Jean Wyllys

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Jean Wyllys

Jean Wyllys de Matos Santos (born March 10, 1974 in Alagoinhas , Bahia ) is a Brazilian politician , author and journalist .

Life

Wyllys graduated from the Faculty of Communication at the Universidade Federal da Bahia with a Masters degree in Literature and Linguistics. After his studies he got a job as a university lecturer at the Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing (ESPM) and then at the Universidade Veiga de Almeida (UVA) in Brazil. He wrote columns for the Correio da Bahia and has been publishing his crônicas in book form since 2001 .

In 2005 Wyllys took part in the fifth Brazilian edition of the Big Brother Brasil (BBB5) program on the Rede Globo television channel and won it. This made him famous nationwide. He is a member of the left-wing party Partido Socialismo e Liberdade (PSOL). As a member of the State of Rio de Janeiro , he was a member of the Brazilian National Congress in Brasília from February 2011 to January 2019 . His positions basically correspond to the politically left spectrum. He was a strong advocate for the diversity and political rights of minorities in Brazil, including the right to same-sex marriage and the right to abortion . Wyllys sees the War on Drugs as a historical injustice of the global North against Latin America, which is why he called for the liberalization of at least some drugs such as marijuana . He also advocated the admission of refugees, as well as campaigning for quotas in the allocation of public positions based on gender and ancestry. In 2016 he discussed the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff with the then MP Jair Bolsonaro . Wyllys voted against Rousseff's impeachment, Bolsonaro in favor. After the vote there was an argument that ended with Wyllys spitting in Bolsonaro's face.

Wyllys was openly gay in Brazil. On March 14, 2018, the city councilor of Rio de Janeiro who was friends with Wyllys, Marielle Franco , an openly lesbian, black and left-wing politician, was murdered on the street. After increasing death threats against him and later his family - he was announced in emails that he would be next - he left the country in January 2019. He resigned his mandate and handed it over to the also openly homosexual MP David Miranda . Many rumors and fake news circulated about the transfer of his mandate to Miranda . Wyllys said he would report the politician and journalist Ratinho for spreading fake news. Wyllys initially gave no information about his whereabouts and stayed in Europe, including Madrid. At a performance in Portugal he was pelted with eggs, further specifically planned attacks against him could be prevented.

Wyllys announced in spring 2019 that he would settle in Berlin at the invitation of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation . Since March 2019, Wyllys has been regularly commenting on Brazilian politics in a blog from his exile.

Works

  • Aflitos. Crônicas e contos. Casa de Palavras da Fundação Casa de Jorge Amado, Salvador, Bahia 2001, ISBN 85-7278-063-7 (Prêmio Copene de Literatura, today Prêmio Braskem , Odebrecht).
  • Ainda Lembro. crônicas e experiências vividas no BBB5. Editora Globo, São Paulo 2005.
  • Tudo ao mesmo tempo agora. Crônicas e perturbacoes. Giostro Editora. 2009, ISBN 978-85-60157-10-5 .
  • Tempo bom tempo ruim. Identidades, políticas, afetos. Companhia das Letras, São Paulo 2014, ISBN 978-85-65530-64-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jean vence o "BBB 5" e leva para casa R $ 1 milhão Article on folha.uol.com.br from March 29, 2005. In German: Jean wins BBB5 and receives 1 million reais. Last accessed on April 30, 2019.
  2. ↑ Camera dos Deputados: Seminário LGBT discute casamento civil de homossexuais (Portuguese)  ( 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.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www2.camara.gov.br  
  3. ↑ Jean Wyllys propõe legalização da produção e venda de maconha Jean Wyllys proposes legalizing the production and sale of marijuana. Article on globo.com from March 21, 2014. Last accessed on July 2, 2019.
  4. ↑ Death threats against politicians in Brazil Jean Wyllys: "My friends in Brazil are in danger!" Report on Deutschlandfunk Nova of April 9, 2019. Last accessed on July 2, 2019.
  5. ↑ Veja: Jean Wyllys (Portuguese) ( Memento of the original from December 12, 2012 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / veja.abril.com.br
  6. ↑ Gay MP leaves the country after death threats Article on spon.de from January 29, 2019. Last accessed on July 2, 2019.
  7. ↑ Marian Blasbergg, Jens Glüsing: Der Sprengmeister , Der Spiegel (Hamburg), October 26, 2019, 96–100.
  8. ↑ “ Preto e gay”: saiba quem é David Miranda, suplente de Jean Wyllys on Metropoles.com (Brazilian Portuguese), accessed on March 26, 2019.
  9. ↑ Jean Wyllys vai processar Ratinho por propagação de fake news Jean Wyllys is going to denounce Ratinho for spreading fake news. Article on redebrasilatual.com.br from June 20, 2019. Last accessed on July 2, 2019.
  10. ↑ Homem que planejou atacar Jean Wyllys em Portugal é identificado The man who planned to attack Jean Wyllys in Portugal has been identified. Report on blogdacidadania.com.br of February 27, 2019. Last accessed on July 2, 2019.
  11. ↑ " Gay politician who fled Brazil settles in Berlin " on Queer.de, accessed on March 26, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Wyllys, Jean
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wyllys de Matos Santos, Jean (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian politician, author and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Alagoinhas , Bahia , Brazil