Yassin Musharbash

Yassin Musharbash (born December 18, 1975 in Bad Iburg ) is a German journalist and writer .

Life

Musharbash, son of Nazih Musharbash , who emigrated from Jordan , and a German, grew up in Bad Iburg near Osnabrück. He studied Arabic and political science at the Georg August University in Göttingen and at the Bir Zait University in Ramallah.

He began to work as a journalist while still a student, among others for the taz , the Jordan Times and the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung . Until 2012 he was an editor in the online editorial team of Spiegel . Since March 1, 2012, Musharbash has been working for the investigative section of the weekly newspaper Die Zeit . He has been reporting from Amman for Die Zeit since August 2016.

In 2006 Musharbash's first book was published by Kiepenheuer & Witsch , the non-fiction book Die neue Al-Qaida. Inside views of a learning terrorist network . In 2011 he published his first novel with the same publisher, a thriller entitled Radikal , which was also published as an audio book in the same year and a Finnish translation in 2013. In 2009, Heyne Verlag published Wir Wickelprofis: This makes parental leave child's play for fathers , by Markus Kamrad, Yassin Musharbash and Jonas Viering.

His political thriller Radikal was adapted for the stage by Jens Groß and premiered in Berlin's Maxim Gorki Theater in 2012 .

Musharbash lives in Berlin and has two daughters.

Publications

• The new al-Qaeda. Inside views of a learning terrorist network. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 2006, ISBN 978-3-46203-667-1 .
• with Markus Kamrad & Jonas Viering: We winding professionals. This makes parental leave child's play for fathers. Heyne, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-453-65009-1 .
• Radical. Thriller. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-462-04338-9 ; ibid. 2012, ISBN 978-3-462-04448-5
• Beyond. Thriller. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2017, ISBN 978-3-462-05046-2 .

"Hate Poetry"

Since 2012, Musharbash has performed together with journalists Mely Kiyak , Deniz Yücel , Özlem Topçu , Özlem Gezer , Hasnain Kazim , Doris Akrap and Ebru Taşdemir as part of the “anti-racist reading show” Hate Poetry , in which they read racist letters to the editor in the style of a poetry slam . “Rarely has racism been so entertaining,” said Die Welt , while the taz spoke of a “ cathartic reading”. In an article for 3sat , Musharbash said: “This is evident in all the letters we all receive: that there are simply people who cannot cope with the fact that someone who does not have a bio-German name is writing in a German newspaper may. For many this is obviously an unimaginable scandal. "

Awards

• “Long Breath” award (2nd place) from the Berlin-Brandenburg Journalists ' Association for reporting on the topics of jihadism and the debate on Islam

• For Hate Poetry , Musharbash and the other founding members were named Journalists of the Year 2014 in the “Special Prize” category. “ Hate Poetry has become a brand and a role model for other editorial offices: funny, clever, entertaining, shocking and eye-opening. It also helps the journalists concerned to deal with racist hostility, ”said the jury's statement.

• 2018: Nannen Prize in the category Best Investigative Achievement for One Attack is to be expected

Web links

• Short biography and reviews of works by Yassin Musharbash at perlentaucher.de
• Profile Yassin Musharbash at The Guardian

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, August 21, 2011, p. 25
2. ↑ Article for Die Zeit
3. ↑ ^{a b} Noodls: Yassin Musharbash and Martin Kotynek strengthen the investigative department of the time
4. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated November 5, 2016 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.  
5. ^ Author profile at Kiepenheuer & Witsch-Verlag
6. ↑ Premiere on October 13, 2012 in the Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin: Radikal - Yassin Musharbash - A political thriller ( Memento of the original from February 18, 2015 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. , Playing time: 1: 40h  
7. ↑ Interview with Yassin Musharbash on Krimicouch from September 2011.
8. ↑ Self-presentation of Hate Poetry ( memento of the original from December 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 20, 2014  
9. ↑ "Go back to Fickdeppenarschland" , Die Welt from February 1, 2013
10. ↑ "Laughter in Fickdeppenarschland", the daily newspaper of April 2, 2012
11. ↑ 3sat: "Hate Poetry: Read racist letters to the editor in an entertaining way"
12. ↑ The jury's statement on December 19, 2014 , accessed on December 20, 2014
13. ↑ NANNEN PRIZE 2018. Nominees and award winners