Möllner speech in exile

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The Mölln Speech in Exile is a commemorative event that critically examines the official commemoration of the city of Mölln and commemorates the arson attack of November 23, 1992 in Mölln . They have been taking place in different cities since 2013.

The 10- and 14-year-old girls Yeliz Arslan and Ayşe Yılmaz and their 51-year-old grandmother Bahide Arslan died in the Mölln murder. Ibrahim Arslan, then seven years old, survived because his grandmother Bahide Arslan wrapped him in damp cloths in the burning house in order to save his life. Ibrahim Arslan criticized the city of Mölln for not giving the victims' voices a sufficient hearing at the memorial. His aim is to focus on the perspective of the victims of right-wing extremist and racist attacks when remembering and commemorating.

Emergence

Every year on the anniversary of the attack, the city of Mölln organizes an official commemoration in which Ibrahim Arslan did not see himself involved as a victim. He felt more like an extra for the event. Together with his father Faruk Arslan and the Freundeskreis in memory of the xenophobic arson attacks in Mölln in 1992, he initiated the Mölln speech in exile in 2013, which focuses on the perspective of those affected and discusses current developments in racism and neo-Nazism .

Speaker

2013: Kutlu Yurtseve

In 2013 the speech took place for the first time in exile in Hamburg. The Cologne rapper Kutlu Yurtseven from the band Microphone Mafia spoke , who is also involved in the dispute over the NSU's nail bomb attack in Cologne's Keupstrasse . On November 25, 2013, demonstrations and a solidarity concert in Mölln commemorated the victims of the attack and other victims of right-wing violence.

2014: Adetoun Kueppers-Adebisi

In 2014, Adetoun Kueppers-Adebisi (author, journalist, lecturer for black and African-German literature at the Humboldt University of Berlin) spoke in Lüneburg.

2015: Argyris Sfountouris

In 2015 Argyris Sfountouris , survivor of the SS massacre in Distomo, Greece on June 10, 1944, gave the Möllner speech in exile in Bremen.

2016: Doğan Akhanlı

In 2016 the speech took place in Cologne in cooperation with the Keupstraße ist everywhere initiative . The writer Doğan Akhanlı spoke . On June 9, 2004, members of the NSU carried out a nail bomb attack in Cologne's Keupstrasse , in which numerous people were injured.

2017: Esther Bejarano

In 2017 Esther Bejarano's speech was given in Berlin. Esther Bejarano is a survivor of the Auschwitz extermination camp. She had to play in the girls' orchestra in Auschwitz. Today she still campaigns against racism and neo-fascism.

2019: İdil Baydar

In 2019 the cabaret artist İdil Baydar gave the speech in the Historical Museum in Frankfurt am Main. In the run-up to the speech, death threats were sent to her as SMS with the wording “If you give the Möllner speech in exile on November 17, 2019, I'll shoot you. Signed with SS Obersturmbannführer ”. Nevertheless, the speech took place under increased police protection.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ibrahim Arslan - How a person affected by right-wing violence wants to help other victims. Accessed November 20, 2019 (German).
  2. ↑ Commemoration on November 23, 2019 for the 27th anniversary of the Mölln arson attacks | Mölln - The Eulenspiegel town. Retrieved November 20, 2019 .
  3. ↑ 25 years after the arson attack in Mölln - remembrance with tension. Accessed November 20, 2019 (German).
  4. ↑ Gedenken Mölln 1992. Retrieved on November 20, 2019 (German).
  5. ↑ 100 demonstrators recall arson attacks. Retrieved November 20, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Arson attacks in Mölln - Fighting for memory | leftvision. Retrieved November 20, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Comment from freundeskreismoelln on January 28, 2015 8:20 pm : Moellner Speech in Exile - Speech of Moelln in Exile - Adetoun Kueppers-Adebisi - In Memoriam of Victims of Racism in Germany In Memoriam Victims of Racism Germany. In: AFROTAK TV cyberNomads Africa Germany Media Archive BLACK GERMAN MEDIA MAGAZINE - Black Germans Education Culture Media Art Literature ARCHIVE - Pan Afrika Fernsehen. November 11, 2014, accessed on November 20, 2019 (German).
  8. ↑ reclaim and remember - The Möllner speech in exile in Cologne. Accessed November 20, 2019 (German).
  9. ↑ "Some think that they can close with us, but we will always be there." In: NSU Watch. November 17, 2017, accessed on November 20, 2019 (German).
  10. ↑ mass: Möllner speech in the HAU: Unbending in exile. In: Young Migrants. November 20, 2017, accessed on November 20, 2019 (German).
  11. ^ Frankfurt: Möllner speech in exile under police protection. November 17, 2019, accessed November 20, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Ayesha Khan: Möllner Speech in Exile: Commemoration under police protection - taz.de. Retrieved December 7, 2019 .