for 13 years, W.* worked for the Canton of Zurich police Department as a civil clerk at the control Department at the Zurich airport. In all the years of 35-Year-old not guilty of, as he says. In 2017, he was sector chief of the passenger control, in the last testimony, his superior, speaks of a very good performance. Nevertheless, you announced to him at the end of March, without notice to you.
The reason: His involvement in the Swiss Splatter-Film “Mad Heidi” doesn’t fit his heads. These were rejected in February the request of W., to take up a sideline as a Co-screenwriter. Prior to that W. had already taken three weeks of unpaid leave, and the script worked. At the time, his superiors didn’t know but still, what a movie it is. When they learned it, they acted: “they demanded that I distance myself from the Film.”
The reason: Already the Teaser Trailer use NS-stereotypes and contained an excessive portrayal of violence. If a squad member of the Canton police involved in something like this, this could damage their Reputation. In the Film, Heidi is fighting as a heroine in a gritty fantasy version of Switzerland for a cheese dictatorship. In the Trailer is see, for example, a torture scene in which a man in the face with a Fondue is scalded, a second of the skull with a Toblerone is pierced chocolate and a third of the eye with the corkscrew of a Swiss army knife pulled out.
“It says a Satire”
W., the Film is a Form of satire: “The individual scenes are covered in the style of the genre according to extra and drastically not shown, so that they are realistic.” The accusation that the Film glorify and spread radical right-wing ideas, he wants to leave so do not apply: “The Film is a Satire and a clear Statement against fascism and oppression.” He is also standing as a screenwriter in the Background.”I offered to use a Pseudonym,” he says. “But that was rejected.”
The supervisor called on W., to decide either for the Film or his career. For him, a difficult Situation: “I didn’t want to let the producers of the film project in the lurch. At the same time I’m instructed as a father of a family on my income.”
In the case of the cantonal police of Zurich confirmed its termination: “As the person in Question announced that the issue of secondary employment without the approval on the part of the employer, was the separation,” says spokesman Marc Besson. Such depictions of violence are not with the values of the Canton police compatible, especially not with a leadership position in a sensitive security area.
lawyer turned on
The producer of the film project, Valentin Greutert, stands behind his screenwriter: “Degenerates, the police are now the moral police? For me, the freedom of speech and artistic freedom with the termination with feet kicked.” Together with W. he has on a lawyer and a Crowdfunding for the process started cost: “It’s not about that, he gets his Job back at the airport.” Rather you would ride compensation.
*Name known to the editors
(taken over by 20 minutes, edited, of the daily Gazette.ch/Newsnet)
Created: 05.04.2019, 09:31 PM
