Noktara

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Noktara
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description Noktara.de - News from the Orient, today!
Headquarters Mainz
First edition September 10, 2016
founder Derya Sami Saydjari and Soufian El Khayari
Frequency of publication Every day
Editor-in-chief Soufian El Khayari
Web link Noktara.de

Noktara is a German-language website that is run jointly by Soufian El Khayari and Derya Sami Saydjari and publishes daily satirical articles in the style of newspaper articles and agency reports . Noktara dedicates itself to religious content, daily political events and lifestyle topics with “cynical humor”. Due to the choice of topics and the Muslim perspective, Noktara can be classified as “ethno-satire”.

History and meaning of the name

Inspired by the postillon and the explosive news situation around terrorism , racism , right-wing populism , the refugee crisis , the LGBT community , Erdogan , Donald Trump , IS , the Syrian war , the Middle East conflict , the integration debate , the headscarf dispute , the burqa ban and Islam came about in 2016 the idea for Noktara as a satirical answer while driving together. The name Noktara is derived from the Arabic and Turkish words for joke. For the better sound, the makers added the syllable "ra". The slogan "News from the Orient, already today!" Alludes to the alleged "Islamization of the West" as propagated by Pegida . With a wink , Noktara describes himself on Facebook as the “oriental lie press and propaganda leaflet of the secret Islamization of the West” and threatens anyone who does not follow with a stoning on Twitter .

Content

Slogan: "Laughing together for a better world"

In addition to classic satirical news, Noktara publishes, based on sites such as Buzzfeed, list articles, "Facts from the Orient" comparable to the factillon, various videos, surveys, psychological tests, events, joking stock prices and a news ticker.

public perception

Within a few months, Noktara caused quite a stir on social networks such as Facebook and Twitter and was described by journalists as a “Muslim postillon”. As a homage to this title, Noktara published a list of postillion articles that she would have liked to publish herself.

Dominoes in the Kaaba look.

In the run-up to Christmas 2016, Noktara confused parts of the Muslim community with what was supposedly the first Islamic Advent calendar and asked its readers to open a door every day with a click of the mouse in order to then surprise them with the inflationary use of the word “ haram ”. At Noktara, this element developed into a running gag on other public holidays such as Easter , Halloween and Valentine's Day and culminated in choosing “haram” as the word of the year . Also at Christmas 2016, Noktara put an article into circulation, according to which the Swiss chocolate manufacturer Lindt wanted to bring a new type of dominoes for Muslims on the market, which is visually reminiscent of the Kaaba , and received inquiries about where to buy it.

Noktara gained international attention after a report on the Franco-German television station Arte , in which Noktara was described as a “pioneer of German-Muslim satire”.

On the occasion of International World Water Day , Noktara produced a satirical promotional video in 2016 for the alleged sale of Zamzam water by the large corporation Nestlé and thus became a topic of conversation for Mimikama .

In the Austrian cultural magazine Biber Noktara was in addition to, the Grimme Online Award winning, Datteltätern counted as "satire Caliphate".

In Ramadan 2017, Noktara parodied a real AfD poster about Muslims with a satire poster that many readers thought was credible. In Ramadan 2018, Noktara published a satirical article in which it could be read that the city of Essen would be renamed "Fasting" out of consideration for the fasting Muslims and as a sign of good togetherness for the time of the month of fasting. The Hungarian news program Híradó on the state television broadcaster MTVA then broadcast the report in the main evening news.

In April 2017, the Noktara team presented their news satire for the first time in a live stage show.

Noktara has also made a name for itself in the Muslim community, in particular through controversial contributions, dealing with sensitive taboo topics and dealing with internal Muslim problems.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Roswitha Buchner: Satire website Noktara: "Laughing together for a better world". In: The intercultural magazine. Bayerischer Rundfunk, January 22, 2017, archived from the original on August 22, 2017 ; accessed on August 2, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Franziska von Busse: Noktara: Ethno-Satire in the net. In: Culture at noon. WDR, January 19, 2017, accessed on August 2, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Jenny Kallenbrunnen: "We want to sensitize Muslims to humor and satire" . In: Stern (Ed.): Stern.de . stern.de GmbH, Hamburg March 26, 2017 ( online [accessed August 2, 2017]).
  4. ↑ Malcolm Ohanwe: Satire website Noktara.de: Even Muslims can laugh at themselves. In: B5 PULSE. Bayerischer Rundfunk, May 12, 2017, accessed on August 2, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Dunja Ramadan: “The subjects of refugees, Islam and terror need more satire” . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung (Ed.): Jetzt.de . Now, Munich December 29, 2016 ( online [accessed August 2, 2017]).
  6. ↑ Qantara.de: Satire website "Noktara" - The Muslim "Postillon". In: Qantara.de - Dialogue with the Islamic World. Deutsche Welle, January 1, 2017, accessed August 2, 2017 .
  7. ↑ factillon
  8. ↑ Nazan Gökdemir: Noktara - (K) a Muslim Postillon? In: Friday Forum. ZDF, February 17, 2017, accessed on August 2, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Noktara: 9 ingenious Postillon contributions that are worthy of stoning. February 25, 2017. Retrieved August 14, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Michael Hollenbach: Noktara: Muslim satire on the net. NDR, July 6, 2017, accessed on August 2, 2017 .
  11. ↑ Noktara: The first Islamic advent calendar! December 1, 2016, accessed August 14, 2017 .
  12. ↑ Noktara: Haram elected Muslim word of the year. December 9, 2016, accessed August 14, 2017 .
  13. ↑ Noktara: Christmas cookies: Lindt brings dominoes for Muslims. December 20, 2016. Retrieved August 14, 2017 .
  14. ↑ Leonie Kathmann: Noktara: Muslim Satire from Germany. In: ARTE Journal. ARTE, January 19, 2017, accessed on August 2, 2017 .
  15. ↑ ZDDK | MIMIKAMA: Does Nestlé really sell ZAMZAM water? In: mimikama. mimikama - Association for the education of Internet abuse, March 25, 2017, accessed on August 2, 2017 .
  16. ↑ Grimme Institute: Grimme Online Award 2017: Datteltäter. Retrieved August 14, 2017 .
  17. ↑ Nour Khelifi: The Satire Caliphate. In: dasbiber. Beaver, accessed August 2, 2017 .
  18. ↑ Marc Röhlig: There are currently two AfD Ramadan posters going around. One of them is a fake . In: bento . SPIEGEL ONLINE, Hamburg May 26, 2017 ( bento.de [accessed on August 13, 2017]).
  19. ↑ WAZ: Satire portal turns Essen into “fasting” during Ramadan. May 21, 2018. Retrieved May 23, 2018 .
  20. ↑ Híradó from May 20, 2018 ( Memento of the original from May 24, 2018 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. (Hungarian, from around 6:30 minutes) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mediaklikk.hu
  21. ↑ Staatsbetrieb Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden: Noktara presents news from the Orient, today! (No longer available online.) In: Salam Deutschland - Islam im GRASSI. GRASSI Museum für Völkerkunde zu Leipzig, archived from the original on August 15, 2017 ; accessed on August 2, 2017 . 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.mvl-grassimuseum.de