Maria Stern (singer-songwriter)

Maria Stern (2016)

Maria Stern (born September 5, 1972 in East Berlin ) is an Austrian singer-songwriter , teacher , writer and politician . From September 1, 2018 to December 14, 2019, she was party leader of NOW - List Pilz (formerly List Peter Pilz ). It made child poverty in Austria and the mostly precarious living conditions of single parents a political issue. Topics that were taken over by the SPÖ and the Greens .

Live and act

Maria Stern was born in East Berlin . After primary school in Innsbruck , she attended the Waldorf School in Linz , graduated in 1990 from the upper secondary school in Vienna- Neubau and toured Germany with songs by the Russian singer Wladimir Semjonowitsch Wyssozki as part of the presentation of Marion Yershova's novel Honigland Bitterland .

From 1991 she took acting lessons at the theater school GAMES (Graumann Acting Musical Entertainment Studio) at the Graumanntheater in Vienna. In 1994 she completed an apprenticeship at the "International Studio for Movement Theater in the Odeon" (Vienna and Dolcedo , Italy ). Between 1991 and 1994 she took part in numerous theater and film productions at home and abroad and worked as a model from 1994 to 1999 .

From 1996 to 1999 she studied dance ( eurythmy ) at the Academie voor Euritmie (Faculty of the Hogeschool Helicon ) in The Hague , from which she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts dance in education after a baby break . She lived in Switzerland for a year and spent a lot of time in Pančevo , Serbia . From September 2009 to November 2017 she taught eurythmy and political education at the Waldorf School in Pötzleinsdorf near Vienna and was a mentor in the upper school.

In 2016 Maria Stern began writing a crime novel series with the main character Clara Coban . She is a delegate of the IG authors .

Political and musical work

In 2011 you initiated the child support petition ? Yes, please! and founded the Child Support Forum in 2015 . With numerous musical and political appearances and standing (stand-in) in front of parliament, she drew attention to the need to modernize child maintenance law.

In 2014 her song “One Billion Rising - Why?” Was recorded as an Austrian contribution by the Autonome Österreichische Frauenhäuser (AÖF) association for the One Billion Rising international day of action against violence against women and girls with prominent singers under the direction of Herbert Pichler (VBW). In 2015 she started the photo campaign “Dancing against (die) poverty” with the photographer Marianne Weiss .

She has been a member of Margit Fischer 's Women's Council since 2009, and since 2016 a member of an alliance consisting of the Austrian Women's Ring , the Austrian platform for single parents and members of the National Council , which calls for child support .

Stern sang at events of the party The Greens - The Green Alternative , for example she appeared as a singer at "30 Years of Green Women" and "The Greens Vienna - International Whore Day", at events close to the SPÖ ( Chamber of Labor , Margit Fischer 's Women's Council ), in parliament, the AMS , the Ombudsman Board and at numerous demonstrations. Until the announcement of her candidacy in the National Council election in 2017 on the Peter Pilz list , she was the spokeswoman for the Austrian “Women * Popular Initiative 2.0” (2017). From the constituent meeting of the Pilz list, she was deputy party chairwoman.

From December 1, 2017 she was the area spokesperson for women (without a mandate in the National Council). On August 20, 2018, she was unanimously elected chairwoman.

criticism

In February 2019, a YouTube video became known in which Stern sings the " Strache song" and raises his hand in the Hitler salute . In particular, the FPÖ saw it as an act of National Socialist re-engagement and forwarded the video to the NS reporting office of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and the Fight against Terrorism (BVT); The Ring of Freedom Students spoke of playing down the crimes of National Socialism and announced a statement of facts to the public prosecutor. Maria Stern assured that the gesture should be understood in the context of satire. She “only waved.” In 2010 she was threatened with a lawsuit from Fiona Swarovski, because of the satirical “Swarovski song” during the protest song contest in the Rabenhof Theater .

Discography

• 2009 Intermezzo , Studio Stern, Vienna
• 2010 Swarovski song , final of the FM4 protest song contest
• 2010 Jasmijn , Studio Stern, Vienna
• 2013 Hausfrauenwalzer , Studio Stern, Vienna
• 2014 crisis-proof , Studio Stern, Vienna
• 2014 One Billion Rising - Why , AÖF, funded by the Ministry of Women
• 2015 No beautiful country , trilingual version (German, Arabic, Ugandan) with the participation of Nadja Maleh , Jenny Bell and Beatrix Neundlinger on the occasion of the Refugees welcome campaign

Publications

• The fairy tale year: Verses for eurythmy with music , Otanes Verlag, Berlin 2009. ISBN 978-3-931370-89-3 .
• Contributions in: Clemens Sedmak (editor), reader on social exclusion, volume 1: Aspects of poverty in wealthy societies 1st edition, Mandelbaum Verlag , Vienna 2014. ISBN 978-3-854764-57-1 .
• Contributions in: Clemens Sedmak (editor), reader on social exclusion, Volume 2: Everyday worlds-everyday experiences 1st edition, Mandelbaum-Verlag, Vienna 2015. ISBN 978-3-854764-93-9 .
• Acetat - Clara Coban's first case novel, 1st edition, Wortreich Verlag, Vienna 2016. ISBN 978-3-903091-17-7 .
• Wassermann - Clara Coban's second case novel, 1st edition, Wortreich Verlag, Vienna 2018. ISBN 978-3-903091-51-1 .
• Politics after Corona , 1st edition, Wieser-Verlag, Vienna 2020. ISBN 978-3-99029-426-0

Awards

• 2011 FM4 audience award "for misunderstood achievements for the recovery of mankind"

Web links

Commons : Maria Stern  - Collection of Images

• official homepage
• Child support forum
• Dancing against (the) poverty
• Literature by and about Maria Stern in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ List Pilz - National Council Club, MPs & Topics. Accessed December 10, 2018 (German). 
2. ↑ Stern: In the Pilz list NOW everything is new partei.jetzt, media owner: NOW - Pilz list (political party), December 5, 2018, accessed February 16, 2019.
3. ↑ Maria Stern: songs, poems, texts urbanite.net , accessed November 6, 2016.
4. ↑ crime writers: Maria Stern krimiautoren.at , accessed 6 November 2016.
5. ↑ Maria Stern: Green Women ( Memento of the original from October 16, 2016 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. diegrünenfrauenwien.at , accessed November 6, 2016. 
6. ↑ Very, very angry Anschlaege.at , accessed November 6, 2016.
7. ↑ New Deal for Children derstandard.at , August 1, 2016, accessed November 6, 2016.
8. ↑ Tanja Paar: Lack of lobby for single parents derstandard.at , April 29, 2016, accessed November 6, 2016.
9. ↑ My name is ... augustin.or.at , accessed November 6, 2016.
10. ↑ One trillion Rising 1billionrising.at, accessed 6 November 2016.
11. ↑ Die Grünen: 30 Years of Green Women , accessed on November 7, 2016.
12. ↑ The Greens: International Whore Day , accessed on November 7, 2016.
13. ^ "List of mushrooms": field test with lone fighters. diepresse.com , July 25, 2017, accessed February 16, 2019.
14. ↑ Pilz list: Maria Stern elected as the new party leader orf.at, August 20, 2018, accessed August 20, 2018.
15. ↑ Hitler salute: Video of singing list-now boss Stern causes a stir. In: www.kleinezeitung.at. February 5, 2019, accessed April 29, 2019 . 
16. ^ Hitler salute in Maria Stern's music video outraged FPÖ. In: Niederösterreichische Nachrichten. February 5, 2019, accessed April 29, 2019 . 
17. ↑ Fellner! Live: Maria Stern on the "Strache Song". OE24.TV. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VO3QTsYVfxM . accessed on August 1, 2019.
18. ↑ Swarovski Song augustin.or.at , accessed November 6, 2016.
19. ↑ The protest song 2010 ( memento of the original from November 6, 2016 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. fm4.orf.at , accessed November 6, 2016. 
20. ^ Ten Protestants fm4.orf.at , accessed November 6, 2016.
21. ↑ Kurt, you don't know yourself from augustin.or.at , accessed November 6, 2016.
22. ↑ acetate brief description, krimiautoren.at accessed February 16, 2019.