Sylvie Nantcha

Sylvie Nantcha (2012)

Sylvie Nantcha (* 23. August 1974 in Maroua ) is a German specialist in German and politician of the CDU . From 2009 to 2014 she was the first Afro-German CDU city councilor in Freiburg im Breisgau and in Germany, and from 2009 to 2013 she was also the first Afro-German CDU state board member in Baden-Württemberg and Germany. Sylvie Nantcha is the main winner of the Helene Weber Prize 2011. Sylvie Nantcha is the initiator and federal chairwoman of TANG - The African Network of Germany and has initiated and carried out more than 15 projects in cooperation with federal ministries since TANG was founded.

Youth in Cameroon

Nantcha comes from Cameroon , has lived in Germany since 1992 and has had German citizenship since 2003. She was born in Maroua as the fourth of seven children of Berthe and François Djeumo.

Nantcha's father, François Djeumo, was Chief Officer of the SONEL public utility in Cameroon until 1986 . From 1987 to 2007 he worked with his wife Berthe as a hotel entrepreneur in Cameroon. Both were very active in the Catholic Church in Cameroon for 15 years. François Djeumo as a board member of the Pastoral Council of the Diocese of Bafoussam; Berthe Djeumo as chairwoman of the parish council in Kamkop Bafoussam and as vice-president of the Catholic women's community in Cameroon.

Nantcha attended kindergarten when she was two years old and started elementary school when she was four years old. She passed her A-levels at the Lycée classique (humanistic high school) in Bafoussam at the age of 16. In the same year she began studying German at the University of Yaoundé .

From Cameroon to Germany

Nantcha came to Germany to study in 1992 at the age of 17. From 1992 to 1993 she learned the German language at the University of Freiburg (DAF) . From 1993 to 1999 she studied German , Romance studies and linguistics at the Albert Ludwig University in Freiburg . 2008 doctorate it in the field of Intercultural German to Dr. phil. She has been working as a freelancer since 2009. In the same year, she wrote a book for World Day of Prayer 2010. In 2010, she and her husband, a senior SAP consultant, founded a consulting company. She is an intercultural Germanist, moderator of conferences and workshops, specialist speaker and trainer and works with scientific, political, cultural and church organizations. Since 2015 she has been working as a project manager in the areas of integration, development cooperation and economics.

Science and University

As part of the Excellence Initiative , she helped set up the Graduate Academy of the University of Freiburg as managing director and coordinator until 2008. She conceived and conducted the first qualification offers for doctoral students at the University of Freiburg, the first international milestone colloquia, the first semester kick-off events for doctoral students at the University of Freiburg, and supervised master and doctoral students. Although she no longer works at the university, she is still scientifically committed. Since 2007 she has been the regional director of Thesis Baden-Württemberg and a member of the Society for Intercultural German Studies.

Her academic focus is on multilingualism, language acquisition, intercultural literature, diversity, intercultural communication, forms of cultural contact, the social dimension of identity construction and perception of others in Africa.

Political work

In 2009 Nantcha was elected as the first Afro-German CDU city councilor in Freiburg and Germany. In the same year she was elected as the first Afro-German member in Germany in Baden-Württemberg to a state board of the CDU. She is a state board member of the Women's Union of Baden-Württemberg and the state coordinator of the migrant network of the Women's Union of Baden-Württemberg. As a city councilor, she was the spokesperson for the CDU parliamentary group for education and integration . She lost both spokespersons and the seat on the school committee in 2011. She was a member of the environmental committee , godmother of the districts of Betzenhausen-Bischofslinde and St. Georgen. She was a member of the Sustainability Council of the city of Freiburg, a member of the board of the community college of the city of Freiburg and a deputy member of the steering committee of the metropolitan region of Upper Rhine. In 2012, she clearly failed in the party’s internal nomination for Bundestag candidate in the Freiburg constituency . Since 2013 Nantcha has not been a member of the CDU state executive committee. In the 2014 local elections, Nantcha narrowly missed re-election to the Freiburg city council, but moved back to the city council in April 2016 for the late Hansjörg Sandler

In 2001 she founded the intercultural German-African Association (IDAV e.V.) and has been a lecturer in the Peter and Paul parish in St. Georgen since 2006. Since 2007 she has been a member of the board of directors for extra-curricular care (AUB) at the Anne Frank School. Nantcha supports various migrant organizations and church organizations. Her political priorities are to be found in the areas of education, integration, family, business development, development cooperation and the environment.

TANG - The African Network of Germany eV

Sylvie Nantcha is the initiator and federal chairwoman of TANG - The African Network of Germany. Since 2015 it has carried out around 15 events and projects nationwide in cooperation with federal ministries. Including projects such as people strengthen people, shape diversity, lost dreams and many more. The focus of TANG's work is also helping to shape German integration policy through active participation in integration policy meetings of the Federal Integration Commissioner of Federal Chancellor Dr. Angela Merkel, at the Chancellor's integration summit and the development of a position paper for the integration summit. The federal network TANG currently links more than 500 Afro-German associations. The work focuses on the integration of people of African descent in Germany and the strengthening of German-African relations. The office of the federal network TANG is located in Freiburg. Since 2014, Sylvie Nantcha has been attending the Chancellor's integration summit and the dialogue rounds of the Federal Integration Commissioner in the Federal Chancellery.

family

Sylvie Nantcha is the mother of two sons and a daughter.

Publications

• Interdisciplinarity, cultural transfer, literature. Foreign perception of Africa in selected German-language travel works from the colonial era to the present . Königshausen & Neumann 2009, ISBN 978-3-8260-4071-9

Web links

Commons : Sylvie Nantcha  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Sylvie Nantcha in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage of Nantcha
• The woman behind Mappus . In: Cicero
• Sylvie Nantcha. In: AFRICA POSITIVE , issue 36
• The real black of the CDU afrikanet.info
• The black black one . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung
• Afro-Germans in the state executive - a migrant conquers the CDU . In: taz
• Prime example of integration . In: Stuttgarter Nachrichten
• Helene Weber Prize . In: Helene Weber Prize

Individual evidence

1. ^ Profile of Nantcha on the website of the city council of Freiburg
2. ↑ badische-zeitung.de
3. ↑ ^{a b} State Executive Committee CDU Baden-Württemberg
4. ^ Website of the Helene Weber Prize. Accessed October 14, 2011.
5. ↑ weltbild.de
6. ↑ uni-protocol.de
7. ↑ pr.uni-freiburg.de
8. ↑ pr.uni-freiburg.de
9. ↑ studentenwerk.uni-freiburg.de  ( 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)  
10. ↑ http://www.thesis.de
11. ↑ bundeswahlleiter.de ( Memento of the original dated June 16, 2011 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. (PDF; 2.2 MB) 
12. ↑ fu-bw.de ( Memento of the original from March 10, 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. 
13. ↑ Freiburg Official Journal ( Memento of the original from March 10, 2014 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 notice. 
14. ↑ Dispute in the CDU parliamentary group: Nantcha gives up spokespersons (Badische Zeitung, July 5, 2011) CDU and Nantcha: Scandal just avoided (Badische Zeitung, July 28, 2011)
15. ↑ cdu-fraktion-freiburg.de
16. ↑ vhs-freiburg.de (PDF; 7.6 MB)
17. ↑ regionfreiburg.de  ( 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; 53 kB)  
18. ↑ CDU candidate Matern von Marschall: 51 percent in the first ballot (Badische Zeitung of October 29, 2012)
19. ^ Career break for Nantcha (Badische Zeitung, September 16, 2013)
20. ^ Badische Zeitung of April 12, 2016
21. ↑ idav-freiburg.de ( Memento of the original from September 22, 2013 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. 
22. ^ The African Network of Germany eV - Home. Retrieved April 10, 2018 .