Marina Weisband

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Marina Weisband (2020)

Marina Weisband ( Ukrainian / Russian Марина Вайсбанд ; born October 4, 1987 in Kiev , Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union ) is a German politician ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ) of Ukrainian origin. From May 2011 to April 2012 she was political director and member of the federal board of the Pirate Party Germany .

Life

Origin and education

Weisband grew up as a child of a Jewish family in Kiev . In 1994 she and her parents moved to Germany as part of the scheme for quota refugees , where the family settled in Wuppertal . There Weisband completed her Abitur at the Carl-Fuhlrott-Gymnasium and studied psychology at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster from 2006 . She has been a certified psychologist since December 2013 .

Chernobyl

Weisband was born 16 months after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster on April 26, 1986, less than 100 km from the accident reactor. She was considered a Chernobyl child and had serious health problems, which she said were probably related to radiation exposure. At the age of four she was in the hospital for a long time and continued to struggle with illnesses in the months that followed. On the urgent advice of the doctors, her family eventually left Ukraine with her.

politics

Marina Weisband at the Federal Pirate Party Congress (2012)

In 2009 Weisband joined the Pirate Party. For the university group of the Pirate Party, she sat from December 2010 to November 2011 in the 53rd student parliament of the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster. She was also a member of the Münster district association in the North Rhine-Westphalia regional association . At the 2011 federal party conference in Heidenheim an der Brenz on May 15, 2011, she was elected as the successor to Christopher Lauer as political director of the Pirate Party; the office corresponds to that of the federal manager of other parties.

During her active time, Weisband campaigned for the "imparting of basic democratic values ​​to schoolchildren and young people" as well as for self-motivated and free learning. “ Common sense ” must also be enforced in the protection of minors , because “protecting children above all does not protect children”. Education is the "basic requirement for the knowledge society ". Furthermore, Weisband called for the recognition of foreign qualifications to be made easier.

In response to a survey by the polling institute Forsa from September 2011, in which the pirate party was nationwide at seven percent and according to which most voters saw the pirates as a protest party , Weisband told the news portal news.de that their party was not a “protests party with a long duration -Veto ”, the pirates had“ concrete goals such as more transparency in politics ”.

Marina Weisband, Andreas Baum (left) and Sebastian Nerz at the first Federal Press Conference of the Pirate Party in October 2011

In October 2011, members of the Pirate Party took part in the Federal Press Conference in Berlin for the first time with party chairman Sebastian Nerz , parliamentary group chairman in the Berlin House of Representatives Andreas Baum and Marina Weisband . Weisband named as the goals of her party above all "education in all shades - early childhood education, education as a prerequisite for political participation, education as a condition for a responsible life" and "freedom on the Internet and transparency of political processes". In addition, the pirates want a “fundamentally changed political style”. When asked about further differences to other parties, she said: "We don't offer a program, but an operating system."

In the discussion about how to deal with former members of the right-wing extremist NPD in her own ranks, she publicly distanced herself from party chairman Nerz and stated that his speech about "youthful sins" was inappropriate.

On January 25, 2012 Weisband announced her withdrawal from the party leadership. As a reason she cited health problems and the desire to write her thesis in psychology; Due to the changeover to the Bachelor - Master system in the course of the Bologna Process at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster, this is only possible until the 2013 summer semester. You still want to continue to get involved within the party.

After renouncing a second term in office, she announced that she had been exposed to anti-Semitic insults during her active time in the party leadership. In an interview, she said that was not a reason for her withdrawal. As one of the reasons she cited the unexpectedly great success of her party, she was not up to it and therefore needed a break. In addition, it had previously been agreed that she would only accept her political office for one legislative period.

After the failure of the exclusion process against the Holocaust relativizer and history revisionist Bodo T. Weisband called in April 2012 to take rigorous action against anti-Semitic and racist members. "It's bullshit that we have to tolerate right-wing extremist opinions," she commented.

In September 2016 Weisband announced that she had resigned from the pirates a year ago because “the pirate label was burned”. She quit quietly so as not to harm the pirate party. The reason for her resignation was that the progressive wing had been driven out of the party and that only conservative forces were represented there who wanted “the Internet within the limits of 1990”. Weisband did not rule out a return to politics with another party.

In May 2018 it became known that Marina Weisband is advising the Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen party on the development of the upcoming basic program on network policy issues. In October of the same year it became public that she had joined the party.

Other engagement

Weisband also works as a freelance artist. A selection of her drawings and paintings were exhibited in a cultural center in Mülheim an der Ruhr in 2009 . In addition, she is involved in the non-profit Wuppertal parents' association "3 × 3" e. V. and wrote a blog on FAZ.NET from November 2011 to October 2012 .

Since 2014 she has been leading the Aula - Schools Together project, funded by the Federal Agency for Civic Education , which aims to enable pupils from the fifth grade to actively participate in shaping their school environment and thus try out democratic action.

Private

Weisband lives in Münster, Westphalia . She married on June 1, 2013. She and her husband have a daughter who was born at the end of 2016.

She professes the Jewish religion . In addition to German, she also has Ukrainian citizenship .

reception

On the occasion of the Pirate Party's program convention in December 2011 in Offenbach , Spiegel Online wrote : “Offenbach also shows who the party's new star is: Marina Weisband. [...] and Offenbach shows how important Marina Weisband is for the cohesion of the party. " Focus Online comes to the conclusion:" She is the one everyone in the hall can agree on. "

The NDR TV media magazine Zapp reported in January 2012 on how the media dealt with Weisband.

On leaving Marina Weisband in April 2012, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung wrote: "She has raised more social capital for the pirates far beyond her party friends than probably any other party politician in recent years."

Fonts

In March 2013, her first book We Call It Politics was presented at the Leipzig Book Fair . Two weeks earlier, an unedited version was made available for free download. The Klett-Cotta Verlag stated that they were not pleased, but did not want to take action against the publication. The sale of the e-book was planned without copy protection anyway. Weisband intends that every buyer of her book should be able to redistribute it on the internet without any restrictions.

  • We call it politics. Ideas for a contemporary democracy . Tropen-Verlag (label from Klett-Cotta), Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-608-50319-7 .

Web links

Commons : Marina Weisband  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Cf. Marina Weisband's website: Hallo Welt , Ode to Wuppertal ; each accessed on November 1, 2011.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Compare information about Marina Weisband on the website User: Marina in the wiki of the Pirate Party Germany ; Retrieved November 1, 2011.
  3. ↑ Posting on Facebook . Marina Weisband, December 20, 2013, accessed November 4, 2019.
  4. ↑ Audio recording of the SWR interview with Marina Weisband, psychologist. @ 1102 seconds. SWR , January 15, 2014, archived from the original ; accessed on June 20, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Marina Weisband: We call it politics. Ideas for a contemporary democracy . Tropen-Verlag, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-608-50319-7 , p. 30-32 .
  6. ↑ StuPa ( Memento from March 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on: schlosspiraten.wordpress.com
  7. ↑ Merlind Theile: Pirate Party. No gender, no problem . In: Der Spiegel . No. 41 , 2011, p. 30-31 ( online ).
  8. ↑ Hubertus Volmer: Pirate Party introduces itself. The three question marks. at: n-tv . October 5, 2011; Retrieved November 1, 2011.
  9. ↑ (dpa): parties. Pirates on the road to success also in the federal government: 7 percent. On: Focus Online . September 28, 2011, accessed November 1, 2011.
  10. ↑ Pirate Party. “We owe people honesty” . ( Memento from October 31, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Interview with Marina Weisband by Oliver Roscher. On: news.de , September 28, 2011; Retrieved November 2, 2011.
  11. ↑ Torsten Krauel: Pirate Party. Politically unfinished, but with a lot of style. On: Welt Online . October 5, 2011; Retrieved November 1, 2011.
  12. ^ Pirate Party in the Federal Press Conference. A little to the left, a little in the middle - very willing to form a coalition. ( Memento from October 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) at: tagesschau.de . October 5, 2011; Retrieved November 1, 2011.
  13. ↑ Bastian Pauly, Christoph Spangenberg: After the failure of red-green. Pirates want to negotiate government participation . In: Der Tagesspiegel . October 5, 2011, accessed November 1, 2011.
  14. ↑ Manuel Bewarder : PIRATE dispute. "The word 'sins of youth' is wrongly chosen." On: Welt Online . October 14, 2011; Retrieved November 1, 2011.
  15. ↑ The day when nothing really happened . ( Memento from January 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) In: Marinas Lied (private blog), January 25, 2012, last accessed on January 25, 2012.
  16. ↑ Senior pirate withdraws from party leadership. Marina Weisband. Spiegel Online , January 25, 2012, accessed May 2, 2019 .
  17. ↑ welt.de
  18. ↑ Sarah-Maria Deckert: Kevin Barth finds “the Jews in themselves unsympathetic” . In Der Tagesspiegel. February 8, 2012; Retrieved March 9, 2013.
  19. ↑ Good ideas don't need my face. ( Memento from February 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) On: tagesschau.de
  20. ↑ Annett Meiritz, Fabian Reinbold: Radicals among the pirates: "Our ideas sink into rubbish and dirt" . Spiegel Online , April 20, 2012.
  21. ↑ "If a PAV [party exclusion procedure] fails, there is still the possibility of making it clear as a party that right-wing ideas have no place with us. The propagators of these opinions and lies may not be invited to events, given offices, or speak for the pirates. ” Blog by Marina Weisband. Archived from the original on April 22, 2012 ; Retrieved April 22, 2012 .
  22. ↑ Frustration with development: Marina Weisband secretly resigned from the pirates. In: Spiegel Online . Retrieved September 9, 2016 .
  23. ↑ Digitization: Ex-pirate Weisband works for Greens . In: Spiegel Online . May 19, 2018 ( spiegel.de [accessed May 19, 2018]).
  24. ↑ Greens have more than 70,000 members for the first time . In: Zeit Online . October 4, 2018 ( zeit.de [accessed October 4, 2018]).
  25. ↑ See Marina Weisband's website: Vernissage ; Retrieved November 15, 2011.
  26. ↑ Blog "Salon Skurril". On: FAZ.NET . Retrieved November 15, 2011.
  27. ↑ Frustration with development: Marina Weisband secretly resigned from the pirates. In: SPIEGEL ONLINE. Retrieved September 9, 2016 .
  28. ↑ Compare Marina Weisband's website: About the author ; Retrieved November 1, 2011.
  29. ↑ The beautiful pirate secretly married. On: t-online.de
  30. ^ Günter Benning: Marina Weisband's first appointment with baby Amalia. In: Westfälische Nachrichten . Aschendorff Medien GmbH & Co. KG, January 18, 2017, accessed on January 18, 2017 .
  31. ↑ "I am neutral towards Israel" . Interview with Marina Weisband by Elke Wittich in Jüdische Allgemeine on September 28, 2011; Retrieved November 1, 2011.
  32. ↑ Charlotte Haunhorst: "It hurts me not to be there." Interview. In: Jetzt.de . 19th February 2014.
  33. ↑ Annett Meiritz, Fabian Reinbold: Party Congress: Pirates start attack from the left. In: Spiegel Online . December 3, 2011, accessed December 15, 2011 .
  34. ↑ Fabian Mader: Marina Weisband: The new star of the pirate party. In: Focus Online . December 3, 2011, accessed December 15, 2011 .
  35. ^ Ndr.de: Polit-Newcomers: Experiences with journalists. ( Memento from January 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (Film by Daniel Bröckerhoff , 8 min.)
  36. ↑ Melanie Mühl : Election campaign of a digital soul. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . April 26, 2012.
  37. ↑ Pirated copy of Weisband's book remains online. In: Welt Online. February 28, 2013. Retrieved February 28, 2013 .
  38. ↑ Pirates: Copying allowed . In: Der Spiegel . No. 39 , 2012 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Weisband, Marina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Вайсбанд, Марина (Ukrainian and Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian-German politician (Pirate Party)
DATE OF BIRTH 4th October 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiev , Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union