Nargess Eskandari-Grünberg

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Nargess Eskandari-Grünberg at the awarding of the Hessian Film and Cinema Prize 2019

Nargess Eskandari-Grünberg (born February 20, 1965 in Tehran ) is a German local politician ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ). She is an honorary city ​​councilor for the city of Frankfurt am Main . From 2001 to 2008 she was a city ​​councilor there . Since 2008 she has been a member of the Frankfurt magistrate , from 2008 to 2016 as the head of the integration department . She applied for Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen in the Mayor election in Frankfurt am Main on February 25, 2018 for the office of Mayor of Frankfurt and achieved third place in the first ballot with 9.3% of the votes behind Peter Feldmann and Bernadette Weyland .

Life

In 1985 Eskandari fled Iran to Germany as persecuted by the Islamic regime and has lived in Frankfurt ever since. She studied psychology and received her doctorate. She runs her own practice as a psychological psychotherapist. For the German Red Cross , she heads the HIWA advice center for older migrants!

Nargess Eskandari-Grünberg is married to the psychoanalyst Kurt Grünberg. Her daughter is the German actress , filmmaker and author Maryam Zaree .

Functions

In the city council, the city parliament of Frankfurt, to which Eskandari-Grünberg belonged for the Greens from 2001 to 2008, she was chair of the integration committee for four years. On April 24, 2008, she was elected as the successor to the late Jean Claude Diallo as City Councilor and Head of Integration.

engagement

Critical dialogue with Muslims

Eskandari-Grünberg was politically persecuted for her opposition to the mullah regime in Iran. She advocates free religious practice and critical dialogue with Muslims .

controversy

Eskandari-Grünberg drew public attention with a statement in the Education and Integration Committee on November 5, 2007:

“Migration is a fact in Frankfurt. If that doesn't suit you, you have to move elsewhere. "

- Frankfurter Rundschau (FR)

With the statement, Eskandari-Grünberg referred to the statement of a Hausen citizen about the immigrant share at the local Kerschenstein school at the meeting of the education committee of the city council . The members of the citizens' initiative present took the statement as a personal invitation to emigrate. There was a commotion and the chairwoman of the committee, Bernadette Weyland (CDU), interrupted the meeting. The FR reported on November 7th, 2007 that Eskandari-Grünberg had been threatened because of her statement:

“In the committee meeting, Eskandari-Grünberg had to defend himself against wild insults from the citizens' initiative. She was even threatened, she reported on Tuesday: 'One of them put his fist in front of my face and said: we'll show you.' "

- FRI on November 7, 2007

On November 7, 2007 Eskandari-Grünberg explained her statement in an interview with the FR:

“This statement must be seen in context. Another statement preceded it. Someone complained that the proportion of migrants in schools was too high. It sounded like the children were vermin. I reacted to that emotionally. This no longer appears in the reactions to my statement. It is interpreted as if I had said the Germans should emigrate. That's nonsense, I didn't say or mean anything like that. It is absurd to put something like that in my mouth. What I wanted to say is: immigrants belong to Frankfurt. Anyone who lives in this international city has to face this reality and view it positively. "

- Interview with FR on November 7, 2007

Web links

Commons : Nargess Eskandari-Grünberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ OB candidate of the Greens: Nargess Eskandari-Grünberg: Migrant wants to go to the top of Frankfurt . In: Frankfurter Neue Presse on March 10, 2017. Accessed on September 22, 2017
  2. ↑ Preliminary final result: OB runoff election in Frankfurt - irritation about voter participation . In: hessenschau.de . February 25, 2018 ( hessenschau.de [accessed February 25, 2018]).
  3. ^ Vita von Nargess Eskandari-Grünberg on the website of the city of Frankfurt am Main. accessed on Feb. 24, 2020
  4. ↑ hessenschau de, Frankfurt Germany: Born in the torture prison - "Born in Evin" now in the cinema. June 28, 2019, accessed on May 24, 2020 (German).
  5. ^ Like a prayer wheel , Frankfurter Rundschau on November 13, 2007
  6. ↑ Rough tones. Citizens let their feelings run free in the mosque dispute. ( Memento from September 11, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), Frankfurter Rundschau on November 7, 2007
  7. ↑ "We belong to this city". Nargess Eskandari-Grünberg in an interview with Canan Topçu , Frankfurter Rundschau on November 7, 2007
personal data
SURNAME Eskandari-Grünberg, Nargess
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (Greens)
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Tehran