Michel Abdollahi

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Michel Abdollahi (2018)

Michel Abdollahi ( Persian میشل عبداللهی; also Moshe Fig Tree and Arte ; * April 20, 1981 in Tehran , Iran ) is an Iranian - German emcee , performance artist , painter , journalist and writer .

Life

Abdollahi was born in Tehran and moved with his family to Hamburg in 1986 , where he grew up in the Eidelstedt district . His parents had lived in Hamburg before he was born. His father studied medicine there and his mother architecture . Since 2000 he is at the University of Hamburg enrolled, where he first Jura studied and then Islamic studies . During Ole von Beust's reign he worked in the Hamburg Senate Chancellery and was a member of the CDU's state committee for integration . As a man of letters he devotes himself to writing his own texts as well as translating, explaining and promoting classical Persian poetry.

Act

stage

He has been active in the German-speaking poetry slam scene since 2000 and is considered a luminary here . At the 5th German International Poetry Slam (GIPS) he and his Hamburg team took 2nd place.

In 2005 he and his school friend Jan-Oliver Lange founded the series of events called Kampf der Künste , which has developed into one of the largest independent cultural institutions in Hamburg. In addition to poetry slams and other stage literature formats, the program also includes the areas of film, song and theater. Abdollahi is the regular presenter of many of the regular formats and until 2016 he moderated the largest poetry slam in Europe with the Bunker Slam in the scene club Uebel & Hazardous . Since 2007 he has been based at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus , the Thalia Theater , the Ernst Deutsch Theater , Kampnagel and the Elbphilharmonie with Kampf der Künste .

Abdollahi appeared in the plays Superhero and Romeo vs. Romeo , who premiered on Kampnagel in September 2010 and January 2012. From 2010 to 2014 he moderated the monthly series of events loudspeakers , which was performed in the Deutsches Schauspielhaus until 2013 and then in the Thalia Theater. He also moderated the ADC Gala (2010, 2012, 2013), the OMR Festival (2017, 2018), the Effie (2018, 2019) and the LeadAward (2018, 2019).

In 2016, Abdollahi was awarded the Gustaf Gründgens Prize as the successor to John Neumeier and Joop van den Ende for this commitment . The jury's reasoning stated: "As the emcee and co-initiator of the poetry slam label 'Kampf der Künste', Michel Abdollahi has conquered the stages with his work and has inspired audiences across generations for a new performing art form."

watch TV

Beginnings

In 2007 Abdollahi moderated the first poetry slam on television on the cultural broadcaster Lettra . From 2012 to 2013 he was represented on the Hamburg local broadcaster Tide with the television program Zwischenzimmer , with which he won the Hamburg television award Fink in 2013.

Cultural journal

In NDR Abdollahi was as foreign reporter for the 2014-2017 Kulturjournal operates. His short articles dealt with topics of the zeitgeist and repeatedly received a lot of attention in social media and in the press. His article on Nipster is still the most widely shared magazine article on the NDR. His action I am Muslim. What do you want to know? , in which, shortly after the attack on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and the Paris terrorist attacks of 2015, he stood with a sign on Hamburg's Jungfernstieg and answered questions from passers-by, received international attention and was copied as a role model in the current Islamic debate . His last satirical contribution No right to vote for Muslims in the 2017 federal election became a hit on the net, but had to be deleted shortly afterwards due to hostility towards a passerby interviewed.

panorama

In the summer of 2015 Abdollahi moved to the much-publicized Panorama reportage in Nazi village for a month in the nordwestmecklenburgische Jamel and built a wooden hut in order to talk with the residents. On January 13, 2016, he received the German TV Prize for this report and for his street actions in the Kulturjournal , which he symbolically shared with colleagues Dunja Hayali and Anja Reschke . In 2016 and 2017, Abdollahi brought the political magazine to the stage of the Deutsches Schauspielhaus for the 55th anniversary. The evenings were broadcast as Panorama - Die Show on NDR and were nominated for the Grimme Prize and the German Television Prize.

Captain's dinner

Abdollahi has been moderating the talk show Käpt'ns Dinner for NDR since 2016 . The first episode aired on September 9, 2016. The former Governing Mayor of Berlin Klaus Wowereit was a guest. In the command center of the old Soviet submarine U-434 in the port of Hamburg, Abdollahi welcomes one guest without an audience to talk to.

The German Michel

As the successor to Panorama - Die Show , he has hosted the late night show Der deutsche Michel on NDR in Gruenspan in Hamburg since 2018 . In clips and stage actions, the program is about entertainment with an attitude that deals with a specific topic politically and socially on a monothematic basis.

art

painting

Self-portrait in a storm with a large hat (MS Paint, 2005)

Abdollahi has been painting abstract pictures under the pseudonym Arte since the late 1990s . In the beginning he made more use of Indian ink . The collection Lichtung e. V. from 1998 is considered lost. Some pictures in this series, including Alone and Together , were remade in 2013. Abdollahi has been using the Microsoft Paint program almost exclusively since the early 2000s . In doing so, he repeatedly satirized the art market by promoting his own abstract paintings, which he created in a short time with the computer, in the art business and was not without success.

The sponge

Installation THE SPONGE before and during the fire

On October 7, 2016, Abdollahi installed an oversized sponge made of original material on the Marco Polo Terrace in Hamburg's HafenCity . According to the artist, the 4 × 2 meter large and approx. 500 kilogram heavy art installation The Sponge should be a symbol against hatred and racism and soak up everything negative. On October 23, 2016, the artwork fell victim to an arson attack and was completely burned. The police check whether there is a political motive behind it. The state security has started the investigation.

In July 2017, Abdollahi installed a similar work of art in front of the City-Galerie Augsburg . This was done as part of several art installations for the Augsburg Peace Festival 2017. Before that, the sponge stood as an art installation against racism and xenophobia four weeks in front of the Stuttgart state parliament. In a short time the work of art was badly damaged by playing children. They had torn large parts out of the sponge and distributed the parts on the square. In a reaction to these events, Abdollahi criticized, among other things, the behavior of the parents of the children playing.

In May 2019, he installed the sponge a third time in Hamburg as part of the celebrations for the 70th anniversary of the Basic Law, together with a digital stele that publicly played the hateful comments that had reached him in response to his previous installations. This time, too, the sponge was destroyed by strangers after a short time. Shortly afterwards, the massive stele was also destroyed. The Hamburg Justice Senator Till Steffen said: "The reaction to such attacks must not be to withdraw, but to confidently claim the public space for yourself, for freedom of expression, artistic freedom and for upholding the values ​​of the Basic Law"

social commitment

Since 2008, Abdollahi has been involved in the association Zweikampfrechte eV , which runs courses on violence prevention for young people, mainly with a migration background , in Wilhelmsburg . He is the association's ambassador and conducts rhetoric training.

For the Goethe-Institut he gave lectures in Cairo ( Ain-Schams University ), Mexico City ( UNAM ), San Francisco ( Berkeley ) and Tunis (Université de la Manouba) on the subject of integration through art and culture. In May 2010 he represented the Federal Republic at the 28th Tunis International Book Fair. At the end of 2010, with the support of the Robert Bosch Foundation and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation , he initiated the first regular series of poetry slams in Macedonia and Kosovo .

2011 he hosted under the motto cohesion foster held summer festival of the Federal President in Bellevue Palace . In 2016 he was the moderator of the future forum of the Federal President at Bellevue Palace on the topic # DE2036 - What should it look like, this country? Germany in 20 years. For the Deutschlandstiftung Integration he moderated events on the five-year anniversary of its scholarship program and on the tenth anniversary of the foundation.

He is also an ambassador for many campaigns on democracy and the rule of law. For example, he is an ambassador for the campaign Show your face! and the funding program of the federal government to live democracy and as a sponsor of IGS Buchholz within the framework of the nationwide school network School without Racism - School with Courage .

Publications

Awards

  • 2016: German television award in the category Best Personal Achievement Information
  • 2017: Gustaf Gründgens Prize for his artistic contributions to the performing arts
  • 2017: Grimme Prize nomination in the entertainment category for Panorama - Die Show
  • 2018: German TV Award nomination in the category Best Infotainment for Panorama - Die Show

Web links

Commons : Michel Abdollahi  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Michel is Michel is Michel hinzundkunzt.de, July 30, 2012.
  2. ↑ What moderator Michel Abdollahi really wants, Abendblatt.de, May 7, 2018.
  3. ^ Dichterwettstreit abendblatt.de, February 24, 2007.
  4. ^ The Eidelstedt Cosmodrome taz.de, March 25, 2009.
  5. ↑ Michel Abdollahi biography . In: litscout . Archived from the original on April 5, 2016. 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. Retrieved April 5, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / litscout.de
  6. ↑ Battle of the Arts | KdK. Accessed December 31, 2018 (German).
  7. ↑ Michel Abdollahi biography . In: litscout . Archived from the original on April 5, 2016. 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. Retrieved April 5, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / litscout.de
  8. ↑ Superhero kampnagel.de
  9. ↑ Romeo vs. Romeo kampnagel.de
  10. ↑ Loudspeaker jazzbuero-hamburg.de
  11. ^ ADC 2010: The pictures of the evening. In: wuv.de. May 17, 2010, accessed March 31, 2020 .
  12. ↑ ADC award ceremony: Not quite so "fucked up" anymore. In: wuv.de. May 14, 2012, accessed March 31, 2020 .
  13. ↑ ADC 2013: The most beautiful pictures from Hamburg. In: wuv.de. May 17, 2013, accessed March 31, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Michel Abdollahi moderates the Expo Stage - and that's the incredible Expo Party lineup. In: omr.com. February 16, 2017, accessed March 31, 2020 .
  15. ↑ The supermodel and the Porsche freak. In: Abendblatt.de. February 16, 2017, accessed March 31, 2020 .
  16. ^ Standing ovations for "a piece of advertising history". In: wuv.de. November 9, 2020, accessed March 31, 2020 .
  17. ↑ The highlights of the Effie Gala 2019. In: wuv.de. November 15, 2019, accessed February 22, 2020 .
  18. ↑ These are the winners of the Lead Awards / "Let's make journalism smart again". In: horizont.net. December 11, 2018, accessed March 31, 2020 .
  19. ↑ Why the evening was not only worthwhile for Zeit-Verlag and G + J despite the dry spell. In: horizont.net. December 10, 2019, accessed March 31, 2020 .
  20. ↑ Awards: Moderator Michel Abdollahi receives Gustaf Gründgens Prize. (No longer available online.) In: Zeit Online. September 23, 2016, archived from the original on October 10, 2016 ; accessed on September 23, 2016 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zeit.de
  21. ↑ lettra.tv . In: Goldkanal .
  22. ↑ FINK TV Prize 2013 . In: tide .
  23. ↑ Nadia Pantel: “I am a Muslim. What do you want to know? ” . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung .
  24. ↑ “I am a Muslim. What do you want to know? ” . In: Stern .
  25. ↑ A German Muslim Asks His Compatriots: 'What Do You Want To Know?' . In: NPR .
  26. ↑ Patrick Schlos: No right to vote for Muslims - satire becomes a hit on the internet. September 7, 2017, accessed on February 22, 2020 (German).
  27. ↑ Panorama - The Show (NDR). Accessed December 31, 2018 .
  28. ↑ The German Television Award: 2018 Best Infotainment. In: Deutscher Fernsehpreis 2020. Retrieved on February 22, 2020 (German).
  29. ↑ Captain's Dinner fernsehserien.de
  30. ↑ The German Michel fernsehserien.de
  31. ↑ Michel Abdollahi: This is how you get rich with art! . In: NDR .
  32. ^ Hamburger Abendblatt- Hamburg: Arsonists destroy Abdollahi's work of art "The Sponge". October 24, 2016, accessed December 31, 2018 (German).
  33. ↑ jkk: Michel Abdollahi: State Security determined by sponge-fire in Hamburg. In: welt.de . October 25, 2016, accessed October 7, 2018 .
  34. ↑ Art: Artwork "The Sponge" burned down: State security determined. (No longer available online.) In: Zeit Online. October 25, 2016, archived from the original on October 25, 2016 ; Retrieved October 25, 2016 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zeit.de
  35. ↑ What are the sponge in front of the City Gallery and the photo facade? . In: Augsburger Allgemeine .
  36. ^ Artwork destroyed in Augsburg. July 25, 2017, accessed February 22, 2020 .
  37. ↑ Children pick apart a sponge: artist criticizes parents . In: Augsburger Allgemeine .
  38. ↑ Michel Abdollahi. Accessed December 31, 2018 .
  39. ↑ Alexander Diehl: Democracy artwork damaged: Torn freedom . In: The daily newspaper: taz . May 24, 2019, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed on February 22, 2020]).
  40. ↑ NDR: Artwork "The Sponge" torn again. Retrieved February 22, 2020 .
  41. ↑ Jana Werner: Michel Abdollahi: From the "disinhibition in society" . In: THE WORLD . May 23, 2019 ( welt.de [accessed February 22, 2020]).
  42. ↑ How Michel Abdollahi and a Hamburg association help children to cope with their lives stern.de, December 5, 2018
  43. ↑ Michel Abdollahi ipw.lu
  44. ↑ Michel Abdollahi-Biographs . In: Abdollahi . Archived from the original on April 5, 2016. 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. Retrieved April 5, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.abdollahi.info
  45. ^ Bosch Foundation Performing Arts . In: Robert Bosch Foundation .
  46. ↑ Summer party of the Federal President 2011 bundespraesident.de
  47. ↑ Future Forum for Young People "# DE2036 - What should it look like, this country? Germany in 20 years bundespraesident.de, October 13, 2016.
  48. ↑ Junge Blick auf Deutschland deutschlandfunk.de, October 14, 2016.
  49. ↑ A win for both sides bundesregierung.de, December 5, 2017
  50. ^ Anniversary event Ten Years of Deutschlandstiftung Integration deutschlandstiftung.net, December 5, 2018.
  51. ↑ Big fault reporter evening. November 28, 2016, accessed February 22, 2020 .
  52. ↑ “Live Democracy! works “- Image film | Live democracy! Retrieved February 22, 2020 .
  53. ↑ Integrated comprehensive school is a school without racism. Retrieved February 22, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Abdollahi, Michel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fig tree, mosque
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Iranian-German emcee, performance artist, painter, journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Tehran , Iran