Mark Terkessidis

Mark Terkessidis (2015)

Mark Terkessidis (*  1966 ) is a German journalist , author and migration researcher . His main topics are youth and pop culture , migration and racism .

Life

Terkessidis studied psychology in Cologne and was editor of the magazine Spex from 1992 to 1994 . He taught at the Universities of Cologne and St. Gallen and was a fellow at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam . From 2003 to 2011 he hosted the broadcast Funkhaus Europa on WDR -Welle . In 2012/2013 he was project manager for Heimatlieder from Germany with Jochen Kühling .

In 1996 Terkessidis was co-editor of the book Mainstream der Minorities , which at the time was groundbreaking for the German-language discussion of pop culture , and in 2000 co-founded the Institute for Studies in Visual Culture (ISVC) in Cologne . In 1998 he developed the concept of “ racist knowledge ”, which describes racism not as a prejudice but as part of a social value system .

Terkessidis was in the study pedagogy at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz on Knowledge about racism in the second generation of immigrants doctorate . The work is entitled The Banality of Racism. Second generation migrants develop a new perspective , published in 2004. Here Terkessidis describes the effects of racism on those affected. In addition, he has worked for "Texts on Art", taz , Tagesspiegel , Zeit , Jungle World and Literatures as well as for Westdeutscher Rundfunk and Deutschlandfunk .

Terkessidis lives in Berlin and Cologne. In 2006 he became known to the public through an open letter that he and the migration researcher Yasemin Karakaşoğlu directed against Necla Kelek's thesis of the “failure of integration ”.

His own main theses are e.g. B. the slogan " Inter - instead of leading culture " or "Origin is not a deficit".

On December 19, 2013, Terkessidis was appointed as a new member of the Academy of Arts of the World .

Works

• Kulturkampf - people, nation, the west and the new right. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1995, ISBN 3-462-02411-6 .
• with Tom Holert (Ed.): Mainstream of the minorities - Pop in the control society. Edition ID archive, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-89408-059-0 .
• Psychology of Racism. Westdeutscher Verlag, Wiesbaden 1998, ISBN 3-531-13040-4 .
• with Ruth Mayer (Ed.): Globalkolorit - Multiculturalism and Popular Culture. Hannibal, St. Andrä-Wörden 1998, ISBN 3-85445-152-0 .
• Migrants. Rotbuch Verlag, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-434-53504-7 .
• with Tom Holert: unlocked. War as a mass culture in the 21st century. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 2002, ISBN 3-462-03163-5 .
• The banality of racism. Second generation migrants develop a new perspective. Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2004, ISBN 3-89942-263-5 .
• with Tom Holert: centrifugal force. Society on the move - of migrants and tourists. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2006, ISBN 3-462-03743-9 .
• Interculture . edition suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-518-12589-2 .
• Collaboration. edition suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-518-12686-8 .
• After the escape. New ideas for the immigration society. Reclam, Stuttgart 2017, ISBN 978-3-15-019449-2 .
• Whose memory matters? Colonial past and racism today. Hoffman and Campe Verlag, Hamburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-455-00578-3 .

literature

• How far can you go In: taz , August 18, 2006
• Lurid literature . Why does the author Mark Terkessidis the letter against Necla Kelek has signed . In: Die Welt , February 8, 2006; interview
• Justice for the Muslims! In: Die Zeit , No. 6/2006; Open letter against the thesis that integration has failed

Web links

• Literature by and about Mark Terkessidis in the catalog of the German National Library
• Culture & immigration society: Elephant in the giraffe house. taz.de , November 21, 2007
• Conversation with Mark Terkessidis about Muslims in Germany, migration and integration. islamische-zeitung.de, May 16, 2006
• Mark Terkessidis's website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ heimatliederausdeutschland.de
2. ↑ Origin is not a deficit . Badische-zeitung.de , March 25, 2015; interview
3. ^ Academy of the Arts of the World: Elke Moltrecht becomes the new managing director. The academy has three new members . ( Memento of the original from December 26, 2013 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. (PDF) Press release, December 19, 2013; Retrieved December 27, 2013