Sabine Schiffer

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Sabine Schiffer (* 1966 in Geilenkirchen ) is a German linguist and media educator . She teaches at the University for Media, Communication and Economics in Frankfurt am Main. Her topics are media theory , media criticism and media journalism . She deals, among other things, with the image of Islam in the German media and " hate speech " (roughly translated: "hate speech") in anti-Islamic blogs .

Education and professional activities

Sabine Schiffer grew up in North Rhine-Westphalia and Bavaria . After graduating from high school , she studied linguistics at the Friedrich-Alexander University in Erlangen , where she later also completed a four-semester second degree in economics , politics and Islamic studies. She has been working as a media educator since 1993 and deals primarily with discrimination in public discourse, in particular on topics such as anti-Semitism , Islamophobia, sexism as well as the media and war. The main focus is on the web activities related to this topic . In 2004 she received a doctorate from Horst Haider Munske at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg with a thesis on the representation of Islam in daily newspapers and magazines. phil. PhD . Until 2006 she worked as a lecturer in German linguistics at Erlangen University.

In November 2005, Schiffer founded the Institute for Media Responsibility (IMV) in Erlangen, which she still heads today. Since 2009 the IMV has been operating as a limited liability company (UG) with Schiffer as managing director. The IMV has been organizing a media education week every year since 2006 . From 2006 to 2009 Schiffer was a member of the media working group of the German Islam Conference . Since 2009 she has been writing regularly for the Turkish daily Zaman . Since 2012 Schiffer has worked as a consultant for the journalism school World Media Akademie in Offenbach am Main , and since the winter semester 2012 as a freelance lecturer for the International Media Studies course at DW Akademie in Bonn . Since the summer semester 2018, she has been a professor at the University of Media, Communication and Economics in Frankfurt / Main .

Publications and reception

Sabine Schiffer dealt with the presentation of Islam in the press in her interdisciplinary dissertation from 2004. In the main part of her investigation, she analyzed images and texts from national daily and weekly newspapers (including Focus , Der Spiegel , Die Zeit , FAZ ) from 1988 to 2002. Schiffer identified systematic manipulations throughout the material. So were u. a. Film techniques, such as the frequency and repetition of certain stimulus combinations, are analyzed as manipulative means for stereotyping . In her dissertation, she suggested comparing the lines of development of the anti-Semitic and the Islamophobic discourse. Kristina Stock from the Orientalist Institute of the University of Leipzig rated this study in the specialist forum Humanities - Social and Cultural History as serious media criticism that reveals mechanisms of manipulation, the results of which are relativized by counterexamples that do not follow the presentation techniques found, but without reducing the value of the dissertation . Stock pointed out that, according to Schiffer, the integration discussion that is being carried out with regard to Muslim fellow citizens threatens to end in the same accusation of misrepresentation as happened to Jewish fellow citizens at the beginning of the 20th century.

Schiffer took part with a work under the title Islam in German Media in a 2005 special edition on Muslims in Europe in the supplement From Politics and Contemporary History of the weekly newspaper Das Parlament .

In December 2008 she took part in the conference Feindbild Muslim - Feindbild Jude of the Center for Research on Antisemitism , chaired by Wolfgang Benz , and wrote a contribution to the book documentation of the conference.

In the same year she published the book Antisemitismus und Islamophobie together with Constantin Wagner, a freelancer at her institute . A comparison . She explores the question of "whether there is an Islamophobia about which something can be learned in historical comparison with anti-Semitism". Patrick Bahners praised the book in a collective review in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) as a stimulus for an "urgently needed 'ideological critique of the critique of Islam" ". In contrast, the journalist Sabine Pamperrien in Das Parlament assessed the book as a "counterpart to the pseudo-scientific propaganda of the critics of Islam". She held up unscientific working methods to the authors Schiffer and Wagner. Armin Pfahl-Traughber also criticized analytical weaknesses in a review written for the Humanist Press Service . The authors would "often only list descriptions and comments without clear systematization". It is also annoying that there is no differentiation between criticism of Islam and Islamophobia. So “feminists, Christian fundamentalists, humanists” would be lumped together.

About Schiffer's contribution to the anthology Islamfeindlichkeit , which was published by Thorsten Gerald Schneiders in 2009 , Bahners wrote in his review in the FAZ that Sabine Schiffer was rightly concerned “in detail with the adversities of the blogger scene critical of Islam. Pages like ' Politically Incorrect ' [...] [stand] for brutalizing and disinhibiting public speech, which is unprecedented “. However, he criticized Schiffer's demand that “only non-religious causes should be taken into account in the causal consideration of women's oppression”. Schiffer writes regularly as a columnist for the online news site Deutsch-Türkisches Journal (DTJ).

The political scientist Floris Biskamp criticized Schiffer in Jungle World as an author who “likes to label criticism of certain currents of Islam as agitation”, as a representative of a movement that has “for some years in prejudice against Islam the new anti-Semitism and in critics of Islam the new Nazis ”. In particular, their demand for a restriction of freedom of expression is "piquant". You find yourself in a "half-world between prejudice research and pro-Islamist lobby".

She is criticized for certain contacts, interlocutors and platforms. For example, she gave an interview to the Iranian foreign broadcaster Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting and was, among other things, several times a guest on programs by the conspiracy theorist Ken Jebsen . In various articles, she also represented conspiracy theories as of September 11, 2001 .

Jan-Philipp Hein described the Institute for Media Responsibility in the Kölner Stadtanzeiger as a "one-woman institute", since Schiffer only lists freelancers apart from one office worker and, according to his own statements, operates the institute "essentially" as "a network".

Controversy on the Marwa El-Sherbini murder

In 2009 Sabine Schiffer commented several times on the circumstances and background to the murder of Marwa El-Sherbini on July 1, 2009 by the Islamophobic and xenophobic accused during a court hearing in Dresden. She gave several interviews on the case, for example in July 2009 in the word radio SWR cont.ra , in the taz and in the Arab news channel Al Jazeera .

The murdered man's husband rushed to her aid and was critically injured by the defendant with several knife stabs. In addition, an incoming police officer shot him specifically because he mistakenly believed him to be the perpetrator of the knife attack. In a telephone interview that was broadcast on July 15, 2009 by the German-language radio Islam of the Iranian state news broadcaster IRIB , Schiffer stated that the husband was "certainly also shot by a police officer for racist reasons". Thereupon, after reports by the police officer and his department, a penalty order was issued against Schiffer for defamation , which she contradicted. The Erlangen District Court acquitted her because it judged her comment to be covered by the fundamental right to freedom of expression . On October 13, 2010, the judgment became final.

In 2011 Schiffer's contribution to the anthology Tödliche Realitäten appeared. The racist murder of Marwa El-Sherbini . He also commemorates eleven other victims of right-wing extremist violence in the Federal Republic of Germany who were killed in Saxony . Using the term “Islamophobia”, Schiffer dealt with the tension between criticism of Islam and anti-Muslim resentment. The political scientist Floris Biskamp criticized her analysis in another article in the anthology.

In an article in Inamo magazine in 2011, Schiffer argued, among other things, "that the anti-Islamic murder of Marwa El-Sherbini was not just an isolated act by a single perpetrator", but "must be understood in the context of widespread anti-Islamic sentiments". This is still not discussed enough, although studies have shown growing anti-Islamic resentment.

Publications

Books

  • The representation of Islam in the press. Language, images, suggestions. A selection of techniques and examples (=  Bibliotheca academica, Oriental Studies series , Volume 10). Ergon-Verlag, Würzburg 2005, ISBN 3-89913-421-4 (also dissertation, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg 2004).
  • with Constantin Wagner: Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia. A comparison (=  "Books that change our worldview" , Volume 2). HWK Verlag, Wassertrüdingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-937245-05-8 ( review note at Perlentaucher ).
  • Education and media. What parents and educators need to know. HWK Verlag, Wassertrüdingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-937245-10-2 .
  • with Ronald Thoden: Ukraine in sight - Russia's neighbor as a target for geostrategic interests. Selbrund Verlag, Frankfurt 2014, ISBN 978-3-9816963-0-1 .

Book contributions, specialist articles and lectures

  • Media and knowledge transfer using the example of Islam. Perspectives for a media educational approach. In: Sigrid Nolda (ed.): Adult education in the knowledge society (=  theory and practice of adult education ). Julius Klinkhardt, Bad Heilbrunn 2002, ISBN 3-7815-0855-2 , pp. 120-139.
  • The production of the image of Islam in the German media . In: Siegfried Jäger u. a. (Ed.): Medial barriers. Racism as an obstacle to integration (=  Duisburg Institute for Language and Social Research. Edition DISS , Volume 13). Unrast, Münster 2007, ISBN 978-3-89771-742-8 , pp. 167-200 ( review (also on Schiffer's contribution) by Ruth Wodak at the FQS ).
  • Islam and violence. A minority opinion prevails . In: Bernhard Debatin (ed.): The cartoon dispute and freedom of the press. Conflicts of values ​​and norms in global media culture. The cartoon debate and the freedom of the press (=  culture and technology , volume 4). LIT, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-8258-9950-9 , pp. 161-171.
  • together with Xenia Gleißner: The Image of the Prophet. The dispute over the Mohammed cartoons. In: Gerhard Paul (ed.): The century of pictures. 1949 until today. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-525-30012-1 , pp. 750-759.
  • Limitless hatred on the internet. As “Islam-critical” activists argue in weblogs. In: Thorsten Gerald Schneiders (Ed.): Islamophobia. When the lines of criticism blur. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2009, ISBN 978-3-531-16257-7 , pp. 341–362.
  • Commentary on the lecture by Angelika Königseder “The enemy of Islam”. In: Wolfgang Benz (Ed.): Islamophobia and its context. Documentation of the conference “Feindbild Muslim - Feindbild Jude” (=  series of positions, perspectives, diagnoses , volume 3). Metropol Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-940938-32-9 , pp. 35-43.
  • Kulturkampf as a means of war propaganda? In: Ralph-Maria Lüdtke u. a. (Ed.): Capitalism, Crisis and War. Break the cycle (=  Kassel writings on peace policy , Volume 17). Jenior, Kassel 2010, ISBN 978-3-934377-57-8 , pp. 210-219.
  • Islamophobia - a plea for an international name. In: Victim counseling of the RAA Sachsen e. V. (Ed., Proofreading: Alexandra Klei ): Tödliche Realitäten. The racist murder of Marwa El-Sherbini. Regional offices for education, integration and democracy Saxony, Hoyerswerda 2011, ISBN 978-3-00-034794-8 , pp. 126-135.
  • Islamophobia - a plea for an international name . In: Inamo , No. 4, 2011, pp. 22-26
  • Information media in post-democracy. On the importance of media literacy for a living democracy . In: From Politics and Contemporary History (APuZ) , No. 1–2, 2011, pp. 27–32 ( online ).
  • Islam in German media . In: From Politics and Contemporary History (APuZ) , 2005, No. 20, pp. 23–30 ( online ).
  • Media as a mirror and constructor of social ideas . In: Dossier Media and Diversity , Böll Foundation 2007, pp. 12–15 ( online ).
  • Islamophobes in the impunity room . In: Frankfurter Rundschau , October 1, 2011 ( online ).
  • Against one-sidedness. Diversity in German mass media. In: Fikrun wa Fann , cultural journal of the Goethe-Institut for dialogue with the Islamic world, June 2010 ( online ).
  • Islamophobia in Germany. Take exclusionary structures seriously. In: German Cultural Council (Ed.): Islam Culture Politics. Dossier 1, January – February 2011, ISBN 978-3-934868-26-7 · p. 38, kulturrat.de (PDF).
  • Islamophobia . Documentation of a conference of the German Association of Cities and the City of Munich, German Association of Cities Berlin, Cologne 2012, p. 72, staedtetag.de (PDF).

English

  • Islam in German Media . In: Ala Al-Hamarneh, Jorn Thielmann (Ed.) Islam and Muslims in Germany (Muslim Minorities) . Brill Academic Pub., Leiden 2008, ISBN 978-90-04-15866-5 , pp. 432-440
  • Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia - new enemies, old patterns (with Constantin Wagner). In: Race & Class No. 1, 2011, pp. 77–84.
  • The Fiction of a Homogeneous Culture . In: Euro-Med Intercultural Trends 2010. The Anna Lindh Report. Pp. 107-109, euromedalex.org (PDF).
  • Demonizing Islam before and after 9/11: Anti-Islamic spin - an important factor in pro-war PR? , in: Global Media and Communication. No. 3, 2011, pp. 211-214.

Contributions to media education

  • Media education for multipliers - preliminary conceptual considerations for a curriculum initiative . In: HLZ - Journal of the GEW Hessen for upbringing, education, research , 65th year, No. 3/2012, ISSN  0935-0489 , pp. 12-13 gew-hessen.de (PDF; 2.06 MB)
  • Language education . In: MiGAZIN , five-part series of articles, March 7-11, 2011 (online) .
  • Media module for the i-Punkt project of the State Center for Political Education Baden-Württemberg . In: Robert Feil, Wolfgang Hesse (ed.): Living with one another. Teaching materials for orientation and language courses . Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-00-036568-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thorsten Gerald Schneiders: Islamophobia. When the lines of criticism blur. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2009, ISBN 978-3-531-16257-7 , p. 496: Authors .
  2. ↑ Sabine Schiffer: The representation of Islam in the press . Würzburg 2005, p. 266.
  3. ↑ a b Vita_SabineSchiffer.pdf . On: Website of the Institute for Media Responsibility (IMV). PDF; 63 kB; accessed on December 2, 2019.
  4. ↑ IMV presents itself, its tasks and goals (PDF; 32 kB) Own press release on the establishment of the Institute for Media Responsibility (IMV) from December 1, 1995; Retrieved April 11, 2013.
  5. ↑ Fürth District Court, HRB 12174.
  6. ^ Andrea Dernbach: Islam Conference. Very practical . In: Der Tagesspiegel , June 25, 2009. Retrieved January 29, 2013.
  7. ↑ Helen Rose Ebaugh: The Gülen Movement. An empirical study . Freiburg 2012, p. 159 ff. Column by Zaman . Listing of the comments from Dr. Sabine Schiffer ', which appear about two weeks in the European edition of the Turkish-language daily Zaman ; at the Institute for Media Responsibility (IMV) . Retrieved April 10, 2013.
  8. ↑ Source: German-Turkish Journal , accessed on August 31, 2013.
  9. ^ HMKW: Sabine Schiffer. Retrieved April 27, 2018 .
  10. ^ Ina Wunn, Hamideh Mohaghegh: Muslim Groups in Germany: A Handbook . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2007, p. 230 (online) .
  11. ↑ Kristina Stock: Review of: Schiffer, Sabine: The representation of Islam in the press. Language, images, suggestions. A selection of techniques and examples . In: H-Soz-u-Kult , December 1, 2006.
  12. ↑ Sabine Schiffer: Islam in German media . In: From Politics and Contemporary History , Parliament ., No. 20, 2005, pp 23-30, bpb.de (PDF; 337 kB) bpb.de .
  13. ↑ Media information No. 323/25. November 2008: Image of the enemy Muslim - image of the enemy Jew
  14. ↑ Commentary on Angelika Königseder's lecture : Feindbild Islam. In: Wolfgang Benz (Ed.): Islamophobia and its context: Documentation of the conference Feindbild Muslim - Feindbild Jude. Metropol Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-940938-32-9 , pp. 35-43.
  15. ↑ a b Patrick Bahners: On the mobilization of disgust . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , March 4, 2010, accessed on April 5, 2013.
  16. ↑ Sabine Pamperrien: Polemics from all sides . In: The Parliament , No. 47/16. November 2009.
  17. ↑ Armin Pfahl-Traughber: More emotional than factual. hpd, July 23, 2009, accessed April 10, 2013 .
  18. ↑ Sabine Schiffer: Limitless hatred on the Internet. As “Islam-critical” activists argue in weblogs. In: Thorsten Gerald Schneiders: "Islamophobia". When the lines of criticism blur . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2009, p. 355 f.
  19. ^ Articles by Sabine Schiffer in the German-Turkish journal
  20. ↑ Floris Biskamp: The moose test of the criticism of Islam. About the difference between criticism of Islam and resentment . In: Jungle World , No. 31/2011, August 4, 2011.
  21. ↑ Floris Biskamp: The coming decency. In: Jungle World. April 7, 2011, accessed June 11, 2015 .
  22. ↑ a b c Media research: The strange institute of Sabine S. ( Memento from January 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger , January 12, 2010. Accessed on January 10, 2014.
  23. ↑ Jennifer Nathalie Pyka : Freedom of Expression and Right-Wing Extremism. In: theeuropean.de. December 10, 2011, accessed June 11, 2015 .
  24. ^ Sabine Schiffer: 9/11 revisited - open questions remain (AG Friedensforschung, 2006); Sabine Schiffer: Little lesson in matters of freedom of expression and freedom of the press ( Memento from October 26, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (Telepolis, 2011); Sabine Schiffer: Ten Years 9/11 - A Plea for Freedom of Expression ( Memento from January 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (Friedensjournal 5/2011); Roland Heurig, Sabine Schiffer, Karin M. Schmidl: Conspiracy on artificial turf - Reframing 9/11 ( background , November 17, 2009)
  25. ↑ See: List of interviews on the website of the Institute for Media Responsibility (IMV), some with web links or downloads. Retrieved April 11, 2013.
  26. ↑ a b Facsimile of the judgment (PDF; 1465 kB) of the Erlangen District Court, dated April 13, 2010, file number 1 Ds 404 Js 45405/0; on the website of the Institute for Media Responsibility (IWV); Retrieved April 11, 2013.
  27. ↑ (dpa): Shot in the courtroom. Marwa El-Sherbini case: investigations into police officers suspended . In: Der Tagesspiegel of December 29, 2009. Retrieved on April 13, 2013.
  28. ↑ Interview with Dr. Sabine Schiffer . Text transcript of the interview of July 14, 2009 on the website of the news channel IRIB , with audio stream . Retrieved March 11, 2013.
  29. ↑ Sebastian Hornung: Appeal for the right to freedom of expression also for Sabine Schiffer . In: NRhZ-Online from March 24, 2010; Retrieved April 11, 2013.
  30. ↑ Victim counseling of the regional offices for education, integration and democracy Saxony e. V. (Ed., Proofreading: Alexandra Klei): Tödliche Realitäten. The racist murder of Marwa El-Sherbini. Regional offices for education, integration and democracy Saxony, Hoyerswerda 2011, ISBN 978-3-00-034794-8
  31. ↑ Floris Biskamp: Talking about talking about Islam. Critical research in the double bind of 'Islamophobia criticism' and 'Islam criticism'. ( Memento from June 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) In: Victim counseling of the regional offices for education, integration and democracy Saxony e. V. (Ed.): Deadly Realities. The racist murder of Marwa El-Sherbini. , Hoyerswerda 2011, 136-148.
  32. ^ Sabine Schiffer: Islamophobia - Plea for an international name. ( Memento of October 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Excerpt from inamo No. 68, winter 2011, volume 17. Accessed on April 11, 2013.
  33. ^ Sage Journals
  34. ↑ About the Anna Lindh Foundation, Goethe Institute
  35. ^ Sage Journals
personal data
SURNAME Schiffer, Sabine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German linguist and media scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Geilenkirchen