International Holocaust Caricature Competition

Carlos Latuff's contribution to the competition. A Palestinian standing near the Israeli barriers is depicted in concentration camp inmate clothing with an Islamic crescent moon instead of a Jewish star as identification .

The International Holocaust Cartoon Competition was announced in 2006 by the state Iranian newspaper Hamshahri and in 2016 by the Iranian cultural institute Sarcheshmeh . The competitions were in each case declared reactions to newspapers that published Mohammed cartoons after attacks . The first competition was announced after the attempted murder of the cartoonist Kurt Westergaard , the second after the attack on Charlie Hebdo .

history

First Holocaust Caricature Competition 2006

The newspaper Hamshahri published by the Tehran municipal administration called for the first competition in February 2006. A total of 1,100 entries were received from 60 countries. The competition was strongly condemned , among others, by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan , the organization Reporters Without Borders and the Anti Defamation League .

The competition was announced in response to the Danish Mohammed cartoons . According to the initiators, his goal is to find out how far the freedom of expression in Western society goes. If the publication of the Mohammed cartoons is covered by freedom of expression, Holocaust cartoons should also be allowed. The competition was widely criticized as a call to deny the Holocaust , and individual Iranian intellectuals were also critical. In response to the competition, Amitai Sandy and Eyal Zusman organized the Israeli Anti-Semitic Caricature Competition .

The editor Flemming Rose von Jyllands-Posten , who had published the Mohammed cartoons, announced on February 8, 2006 that he wanted to publish the Holocaust cartoons. On the same day, the editor-in-chief Carsten Juste said that Jyllands-Posten would never print the caricatures and that Rose was being sent on leave for an indefinite period. Rose apologized days later and spoke of a mistake. The Danish newspaper Information printed six of the cartoons in September 2006.

On November 1, 2006, the winners of the competition were announced. First prize with prize money of US $ 12,000 went to the Moroccan Abdellah Derkaoui. The second prize, with prize money of 8,000 US dollars, was shared by the Brazilian cartoonist Carlos Latuff and, under the pseudonym A. Chard, the Frenchwoman Françoise Pichard , who works for the right-wing extremist magazine Rivarol , among others . Your drawing refers to the theses of the neo-Nazi and Holocaust denier Robert Faurisson , who brought down the "gas chamber lie". The remaining prizes went to six Iranian nationals, one Moroccan, Jordanian, Syrian, Italian and two Brazilians. In his drawing, the Moroccan Naji Benaji compared the Holocaust with the situation of the Palestinians: A small number of skulls stand next to a bottle full of skulls.

Holocaust Conference in Iran 2006

The International Holocaust Caricature Competition was followed on December 11th and 12th by the Holocaust Conference in Tehran .

Second Holocaust Caricature Competition 2016

In response to the Mohammed caricatures in the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and other Western media, the Iranian cultural institute Sarcheshmeh announced a second Holocaust caricature competition in 2015 after the attack on Charlie Hebdo . The competition took place, again in Tehran, in May 2016 and met with global protests and wide media coverage.

literature

• Christian Pape: International Holocaust Caricature Competition (2006) . In: Wolfgang Benz (Hrsg.): Handbuch des Antisemitismus . Volume 7: Literature, Film, Theater and Art. De Gruyter Saur, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-11-034088-4 , p. 184 ff.

Web links

• The winners of the competition
• The 232 cartoons submitted
• Holocaust caricatures on display. Iran reacts to cartoons of Mohammed , Neue Zürcher Zeitung , August 15, 2006
• Holocaust caricatures awarded , Stern , November 2, 2006

Individual evidence

1. ↑ nzz.online from August 15, 2006
2. ^ Moroccan wins first place in Iran Holocaust cartoon contest in: Haaretz , November 1, 2006
3. ↑ Associated Press: Iran says Holocaust cartoon contest expresses hatred toward oppressors ( Memento of the original from May 16, 2008 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. , November 2, 2006 
4. ↑ Arab Media Review: Anti-Semitism and Other Trends July - December 2006 ( Memento of the original from August 6, 2010 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. , January 24, 2007  
5. ↑ Cartoon row editor sent on leave , BBC News, February 10, 2006
6. ^ Paper reprints Holocaust cartoons , BBC News, September 8, 2006
7. ↑ Jürg Altwegg: Noam Chomsky and the reality of the gas chambers. Time online , November 21, 2012
8. ^ Christiane Peitz: Iranian Cultural Institute launches competition for Holocaust caricatures. In: tagesspiegel.de . February 25, 2015, accessed March 1, 2015 . 
9. ^ Exhibition in Tehran Federal government condemns Holocaust caricatures in Iran . In: Der Spiegel . May 18, 2016.
10. ^ Holocaust exhibition: Caricatures with aftertaste Reinhard Baumgarten NDR / ARD May 19, 2016
11. ^ Anti-Jewish caricature competition Provocation of the Iranian hardliners by Daniel Steinvorth in Neue Zürcher Zeitung .
12. ↑ Holocaust caricatures calculated provocation by Christoph Heinz in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . May 21, 2016.
13. ↑ Caricature competition on the Holocaust at an Iranian university: German scientists are outraged by Susanne Klaiber in The Huffington Post . April 27, 2016.