Jan Feddersen

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Jan Feddersen (2014)

Jan Feddersen (born July 14, 1957 in Hamburg ) is a German journalist and editor for the Berlin daily taz , who deals with topics of social and historical politics , sexuality , discourse theory , pop and hit music as well as portraits of celebrities.

Life

Jan Feddersen studied sociology in Hamburg and graduated from the Hamburg University of Economics and Politics as a social economist . As a student, he trained a. a. with Hans-Georg Stümke a working group of gay members in the Communist League .

Feddersen exercised various activities in the course of his life. So he was a postman, furniture seller, insurance card sorter, future publishing clerk, newspaper deliverer, author and Säzzer in various left-wing media, for example labor struggle and modern times .

He began his career as a journalist as a volunteer for the Hamburg local edition of the taz . After that, he worked as a freelancer at Stern and was the young editor of Die Zeit for a year and a half . He has been part of the editorial team at taz in Berlin since 1996 , first in the opinion department, then in the domestic department. He was the co-founder and editor-in-chief of the culture magazine taz.mag , which was an editorial part of the weekend edition of taz from 1997 to 2009 . Since 2002, Feddersen has also been a freelancer for the entertainment program of Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) . Feddersen has been blogging Feddersen for NDR on eurovision.de about the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) since 2005 . He follows the career of the candidates and observes political developments in the participating countries. In addition to his journalistic activities, Feddersen teaches at the University of Hamburg .

Feddersen has been the curator of the taz lab , the taz congress in Berlin, since 2009 . He is also an author and interviewer especially for the weekend taz. His interests are: politics of the past since 1945, popular cultures of all kinds, especially the Eurovision Song Contest, political analysis of LGBTI * issues and questions of middle class criticism.

One focus of his journalistic work is homosexuality , especially its discrimination. Another is pop music and there in particular the ESC , on which he wrote several books.

Feddersen is the 1st board member of the Queer Nations initiative (as of February 2020) and is the moderator at its “Queer Lecture” event. In this role, he is also in charge of building a queer cultural center in Berlin, which is to be opened in 2022 under the name Elberskirchen-Hirschfeld-Haus (E2H) .

Feddersen has been married to the historian Rainer Nicolaysen since 2011 .

Conflict over the E2H 2020

As part of his work on the board of the IQN, after an announcement of an event, which was often criticized as trans-hostile, and with reference to earlier statements, there were allegations of transphobic positions at Feddersen and the second IQN board member Christiane Härdel . In a statement in Tagesspiegel of March 13, 2020, Feddersen commented on the allegations and denied the allegation of transphobism.

At the same time, the orientation of the E2H towards events and away from archive and research work, operated by Feddersen and Härdel, was criticized. On this basis, the Spinnboden lesbian archive decided to leave the E2H on February 27, 2020, as did the Schwules Museum and the Lili-Elbe-Archiv before . On March 3, the Magnus Hirschfeld Society announced that it would also leave the project without a clear course correction and look for alternatives with the Spinnboden and the FFBIZ . Queerformat also announced that it would draw conclusions. With the exception of the Federal Foundation Magnus Hirschfeld , whose board of directors is Feddersen, the LAZ reloaded (i.G., headed by Christiane Härdel) and the GEW Schwule Lehrer , all former partners have left the project.

Works (selection)

  • Woodstock. A festival outlives its disciples. Ullstein, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-548-35834-9 .
  • Merci, jury! The history of the Grand Prix Eurovision de la Chanson. Numbers-data-stories. Döcker, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-851-15274-3 .
  • A song can be a bridge. The German and international history of the Grand Prix Eurovision. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-455-09350-7 .
  • as editors: Tatjana Eggeling Martin Dannecker , Dagmar Herzog , Andreas Kraß : Eggeling - Dannecker - Herzog - Krass. Four lectures . Male swarm script, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-939542-26-1 ( Queer Lectures 1–4).
  • Miracles are happening from time to time. The big book for the Eurovision Song Contest. Construction Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-7466-7074-4 .
  • Phrase our. The anemic language of the Church . Claudius Verlag, Munich 2020, ISBN 978-3-532-62844-7 (with Philipp Gessler)

Web links

Commons : Jan Feddersen  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ mdr.de: MEDIEN360G in conversation with Jan Feddersen | MDR.DE. Retrieved April 18, 2019 .
  2. ^ A b Nicole Janke: Jan Feddersen: Man with an opinion. www.eurovision.de, July 14, 2017, accessed on February 23, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Bernd-Ulrich Hergemöller (Ed.): Mann für Mann , Lit-Verlag, Münster 2010, p. 1152.
  4. ↑ a b c d Editor for special tasks. In: www.taz.de. 2019, accessed February 22, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Inga Barthels: Taz event criticized as trans-hostile , tagesspiegel.de, published and accessed on February 25, 2020.
  6. ↑ queer.de: Feminism: Controversy over "transphobic" lecture in Berlin - queer.de , accessed on April 5, 2020
  7. ↑ tagesspiegel.de: (3) Discussion about the queer cultural center in Berlin: A queer institution that supports trans-hostility is worthless - Queer - Society - Tagesspiegel , accessed on April 5, 2020
  8. ↑ Jan Feddersen: Discussion about the queer house of culture: From the club of devaluation. The Queer Kulturhaus in Berlin was accused of being trans hostile. The board is resisting this. Here is a reply. In: Der Tagesspiegel . March 13, 2020, accessed April 13, 2020 .
  9. ↑ spinnboden.de: Spinnboden: E2H exit , accessed on April 5, 2020
  10. ↑ tgdwatch.wordpress.com: The Elberskirchen-Hirschfeld-Haus - A Queer House of Culture for Nobody - tgd_watch , accessed on April 5, 2020
  11. ↑ facebook.com: FFBIZ eV - feminist archive - articles , accessed on April 5, 2020
  12. ↑ magnus-hirschfeld.de: E2H , accessed on April 5, 2020
  13. ↑ facebook.com: (63) Queerformat Fachstelle Queere Bildung - Posts , accessed on April 5, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Feddersen, Jan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg