Oliver Flesch

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Oliver Flesch (born June 24, 1969 in Hamburg ) is a German YouTuber , journalist , blogger , book author and political network activist who is assigned to the political right and lives on Mallorca .

biography

Between 1994 and 2003 Flesch worked as a journalist for the Hamburger Morgenpost , Bild and Neue Revue . From 1998 to 2000 he worked as an editor for the Bauer Media Group , wrote a screenplay and then set up as a freelance writer for novels and screenplays, mainly focusing on pop culture . In the meantime he worked as an event organizer, as a DJ under the stage name DJ Doo Wop Dude, and ran a rock 'n' roll bar in Hamburg. From 2009 he lived in Berlin , including three years in Neukölln. In 2011 he wrote a column for the sports betting company Betfair.com for some time .

In 2006 the book Let the good times roll! by Horst Fascher , on which he worked. It reached the top 18 of the mirror - bestseller list . In 2008 the singer Gunter Gabriel wrote his biography Who once sat deep in the cellar - memories of a rebel , in which he was involved as a co-author. Other publications include Baby, that's it !: A capital city novel , The Harald Schmidt phenomenon , a biography about the satirist Harald Schmidt together with Kai Bukowski , and the compilation Sick Stories: The Anti-Pop Anthology together with Ramona Ambs , Christian von Aster and Ina Brinkmann .

In 2016, Flesch appeared in individual videos on the YouTube channel 61 Minuten Sex , in which he contributed his opinion on various topics.

Weblog: Real Men

Flesch runs a blog on his personal website with the title True Men - Love, Lust & Popular Culture for Bad Girls and Big Boys , in which he has been publishing articles on various topics in loose succession since 2012. The magazine GQ - Gentlemen's Quarterly wrote about this website: "Between the humorous sex and lifestyle topics he sprinkles harsh social criticism [...]"

Political activism

At the beginning of 2018, the Frankfurter Rundschau reported that Flesch was involved in organizing a demonstration against Angela Merkel in Hamburg. At the demonstration, which was also supported by Pegida founder Lutz Bachmann , mainly people from the right wing were present. Vice News described a live stream hosted by Flesch with Johannes Thiesen and Marie-Thérèse Kaiser in February 2018 and broadcast on his YouTube channel as “two and a half hours of Holocaust denial , alternative facts , German flags and sex tips”. Flesch speaks out against Holocaust denial.

In September 2018, Flesch was named in the New York Times as an example of a "far right figure" ("right-wing person") and criticized for having published several videos on YouTube after the riots in Chemnitz that wrongly happened would represent.

The sociologist Götz Frommholz described Flesch as a “ right-wing populist ” who “simplifies […] complex issues and […] stigmatizes minorities”. He belongs to a group of around 20 prominent German bloggers who spread right-wing populist content on YouTube. According to a study by social scientists Patrick Stegemann and Sören Musyal, Flesch is "an integral part of German-speaking YouTube rights." Flesch is close to the alternative for Germany . He was already a guest of the party in the Bundestag and reproduced the party's positions in his videos.

In addition to political issues, Flesch advocates men's rights . In his blog he speaks out against a quota for women and sees the reason for the lack of women in management positions that they “simply have the bite to get to the top”.

In May 2019 Flesch shot a critical video about the left house project Rigaer 94 in Berlin-Friedrichshain . A few days later he was beaten with clubs nearby. In March 2020, he and two other men agitated at an anti-fascist demonstration on Lesbos , which led to riots.

Flesch works for the right-wing extremist blog PI-News .

He also works as a reporter for the right-wing populist Deutschland-Kurier .

Works

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mallorca newspaper: German agitation in Cala Ratjada . ( mallorcazeitung.es [accessed on November 10, 2018]).
  2. ↑ Flesch, Oliver, 1969-: Anyone who sat deep in the cellar memories of a rebel . 1st edition Edel Germany, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-8419-0139-2 , p. 8 .
  3. ↑ Oliver Flesch - Scriptzz Agency - Berlin. Retrieved September 13, 2018 (German).
  4. ↑ Why 2016 was the best year of my life . In: True Men . December 31, 2016 ( oliver-flesch.com [accessed September 13, 2018]).
  5. ↑ Mechthild Klein: Freaking to vocal music of the sixties . August 5, 2001 ( welt.de [accessed January 28, 2019]).
  6. ↑ Flesch's sporty message in a bottle - the new column by Oliver Flesch | Flesch's message in a bottle | € 20 bonus. Retrieved September 13, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Spiegel bestseller list 08/2006 , accessed on December 16, 2013
  8. ↑ http://www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/nichts-und-niemand/1636536.html
  9. ↑ Timmo Schreiber: Mad Men , GQ - Gentlemen's Quarterly website, January 13, 2016. Accessed February 4, 2018.
  10. ↑ Frankfurter Rundschau: “Merkel must go” in Hamburg: Pegida in Hanseatic . In: Frankfurter Rundschau . ( fr.de [accessed on September 12, 2018]).
  11. ↑ What the live stream reveals about rights regarding a "Merkel must go" demo . In: Vice . February 28, 2018 ( vice.com [accessed September 13, 2018]).
  12. ^ Mallorca newspaper: German agitation in Cala Ratjada . ( mallorcazeitung.es [accessed on May 11, 2019]).
  13. ↑ As Germans Seek News, YouTube Delivers Far-Right Tirades . ( nytimes.com [accessed September 11, 2018]).
  14. ^ Mallorca newspaper: German agitation in Cala Ratjada . ( mallorcazeitung.es [accessed on November 12, 2018]).
  15. ↑ Musyal, Sören, Econ-Verlag: The right mobilization: how radical network activists attack our democracy . Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-430-21022-5 , pp. 128 .
  16. ↑ Musyal, Sören, Econ-Verlag: The right mobilization: how radical network activists attack our democracy . Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-430-21022-5 , pp. 128 .
  17. ↑ Leave the quota to the disabled, girls! In: True Men . September 11, 2014 ( oliver-flesch.com [accessed October 31, 2018]).
  18. ↑ Timmo Schreiber: Mad Men , GQ - Gentlemen's Quarterly website, January 13, 2016. Accessed February 4, 2018.
  19. ↑ Masked men attack 49-year-olds with sticks and clubs. Der Tagesspiegel, May 12, 2019, accessed on May 12, 2019 .
  20. ^ Rioting between the German right and Antifa on Lesbos. In: Zeit.de. Retrieved March 8, 2020 .
  21. ^ FR , Frankfurter Rundschau website, accessed on April 4, 2020.
  22. ↑ Ollis Interview - Video. Deutschland-Kurier, accessed on August 21, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Flesch, Oliver
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, screenplay, fiction and non-fiction author
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg , Germany