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TURKISH GERMAN MUSLIMS AND COMEDY ENTERTAINMENT
Book Title Turkish German Muslims And Comedy Entertainment
Book AuthorBenjamin Nickl
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Turkish German Muslims and Comedy Entertainment

Settling into Mainstream Culture in the 21st Century

Benjamin Nickl

TURKISH GERMAN MUSLIMS AND COMEDY ENTERTAINMENT

In the 21st century in Germany, right-wing movements like the German PEGIDA have formed around the idea of Muslimness as a global threat. Supporters of this movement have argued that the Muslim threat would never go away.

They have said that Muslims could not possibly be integrated into the Western model of democratic liberalism. How could they, if those Muslims cannot even laugh at Danish cartoons and French caricatures of the Prophet or acts of brown-faced comedy sketches?

Even Muslim majority communities who had lived in their host countries for generations, as is the case with Turkish Germans in Germany, were suddenly suspicious if they did not find humour in the derision of certain cultural values or community lifestyles.

This meant that humour associated with an ethnic community and jokes about its origins, beliefs and community characteristics turned into a pop cultural litmus test. Being on one or the other side of ethnicity-themed humour, so held majority opinion, became a clear indicator for liberal attitudes in liberal societies.

Even with its Holocaust history and working through its separation of East and West, German society was not exempt from this reductive thinking.

Allegedly, laughing at certain jokes or rejecting them measured one’s stance on the relationship between Islam and the cultural tolerance discourse of modern nation-states. Socially speaking, having to laugh at one’s derision to be accepted as part of the in-group is problematic. It is an essentialist practice to regulate the expression of identity. It demands conformity.

Most importantly, it is undemocratic where it others and excludes members of an ethnic group from fully participating as themselves in daily life in their own homeland and country of legal and permanent residence with or without German passports.

I have written this book to engage with this discriminatory practice and add a new depth and new dimensions to our understanding of the social function of comedy entertainment in German culture.

I deliver a case study of Turkish German Muslims and how some of their funniest, wittiest and somewhat provocative community members use comedy entertainment to settle into German mainstream culture in the 21st century as who they are, not who they should be.

These creative minds use comedy in different mass media types to entertain all of Germany with a popular culture viewpoint on the issue of Turkish Germans’ ability ever truly to belong—while several generations of the community have already lived for decades in the country and made it their home regardless of their nationality.

I acknowledge here the achievement of a diverse community in laughing about a mindset that wants to keep Turkish Germans and Islam out of Germany or at least keep Muslimness and Germanness separate.

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