Rayk Anders

Rayk Anders
Rayk Anders (2018)
YouTube channel (politics, society)
founding	August 21st, 2013
channels	Rayk Anders
Subscribers	over 116,000
Calls	over 24 million
Videos	292
(updated June 15, 2020)

Rayk Anders (born June 2, 1987 in Berlin ) is a freelance journalist and web video producer from Germany .

Career

Under the pseudonym Freeze , Rayk Anders read the news for the rap magazine hiphop.de in 2007. In 2013, in addition to other activities in Street Magazin or at TV Berlin , Anders began his project Armes Deutschland, in which he published on various internet platforms (e.g. YouTube , Facebook and Twitter ). He commented on current political events. Anders used a simplified imagery that was easy to disseminate via social media . B. " Converts politicians to memes ".

At the end of 2015, ZDF released the documentary Conspiracy Theories - Leben im Wahn by Marc Mauricius Quambusch with Anders als Moderator, in which he explains and critically classifies various conspiracy theories (e.g. chemtrails ) and right-wing groups such as the Reich Citizenship Movement. Since autumn 2016 he has with Headlinez that his previous project Poor Germany separates and joins the content in this, his own show within the online media offer funk that both the SWR and on the live stream transmitter Rocket Beans TV shows . That same year, Anders released his first book entitled Your stupidity makes me sick in the dtv publisher that later in an audio book version was published a few months and for three weeks bestseller list Mirror was on. Here, too, Anders takes a critical stance towards various conspiracy theories and political phenomena.

After a criticism of the AfD's double standards published on September 15, 2017 , Anders came into the focus of the right-wing radical network Reconquista Germanica according to a report on heute + and, according to Stephan Mündges from ZDF , received two thousand hateful comments on the video Die AfD and within two days the “courage to truth” on his YouTube channel.

On December 14, 2016, the NRW parliamentary group of the Pirate Party Germany elected Anders as a member of the 16th Federal Assembly , which elected Frank-Walter Steinmeier as the twelfth Federal President of the Federal Republic of Germany on February 12, 2017 .

From 2017 to 2018 he researched together with the research network of funk for the documentary Lösch Dich: This is how hate is organized on the net via the right-wing extremist network Reconquista Germanica . For this, he and Patrick Stegemann were awarded the German Reporter Prize in December 2018 in the "Web Video" category. The Jüdischen Allgemeine Anders said in an interview that a big problem is the manipulation of YouTube by right-wing users: "This scene works on a massive scale with fake accounts and manipulated comment areas."

To combat false news and hate speech, Rayk Anders calls for greater control of the Internet : “The Internet is a great thing, and freedom of expression is a valuable asset. But the nonsense that is currently flooding the network, the hatred that demonstrators are shouting in front of refugee homes, the half-truths with which right-wing populists want to scare voters - I can no longer hear it all. It is enough for me."

The YouTube channel of Rayk Anders decreed on November 6, 2018 110,000 subscribers and 18.6 million views since its establishment on August 21, 2013.

At the end of 2019, Rayk Anders and funk parted ways. Anders is therefore no longer part of public service broadcasting .

Anders is married and says he is an agnostic .

Awards

• 2018 with the German Reporter Award in the category "Web-Video" for the documentary Lösch Dich: This is how hate is organized on the Internet

Publications

• Rayk Anders: Your stupidity pisses me off! How bullshit is poisoning our country . dtv Verlagsgesellschaft München 2016. ISBN 978-3-423-43012-8 ( limited preview )

Web links

• Literature by and about Rayk Anders in the catalog of the German National Library
• Rayk Unlike in theInternet Movie Database(English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rayk Anders. Retrieved March 12, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Wirth & Horn - Informationssysteme GmbH - www.wirth-horn.de: Rayk Anders | dtv . ( dtv.de [accessed on November 6, 2018]).
3. ↑ “We're so good that it hurts”. In: Friday . July 10, 2015, accessed January 5, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Jonas Kielmann: Ex-Hiphop.de employee Rayk Anders publishes bestsellers . In: Hiphop.de . October 15, 2016 ( hiphop.de [accessed June 18, 2018]).
5. ^ Poor Germany - Rayk Anders . In: Kultur- und Kreativpiloten Germany . 2014
6. ↑ Video messages with Rayk Anders: Youtuber explains rights and hooligans his "Poor Germany". In: rp-online.de , November 21, 2014
7. ↑ Timo Nöthling: "Conspiracy theories are scary and people love to be scared" . In : quotemeter.de . 19th July 2017.
8. ↑ Stefan Reinke: Interview on ZDF documentary: In the confused world of chemtrail believers. Berliner Morgenpost , December 11, 2015, accessed on October 3, 2019 . 
9. ↑ ^{a b} Critic of Islam, your stupidity pisses me off . In: Münchner Merkur . January 30, 2017.
10. ↑ Your stupidity pisses me off. In: book report . Retrieved February 12, 2017 . 
11. ↑ Election campaign: where the right gathers. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original ; accessed on September 20, 2017 .  
12. ↑ Rayk Anders: The AfD and the "courage to truth" on YouTube . 15th September 2017.
13. ↑ Gauck successor: Steinmeier elected Federal President. In: Spiegel Online . February 12, 2017. Retrieved February 12, 2017 . 
14. ↑ Pirate Party nominates YouTubers for the Federal Assembly. Pirate Party Germany , December 14, 2016, accessed on December 19, 2016 . 
15. ↑ "funk" -doku about Troll network "Reconquista Germanica": organize How far-right hate on the Internet , swr.de, SWR2 , April 26, 2018
16. ↑ From Ronan Farrow to SPIEGEL - these are the winners. Spiegel Online, December 4, 2018, accessed on the same day.
17. ↑ David Josef De Vries: "Lies and Half-Truths". August 14, 2018, accessed August 8, 2019 . 
18. ^ Deutsche Welle (www.dw.com): Rayk Anders makes a strong case against agitation and fear | DW | 09/19/2017. Retrieved on August 8, 2019 (German). 
19. ↑ Rayk Anders on YouTube , accessed May 11, 2018
20. ↑ "Hunters & Collectors", "stories" & Co .: That is why finished spark the beginning of many popular formats meedia.de, January 2, 2020
21. ↑ Rayk Anders: Your stupidity pisses me off! How bullshit is poisoning our country . dtv Verlagsgesellschaft München 2016. ISBN 978-3-423-43012-8 , p. 78 ( limited preview )