ( Tadhkirat al-Auliya ) by Fariduddin Attar . As a journalist, he wrote reviews, radio reports, features and magazine articles. In the late 1970s and early 1980s he worked as a reporter and feature writer for the hr 's youth radio . Pretty literary magazines declined törn and elder Ground out.

Since 1990 he has headed Der Islam, a publishing house run by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat. As their long-time press spokesman, Hübsch campaigned for interreligious dialogue and gave lectures across Germany on the teachings of the Ahmadiyya. On the death of Hübsch in January 2011, the Hessian Minister of Justice, Integration and Europe Jörg-Uwe Hahn said that as “one of the most prominent German converts” and proponent of “liberal Islam”, Hübsch “made his contribution to integration” and “like hardly any another a bridge between the worlds ”.

Most recently, Hübsch also worked as a guest author and interview partner of the right-wing Junge Freiheit with articles on Islam and integration. In 2006 he gave an interview for the third edition of the theory organ Hier & Jetzt of the Young National Democrats of the NPD . His attempt to promote an understanding of migrants and Islam in the new right-wing organs was in some cases heavily criticized. Hübsch commented on the allegations in his text "From love to truth", in which he referred to his decades of political and literary commitment against racism and declared that he wanted to use every opportunity to clarify - which is why he also gave the Bild newspaper Interviews. In an interview with the taz , Huebsch explained that he “went 'naive into history' with Junge Freiheit a few years ago .” As an “Islam expert”, he appeared at Maybrit Illner (ZDF) and Friedman (N24) as well as various others Discussions in citizen channels.

His memoirs appeared in 1991 under the title No Time for Trips . In 1998 he published a summary of his life under the title “Everything was a secret” in the anthology Bye-bye '68 by the new right anti-antifa - and Junge Freiheit regular author Claus Wolfschlag . He last worked on his book The Muslim Joke .

Hübsch was married twice and had eight children. The journalist Khola Maryam Hübsch is his daughter. He died on the morning of January 4, 2011. On the first anniversary of his death, the 1st Poetry Memorial for Hadayatullah Hübsch took place, organized by the Association of German Writers Hesse.

Poetry

Hübsch's literary career began with a publication in the highly acclaimed collection Primanerlyrik - Primanerprosa edited by Peter Rühmkorf . In 1969, Hübsch published his first volume of poetry, Mach what du want, at Luchterhand. Günter Grass , who later won the Nobel Prize for Literature and was also published by Luchterhand, prophesied that Hübsch would then have a great career as a poet; However, Hübsch preferred to remain an underground poet beyond the “main streets”.

Hübsch's poetry was inspired by experimental literature, Dadaism and expressionist poetry . Later he was influenced by the Beat literati , especially Allen Ginsberg , William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac . After his conversion to Islam, his poetry was also influenced by the mystical poetry of Persia, Hafez , Rumi and Sadi.

Hübsch was a " spoken word poet" who co-founded the literary movement of the German poetry slam and was the namesake of the first Social Beat Festival in Berlin. He is considered a "veteran" and "legend" of the social beat scene and the "lyric performance". He went on reading tours all over Germany and promoted young writers. In 1996 he was elected "German Literature Master" at the international poetry slam. He has received literary prizes, most recently the 12th Nahbell Prize.

Under the English abbreviation "PG", an abbreviation of his Christian name, which he received in reference to the German-speaking hymn poet Paul Gerhardt , he was known in the 1960s and 1970s in the beat poet and hippie scene. Hübsch later wrote Muslim songs and poems that have so far appeared in three anthologies. He is one of the group of German-speaking poets for Muslim-religious poetry in Germany.

Works

Books (selection)

  • Do what you want . Luchterhand, Neuwied / Berlin 1969.
  • Freaked out . Luchterhand, Neuwied / Berlin 1971.
  • Sealed. 40 texts on newspaper reports. Winddruck + Dittmer, Wetzlar 1979, ISBN 3-922256-04-X .
  • Alternative public . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1980, ISBN 3-596-24042-5 .
  • love poems . Eremiten-Presse, Düsseldorf 1983, ISBN 3-87365-190-4 .
  • I lost my flowers. A poem . Eremiten-Presse, Düsseldorf 1987. ISBN 3-87365-233-1 .
  • Inner skin. Fifteen poems . Michael Kellner Verlag, Hamburg 1988, ISBN 3-922035-40-X .
  • The friend . Rainer Verlag, Berlin 1988.
  • The way of Muhammad. Islam - religion of the future? Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1989, ISBN 978-3-499-18475-8 .
  • No time for trips. Autobiographical report . Koren & Debes / Verlag Der Islam, Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 3-910078-01-X .
  • Jazz has no words. About jazz and poetry . Altaquito Verlag Göttingen 1991, ISBN 978-3-923588-26-8 .
  • Stop moon 18 . Pendragon, Bielefeld 1992, ISBN 978-3-923306-56-5 .
  • Kill for Peace . Verlag Peter Engstler, Ostheim / Rhön 1992, ISBN 3-980-2826-0-0 .
  • Surrounded by gentle cells . Nosmas Verlag, Hanau 1992.
  • A place of peace . Verlag Der Islam, Frankfurt 1992, ISBN 978-3-921458-77-8 .
  • Muslim woman. On the position of women in Islam . Verlag Der Islam, Frankfurt / Main 1992, ISBN 978-3-921458-78-5 .
  • Meininger Haikus . Artist book. uräus hand press, Halle an der Saale 1993.
  • Prophecies of Islam . Droemer Knaur, Munich 1993, ISBN 978-3-426-86022-9 .
  • P · E · N · G. Long letter from a 68er to his daughter . Betzel, Nienburg 1993, ISBN 978-3-929017-16-8 .
  • To the City of Happy Tears (Editor). Verlag Der Islam, Frankfurt / Main 1994, ISBN 978-3-921458-93-8 .
  • Thick fog Germany. Poems . Landpresse, Weilerswist 1995, ISBN 3-930137-37-2 .
  • The cosmology of Islam . Verlag Clemens Zerling, Berlin 1995, ISBN 978-3-88468-061-2 .
  • Islam - 99. Questions and Answers on Islam . Betzel Verlag, Nienburg 1995, ISBN 3-929017-23-7 .
  • My way to Islam . Verlag Der Islam, Frankfurt am Main 1996.
  • Rain mouth . Verlag Der Islam, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 978-3-932244-03-2 .
  • Women in islam. 55 Questions and Answers . Betzel, Nienburg 1997, ISBN 978-3-929017-77-9 .
  • Clear the way. Poems. Horlemann Verlag, Bad Honnef 1998, ISBN 3-89502-076-1 .
  • Islam 99. Questions and Answers on Islam . Betzel, Nienburg 1998, ISBN 978-3-929017-23-6 .
  • Star Mouth . Verlag Der Islam, Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 978-3-932244-00-1 .
  • Everything was a secret. From LSD to Islam . In: Claus-M. Wolfschlag (Ed.): Bye-bye '68. Renegades of the left, APO deviants and all kinds of lateral thinkers report . Graz / Stuttgart 1998.
  • Terror and paradise. Poems about war . Edition Minotaurus in the Galerie Vevais, Verlag Alexander Scholz, Vevais 2001, ISBN 3-936165-15-7
  • little mags. Independent literary magazines . Autorhaus Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 978-3-932909-80-1 .
  • Han Yong-un : The Beloved's Silence . (Literary adaptation). Horlemann, Bad Honnef 2001, ISBN 3-89502-135-0 .
  • Fanatic warriors in the name of Allah. The roots of Islamist terror . Hugendubel / Diederichs, Munich 2001, ISBN 978-3-7205-2296-0 .
  • SMS to the underground . Publishing house Andreas Reiffer, Braunschweig 2001.
  • MONOLITH . Stadtlichter Presse, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-936271-12-7 .
  • Muslim saints and mystics (translators). Hugendubel / Diederichs, Munich 2002, ISBN 978-3-7205-2342-4 .
  • Clear the way. Poems . Horlemann, Bad Honnef 2002, ISBN 978-3-89502-076-6 .
  • Tickets. Poems . Horlemann, Bad Honnef 2002, ISBN 3-89502-147-4 .
  • Paradise and hell. Concepts of the afterlife in Islam . Patmos, Ostfildern 2003, ISBN 978-3-491-72471-6 .
  • The first hundred. Books by Hadayatullah Hübsch from over 30 years of subculture in Germany . Ariel, Riedstadt 2003, ISBN 978-3-930148-24-0 .
  • Pre-war poems, with a drawing by Frank Wildenhahn . Corvinus Presse, Berlin 2003, ISBN 978-3-910172-84-5 .
  • EUROBEAT. Poems . edition roadhouse, Hanover 2004.
  • My first book on animals: Islam for children (together with Fareed Ahmad). Verlag Der Islam, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-932244-26-1 .
  • Asphalt dervish (with Axel Monte ). Heinz Wohlers Verlag, 2007.
  • Peace Train: From Cat Stevens to Yusuf Islam . Palmyra, Heidelberg 2009, ISBN 978-3-930378-76-0 .
  • Marock'n'Roll. Beat poems . gONZoverlag, Mainz 2010, ISBN 978-3-9812237-5-0 .
  • Monolith . Pop poems . Edition Schwarzdruck, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-935194-34-1 .
  • Round & Round & Round - a cycle of poems (with Florian Vetsch). Songdog, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-9502890-8-4 .
  • The Muslim joke . Patmos, Ostfildern 2013, ISBN 978-3-8436-0001-9 .
  • Ice breaks quietly - 6 poems (with Florian Vetsch ). Gonzo Verlag, Mainz 2013, ISBN 978-3-944564-05-0 .

Essays

  • What does Islam want? ; "Islam", September 1998
  • Islam lessons in schools? ; "White Minaret", May / July 1999
  • The question of violence in Islam ; "White Minaret", 2003
  • A reply to Dr. Schröter's book “Ahmadiyya Movement of Islam” ; in a revised form: AMJ press release "Citizens' Initiatives & Mosque Building" from 2008 ( online ( memento from September 7, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), archived website)
  • About dealing with women in marriage. Allegedly misogynistic verses from the Holy Quran explained
  • Bible texts from an Islamic point of view at Kirchenbote Zurich : “A creature is never God” (1/2007), “God loves peacemakers” (2/2007), “Repentance is required” (3/2007), “Jesus, also for Muslims Role model "(4/2007)," Muslims find Muhammad in the Bible "(5/2007)," Where the soul is healed "(6/2007)

Radio play / audio book

  • Conference of birds ; Radio play based on an epic verse by Farid-ad-din Attar , cassette. Cotta's Hörbühne, Verlag Ernst Klett, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 978-3-12-761320-9 .
  • Terror and paradise. Poems about war , audio CD. edition Galerie Vevais, 2002, ISBN 978-3-936165-23-4 .
  • Freaked out , Saarländischer Rundfunk , first broadcast in 1972
  • Smiling like a head full of wounds , Saarländischer Rundfunk, first broadcast April 14, 1973
  • Die Before You Die , Saarländischer Rundfunk, first broadcast on November 30, 1975
  • The day when Elvis Presley was to have his life sentence , Hessischer Rundfunk , first broadcast on January 16, 1976
  • City map , Bayerischer Rundfunk , first broadcast on July 4th 1977
  • Conference of the Birds , Südwestfunk , first broadcast December 23, 1979
  • What was true and what was confused , Sender Free Berlin , first broadcast on May 20, 1980
  • On the way to yourself - The journey inside , Hessischer Rundfunk, first broadcast December 14, 1980

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Poets and preachers: The writer Hadayatullah Hübsch died in Frankfurt . In: FAZ , January 5, 2011.
  2. ↑ Hadayatullah Hübsch: The first hundred . Ariel Publishing, 2002.
  3. ↑ Beat poet in the mosque: The author Hadayatullah Hübsch is dead . In: taz , January 7, 2011.
  4. ^ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , January 5, 2011.
  5. ↑ Hadayatullah Hübsch: Forever Young faz.net, January 6, 2012.
  6. ↑ Heidi loves you shop orte-der-revolte.de, with photography
  7. ^ Raid in the "Heidi Loves You" shop Frankfurter Rundschau, September 20, 1968
  8. ↑ VS press release of January 5, 2011 ( Memento of February 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 98 kB)
  9. ↑ Official list of all publications .
  10. ↑ Listed in the DNG ( https://portal.dnb.de/opac.htm?query=9783930148240&method=simpleSearch ).
  11. ↑ On the occasion of Hadayatullah Huebsch's death, Integration Minister Jörg-Uwe Hahn expressed his condolences to the family and the Ahmadiyya community .
  12. ↑ "From love to truth" , hadayatullah.de.
  13. ↑ Jan-Frederik Bandel: “If you betray your past, it will not tell you anything more” - About priman poetry, beatniks, horror trips and spiritual poetry. A conversation with Hadayatullah Hübsch . In: Junge Welt , February 19, 2011.
  14. ↑ Michel Friedman in conversation with Udo Ulfkotte and Hadayatullah Hübsch: How dangerous is Islam? N24 broadcast, video on YouTube (27:54 min.)
  15. ↑ kulturnetz-frankfurt.de
  16. ^ FAZ , January 6, 2011
  17. ^ Süddeutsche Zeitung , January 7, 2011
  18. ↑ Off the main roads . In: FAZ , January 6, 2011
  19. ^ Hadayatullah Huebsch Ariel publishing house
  20. ↑ Poetry Newspaper , February 11, 2011.
  21. ↑ kulturnetz-frankfurt.de
  22. ^ FAZ , January 6, 2011
  23. ↑ Cf. Philipp Gut: "Breaking the Cross" - A Muslim sect preacher interprets Bible texts in the Reformed church messenger . In: Die Weltwoche , February 28, 2007
personal data
SURNAME Nice, Hadayatullah
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hübsch, Paul-Gerhard (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and activist of the 1968 movement
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Chemnitz
DATE OF DEATH January 4, 2011
Place of death Frankfurt am Main