Stephan Urbach

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Stephan Urbach

Stephan Urbach (born September 28, 1980 in Lauterbach , Hessen ) is a publisher and activist who became known for his commitment against the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) and his participation in Telecomix , an association of network activists. Until April 2013 he was a member of the German Pirate Party , in which he held various offices.

Life

Stephan Urbach studied German and history at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . He broke off his studies and completed an apprenticeship as a banker . He then worked for the AOL subsidiary Adtech. From 2011 to February 2014 he was an advisor to the pirate faction in the Berlin House of Representatives . He lives and works as a freelance author in Berlin .

activities

Urbach acts as the spokesperson for Telecomix in Germany, an international group that provided technical infrastructure for the Arab Spring . As a representative of Telecomix, he participated as an expert in a hearing on ACTA in the Berlin House of Representatives and gave interviews on radio, television and the press. The broadcaster EinsPlus covered his experiences in the Arab Spring in the documentary film Die Hacker und die Syrer , Arte interviewed him in the report The War for the Internet - Hackers as Revolutionary Helpers , and WDR produced the almost one-hour radio feature The Hacker Syndrome about him. In April 2011, Der Spiegel published a report on his work with Telecomix, Taz and Zeit reported on his extreme psychological stress from online activism . The latter are the central theme of his book Neustart , published in 2015 . From the life of a network activist.

Urbach was from June to December 2009 chairman of the Main-Kinzig district association of the Pirate Party. On May 16, 2010 he was elected to the Federal Arbitration Court of the Pirate Party, of which he was the presiding judge. The Junge Piraten (now: europe beyond division ) honored him on September 20, 2009 with an honorary membership. At a meeting between Urbach and former Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg in February 2012, Guttenberg was attacked by activists with a cream cake. At the federal party convention of the pirates in November 2012, election supervisor Urbach left early and declared: “This is not my party”. For the 2013 federal election, Urbach was elected to 11th place on the state list, but announced in April 2013 that he was leaving the party and that he was not on the list.

In 2012 Urbach supported the refugees on Pariser Platz at the Brandenburg Gate and later on Oranienplatz in Berlin and was then the victim of an attack by neo-Nazis.

For the homage “A day with… Sibylle Berg und Freunde” he staged the installation “The Hackers” together with Tina Lorenz in October 2013 at the Haus der Theaterfestspiele in Berlin. In April 2014, he lectured at the MIT Center for Civic Society, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, and Yale Law School's Information Society Project on technology, revolutions, and surveillance. In June 2014 he wrote the column “Things & Matters” for Blank magazine , but it stayed with one issue.

In August 2016, Urbach spoke out against the stigmatization of HIV-positive people in an interview with the HIV prevention campaign "Hessen ist geil" and criticized the existing campaigns.

Writings and publications

  • Organized chaos. In: c't . Volume 29, issue 19, August 2011, pp. 82–85.
  • Restart. From the life of a network activist. Knaur , Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-426-78729-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Imprint - Oh, every publisher. Retrieved September 1, 2018 .
  2. ^ Stephan Urbach: I used to work in a bank, at AOL, 10 years in a rock / metal club, in the Berlin parliament and I have no idea what else. In: @herrurbach. October 29, 2017, accessed June 13, 2019 .
  3. ^ Stephan Urbach: Biography. Archived from the original on May 19, 2014 ; accessed on May 21, 2014 .
  4. ↑ Stephan Urbach on Twitter. Retrieved July 5, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Markus Beckedahl: ACTA hearing in the Berlin House of Representatives. netzpolitik.org , May 8, 2012, accessed May 18, 2014 .
  6. ↑ Pirates: Lobbyists helped negotiate ACTA , Stephan Urbach in conversation with Dieter Kassel, Deutschlandradio Kultur , February 2, 2012.
  7. ↑ Torsten Groß "I can't use Facebook" ( memento from July 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), interview with Stephan Urbach, Spex , November 20, 2012.
  8. ↑ Katrin Heise: "Regulation actually breaks it up" , interview with Stephan Urbach, Deutschlandradio Kultur , December 5, 2012.
  9. ↑ life! The hackers and the Syrians. ard, accessed May 18, 2014 .
  10. ↑ The war for the Internet - hackers as revolutionary helpers ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Arte Journal, December 30, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.arte.tv
  11. ↑ Johannes Nichelmann: The hacker syndrome! Archived from the original on May 18, 2014 ; Retrieved May 18, 2014 .
  12. ↑ Netzwelt: Das Hacker-Syndrom , Deutschlandradio Kultur , January 4, 2014.
  13. ^ Ole Reissmann and Marcel Rosenbach : Aid to the Revolution from Berlin. SPIEGEL online, accessed on May 18, 2014 .
  14. ↑ Laura Wösch: Online activist Stephan Urbach: The depressive hacker. In: Taz . June 15, 2012.
  15. ^ Khuê Pham : Arab riots: Insomniacs in Charlottenburg. In: The time . 4th January 2013.
  16. ^ HE: District Association Main-Kinzig / Board of Directors / Activity reports / Chairman. Pirate Wiki, accessed May 22, 2014 .
  17. ↑ Federal Arbitration Court. Pirate Wiki, accessed May 22, 2014 .
  18. ↑ Minutes of the Federal Members' Meeting 2009.2. (PDF) Young Pirates, accessed on May 22, 2014 .
  19. ↑ Maike Schultz, Jan Thomsen: At a Berlin meeting with a pirate: Cake attack on Guttenberg , Frankfurter Rundschau , February 3, 2012.
  20. ^ Karl-Theodor becomes zu Kuchenberg , BZ , February 3, 2012.
  21. ↑ Petra Sorge: Pirate election officer: “This is not my party” , Cicero (magazine) , November 26, 2012.
  22. ↑ a b Sebastian Heiser: Pirates on the Retreat. taz, April 15, 2013, accessed May 22, 2014 .
  23. ↑ Caspar Clemens Mierau: Stephan Urbach announces resignation and renouncement of the list. popcornpiraten.de, April 14, 2013, accessed on May 19, 2014 .
  24. ↑ Mikael in the drive: Nazis attack activists because of #refugeecamp. Metronaut, November 6, 2012, accessed May 22, 2014 .
  25. ↑ A day with… Sibylle Berg and friends. Portrait of artists and their friends. Berliner Festspiele, accessed on June 15, 2014 .
  26. ^ Civic Media Lunch, Stephan Urbach: "Revolution and Technology: A political Framing". MIT Media Lab , archived from the original on May 18, 2014 ; Retrieved May 18, 2014 .
  27. ^ Stephan Urbach: Lecture at Berkman Center, Harvard (not public). May 16, 2014, archived from the original on May 18, 2014 ; Retrieved May 18, 2014 .
  28. ↑ Thomson Reuters Speaker Series: Stephan Urbach. Archived from the original on May 18, 2014 ; Retrieved May 18, 2014 .
  29. ^ Stephan Urbach: Things & Matters. The new column by Stephan Urbach. Today: window pensioner. Blank magazine, accessed June 10, 2014 .
  30. ↑ Björn Beck: Die of your Superaids! "Hessen is cool" prevention project run by AIDS-Hilfe Hessen, August 12, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Urbach, Stephan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German activist
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Lauterbach , Hesse