Many of the rights were, of course, come to the book fair in Leipzig. Götz Kubitscheks Antaios publishing house, for example, has cancelled. Two years ago, at the Frankfurt book fair Kubitscheks publishing house had stood in the centre of a confrontation between Right and Left, in the following year, Kubitschek Antaios had ertrickst with a fake Takeover by another publisher, once again, a good location. But this works only once, and so Antaios was this time equal to the whole of remote, which took a lot of facilitating to knowledge.
“Compact” but the magazine of the activist Jürgen Elsässer, in a somewhat secluded corner of the hall 3, booth G602, far away from the elves, unicorns and wizards of the Manga-Convention in hall 1 is still there. And here, so to speak, on the Display of the “Compact”editions on topics such as “German women”, “German heroes” or “1000 years of German Empire”, came the three students from Halberstadt in Saxony-Anhalt to the “Compact”-the chief of Alsace, because they wanted to know what.
beginning with “Harry Potter”
It began with the first glance, out of the way, question to the fascist traits of Lord Voldemort’s death eaters. To do this, I am interested in the opinion of the Right always says Jeannine chess (17) later. But it ran, of course, still quickly on the main issues: refugees, democracy, Germany. The surprising thing was now Elsässers rights, Folklore, globalization is bad, in Germany the Umvolkung, but the polite insistence threatens, with the chess, her friend Luca Marie Hielscher and Marc Robin Eggert, both 18, from Alsace in expository, then to the Stentor-like and finally almost to a Roar.
It is not a voice, not that fleeing Syrians wanted to return to their homeland, only to be just barely habitable, you. It was wrong, that Syria’s Bashar al-Assad’s peace pins, he build a torture state. And how he, Alsatian standing, to the GDR and the FRG? At the time, also people in the Federal Republic of Germany had fled, were captured. Where is the difference?
“We wanted to have an exchange of views, and at the beginning it went well, but then.”Luca Marie Hielscher
Well, tried to Alsace, which had been German, this is a difference that we were not in Germany, whether or not you understand that? But the students do not understand or understand very well, and as always, more short-haired strong men show up and they circle, so that you can see it from the outside, as some of you are taking pictures or movies, although the girl that they will not tolerate, as one yells, whether they had ever worked before, pull back slowly, with red cheeks from excitement, but everything else as resolved.
“We wanted to have an exchange of views, and at the beginning it went well, but then no longer,” commented Luca Marie Hielscher the meeting.
Choral Intervention
The police, who had observed the scene, meanwhile, is deducted as a short and recognizable is not agreed, a further group of young people sets up with his back to the Stand. The singing club of Leipzig, formed a year ago, to political songs to rehearse. And he begins with an action that the speaker, Tom called Rodig later, a “choral Intervention”: The group sings “No Going Back”, a song by the British miners ‘ women during the strikes of the mid-1980s. Almost a feminist anthem.
during the second verse, the strong men build up behind them and hold up signs that sentences such as “love of country is not a crime” or “#loser against the right” or simply the “German women”issue of the “Compact”.
And eventually, even the “Compact”supporters start to sing, you need a little bit, until you recognize the song, because you have kidney, it is unusually jagged into. They sing “The thoughts are free”. But the others continue singing “No Going Back”, and so they sing both louder and louder, a singing contest, that makes people flock together. The police showed up again, the singer belting out with all his might.
the students around, more and more strong men, they swear at and photograph.
It is, you can not say otherwise, a heroic, completely unironischer Moment, a force measure, very simply, who sets the tone. Almost like in the famous scene from “Casablanca”. Eventually, the singing club Leipzig, the Right to be silent, fall silent finally. Under great applause Rodig and his group to give two songs to the Best, the Slovenian partisan song “Three red whistles” and “Avanti, Popolo”.
Then the singing club-speaker Rodig, still upset, but satisfied: “The idea was to show people there is something to oppose,” he says. Without violence: “We finally are at a book fair.” And? “It has worked out. The message is arrived.” Even if it is not clear at whom.
defend democracy
There was more to report many from Leipzig, from the cautious optimism of the publisher and the hope that the crisis of the book can’t get but so bad. Of the perplexity of a kind of took book industry in light of the protests to copyright reform. Of the Eastern Europeans who are represented in Leipzig, Germany are always strong, but with the Czech Republic as a host country, particularly many of the authors have sent.
The democracy in Europe is threatened, it was said often, and worried on the light-filled, much-frequented Premium locations in the exhibition. Now, in this remote corner of hall 3 was not it.
(editing Tamedia)
Created: 24.03.2019, 19:07 PM
