the investigation of The “center for political beauty” (ZPS) are set, for many artists, but the process is not completed yet. The public Prosecutor’s office Gera determined at all, in accordance with Paragraph 129 of the criminal code – criminal Association – against the action of the artist, indignant, almost 100 of them. On Thursday, they published, on the Initiative of Shermin Langhoff, artistic Director of the Maxim Gorki theatre in Berlin, an open letter to the “policy makers” in Thuringia.
“With bewilderment” have you taken the beginning of April to the knowledge that in 16 months against the ZPS in particular, the founder Philipp Ruch – will determined, it is said in the letter. This was a “threatening an attack on the freedom of speech and artistic freedom”.
The action artists had built in November of 2017, a replica of the Holocaust memorial in born Hagen in the Eichsfeld, right next to the land of Thuringia, the AfD heads, Björn Höcke, who had referred to the Berlin memorial, in January 2017 in his Dresden fire speech as a “monument of shame”. The copy of the Stelenfelds stands up today in born Hagen.
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one of the first signatories of the letter, among other things, the musician Herbert Grönemeyer, the satirist Jan böhmermann, the writer Saša Stanišić, Robert Menasse, Sibylle Berg and Sophie pass, man, the social scientist Naika Foroutan, Lea Rosh as the initiator of the Holocaust memorial in Berlin, the human rights activist Peter Steudtner, actress Katja Riemann, member of the European Parliament Martin Sonneborn (The party), Left party leader Katja Kipping, the musicians of Fine cream fish fillet, the Team at the Hebbel am Ufer as well as the Directors Dani Levy and Milo Rau. Several journalists have signed the letter, among them Deniz Yücel, Can, Dündar, Sonia Seymour Mikich and Friedrich Küppersbusch.
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order On the platform change.org collects Langhoff the signatures of other supporters for the Petition.
The controversial investigative procedures had been set on Monday, the alleged AfD-close to state’s attorney Martin Zschächner was treated within the local investigating authority and from his Post as press Secretary dismissed. The setting of the investigation, Thuringia’s Minister of justice, Dieter Lauinger (Greens) had to be a fierce public debate. He had defended the inclusion of the investigation initially, but the long duration of the surprise shown.
Lauinger said on Thursday of last week the daily mirror: “the initiation of The investigation was based on private behavior, of the center for political beauty, and was not politically motivated. Contrary allegations are nonsense.” The investigations had been justified on the basis of Zschächner that the ZPS had also announced, in connection with the Anti-Höcke action in born Hagen is a comprehensive Observation of the AfD-politician.
the signatories of The open letter point out that the action in born Hagen, according to a judgment of the Landgericht Köln by February 2018, “in all essential Parts to be covered by the freedom of art”. Regardless of the Gera’s determination had not been set the method according to Paragraph 129.
it Continues: “The ignorance, with the Minister of justice Lauinger – as Supervisory authority – says that the artist group is somehow ’their own fault’, because you have even a Crime accused’, in this context speechless.” If in Thuringia still of the correctness of the procedure, will assumed, was the “hard to bear”.
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The sender of the open letter are calling for an official apology from the political leaders. It must be ensured that “criminal investigations, the touch obviously, the core area of the freedom of art”, in the future, it says. The observed tendency to political-ideological criminalization of art is a threat to the community, and the liberal–democratic order: “We are stunned, but not assungslos.”
