Shahak Shapira

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Shahak Shapira (2014)

Shahak Shapira (Hebrew: שחק שפירא, born April 1, 1988 in Petach Tikwa , Israel ) is a German artist , writer , musician , comedian and satirist .

Life

Shapira grew up in the Jewish settlement of Oranit in the West Bank . The father ran a family recreation center there, his mother was a choreographer. Shapira's maternal grandfather was the only Holocaust survivor in his family. His paternal grandfather, Amitzur Schapira , was the trainer of the Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympic Games and died as a hostage to Palestinian terrorists of the Black September group at the Fürstenfeldbruck military airport .

In 2002 Shahak Shapira immigrated to Germany with his mother and younger brother at the age of 14. The family settled in Laucha an der Unstrut in southern Saxony-Anhalt . The small town in which the right-wing extremist NPD achieved the highest result in all of Saxony-Anhalt in the local elections in 2009 with 13.55%, Shapira describes as an "East German NPD stronghold". In 2010, Shapira's younger brother was insulted by a young right-wing extremist as a "Jewish pig" and beaten up. The Naumburg District Court sentenced the thug to eight months probation.

Shahak Shapira made his Abitur according to his own statements with a grade point average of 1.9 in Saxony-Anhalt and then studied at the Miami Ad School in Berlin. Shapira lives in Berlin and works as a creative director for various clients. Under the name Shap he appears as House - DJ in various clubs and also produces own electronic music.

reception

On New Year's Eve 2014, Shapira was attacked in Berlin by a group of anti-Semitic men of Arab origin and was subsequently known nationwide. Because of this event he wrote the autobiographical book That one will probably still be allowed to write! , which was published on May 21, 2016 by Rowohlt Verlag and reached 18th place in the Spiegel bestseller lists at the beginning of 2017 . In his book Shapira wrote about his childhood in Israel and Saxony-Anhalt, the survival story of his maternal grandfather in the Holocaust and the taking of his paternal grandfather at the Olympic Games in Munich.

Shapira wrote articles for the weekly newspaper Die Zeit , the news website Stern.de and the lifestyle magazine Vice .

Shapira gained international attention in 2015 with the 90's Boiler Room - a parody of the world-famous Boiler Room party series . The streaming videos were linked to 1990s pop hits by Dr. Alban , Haddaway and the Backstreet Boys and clicked hundreds of thousands of times.

In October 2016, Shapira was supposed to be interviewed on the show Facetalk on Kiss FM . A few hours before the show, he learned that the right-wing rapper Julian Fritsch was also to be interviewed on the show and canceled his participation for the time being. The broadcaster then offered him to go on air at the same time as Fritsch in order to confront him. Shapira agreed, but was only switched on by the broadcaster before and after the interview with Fritsch. Subsequently, the outrage expressed itself over the station and broadcast in a shitstorm . Shapira criticized the show in a Vice article for its approach. The criticism, which was followed by numerous media, was mainly aimed at the fact that the rapping neo-Nazi had been uncritically questioned and thus had a platform for his statements. A few days later, Fritsch offered Shapira an interview, assuming that he would not be questioned because of the ban on Holocaust denial . Shapira declined the offer in an article in the weekly Die Zeit .

At the beginning of 2017 he published the website Yolocaust (a suitcase word from YOLO and Holocaust ), on which he combined twelve selfies of strangers who had taken them at the memorial for the murdered Jews of Europe with photo material from Nazi extermination camps . The project received worldwide media attention and sparked a debate about the memorial and the culture of remembrance of the Holocaust. The Jewish author Mirna Funk criticized the Zeit Online website as being gimmicky. After a week, Shapira declared the project complete after all twelve people contacted him and asked for the images to be removed. He removed all photos on the Yolocaust website and published numerous reactions to the project with a final statement. The online news channel AJ + video about Yolocaust was viewed 65 million times on Facebook.

In August 2017 he sprayed hate tweets , which the microblogging service Twitter had not previously deleted, on the steps in front of Twitter's Germany headquarters at Hamburg-Altona train station. A few days later Shapira confessed to the campaign with a YouTube video called "#HeyTwitter" and reported that she had reported over 300 tweets over a period of six months as part of an experiment. After Twitter responded to only nine of its reports with a rejection and left the remaining reports unanswered, Shapira posted 30 of the unedited hate comments using washable chalk sprays in front of the company's office. The project caused a worldwide sensation and inspired imitators to protest with projections in front of Twitter's headquarters in San Francisco . In interviews, Shapira stated that his project did not call for censorship, but was merely a criticism of Twitter's negligent enforcement of its own guidelines. He also denied the accusation of vandalism on the grounds that the use of chalk spray on public roads is legal in Germany. Justice Minister Heiko Maas joined the discussion and called on Twitter to do more against hate speech. There was no response from Twitter.

On August 18, 2017 Shapira published second book: a Bible-parody called "Holyge Bimbel" he in the stories of the Old and New Testament in the new at that time network jargon Vong translated. The book reached first place on the Amazon bestseller list on the day of its publication . A week later, the book entered the Spiegel bestseller list at number 10 . In an interview, Shapira justified the choice of the Bible: “I wanted a story that was as ridiculous as the language. If there is one book that deserves to be written in Vong, it is the Bible. "

Starting in 2016, Shapira, together with members of the Party for Labor, Rule of Law, Animal Welfare, Elite Promotion and grassroots initiative, infiltrated 31 non-public Facebook groups of the right-wing populist Alternative for Germany , allowed themselves to be regularly appointed administrators and took control of the groups in September 2017.

In 2017 he took on German citizenship and had to give up his Israeli citizenship .

From April 9 to May 28, 2019, the first season of his program Shapira Shapira was broadcast on ZDFneo and the second season from October 29 to December 12, 2019. Because of bad ratings, the show was canceled after two seasons.

Works

Web links

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Shapira, Shahak
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli-German artist, writer, musician, comedian and satirist
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Petach Tikwa , Israel