Hengameh Yaghoobifarah

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Hengameh Yaghoobifarah (born 1991 in Kiel ) is a German journalist , columnist and activist . Yaghoobifarah defines himself as a non-binary person and uses feminine terms as well as gender-neutral ones .

Life

Hengameh Yaghoobifarah was born in 1991 in Kiel and spent many years of her youth in Buchholz in the Nordheide . Your parents are from Iran . After graduating from the Albert Einstein High School in Buchholz, Yaghoobifarah studied media culture and Scandinavian studies from 2011 at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau and the Swedish University of Linköping with a bachelor's degree and a thesis on the color pink in feminist discourse .

Yaghoobifarah identifies itself as non-binary , as neither female nor male, but uses female pronouns and terms in addition to the gender-neutral they . The Missy Magazine listed Yaghoobifarah gender neutral as "editor-in *", the taz editorial staff with gender colon as "Author: in".

Yaghoobifarah has lived in Berlin since 2014.

Act

Yaghoobifarah works as an editor for Missy Magazine and freelance writes for German-language media such as SPEX , an.schlag - here in particular the rotating column "neuland" from 2014 to 2017 - as well as her own column "Habibitus" in the taz since 2016 . With Queer Vanity , Yaghoobifarah ran a blog from 2014 to 2017 that dealt with fashion and “body politics”.

At the “ listen to berlin Award” 2018, Yaghoobifarah was nominated in the “Prize for Music Journalists” category.

Together with Fatma Aydemir , Yaghoobifarah published the non-fiction book Eure Heimat is our nightmare in 2019 , a manifesto against a German concept of homeland understood as anti-Semitic and racist, with texts by Sasha Marianna Salzmann , Sharon Dodua Otoo , Max Czollek , Mithu Sanyal , Margarete Stokowski , Olga Grjasnowa , and Reyhan Şahin .

The anthology Encyclopaedia Almanica , published in 2020 by Amina Aziz, gathers tweets by Yaghoobifarah and five other people of color from their everyday lives in the migration society.

Article controversy

In 2016, Yaghoobifarah published the polemical article Fusion Revisited: Carnival of the Cultureless in Missy Magazine , which accused the “white audience” of the Fusion Festival and its organizers of cultural appropriation and racism , among other things because of only mildly spiced “exotic” snacks and the wearing of dreadlocks . The text was received controversially by parts of the German left and subsequently served as a starting point for debates in politically left media. Some saw an example in Yaghoobifarahs text New Right or ethnopluralistische of argument in the "anti-racist scene." Yaghoobifarah expanded the 2018 article on the essay I Was on the Fusion, and all I got was a bloody heart .

In October 2017, Yaghoobifarah drew accusations of racism in her taz column Habibitus because the text compared German culture with "(literally) dirty culture [of] potatoes", based on the slang expression " potatoes ". The journalist Jan Fleischhauer criticized "that one does not allow the standards that one applies to others to apply to oneself." The journalist Elke Halefeldt commented: "We learn: Racism against Germans is not racism".

"All cops are unable to work"

In June 2020, Yaghoobifarah took up the international movement Black Lives Matter and racism among the police “also in Germany” in her column in the daily newspaper taz . In the text a mind game is put on, where police officers could work if the police were abolished, but capitalism not. At the end of the column it says:

“Only one suitable option suddenly occurs to me: the landfill. Not as garbage people with keys to houses, but on the dump where they are really only surrounded by rubbish. You will certainly feel most comfortable with your own kind. "

- Hengameh Yaghoobifarah : All cops are disabled (June 2020)

The text has been criticized by some journalists and politicians as equating people with garbage. Others saw it as a satire and criticism of the police. The journalist Marc Felix Serrao called the column in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung a “sedition disguised as satire”. According to Brigitte Baetz on Deutschlandfunk , the text contained “ group-related enmity ”. In contrast, the actor and author Schlecky Silberstein defended the column in Deutschlandfunk Kultur as a successful satire and certified that the critics had a wrong understanding of the text.

The German Police Union and the Berlin Police Union announced that they would file reports against the daily newspaper. On the other hand, the police chief Barbara Slowik referred in an internal letter to the 25,000 employees of the police on the freedom of expression and freedom of the press , which is very far protected in Germany, and on the judicial decisions on " All Cops Are Bastards " and " Soldiers are murderers ". The German Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier condemned the metaphor of “disposal” in a public speech on June 22nd .

There were heated discussions and criticism of the column in the taz editorial team. The editor Bettina Gaus , who has been working for taz since 1989, accused the author of the “garbage column” of violating the basic principle of the taz editorial team, respect for human dignity , for the sake of clickbaiting : “She knew what she was writing. And it has violated human dignity. What else? ”The editor-in-chief Barbara Junge wrote:“ A column, however satirical it may have been meant, that can be understood as if the police were nothing but garbage, went wrong. I'm sorry. ”In his contribution to the debate , the journalist Stefan Reinecke judged that no victim status justifies collective degradation:“ Polemics? With pleasure. Misanthropic imagery? No. ”The text is a“ gesture of social contempt ”. Police officers who are useless for anything - that is "the view from the heights of discursive educational and linguistic power down". In contrast, the responsible department head of taz 2 , Saskia Hödl, read the column as a "polemical and satirical-grotesque criticism of a power structure, of a monopoly of violence and of a series of unresolved and unhindered murders in Germany". She stood behind Yaghoobifarah, many in the taz had expressed their solidarity.

Pieke Biermann commented on July 2nd: “Obviously nobody drew the columnist's attention to the clarity of thought necessary for public writing. As a migration- background , non-binary long-term columnist: in perhaps untouchable , is one enjoying puppy protection, so to speak? Then identity politics would be a solid foundation for paternalistic kitsch. "

Book publications

  • Looks Like Lookism. In: Lea Schmid, Darla Diamond, Petra Pflaster (eds.): Lookism: Standardized Bodies - Discriminatory Mechanisms - (Self-) Empowerment. Unrast, Münster 2017, ISBN 978-3-89771-139-6 .
  • I was on the Fusion and all I got was a bloody heart. Essay illustrated by El Boum. SuKuLTuR, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-95566-082-6 .
  • as editor together with Fatma Aydemir : Your home is our nightmare. Ullstein, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-96101-036-3 .
  • together with Stefanie Lohaus : "We make identity politics out of self-defense": A lemonade at Missy Magazine. In: Eva Berendsen, Saba-Nur Cheema, Meron Mendel (ed.): Trigger Warning: Identity politics between defense, isolation and alliances. Verbrecherverlag, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-95732-380-4 , pp. 191-206 (conversation about bashing identity politics and the usual fan problems).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hengameh Yaghoobifarah in conversation with Anja Sackarendt and Stefan Forth: "People say: 'Go back to your homeland'". In: NDR Kultur : Podcast. July 26, 2019, accessed on July 4, 2020 (with audio: 29:30 minutes).
  2. ↑ a b c Profile: About us. In: Missy Magazine . June 30, 2020, accessed July 4, 2020; Quote: "Hengameh Yaghoobifarah * 1991, editor [...] and now works as a freelance journalist, essayist and editor in Berlin [...]".
  3. ↑ Profile: Hengameh Yaghoobifarah. In: Speakerinnen.org. Without date, accessed on July 4, 2020 (German).
  4. ↑ Hengameh Yaghoobifarah: Gender Fluidity: How lucky to be a 90s kid. In: The time . September 2, 2018, accessed July 4, 2020; Quote: “I am non-binary or in German: non-binary. This is an umbrella term for many different genders , from gender fluid to genderless (agender) , which have one thing in common: They do not fit into the binary categories of man and woman. "
  5. ↑ Hengameh Yaghoobifarah: Prada Loth @habibitus. In: Twitter.com . Accessed July 4, 2020; Indication of the pronouns: "they / them / de: no pronouns [...] Since January 2013 on Twitter [...] 23,469 followers".
  6. ↑ a b Amina Aziz (Ed.): Encyclopaedia Almanica. Edition Assemblage, Münster 2020, ISBN 978-3-96042-073-6 , foreword p. 3 ( preview on dropbox.com); Quote: “The account habibitus of Hengameh Yaghoobifarah is perhaps the most prominent of the accounts shown. […] They, Hengameh's pronoun as a non-binary person, receives insults under almost every tweet […] ”.
  7. ↑ Erica Fischer : Gender-Outlaw: Hengameh Yaghoobifarah. In: Same: Feminism Revisited. Berlin-Verlag, Munich March 2019, ISBN 978-3-8270-1387-3 , pp. 151–178, here p. 152 ( page preview in the Google book search); Quote: “Right at the beginning of our conversation [...] she wants to clarify the address she wants: 'I don't want to be addressed as a woman, but as a non-binary person, which means that I don't identify as a woman, but also not as a man . It should not be called Ms. Hengameh or something, but simply the journalist Hengameh or something. '"
  8. ^ A b Barbara Junge : On our own behalf: wrestling for a text. In: taz.de. June 20, 2020, accessed June 23, 2020.
  9. ↑ Hengameh Yaghoobifarah: It gets better. Or? In: SPEX . January 31, 2019, accessed March 3, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Articles : Hengameh Yaghoobifarah. In: an.schlag . 2020, accessed March 3, 2020.
  11. ↑ Articles : Hengameh Yaghoobifarah. In: taz.de . 2020, accessed March 3, 2020.
  12. ↑ Gertrud Lehnert, Maria Weilandt (ed.): Is fashion queer? New perspectives in fashion research . Transcript, Bielefeld 2016, ISBN 978-3-8376-3490-7 , p. 224 .
  13. ↑ Nominees 2018: Prize for music journalists. In: listen-to-berlin-award.de . 2018, accessed July 4, 2020; Quote: "The award will be given to a person who has pioneered the development of artists in Berlin."
  14. ↑ a b Perlentaucher.de : Review notes on Your home is our nightmare. Retrieved July 4, 2020.
  15. ↑ Sebastian Doerfler in conversation with Nana Brink: “Encyclopaedia Almanica”: This is how it ticks, the Alman. In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur . March 26, 2020, accessed June 16, 2020.
  16. ↑ Hengameh Yaghoobifarah: Fusion Revisited: Carnival of the Cultureless - See you in two years. Maybe until never. In: Missy Magazine . July 5, 2016, accessed March 3, 2020 .
  17. ↑ Marcus Latton: Cultural appropriation is equated with racism - each tribe has its own customs. In: Jungle World . September 1, 2016, accessed March 3, 2020.
  18. ^ Anja Hertz: Comment: New right arguing left. In: New Germany . September 2, 2016, accessed March 3, 2020.
  19. ↑ Dominique Haensel: The bad, bad essentialism. In: analysis & criticism . October 18, 2016, accessed March 3, 2020.
  20. ↑ Hengameh Yaghoobifarah: Column Habibitus: Germans, get rid of yourself! In: taz.de . October 22, 2017, accessed June 23, 2020; Quote: “The German hatred of Muslims and the paranoia of whatever that is supposed to be - Islamization of the German (literally) filthy culture prevents potatoes from leading a better life. Better to set up a pork lobby than accept halal meat in your canteen. "
  21. ↑ Jan Fleischhauer : Fight against the right: haters are always the other. In: Der Spiegel . October 26, 2017, accessed June 23, 2020.
  22. ↑ Elke Halefeldt: Racism Debate on the Net: Good Hatred, Bad Hatred. In: Cicero.de . October 30, 2017, accessed June 23, 2020.
  23. ↑ Hengameh Yaghoobifarah: Column Habibitus - Abolition of the Police: All cops are unable to work. In: taz.de . June 15, 2020, accessed June 23, 2020.
  24. ↑ Boris Rosenkranz: Policemen called "rubbish": "taz" defends rubbish column. In: Übermedien.de . June 17, 2020, accessed June 23, 2020.
  25. ^ Message: Saskia Esken: SPD leader criticizes Horst Seehofer. In: The time . June 23, 2020, accessed June 23, 2020.
  26. ↑ Marc Felix Serrao : Comment: Police officers on the trash? With the «TAZ», satire can also be seditious. In: NZZ.ch . June 16, 2020, accessed June 23, 2020.
  27. ↑ Constantin van Lijnden : Column on the police: The garbage disposal of the "taz". In: FAZ.net. June 17, 2020, accessed June 23, 2020.
  28. ↑ Brigitte Baetz : "taz" police column: group-related misanthropy. In: Deutschlandfunk . June 18, 2020, accessed June 23, 2020
  29. ↑ Schlecky Silberstein in conversation with Julius Stucke: Police column of the "taz": The standard for texts cannot be the least intellectual. In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur . June 17, 2020, accessed June 23, 2020.
  30. ↑ Message: Policemen compared with garbage: Police unions display "taz". In: Tagesspiegel.de. June 16, 2020, accessed June 23, 2020.
  31. ^ A b Matthias Meisner , Alexander Fröhlich: Police officers on the trash? A column in the “taz” also polarizes in its own editorial team. In: Tagesspiegel.de . June 18, 2020, accessed June 23, 2020.
  32. ↑ Nico Fried: After police critical "taz" article: Merkel brakes Seehofer. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . June 22, 2020, accessed July 4, 2020.
  33. ↑ Bettina Gaus : People and Garbage. In: taz.de. June 20, 2020, accessed June 23, 2020.
  34. ↑ Stefan Reinecke: The taz, the police and the garbage. We need to talk. In: taz.de. June 20, 2020 - quoted from Perlentaucher.de, accessed on July 4, 2020.
  35. ^ Saskia Hödl: taz debate on garbage column. Who's speaking? Who is silent? In: taz.de. June 21, 2020, accessed July 4, 2020.
  36. ↑ Pieke Biermann : Commentary - “taz” column: Einstürzende Luftbauten. In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur . July 2, 2020, accessed July 4, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Yaghoobifarah, Hengameh
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, columnist, activist
DATE OF BIRTH 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel