Jilet Ayşe is sitting on her sofa and is mighty mad. In front of her are a coffee cup and a plate full of tea lights, a green rubber tree stretches its leaves into the picture: “Anne Will, Maischberger…das ist eine JAMMERLAPPEN-Sendung. The biggest whiners of the whole world are yourselves, you make whole JAMMERLAPPEN-TV of it (…) Eight hundred trillionth broadcast (…) ‘Islam is to blame for everything…’ !”
In this video, cabaret artistIdil Nuna Baydar talks about everyday racism and attacks, in the form of her art figure Jilet Ayşe, the simple-minded defense mechanisms of parts of the German majority society. And turns the proverbial tables several times over: Which concerns and experiences are heard in the media, for example on talk shows, as “criticism” and which are denigrated as “whining”? Who is allowed to make generalizations and sweeping statements in public discourse, and who, for example, is told: “Come on, not all Germans are racists…”?
Instead of hiding behind bourgeois vocabulary and supposedly consensus-oriented phrases, this video verbally, true to Jilet Ayşe ‘s earlier subtitle: “BAM…On your face!” However, this does not stop Idil Nuna Baydar from letting her character make basic and precise announcements that should have long been the consensus of the majority of society:
“When I tell you you hurt me, you made racism with me, you shut your mouth and listen to me and think about what you can do differently.”
More of Idil Nuna Baydar can be found here, for example, and we have linked a short portrait of the Kreuzberg artist that is worth seeing here.