Hilal Sezgin

Hilal Sezgin (born May 29, 1970 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a Turkish - German writer , publicist and journalist .

Hilal Sezgin 2011

Life

Hilal Sezgin is the daughter of the Islamic scholars Ursula and Fuat Sezgin . She has German and Turkish citizenship. After graduating from high school in Braunschweig , she studied philosophy in Frankfurt am Main with a focus on moral philosophy and political theory as well as sociology and German studies . She lives in a village in the Lüneburg district .

Journalistic work

Sezgin is one of the few Muslim authors who report for national newspapers in Germany. She mainly deals with feminism , Islam and Islamophobia as well as animal ethics . Sezgin writes background texts, essays and columns for newspapers and magazines, such as the column Meine Tiere , which has appeared in the Frankfurter Rundschau and Berliner Zeitung since 2011 . Since 2006 she has been one of the pothole columnists on the opinion page of the taz . From 2007 to 2010 she was one of the four regular authors of the Islamic Word at SWR .

She made her debut as a book author in 1999 with the historical crime novel The Death of the Tailor .

A collection of feature articles that she wrote for the Frankfurter Rundschau was published in book form in 2005: Little ABC of Freedoms . In 2006 the non-fiction book Typisch Türkin? , in which she portrayed the new generation of German women of Turkish origin. Together with Nasr Hamid Abu Zaid , she published Mohammed and the Signs of God (2008), a book about the Koran and the future of Islam. She advocates the recognition of same-sex civil partnerships and defends the right of Muslim women to wear headscarves in work and in public . In 2010 she initiated an open letter from German Muslims entitled You are our President to the then Federal President Christian Wulff . In 2011 she published a collection of works entitled The Manifesto of the Many . In the book, 30 authors with a migration background criticize Thilo Sarrazin's theses in his book Germany Abolishes Itself .

Hilal Sezgin published three books on animal use, animal rights and veganism . The 2014 published book Artgerecht is only freedom provided Thomas Macho in the NZZ in a row with Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals , Karen Duve Decent food and Zoopolis by Sue Donaldson. Eckard Fuhr said in Die Welt that a rigorous animal ethic, such as Sezgin's demand, invalidates central human rights. The book Why? Why? Vegan! , published in 2016, wrote for readers aged 12 and over. But Armin Pfahl-Traughber said in a review that it was not about a youth non -fiction book. Her plea for an animal-friendly life is "journalistic and not scientific, appealing and not neutral". But the author is "on no single page level or generalized".

Sezgin criticizes environmentalists for their meat consumption and speaks out against zoos . She has been running a sanctuary for sheep in the Lüneburg Heath since 2007 and is vegan herself. For the features section of the Frankfurter Rundschau writes the column under animals .

Memberships

Hilal Sezgin is a member of the Liberal-Islamic Association and a member of the jury for the best non-fiction book of the Süddeutsche Zeitung and, since April 2016, also on the jury of the NDR Kultur Sachbuchpreis .

Awards

• 2005: Honorable mention at the awarding of the young journalist's award
• 2010: Title one of the European Muslim Women of Influence of the "Strategic Dialogue"
• 2016: Mentioned among the 25 women who make our world better , digital magazine Edition F

Fonts

• The death of the bespoke tailor. Novel. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1999; Diana, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-453-17717-7
• Little ABC of freedom. Feature sections. Helmer, Königstein im Taunus 2005, ISBN 3-89741-189-X
• Typical Turkish woman? Portrait of a new generation. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 2006; ibid. 2010, ISBN 978-3-451-06092-2
• Mohammed and the signs of God. The Koran and the future of Islam . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 2008; New edition 2011, ISBN 978-3-451-06145-5 (collaboration)
• Mihriban doesn't care about God. Novel. DuMont, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-8321-9554-0
• Country Life. From someone who pulled out . DuMont, Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-8321-9623-3
• (as editor) Manifesto of the Many. Germany is reinventing itself. Blumenbar, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-936738-74-2
• Only freedom is appropriate to the species. An ethic for animals or why we have to rethink. CH Beck, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-406-65904-1
• Hilal Sezgin's animal life. From pigs and other contemporaries. CH Beck, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-406-66658-2
• How so? Why? Vegan! Why animals have rights and schnitzel is bad for the climate. Fischer children's and youth paperback, Frankfurt am Main 2016, ISBN 978-3-7336-0252-9 .
• Doing nothing is not a solution. Political responsibility in times of upheaval. DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne 2017, ISBN 978-3-8321-9881-7 .

Web links

Commons : Hilal Sezgin  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Literature by and about Hilal Sezgin in the catalog of the German National Library
• Review notes on Perlentaucher.de
• Personal website of Sezgins

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Interview with the online magazine Schattenblick , October 2012, accessed on September 28, 2014
2. ↑ ^{a b} Deutschlandradio Kultur from March 16, 2011: Review
3. ↑ Nimet Şeker: There is no typical Turkish woman. Portrait, qantara.de, March 5, 2009, online
4. ↑ Self-presentation on Hilal Sezgin's website . Retrieved September 28, 2014
5. ↑ Biography at Perlentaucher.de . Retrieved September 28, 2014
6. ↑ Reviews at Perlentaucher.de . Retrieved September 28, 2014
7. ↑ Hilal Sezgin: Muslims for Homoehe taz.de, August 24, 2011. Retrieved on July 24, 2013
8. ↑ Headscarf women. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , May 17, 2010, online
9. ↑ You are our President. Open letter from German Muslims to Federal President Christian Wulff. In: Die tageszeitung, September 13, 2010, online
10. ↑ Do you see us? The "Manifesto of the Many" forms against Sarrazin Zeit Online, March 7, 2011. Retrieved September 29, 2011
11. ↑ Hilal Sezgin (ed.) Manifesto of the Many
12. ↑ Review note in Perlentaucher
13. ↑ Eckhard Fuhr: Anyone who wants animal rights paves the way for euthanasia. In: Die Welt, January 30, 2014, online
14. ↑ Armin Pfahl-Traughber: Hilal Sezgin's plea for an animal-friendly life. "Because we can" , review in: Humanistischer Pressedienst, June 9, 2016
15. ↑ Hilal Sezgin: Der Weltenretter her meat , taz.de, October 5, 2011
16. ↑ Hilal Sezgin: Behind the Scenes of the Showcase Zoo , FAZ.net, July 3, 2014
17. ↑ Friederike Gräff: Hilal Sezgin on animal rights “I am also of no use” , Taz, March 11, 2014 .
    We suppress cruelty . By Hilal Sezgin (journalist and writer), in: Federal Agency for Political Education, September 2, 2019
18. ^ Hilal Sezgin: Among animals. Veganism instead of organic piglets , FRI, April 4, 2018
19. ↑ http://www.journalistinnenbund.de/verein/jb_nachwuchspreis/begruendung_nachwuchspreis_2005.html  ( 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.  
20. ↑ European Muslim Women of Influence, brochure on the award ceremony ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , London 2010 
21. ↑ online , accessed October 26, 2018