Respect! No place for racism

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Sign at Mannheim City Hall

Respect! No place for racism is an initiative founded in 2006, based in Frankfurt am Main , which is directed against racism , discrimination and intolerance . It promotes respectful behavior towards others, tolerance, recognition and appreciation. The initiative is supported by the non-profit Respect! No place for Rassismus GmbH and is under the patronage of Bertin Eichler (former executive board member of IG Metall ) and Sandra Minnert (former national soccer player, DFB cup winner, German champion, European and world champion).

Emergence

The trigger for the founding of the initiative were racist excesses on German football fields, from insults and threats to blows and kicks against colored players by individual spectators and groups of spectators. One case caused a stir nationwide in the spring of 2006: The Nigerian national team player Adebowale Ogungbure from FC Sachsen Leipzig was regularly spat at by spectators in games in the fourth division and insulted with screams and monkey sounds. On March 25, 2006, in the top match at Halleschen FC , he showed the audience the Hitler salute angrily . After the game, he was attacked, beaten and strangled by opposing fans.

On this day, the idea for the No Space for Racism initiative was born. Ogungbur's professional colleagues, above all his former teammate Daniel Gunkel and his friend Jermaine Jones , developed the concept for an initially regionally designed sign campaign together with the makers of a Frankfurt soccer magazine. Football clubs were invited to stand up for action against racism and to post the sign “No space for racism” on their playgrounds. On March 1, 2007, Ioannis Amanatidis and Patrick Meyer, Managing Directors of Stadion Frankfurt Management GmbH, put the sign up on the Commerzbank-Arena in Frankfurt . Signs now hang on more than 200 stadiums and soccer fields across Germany.

development

The partnership with associations and institutions opened the initiative for areas of life and work beyond football and sport and also expanded the focus on fighting any form of discrimination based on ethnic or social origin, religion, gender, physical characteristics, political worldview or sexual orientation. Examples are here

  • the AktionCourage with their project School with Courage - School without Racism developed, which in turn educational concepts against xenophobia and racist violence in schools.
  • the Frankfurt Book Fair , which, with its actions, triggers controversial discussions on the subject.
  • As part of a viral campaign for the 2014 European elections, the initiative developed and produced a video spot to call for elections and ultimately to reduce the influence of anti-European, xenophobic parties.

On March 1, 2011, IG Metall started the Respect! Offensive for companies as an official partner.

In the years 2011 to 2016 the sign campaign “Respect! No place for racism ”carried out as a project. During this time, around 2,000 signs were attached to numerous buildings in which IG Metall offices can be found, including municipal facilities (including the City Hall of Frankfurt am Main), sports stadiums and operating facilities.

The Respect! Initiative massively expanded political education work to strengthen democratic attitudes. In 2019, the Respekt! Initiative initiated the “longest anti-racist banner” campaign. It is 635 meters long and consists of 5440 individual pieces of fabric.

Protest by the AfD

On December 4, 2019, the Frankfurt AfD parliamentary group demanded the removal of the billboard that had been installed in 2014 with the words “Respect! No place for racism ”at the Römer town hall in Frankfurt , as this violates the principle of neutrality. At the request of the AfD, the mayor of Frankfurt, Peter Feldmann ( SPD ), should also issue a declaration of discontinuance. The Lord Mayor replied that the sign would remain; he would not sign the cease and desist declaration requested; Frankfurt's fight against racism, xenophobia and anti-Semitism remains, it is part of the city's identity. Due to the attack by the AfD, the Respect! Initiative met with broad solidarity. Campact also supported and offered Respect! Signs to order. The orders amounted to over 30,000 signs.

ambassador

Numerous supporters and ambassadors from sport, culture and society are committed to the goals of the initiative and support them through their personal commitment. In the photo books and videos on the initiative, they report on their own experiences in dealing with respect.



In addition, people and groups in public life have committed to the Respect! Initiative by participating in the "longest anti-racist banner with the most contributors":

The initiators Lothar and Kris Rudolf

Together with his sons Maik (* 1980) and Kris (* 1983), Lothar Rudolf (* 1954) is the "inventor" of the "Respekt!" Project. All employees and networkers of his agency Querformat were directly involved in the initiative, both professionally and voluntarily.

literature

  • Respect! 100 people - 100 stories . Photo book with 2 DVD. Ed .: Peter Lohmeyer, Lothar Rudolf. Bund-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2010. ISBN 978-3-7663-6047-2
  • Respect! 100 women - 100 stories . Photo book with DVD. Ed .: Ulrike Obermayr, Bertin Eichler and Lothar Rudolf. Bund-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2011. ISBN 978-3-7663-6140-0
  • Respect! Black Book Racism . Text collection with photographs. Ed .: Walter Gerlach and Jürgen Roth. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2012. ISBN 978-3-8353-1252-4

Web links

Commons : respect! No place for racism  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eva Lodde: The madness lies in the square. Spiegel Online , March 27, 2006, accessed February 14, 2015 .
  2. ↑ No place for intolerance, racism and discrimination. Starting signal for respect! IG Metall , March 2, 2011, archived from the original on November 11, 2014 ; accessed on February 14, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Editorial office IG Metall: Record-breaking banner against racism. Retrieved February 7, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Hanning Voigts: AfD Frankfurt takes legal action against anti-racist shield in: Frankfurter Rundschau , updated December 5, 2019, accessed December 5, 2019.
  5. ^ Dpa announcement, December 5, 2019
  6. ↑ respect! No space for racism 30,000 signs - Campact. Retrieved on February 7, 2020 (German).
  7. ↑ »Respect! No place for racism «gGmbH: Gerhard Polt -» Revision «. December 17, 2013, accessed March 8, 2018 .