Vortrag „Phänomen Ikkimel und der Begriff F*tzenrap“

In the organizer's words:

It provokes, polarizes and is always hot (discussed)! Ikkimel is suddenly the talk of the town. She is touring the USA with Ski Aggu, playing sold-out concerts all over the German-speaking world and all of this seems to have come out of nowhere. In interviews, the rapper, whose real name is Melina Gaby Strauß, talks about her work as a linguist before she started making music. In the scene, she is referred to as "Mama Ikki" by other rappers such as Mariybu. The mother of a new musical feminist movement? On this evening, we'll look at the term "f*ck rap" and the question "What makes Ikkimel so popular right now?".

About Mina Richman

Honest. Queer. Self-determined. It is the search for a perspective and direction in life that drove the queer German-Iranian Mina Richman to music at an early age. Born in Berlin but raised in the small town of Bad Salzuflen, she commuted between worlds and discovered treasures such as Joan As Police Woman and Nina Simone in her aunt's CD collection. Inspired by these and out of the loneliness of the coronavirus pandemic, she released her debut EP "Jaywalker" in 2022, with which she was nominated for the PopNRW Award as best newcomer. Raised by her father to be a feminist "by mistake" - as she once put it in an interview with Die Zeit - she used the famous Cher quote "Mom, I am a rich man" for her artist name.