Mekonnen Mesghena

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Mekonnen Mesghena (2015)

Mekonnen Mesghena is a German journalist and speaker for “Migration & Diversity” at the Heinrich Böll Foundation .

Mesghena was born in Eritrea, then annexed by Ethiopia ; he has lived in Germany since 1980, where he was naturalized in the early 1990s. He studied journalism and history at the Technical University of Dortmund and completed a traineeship at WDR . He was the spokesman for the “Third World Journalists Network” and in 1993 co-founded Media Watch Germany . After the end of the Eritrean War of Independence , he got involved in the restructuring of the local radio. He has been working for the Heinrich Böll Foundation since 1995.

At the end of 2012, he wrote a letter to Thienemann Verlag and asked - ultimately successfully - to delete the terms "niggers", "Turks", "little Chinese", "gypsies" etc. from Otfried Preussler 's children's book The Little Witch , This sparked a debate about the discriminatory use of language in children's books, which also received international attention.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ How Timnit drove the “Negerlein” out of the “Kleine Hexe” , Focus Online, January 31, 2013.
  2. ↑ Daniel Bax: The Little Witch, Without Racism , taz.de, January 4, 2013.
  3. ↑ Focus Online: How Timnit drove the “negroes” out of the “Little Witch” , January 31, 2013.
  4. ↑ Ulrich Greiner: Die kleine Hexenjagd , Zeit Online, January 21, 2013.
  5. ↑ Georg Diez: SPON - The Critic: The ugly "Neger" is dead, dead, dead , Spiegel Online, January 18, 2013.
  6. ^ Ballhaus Naunynstrasse: Black Intervention , Ballhaus Naunynstrasse, February 20, 2013.
  7. ^ Esther Slevogt: Pippi Longstocking in the Heart of Darkness , Nachtkritik.de, February 21, 2013.
  8. ^ Noa Ha: Mutmacher: Black Interventions ( Memento from May 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), Korientation, February 26, 2013.
  9. ^ Stephan Evans: Germany's n-word race debate , BBC News Europe, March 13, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Mesghena, Mekonnen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Eritrea