Sookee

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Sookee (born December 29, 1983 in Pasewalk , real name Nora Hantzsch ), also known under the other pseudonyms Quing of Berlin and Sukini , is a German rapper . She takes sides for the queer scene and is committed against homophobia and sexism in German hip-hop as well as against racism and anti-Semitism in Germany.

Life

Hantzsch's family originally comes from what is now Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . She is the second child of parents who fled the GDR for political reasons . Her father was in jail for refusing to use a gun.

She has lived in West Berlin since 1986 and went to a Waldorf school in the Steglitz district and then to a comprehensive school in Schöneberg.

Hantzsch studied German linguistics and gender studies . In addition, she was involved in working with young people against homophobia and sexism, and at times she also teaches at a reform pedagogy school. She is active in the association Cultures interactive eV , an association for intercultural education and violence prevention.

In her texts, she deals with questions of how power structures and identities are composed, expressed and received in different life contexts. Sookee sees a flaw in hip-hop with regard to sexism, homophobia and the idealization of violence and capitalism, which she tries to overcome. The male hip-hop artist would often the same image of women as " Burschis with eviction ". Concepts of masculinity and (hetero-) sexism in German-speaking rap are therefore a bigger issue for her. But she also accused women who do hip hop, like SXTN , of sexism.

She temporarily interrupted her doctorate on young male prisoners in the GDR, which she began in 2009, due to her artistic career.

In an interview with the magazine weird , Hantzsch described herself as “queer” because she doesn't love or desire gender, but specific people. She would find the separation of hetero and homo annoying.

In 2013, Hantzsch supported the One Billion Rising campaign with the song One Billion ( Sookie rises ) and was involved in co-organizing the 2011 Slutwalk in Berlin. In order to achieve a social change, however, all genders would have to understand each other empathically and empathize with each other.

In an interview with Tagesspiegel, she said that she did not find the harshness in porn films bad, but the lack of representation of the previous agreements among the participants. The answer to bad pornography is "not no pornography, but good pornography". In sexual practice , a "consent concept" is important. She also deals a lot with Internet pornography . According to Hantzsch, everyone is tired of talking about sexism, she too wants a world in which equality is realized and she can afford “not to have to be a feminist”. In 2015 she was a guest at Volltschlager with the rapper Refpolk von Schlagzeiln and, after the sexual assaults on New Year's Eve 2015/16 , together with 21 other feminists, initiated the campaign #All without exception against sexism and racism. In an interview with Pro Asyl , she said that civil society needs staying power to withstand the shift to the right.

Hantzsch currently lives in the Berlin-Neukölln district and is the mother of one child.

Artistic career

She borrowed her stage name from the character "Sukie" played by Michelle Pfeiffer from the film The Witches of Eastwick . At first it was her pseudonym as a writer . Sookee only developed her political hip-hop lyrics during her career. Meanwhile, in her lyrics, she also takes a stand against what, in her opinion, is the predominant heteronormativity in hip hop.

From 2003 to 2007 she performed with the Profi Rap crew (together with Mad Maks and BierPimp ) and was represented on various compilations , including Rap City Berlin and several mixtapes . On February 3, 2006, her debut album Kopf, Herz, Arsch was released on the Berlin label Springstoff . From 2006, she also tried spoken words and other lyrical experiments, for example at poetry slams .

Through various developments in her biography, her studies and the politicization that followed, she broke away from her old image in 2008. In the same year she also took part in a discussion with Alice Schwarzer , Pyranja , Bianca Ludewig and Hadnet Tesfai on the subject of feminism and hip-hop .

Sookee was involved in the Smash homophobia movement and appeared in the context of the 2010 "1000-crosses-in-the-Spree" demonstration. Also in 2008 she supported the Tell someone campaign against cervical cancer with the songs Your Body, Your House and Tell It On .

On February 24, 2010 Sookee released her second album Quing on Springstoff Records. In the same year, the EP Deine Elstern , a collaboration with Kobito from the Schlagzeiln group , was also released via Springstoff. In May 2011, a video was published for Sookee's and Tapete's song Pro Homo , which is supposed to caricature the saying " No homo " , which comes from American rap .

At the end of 2011 the album Bitches Butches Dykes & Divas came out. In the song DRAG she uses a well-known quote from RuPaul : "You're born naked and the rest is drag".

The 2013 EP Much Together is a remake of the song Nothing Together by Danger Dan and the late rapper NMZS . In 2013 she also supported Irie Révoltés with the song Allez! Beat Remix 2.0 . Sookee is a member of the Supercrew Tick ​​Tick Boom, founded in 2013 . In their opinion, this should not be there to swing the index finger in hip hop or to replace the federal testing agency for media harmful to minors. It is not about issuing bans or feeling morally better towards others, but rather to represent an extension of mainstream rap. It is not about sanctions, but about insight. In an interview with Friday she said that "openness, comprehensibility and an inviting atmosphere are more important than any ideological dogmatism ". Dogmas are exhausting and nerve-wracking, so they differentiate between dogmas and principles.

In 2014 she supported the online casting show RAPutation and the campaign by the women's rights organization Pinkstinks Germany against the television series Germany's Next Top Model . In 2015 she was appointed by the Federal Anti-Discrimination Agency (ADS) as “Ambassador for the Theme Year Against Gender Discrimination ”.

In January 2017 she released a first video for the song Q1 from her new CD Mortem & Makeup . The second video release Queere Animals was released on March 10th. The corresponding album was released on March 17, 2017 and reached number 89 in the German album charts.

In October 2017, the video for the song "Connections", which is directed against right-wing extremism, discrimination and hatred and which Sookee and the rapper Spezial-K ( Short Trial ) had written in 2013 for the project "Spit auf rechts", was alleged by YouTube Hate speech violation temporarily removed.

In October 2019, Hantzsch produced and released the album Butterfly Poop under the pseudonym Sukini , which is musically oriented towards children and young people. However, the texts were written for people of all ages and should be critical and thought-provoking.

At the end of 2019, Hantzsch announced that she would end her rap career as Sookee. But she still wants to dedicate herself to music for children as Sukini. She justified this step with the capitalistically organized music industry, which, as a feminist musician, appropriates her too much.

criticism

The song Pro Homo has been criticized because it only focuses on intolerance towards lesbians and gays and fails to address the exclusions of other minorities. Sookee tried in her albums with the tracks learning process and learning process 2 to partially respond to the criticism expressed about her lyrics. Florian Reiter criticized Vice Magazine for the fact that Sookee's tracks often sounded like a lecture from undergraduate sociology . After Sookee was accused of being trans- hostile due to her song If I Had A in the run-up to an event in Schwuz in 2016 , she canceled the performance and later stated that it had hurt her as a feminist to be called trans-misogynous.

Awards

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Mortem & Makeup
  DE 89 March 24, 2017 (1 week)

Web links

Commons : Sookee  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ GERMANIA: Sookee | GERMANIA OST. October 10, 2018, accessed October 12, 2018 .
  2. ^ Johannes Löhr: Bushido & Co .: The city council pulls in "hate music". In the online edition of Münchner Merkurs , February 3, 2010. Accessed September 26, 2012.
  3. ↑ Lebenswelt ( Memento from January 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) In: sookee.de. Retrieved February 16, 2013.
  4. ↑ Do women have to change? In: tagesspiegel.de. Retrieved February 19, 2013.
  5. ↑ "WordNerd" - The Berlin rapper Sookee ( Memento of 14 December 2014 Internet Archive ) In: ardmediathek.de. Retrieved April 24, 2014.
  6. ↑ All -day rapper Sookee sings against capital and homophobia, teaches German and gives lectures on Pro Homo In: berliner-zeitung.de, accessed on April 19, 2011.
  7. ↑ "You have to react" on freitag.de from January 15, 2012. Accessed on September 26, 2012.
  8. ↑ With great strides on the way to “Cultural Spaces 2010” ( Memento of April 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 324 kB) Press release Cultures interactive, June 25, 2009. Accessed on February 15, 2013.
  9. ↑ “I'll fuck your life!” Misanthropic attitudes towards hip-hop hegemonic images of masculinity, pp. 11–19. (PDF; 666 kB) In: muenchen.info; "Hate and Violence in the Music Scene" - City Council hearing on the subject of anti-lesbian and gay hostility and misogyny in hip-hop, rap and reggae dancehall on February 2, 2010. Accessed February 15, 2013.
  10. ↑ Gay rappers, it's time we spoke Tacheles ... - homophobia in the German rap scene. ( Memento from February 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: Humboldt-Universität Berlin: Bulletin Texte. 36, pp. 65-82, accessed February 16, 2013.
  11. ↑ "Missy" Feminism Discussion: Parole bridge. In: taz.de. 21st May 2013.
  12. ↑ "Gay rappers, it's time we spoke Tacheles" (PDF; 45 kB) In: jubis-bremen.de
  13. ↑ Interview by Antonie Rietzschel: Cro? "I would have that for breakfast too, this fellow" . In: sueddeutsche.de . June 18, 2017, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed June 18, 2017]).
  14. ↑ Authors. In: Humboldt University Berlin: Bulletin Texts. 36, p. 126, accessed February 16, 2013.
  15. ↑ Queer Identities: Interview with Sookee ( Memento of March 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ). In: Issue No. 50 December 2011 2013. Retrieved on February 16, 2013.
  16. ↑ Someone who wants to know ( Memento from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). L-Mag dated December 2011. Retrieved February 18, 2013.
  17. ↑ A harrowing experience in a positive sense . Jungle-world February 7, 2013. Retrieved February 15, 2013.
  18. ↑ Sookee and the #Aufschrei In: tagesspiegel.de. Retrieved February 19, 2013.
  19. ↑ Do women have to change? In: tagesspiegel.de. Retrieved February 19, 2013.
  20. ↑ "It is not perverse if it is consensual" In: welt.de, accessed on November 1, 2014.
  21. ↑ Sookee and the Sexism In: lesflaneurs.de, accessed on May 24, 2013.
  22. ↑ Hau rein, because the world is broken in: zeit.de. Retrieved July 25, 2013.
  23. ↑ The authors of the statement #exceptionally
  24. ↑ Sexual assaults on New Year's Eve 2015/16 # without exception - a new outcry to Cologne ; SZ; January 11, 2016, 12:46 p.m.
  25. ↑ »Differentiation is time-consuming - but there is no other way«. Retrieved September 1, 2016 .
  26. ↑ All -day rapper Sookee sings against capital and homophobia, teaches German and gives a talk on Pro Homo In: berliner-zeitung.de, accessed on April 19, 2011.
  27. ↑ bento, Hamburg, Germany: "Of course I am a feminist!" Interview with rapper Sookee. Retrieved October 3, 2016 .
  28. ^ Interview with Sookee . In: home.arcor.de . Retrieved February 17, 2013.
  29. ↑ Sookee in SO36 ( memento from December 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) , tip-berlin.de from February 1, 2012. Retrieved on February 17, 2013.
  30. ↑ You liked misogynistic rapeseed? In: tagesspiegel.de. Retrieved February 19, 2013.
  31. ↑ Interview with the rapper and activist Sookee. "I'm a politically motivated rapper."  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 62 kB)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / makesomenoise.blogsport.eu   , makesomenoise.blogsport.eu
  32. ^ Sookee ( Memento from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) , friedensfestival-ostfriesland.de
  33. ↑ “Either full hearted or not at all” - Interview with Sookee , http://kleinerdrei.org/ on April 14, 2008. Retrieved on May 21, 2013.
  34. ↑ Magda Albrecht: Hip Hop Girlz meet Alice Schwarzer. ( Memento from January 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) In: genderblog.de. August 10, 2008, accessed August 11, 2020.
  35. ↑ Anne Frenzel: Let the crosses float . In: Jungle World , September 16, 2010. Retrieved September 26, 2012.
  36. ↑ Exclusive interview with Sookee (PDF; 353 kB), Zeitbild special; January 2008. Retrieved February 15, 2013.
  37. ↑ Your body is your house! , spurwechsel.blog.volksfreund.de from December 17, 2008. Accessed February 15, 2013.
  38. ↑ Pro Homo - Sookee and Wallpaper . Music video on Youtube . Retrieved September 26, 2012.
  39. ↑ Sookee after the Göttingen Antifee Festival in an interview ( memento from December 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), leben37.de from June 17, 2023. Retrieved on May 21, 2013.
  40. ^ Interview Tick Tick Boom , Interview in Straßen aus Zucker from January 17, 2013. Retrieved February 15, 2013.
  41. ↑ TickTickBoom - After the ZeckenRapGala on January 17th, 2013 in SO36, things will continue! ( Memento of November 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), mkzwo.de of February 12, 2013. Retrieved on February 17, 2013.
  42. ↑ Zeckenrap - beats and rhymes without thick egg ( Memento of 9 December 2013 Internet Archive ) arte.tv from December 4, 2013
  43. ↑ "You can totally atomize language and then let it become huge again" zeit.de from July 25, 2013
  44. ↑ "Where does the backbone end?" freitag.de from June 25, 2014
  45. ↑ "There are hardly any people left with attitude"
  46. ^ Sookee ( Memento from September 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  47. ↑ Sookee at SO36 in Kreuzberg: "I am disturbed by the competitive thinking, the absurd understanding of beauty". tagesspiegel.de, February 11, 2016, accessed July 13, 2017.
  48. ↑ Website of the Federal Anti-Discrimination Agency: Sookee ( Memento from July 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) In: antidiskriminierungsstelle.de, accessed on March 10, 2015.
  49. ↑ Lea Gerlach: Sookee: First video from the new album "Mortem & Makeup" - rap.de . In: rap.de . January 10, 2017 ( rap.de [accessed January 30, 2017]).
  50. ↑ a b Chart sources: DE
  51. ↑ Dinah Riese: “Spit on Right” - More topical than ever. www.taz.de, October 25, 2017
  52. ↑ Samuel Salzborn: Sookee aka. Sukini raps for children: loving and glittering. taz.de, September 28, 2019, accessed October 5, 2019 .
  53. ↑ Oliver Schwesig: Capitalism is to blame. Sookee in conversation with Oliver Schwesig. In: deutschlandfunkkultur.de. December 6, 2019, accessed December 6, 2019 .
  54. ↑ “Either full hearted or not at all” - Interview with Sookee , http://kleinerdrei.org/ on April 14, 2008. Retrieved on May 21, 2013.
  55. ↑ Everything must be purple , pnn.de, April 3, 2012. Accessed February 15, 2013.
  56. ↑ Bitches, Butches, Dykes & Divas " , laut.de, September 2, 2011.
  57. ^ Political German rap is difficult , vice.com from May 6, 2015. Accessed May 10, 2015.
  58. ↑ Are you having an argument in the scene? ( tagesspiegel.de [accessed January 30, 2017]).
  59. ↑ n-tv news television: "Germany misses my ass" . In: n-tv.de . ( n-tv.de [accessed December 6, 2017]).
  60. ↑ When I grow up, I'll be a rapper - Sookee receives the 2018 Louise Otto Peters Prize . October 16, 2018 ( sachsen-fernsehen.de [accessed October 16, 2018]).
  61. ↑ Clara-Zetkin-Frauenpreis 2020. die-linke.de, accessed on March 24, 2020 .
  62. ^ Sookee - Bitches Butches Dykes & Divas - Snippet ( Memento of November 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) . Announcement of the Springstoff label , November 11, 2011. Retrieved September 26, 2012.
  63. ↑ Sookee announces the new record . Video on Youtube . Retrieved September 26, 2012.
  64. ↑ a b Sookee on Bandcamp
personal data
SURNAME Sookee
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Quing of Berlin (pseudonym); Nora Hantzsch (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German rapper
DATE OF BIRTH December 29, 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Pasewalk