Sibylle Schmidt (entrepreneur)

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Sibylle Schmidt (* 1961 in West Berlin ) is a German event and catering entrepreneur as well as Berlin local politician ( KPD / RZ ; SPD ; since 2016 non-party for the AfD ).

Life

Sibylle Schmidt was born in the Berlin district of Kreuzberg . According to her own statements, her mother was an opera singer.

She has three children.

Event activities

Schmidt is a trained business economist and specialist in the conference, congress and trade fair industry . Between 1980 and 2005 it organized around 1,600 events; mostly concerts, events and company celebrations. Among other things, she was managing director of the alternative club “ Blockshock ” (1985–199?), Operator of the disco “ Tanzschule Schmidt ” (1993–1997) and a comedy club on Lausitzer Platz (1998–1999). Schmidt used to work as a marketing employee at taz . A documentation of her creative phase from 1985 with more than 1000 posters and sound carriers is in the Berlin rock and pop archive .

The "block shock"

Körtestrasse 15 / Hasenheide 54 in Kreuzberg; from 1987 the punk club "Blockshock II" was located here

From the mid-1980s onwards, the "Blockshock" was considered a haven for the Kreuzberg indie scene . Schmidt took over the "Café Blockshock" in 1985 at Mariannenstrasse 48 (at that time the SO 36 post office district ) with friends as an artist club. Because of the noise, Schmidts Blockshock Veranstaltungs GmbH had permanent problems with neighbors. Schmidt therefore switched to SO36 as early as 1986 and organized her “Kiezdisco” there on her own.

In 1987 the club moved to the premises at Körtestrasse 15 / Hasenheide 54 [Höfe am Südstern]. Schmidt had the name of the restaurant protected under trademark law on March 20, 1987 . In “Blockshock II” punk rock greats such as Die Ärzte and Die Toten Hosen appeared. The "Flying Theater" then became home in the premises.

Event posters from “Blockshock” can be found in the archive of youth cultures , for example .

Support for the East Berlin punk movement

Before the fall of the Wall, Schmidt smuggled bands into the sinking GDR and organized concerts against the right . Heinz Havemeister wrote in his book We always want to be good ... : “From 1988 there were good contacts with Sybille [meaning Sibylle Schmidt] from the“ Blockshock ”in West Berlin. Many bands that played there came over to the East and played in the Church of the Redeemer . ”The contact came about after the East Berlin punk“ Herne ”(Raimon Pietzker) who had a rehearsal and concert room in the basement of the Erlöserkirche's annex in 1983 for the group “AlösA” of the East Berlin punk scene, had heard an interview with Sibylle Schmidt on the radio about “Blockshock” and contacted her by phone using the number given in it.

The "Schmidt Dance School"

The house at Rosenthaler Straße 38 after the luxury renovation, on the ground floor of the rear building the "Schmidt II dance school" was located

In the "Tanzschule Schmidt" in Berlin-Mitte , founded in 1993 at Inselstrasse 9 a and from 1996 on the ground floor of the rear building at Rosenthaler Strasse 38 (above the "Galerie BerlinTokyo"), a different audience frequented, primarily fans of hip-hop culture. The pub was officially registered with the district office in Mitte as a dance school to make it easier to obtain a commercial license. The concept envisaged leasing the 250 m² location to youth groups, as Schmidt, as the operator, did not have a liquor license for the location .

After several street battles with the Berlin police on Hackescher Markt, the restaurant made headlines and was subsequently closed by the building authorities. According to the then building councilor Karin Baumert (independent for PDS ), no amusement facilities were allowed to be operated in a monument, and historical murals in the hall of the rear building were destroyed or painted over, according to the explanation at the time. During a surprise visit in January 1998 it was found that the closure had been bypassed. Schmidt countered that the applications had been submitted and the case went to the administrative court .

Political activities

Sybille Schmidt was a well-known spontaneous actor of the left subculture in Kreuzberg for a long time . She was the “ men's representative ” of the Kreuzberg fun party Patriotic Democrats / Realistic Center (KPD / RZ). From 2000 to 2016 Schmidt was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany , the Federal Cultural Forum of Social Democracy, the working group for self-employed persons in the SPD and the Technical Committee III Internal and Legal Policy of the Berlin SPD.

Since September 2016, Schmidt has been a non-party district councilor for the Alternative for Germany (AfD) group in the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg district of Berlin.

The party-political reorientation of the former left-wing political actor from the former Berlin punk scene was reported in several established media in Germany, for example several times in Tagesspiegel , Cicero and Focus . The ZDF satellite news program heute-show was dedicated to her in a broadcast on September 17, 2016, in which she was accompanied through Kreuzberg by Carsten van Ryssen . In the French Figaro Nicolas Barotte and Armin Siebert interviewed Schmidt reported for the Russian news portal Sputnik .

As the reason for the change, she cited her disappointment in the way the SPD had dealt with the so-called “ refugee crisis ” in the Berliner Zeitung . In particular, she criticized the result of the conference of the SPD specialist committee for interior affairs on November 9, 2016, in which, according to her statement, the content of the refugee crisis was not dealt with, but rather the criticism of the Pegida and AfD movement. Ultimately, the terrorist attacks on November 13, 2015 in Paris confirmed that she would not change anything in the actual problem by avoiding difficult topics.

For the election to the 19th German Bundestag on September 24, 2017 , she again ran without a party as a direct candidate for the AfD for constituency 83, Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg-Prenzlauer Berg Ost . Compared to the taz , Schmidt named drug policy as the main reason for her candidacy for the AfD in September 2017.

In order to curb drug consumption in the Berghain Techno Club , she submitted an application to the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg District Assembly in April 2018, according to which the license should be withdrawn from the Berghain operators and the opening times limited to 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. in the future. In addition, the application called for sexual acts to be “prevented by appropriate lighting and personnel”. After the motion sparked outrage, it was withdrawn and the party subsequently distanced itself from it.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b constituency no .: 83 Berlin – Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg-Prenzlauer Berg Ost. In: Official Journal for Berlin , 67th year, No. 33, published by the Berlin State Administration Office, August 7, 2017, p. 3731.
  2. ↑ a b c … Sibylle Schmidt. The bustling club woman now runs her own event agency. The block shock before the end. Sibylle Schmidt is outraged in Zitty 12/88. In: Zitty , Volume 24, Ed. 4-6, Zitty Verlag GmbH, 2001, p. 290.
  3. ↑ Martin Keune : 1989: Sibylle Schmidts Blockshock - legal? illegal? Femme Fatal! Citrus blue, 2016.
  4. ↑ Sabine Leuken and Dr. Strange (Wolfgang Kröske): Kreuzberg Chronicle: Mrs. Schmidt from Kreuzberg from Berlin-Kreuzberg. Retrieved August 12, 2017 .
  5. ^ A b c Gerd Nowakowski: Candidate in the Berlin election: How an old left in Kreuzberg found the AfD. Tagesspiegel, August 28, 2016.
  6. ↑ a b Blockshock. In: Bernd Martin Radowicz: Places of (POP) ulary music in Berlin (West). From 1945 to 1990. Issue 3, Books on Demand, 2017, p. 100. ISBN 978-3-743-11568-2
  7. ↑ Myth "Esso". In: Drucksache - Drucksache. Magazine of the Renewal Commission Kottbusser Tor , No. 6, August 31, 1987, p. 10. ( pdf ( Memento of the original from August 16, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. in the German Digital Library ) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de
  8. ↑ Blockshock (brand) at unibrander.com.
  9. ↑ Krista Tebbe, Klaus Bździach: Kreuzberg, Prenzlauer Berg. Almost everything about culture. Edited for the Kunstamt Kreuzberg, Berlin 1990, p. 32.
  10. ↑ February 13, 1987: "Tanz der Vampire" with The Ravers , Cock Roaches and The Magoo Brothers ( Paul Bonin ); published on rockinberlin.de on September 15, 2013.
  11. ↑ July 8, 1988 : Napoleon Solo and The Butlers ; published on rockinberlin.de on September 15, 2013.
  12. ↑ Heinz Havemeister: We always want to be good…. Punk, New Wave, HipHop and Independent Scene in the GDR from 1980 to 1990. Ed. With Ronald Galenza, Verlag Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf Berlin 1999, p. 115. ISBN 978-3-896-02306-3
  13. ↑ See also AlösA - Punk in the Erlöserkriche Berlin. Herne, Mecy and Micha. In: Heinz Havemeister: We always want to be good…. Punk, New Wave, HipHop and Independent Scene in the GDR from 1980 to 1990. Ed. With Ronald Galenza, Verlag Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf Berlin 1999, p. 108 ff.
  14. ↑ Tim Mohr: Don't die in the waiting room of the future. The East German punks and the fall of the wall. Heyne Verlag, 2017, p. 48 ff. ISBN 978-3-641-21238-4 ( limited preview in Google book search)
  15. ^ Jeannette Goddar: Dancing in the gray area. Many clubs in Mitte do not actually have a license as an "entertainment venue". Der Tagesspiegel, June 22, 2000.
  16. ↑ Ulrike Putz, Stefan Ehlert: The police and the district have no recipe against the riots on Rosenthaler Strasse. After hip hop comes the riot. Berliner Zeitung, October 15, 1997.
  17. ↑ Building authority orders the Schmidt dance school to be closed after scandals. Berliner Zeitung, December 17, 1997.
  18. ↑ Middle: The dance school has to close. New Germany , December 17, 1997.
  19. ↑ The event room was still open despite the ban. The dance school was sealed. Berliner Zeitung, January 24, 1998.
  20. ↑ See also: Review: HipHop-Randale 1997. Ed. By the Schönbohm Hate Crew, Indymedia , September 17, 2010.
  21. ↑ Middle Extremists. Die Zeit, 30/1993, 23 July 1993.
  22. ^ A b Anja Reich: Former SPD member: Sybille Schmidt is a candidate for AfD in Berlin Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg In: Berliner Zeitung, September 11, 2016; accessed on August 15, 2017.
  23. ^ Robert Pausch: Election campaign of the AfD in Berlin: On the crusade in Kreuzberg. Cicero, September 17, 2016.
  24. ↑ Change of political attitude: Ex-SPD functionary is running for AfD in Berlin-Kreuzberg. Focus, August 29, 2016.
  25. ^ The AfD aunt in the left-green-silted Berlin-Kreuzberg heute-show, ZDF, September 17, 2016.
  26. ↑ Nicolas Barotte: Allemagne: Sibylle Schmidt, de la scène punk aux populistes de l'AFD. Le Figaro, September 16, 2016.
  27. ↑ "Tough people who mean business": Ex-SPDler is running for AfD in Kreuzberg. Sputniknews, August 11, 2016.
  28. ^ Tanya Falenczyk: Column In a losing position: The contradicting one. In: taz.de . September 7, 2017. Retrieved September 24, 2017 .
  29. ↑ AfD withdraws application for Berghain closure . In: Der Tagesspiegel Online . April 19, 2018, ISSN  1865-2263 ( tagesspiegel.de [accessed April 22, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Sibylle
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur and politician (non-party)
DATE OF BIRTH 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin