Susanne Dagen

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Susanne Dagen (* 1972 in Dresden ) is a German bookseller and local politician for the Free Voters in Dresden.

Book trade

Dagen and her partner Michael Bormann have been running the BuchHaus Loschwitz since 1995 , a bookstore in Dresden- Loschwitz that not only sells books but also offers events in the KulturHaus Loschwitz . Dagen annually publishes the literary Dresden calendar and poetry publications for poet in residence ; for the latter, she has been on the jury for the award of the poetry scholarship since 2013. In 2015 and 2016, BuchHaus Loschwitz won the German Bookstore Award in the category of particularly outstanding bookstores . The reading series Aufgeblättert has also been broadcast on YouTube since May 2018 . Strike - Read with rights , moderated by Dagen together with Ellen Kositza from neurechte Verlag Antaios .

Right activism

Article in the magazine Der Spiegel in May 2016 and in the weekly newspaper Die Zeit in March 2017 described Dagen as “ pegida -nah”. Dagen supports the demands of Pegida and represents positions critical of Islam himself . In response to disruptions at the Antaios-Verlag stand at the Frankfurt Book Fair , she initiated the “Charter 2017” in October 2017, in which she accused the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels of setting a “corridor of convictions” and criticized that “our society no longer far from a dictatorship of convictions ”. This “charter” was signed, among others, by the writers Cora Stephan and Uwe Tellkamp as well as the journalists Vera Lengsfeld and Matthias Matussek .

In March 2018, Dagen was appointed to the board of trustees of the AfD-affiliated Desiderius Erasmus Foundation , to which she was a member until she ran for free voters in the city council. In September 2018, Dagen was informed of the participation in a workshop on the subject of “Echo chambers and filter bubbles: networking via social media” as part of the conference “The new center? Right Ideologies and Movements in Europe ”in the German Hygiene Museum Dresden excluded. In response to Dagen's lawsuit, the Dresden Regional Court ruled that the exclusion was illegal, but did not award her any monetary compensation .

Since September 2019 she has been a member of the Dresden City Council and the District Council of Dresden-Loschwitz for the Free Voters .

Personal

Dagen's mother was an art historian at the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden and worked as a gallery owner in the state art trade, her father a chemist from Croatia. Dagen has two daughters and lives in Dresden.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Maria Timtschenko: Susanne Dagen - Anger in the book. In: Zeit Online , March 23, 2017, accessed on September 17, 2019
  2. ^ Bookseller Susanne Dagen about life on the Elbhang , sachsen-fernsehen.de, August 13, 2015, accessed on September 18, 2019
  3. ^ Susanne Dagen at Kulturhaus Loschwitz
  4. ↑ Price 2015
  5. ↑ Tomas Gärtner: Lingnerpodium : Trenches of opinion do not have to be a misfortune. In: Dresdner Latest News (online), February 22, 2019.
  6. ↑ Alexa Hennings: Sweet Illness Elbhang. Interior views of a Dresden species. Deutschlandfunk Kultur, broadcast Das Feature , August 20, 2019.
  7. ↑ Mr Preuss writes history spiegel.de, May 14, 2016, accessed on September 19, 2018
  8. ↑ a b Chronicle of a Denunciation , Interview with Gunter Neumann, Johanna Kelch, wahlzone.mdr.de, accessed on September 17, 2019
  9. ^ Bernhard Honnigfort: Stories of misunderstood people. In: Frankfurter Rundschau (online), April 3, 2017.
  10. ↑ Susanne Dagen reacts to the book fair incidents with a "Charter 2017" - "Not far from a dictatorship of convictions". In: Börsenblatt , October 17, 2017.
  11. ↑ Cornelius Pollmer: New Rights - "Charter 2017". In: Süddeutsche Zeitung (online), October 18, 2017.
  12. ^ Moritz Lehmann: bookseller Dagen in AfD-related foundation. In: Badische Zeitung , March 22, 2018, accessed on September 18, 2019
  13. ↑ Michael Kunze: Exclusion from "protected space". In: Sächsische.de , September 19, 2018.
  14. ↑ Statement: Why not the Dresden bookseller Susanne Dagen for a workshop at the conference “The new center? Right Ideologies and Movements in Europe ”. German Hygiene Museum Dresden, October 2, 2018.
  15. ↑ Dagen, a bookseller's eviction from the seminar in the Hygiene Museum, was illegal. In: Dresdner Latest News , June 28, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Dagen, Susanne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German bookseller and network activist of the New Right
DATE OF BIRTH 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden - Bühlau