Hasnain Kazim

Hasnain Kazim at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2015

Hasnain Niels Kazim (born October 19, 1974 in Oldenburg ) is a German journalist , author and naval officer d. R.

Life

Kazim is the son of Indian - Pakistani parents. His father was a seaman and his mother worked as a translator. He grew up with his sister in Hollern-Twielenfleth in the Altes Land and attended the Vincent-Lübeck-Gymnasium in Stade . Kazim is married to the political scientist Janna Kazim (* 1981) and they have one son. In 1994 Hasnain Kazim joined the German Navy as an officer candidate and studied political science at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg . After graduating, he served as a naval officer.

As a candidate for the FDP in the state elections in Lower Saxony in 1998 in what was then constituency 70, he achieved a personal result of 2.7 percent of the first votes . Two months after the election, he resigned from the FDP.

Kazim began his journalistic career as a freelancer for the Stader Tageblatt . He then worked for Heilbronner Voice and the dpa news agency, among others . Since 2006 he has worked as an editor for the news website Spiegel Online . Since July 2009 he has been the South Asia correspondent for Spiegel Online and the news magazine Der Spiegel , and since 2013 its Turkey correspondent. In 2014, because of his reporting on the Soma mine disaster, he was massively attacked by supporters of Turkish Prime Minister Erdoğan and received death threats, whereupon he left Turkey on short notice for security reasons. Turkish authorities refused to extend their press accreditation to him and other journalists after months of waiting at the beginning of 2016 . Since the residence permit for foreign journalists is linked to an accreditation, he left Turkey in March 2016 and went to Austria , where he worked as a correspondent in Vienna , but continued to report on Turkey. At the end of 2019, he resigned as a Spiegel correspondent and has been working as a freelance writer in Vienna since then.

Journalistic activity

Kazim is the author of the books Grünkohl und Curry , which thematizes immigration in Germany from his personal point of view, Suddenly Pakistan , a literary society portrait of the country, crisis state Turkey , about Erdoğan and the end of democracy on the Bosporus as well as post from Karlheinz , about German hate mail and his answers to it. In his book Auf them with Roar! ... and with good arguments he gives instructions on how to stand up to mob and populists. Since the end of 2010 he has been the godfather of the Vincent-Lübeck-Gymnasium in Stade in the project School without Racism - School with Courage .

Together with the journalists Mely Kiyak , Yassin Musharbash , Deniz Yücel , Özlem Topçu , Özlem Gezer , Doris Akrap and Ebru Taşdemir , he read at the "anti-racist reading show" Hate Poetry racist abuse and threatening letters with which he wrote because of his journalistic work bothered in abundance. In 2014 the founding team of Hate Poetry was named Journalist of the Year in the “Special Prize” category. After the 2017 federal election , Kazim was criticized for his comments on the election results in East Germany . In 2019, he exchanged Facebook profiles with the Mayor of Tübingen, Boris Palmer, for a week in order to test the response of social media posts to different filter bubbles in an experiment.

Awards

Kazim received the CNN Journalist Award in 2009 for his report Attack on Mumbai. Protocol of a murderous campaign . In it he reconstructed the terrorist attack on the Indian city in 2008 . He received the Golden Compass media award in 2015 and came in third in Medium Magazine's 2016 election as Political Journalist of the Year .

Works

• Kale and curry. The story of an immigration. dtv, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-423-24739-9 . (Revised and expanded new edition: Schaumburg, Stade 2014, ISBN 978-3-87697-021-9 .)
• Suddenly Pakistan. My life in the most dangerous country in the world. dtv, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-423-26077-0 .
• Crisis state Turkey. Erdoğan and the end of democracy on the Bosporus. DVA, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-421-04784-7 .
• Post from Karlheinz: Angry emails from real Germans - and what I answer them. Penguin Verlag, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-328-10272-4 .
• Roar at them! ... and with good arguments. Penguin Verlag, Munich 2020, ISBN 978-3-328-10493-3

Web links

• Literature by and about Hasnain Kazim in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} History of an Immigration. “Bratwurst is the dividing line between West and East.” In: Spiegel online. September 7, 2009. Retrieved July 30, 2010.
2. ^ Frankfurter Rundschau: Turkey: Death threats against "Spiegel" reporters . In: Frankfurter Rundschau . ( fr.de [accessed on May 7, 2018]).
3. ↑ Mechthild Kock: Afghanistan - great game of powers. (No longer available online.) In: tageblatt.de. Stader Tageblatt , May 5, 2010, formerly in the original ; Retrieved July 30, 2010 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
4. ↑ Evelyn Holst: "The refugee debate is too emotional", Myself, November 2005, p. 60.
5. ↑ Hasnain Kazim: 50 years of “Gorch Fock”. Sailing, ironing, throwing up. In: One day - Zeitgeschichten on Spiegel online . August 21, 2008, accessed March 30, 2012 . 
6. ↑ ^{a b} CV. In: dtv.de. dtv Verlagsgesellschaft , accessed on July 30, 2010 . 
7. ↑ Die Zeit: Hasnain Kazim , accessed on August 28, 2020.
8. ↑ Kurt-Peter Christophersen: SPD is expanding the majority in constituency 70. CDU far behind at 35 percent. In: Stader Tageblatt. March 2, 1998, p. 13.
9. ↑ René Martens: As a child, I wasn't sensitive to it: Interview with Hasnain Kazim. In: taz.de. the daily newspaper , July 28, 2014, accessed on August 21, 2017 . 
10. ↑ ^{a b} Mechthild Kock: Prize for Hasnain Kazim. Spiegel correspondent excellent. (No longer available online.) In: Stader Tageblatt . March 19, 2010, archived from the original on June 29, 2012 ; Retrieved July 30, 2010 . 
11. ↑ "Spiegel" correspondent leaves Ankara , faz.net, March 17, 2016th
12. ↑ On his own behalf: SPIEGEL ONLINE correspondent has to leave Turkey. In: Spiegel online. March 17, 2016, accessed January 6, 2018 . 
13. ↑ Hasnain Kazim. Retrieved March 29, 2020 . 
14. ↑ Sabine Lohmann: Hasnain reads as "Hansi" in Stade. "Kale and Curry" with author Hasnain Kazim. (No longer available online.) In: Stader Tageblatt . September 26, 2009, formerly in the original ; Retrieved August 2, 2010 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
15. ↑ Self-presentation of Hate Poetry ( Memento from December 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ).
16. ↑ Interview. (No longer available online.) In: funkhauseuropa.de. Funkhaus Europa, June 13, 2014, archived from the original on October 6, 2014 ; accessed on October 2, 2017 . 
17. ↑ Rationale of the jury. In: mediumagazin.de. December 19, 2014, accessed December 20, 2014 . 
18. ↑ Election success of the right - I am the people! In: Spiegel online . September 25, 2017, accessed January 6, 2018 . 
19. ↑ The success of the AfD in the East makes the condescending attitude in the West visible. In: nzz.ch. September 30, 2017, accessed January 6, 2018 . 
20. ↑ Stuttgarter Zeitung, Stuttgart Germany: Boris Palmer and Hasnain Kazim: "This experiment creates a stimulating climate". Retrieved March 29, 2020 . 
21. ↑ "Golden Compass": Tatort Commissioner Striesow receives KEP media award , pro-medienmagazin.de, April 10, 2015, accessed on March 14, 2017.
22. ↑ Journalists of the Year 2016 of Medium Magazin, accessed on March 14, 2017.