Martin Zierold

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Martin Zierold at the symposium “Highly inclusive! Cohesion of a diverse society "of the Heinrich Böll Foundation (2012)

Martin Vahemäe-Zierold (born May 23, 1985 as Martin Zierold in Bad Schlema ) is a German sign language teacher and politician ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ). From 2011 to 2016 he was the first deaf parliamentarian in Germany and was a member of the Berlin-Mitte district council .

Career

Zierold has been deaf since birth, as were his parents and grandparents. His mother tongue is sign language, in which he learned to communicate from an early age. From the age of three, Zierold had to go to a boarding school for the hearing impaired in Chemnitz ; he only went home on the weekends. At boarding school he was forced to read his lips , sign language was taboo. He completed his secondary school diploma at the Johann Friedrich Jencke School in Trachenberge . In 2002 and 2003 he spent a year on student exchange in Canada and the USA, where he learned the American Sign Language . At the IBAF deaf school in Rendsburg , Zierold completed an apprenticeship as a socio-educational assistant. In 2008 Zierold moved to Berlin and became a member of the Greens. Together with six other deaf people, he was active there in the GJ .

In the district council election in 2011 , Zierold moved into the district council assembly for the Mitte district on list number 14 of the Greens . With Zierold, a deaf person was elected to a German parliament for the first time. In Austria, Helene Jarmer had been a member of the National Council since 2009 ; in June 2007, Helga Stevens was the first deaf person to be elected to the Belgian Senate , three months later Dimitra Arapoglu moved into the Greek Parliament for LA.OS and in 2009 Ádám Kósa became first deaf MEP . In the three committees “School”, “Transparency and Citizen Participation” and “Social City, Transport, Green Space”, to which Zierold was a member, as well as the BVV meetings, two sign language interpreters took turns translating the debates for him. A communications assistant also noted heckling and what was said in the ranks of his group. With ambitions for a place on the list for the House of Representatives election, Zierold moved from the Mitte district to the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg district in the spring of 2016, around six months before the end of the legislative period . However, he only reached number 28 on the list for the district council election , so that he is only available as a successor for the twenty-member parliamentary group of the Greens in the BVV in the current legislative period . In March 2017, Zierold was elected deputy citizens' deputy in the “Committee for Women, Equality, Inclusion and Queer” .

In the election of the German Federal President in 2012 , Zierold was a member of the Federal Assembly . This Federal Assembly was the first to be translated simultaneously by sign language interpreters on site. The morning service had also been translated into sign language.

Zierold works full-time as a supervisor in a youth club for the hearing and deaf and as a state-recognized sign language lecturer and DGS fee-based teacher at the Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences in Berlin .

Positions

Zierold is committed to inclusion instead of integrating deaf people. For him, this means an equal coexistence of the most varied of individuals with their strengths and peculiarities without being forced to adapt to an imaginary majority. He advocates the participation of those affected instead of pushing through measures from top to bottom.

Zierold calls for sign language to be given the same status as spoken language for the hearing. Deaf people are not stupid or broken, they do not have to be "repaired" , for example with hearing implants . Zierold is committed to ensuring that sign language is offered as a compulsory elective in schools. In addition, people who speak sign language should be recognized as a linguistic minority in Germany. He names his dream that German sign language will become the second official language alongside German . Zierold advocates barrier-free education: He advocates bilingual schools in which both spoken and sign language are taught. Martin Zierold also advocates the use of the term “deaf” instead of “deaf”: “Deaf, that sounds as if we are missing something, that includes such a deficient image of man.”

Private

At the end of June 2016, Martin Zierold and the Estonian Gert Vahemäe, nine years his junior, got married in Berlin. In mid-July 2016, the marriage in Viimsi was registered under Estonian law as the first same-sex marriage in Estonia. The couple met in Pärnu in September 2014 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Manuela Heim: "We sign speakers are not mute". In: the daily newspaper . December 11, 2011.
  2. ↑ a b c Christina Brüning: Germany's first deaf MP . In: Berliner Morgenpost . February 14, 2012.
  3. ↑ Heiko Kunert: First deaf parliamentarian in Germany: "Inclusion instead of integration" ( Memento from March 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) In: Aktion Mensch . January 11, 2012.
  4. ↑ This is Berlin's first deaf politician . In: BZ October 29, 2011.
  5. ↑ Beate Krol: A long way . ( Memento from January 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) In: People - the magazine . January 2012.
  6. ^ Caroline Ischinger: Silent Mail in Parliament . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . February 23, 2012.
  7. ↑ Peter Lindner: Right in the middle instead of being silent . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . July 9, 2010.
  8. ↑ Markus Mayr: The voice of the deaf . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . 15th January 2017.
  9. ^ Kerry Deaf Resource Center . In: independent.ie . June 17, 2009.
  10. ↑ Candidates for the state list . ( Memento from March 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) In: Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen Berlin . February 22, 2016.
  11. ↑ Manuela Heim: "I just don't want to give up" . In: the daily newspaper . September 25, 2016.
  12. ↑ Green Xhain: Our BVV team ( Memento from May 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) In: Green Xhain . May 2016.
  13. ↑ Election of Citizens' Deputies . In: BVV Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg . 1st March 2017.
  14. ↑ Committee for Women, Equality, Inclusion and Queer - BVV Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg von Berlin ( Memento from August 12, 2018 in the web archive archive.today ) In: BVV Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg .
  15. ↑ Lars von Törne: Rehhagel also chooses Wulff's successor . In: Der Tagesspiegel . February 23, 2012.
  16. ↑ What was going on, Mr. Zierold? . In: Der Spiegel . 13/2012.
  17. ↑ Thomas Vitzthum: “Finally one of us” - observations on the choice at the edge and in the middle . In: The world . March 19, 2012.
  18. ↑ Beate Krol: People who achieve something special . In: Planet Wissen ( ARD ). 18th October 2017.
  19. ^ "Equal rights instead of adjustment to the majority". In: bpb . 4th October 2013.
  20. ↑ LGBTTIQ *: Diversity as strength - diversity as a challenge! (Documentation of the symposium in the Jerusalem Church Conference) In: Federal Anti-Discrimination Agency . September 12, 2017, pp. 37-39.
  21. ↑ Wolf-Sören Treusch: Spread your fingers and wiggle your hand . In: Deutschlandfunk . March 15, 2012.
  22. ^ Anne Fromm: Politics of the Flying Hands . In: now . September 15, 2011.
  23. ↑ Marijke Engel: The experiment . In: Frankfurter Rundschau . January 15, 2012.
  24. ↑ Estonia's first gay wedding! In: glxy.eu . July 28, 2016.
  25. ↑ Silja Ratt: Eile peeti Viimsis Eesti esimest samasooliste kurtide pulma . In: Õhtuleht . 17th July 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Zierold, Martin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vahemäe-Zierold, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sign language teacher and activist
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Schlema