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On 1 May has closed the post office

Thursday, 1 May, 2008

A ll started with the fact that the NPD politician Thomas Wulff wanted to bring a package to the post. Apparently no one has his many companions pointed out to him that the first May a public holiday and the post office is thus closed. One wonders why he went for that purpose on the 100 kilometer route from the Mecklenburg Ludwigslust to Hamburg. But well, that's his private matter. Maybe he wanted to combine the trip to the post with a visit to friends in Hamburg. Many friends he met there, but apparently not. On the contrary. Been a considerable number of hamburgers seemed informed in advance of the arrival of Mr. Wulff to be, as they greeted him with chants. No one but cleared him and his fellow travelers on the fact that the post offices were closed today. Instead, they chanted phrases like: "You have verlor'n the war!" This is really useful for anything but a person who is in search of a post office. He would at least be able to point out that there are packing stations, where you can give up at any time day or night and on holidays its packages. As it was, Wulff was wrong for hours together with his comrades with his parcel under his arm through the north of Hamburg. The crowd seemed whether the misunderstanding of Wulff highly incensed. Why? That can not happen every time. Given this loudly expressed anger is also het companions Wulff and increasingly began to unfold banners. Slowly pushing the suspicion that there was more to it than just sending a packet. On the banners, there were statements like: "International capital is only - Free nationalists Mecklenburg-Western South." Aha. Another banner was inscribed with: "German intifada." Fits to the other wore a traveling companion a Palestinian flag. Was also the flag of Iran is now mandatory to flutter in maiwind. Ahmadinejad, the great friend of the Jewish people could not come himself to plead for the redemption of Israel from the map. He might well have a speech prepared for the forthcoming 60th Traveling to or from the anniversary of the founding of Israel to inspect the railway line on which some day the Mahdi to Tehran. The American flag upside down is stretched upward. So really, the NPD supporters are always inventive and subtle. The camaraderie Northeim it had its own banner with a saying attributed to Bertolt Brecht: "What is right is wrong, resistance becomes a duty," The NPD keel Plön district association was also represented with a banner. This bore the inscription: "Resistance can be banned is not" What are attendance banners of the enemy: "Fascism is not an opinion but a crime" where you stopped including the flag of the Soviet Union up to even now not just a symbol for a pluralist and democratic society. The matter has become increasingly unpleasant, so that the NPD supporters sprayed the road with water cannons free so they could continue their way towards the city park. They lost a lot of small pieces of paper on which the gracious invitation: "Come and do with with the autonomous nationalists" was to read, including Deppenapostroph at "info's at http://www ...". So really, these Nazi's but also! Later on, the NPD's supporters for several hours in the street "Old Wöhr" were encircled.

At some point went completely unnecessary, a police car on fire, and later six private vehicles. In addition to these vehicles were CDs with titles like "RMK Waffen SS". A vehicle of Hesse had inferred the "1488" as part of the plate. Was of course the "14" not for the "Fourteen Words" of the U.S. neo-Nazi David Lane say that because: ". We must secure the existence children of our people and a future for White" Nor was the "88" in mark for the eighth letter in the alphabet, so that "HH" is therefore "Heil Hitler" meant. The additional "N" in the label should probably not stand for "national". This is the Hessian tourists yet still may not even notice. Perhaps this combination was actually basking the bare chance, and the vehicle owner in the park just to have something to do without the demonstration. Or maybe not. Regardless of such vandalism is not justified, and of course wearing anything but helping to make a difference in the minds of right-wing extremists. After the NPD had, after many hours still found no post office, where I bend Wulff package can give up, you swore just before the drive home the Hamburg Senate as a "gay government" as if he was responsible for the opening times of post offices. Had the NPD package Wulff Just put in tomorrow Ludwigslust to post. All this could have been avoided!

Golo Mann, Karl Marx on

Thursday 17 April, 2008

D a on 5 May this year the 190th anniversary of Karl Marx Fifth anniversary was, at this point a little concerned the Trier philosophers, fruit harvest of Golo Mann's "History of the 19th German and 20 Century, "given to the best:

Heine once spoke of his German compatriots in Paris, including "the most forceful and witty, Dr. Marx." He was chosen and decided. He was as witty as Heine and, though no poet, but a writer of high rank. But he forced his mind to a single track. He took sides. He created a party. He wanted to conquer the world history with his mind, forcing the train that took his own mind. Marx has worked and still works today, but not what he expected, calculated, is come out of his work. [...]
A Russian who met him at a Socialist meeting in Brussels, describes it: "A thick, black mane on his head, covered his hands with hair, buttoned together the skirt wrong, he still had the look of a man who's right and power has to demand respect ... His movements were angular, but boldly and confidently. His manners were almost all social manners contrary. But they were proud, with a touch of contempt, and his sharp voice that sounded like metal, coincided strangely with the radical judgments about people and things that he felled. He spoke otherwise than in imperative, no resistance tolerating words, which were incidentally exacerbated by me almost painfully touching tone that everything he said permeated. "Looked similar it a few years later, a German student, which in turn good eyes, bright mind and strong convictions were intrinsic, Carl Schurz, "What Marx said was, in fact, content rich, logical and clear. But never have I seen a man of so insulting and intolerable arrogance of the occurrence. No one believes that differed significantly from his, granted, it the honor of a reasonably respectful consideration. Anyone who disagreed with him, he treated with thinly veiled contempt. Every argument he answered him unpopular either with biting scorn for the pitiable ignorance or suspicion of the motives of dishonorable of him who raised it. I remember well the sneering cutting, I would say the spitting sound, with which he uttered the word "bourgeois", and as a "bourgeois", that is, as an unmistakable example of a deep spiritual and moral morass, he denounced any . who dared to contradict his opinions, "There is no doubt that the people as he appeared, the witnesses are too numerous, too consistent, and is probably no doubt that he was. He was blessed with a tremendous intellect and beaten, the lonely and it made him arrogant. He'd probably love for his wife, his children, even pity, and it infuriated him the misery that had come with the industry. His character was inflexible in times of need, completely loyal to the titanic work which he had himself imposed. These are virtues preisenswerte. They were overrun by a terrible desire for power, keep right and the will to be right alone. The opponents, critics, the dissenters wanted to destroy it, with a sword or as long as that concerned not with the pen that was dipped in poison. One of these may not make the world better. " ¹

To such people, their - sometimes very meager - mind force on a single track, one encounters in the 21st Century still abound. It does not take a Marxist to denounce dissidents and trying to destroy as well as their motives in questioning defamatory manner. People with a terrible desire for power and the will to keep, and quite alone to be right, can be found today in politics, at round tables, in media newsrooms and in small garden clubs. They all share a propensity for bigotry. At the least, but this feature is paired with a bright mind, as no doubt in Marx.

Most of them are probably more convenience, vanity, selfishness, ambition and - yes, intellectual inertia, which lead to such a black and white thinking, an inability to move away from once-related positions even a millimeter. We construct a few enemies, and can now relax in the hammock intellectual. It becomes dangerous if such pretty small imperious spirit gains influence on the public opinion on education and politics. Indeed, with such a setting can be difficult to make the world better. But that probably is not necessarily the pursuit of such intransigent people.

You see, even in these more human ways is Marx more relevant than ever.

Mann, Golo: German history of the 19th and 20 Century. Frankfurt am Main, 1996, S.176f. - First published in 1958. [ ← ]

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Betrayal of the Betrayer

Monday 31 March, 2008

L ike many other newspapers, also raises the "young world" their Marxist-oriented ^one mag at the Leipzig Book Fair free of charge to the people. This then leads to perhaps the vague hope of being able to win the one or the other readers.

As we know from experience that sometimes comes up with this hand and unintentional humor selbstparodistischen trains, one resorts to in order to browse in a quiet moment, when again hungry for a satire, it can. When it comes time to do a parallel world in which we vary between laughter and horror. An example, where the two compete fiercely with each other emotions, was here in 2006 on the basis of a "young world" printed obituary for Slobodan Milosevic documented. It paid tribute to the accused as a war criminal Milosevic as a "heroic defenders of Yugoslavia and international law" and as "internationalists, socialists and anti-imperialists". ²

In this year's Free Edition is now a first twelve-page supplement "Marxism" contrary to, finally, Marx's death in 2008 marks the 125th Time of his birth even to 190th Time So now we keep the issue in the hands and body begins to habit, from behind the pages.

First, we read there, that Bernd Stange, the former coach of the East German national football team ^three , just turned 60 years old, and that it had drifted to him now Belarus. That's right, the DSFler the "young world" do not say "Belarus", but in the old East German-style "Belarus", what comes naturally and thus closer to the original name is correct. It is always inconsistent. Consequently, one must say "Bielarus" ^four or even "Belarus". But such considerations play in the parlance of the "young world" probably a minor role. More important seems to be identifying with the language of the defunct East German state ideal.

In a sense, somewhat one-dimensional way, the "young world" language that is not all the same. Exactly one looks back at the mainstream media. So on page 13 of the edition of 14 March 2008, a little article with the headline "LTI date". This one has the basis of relevant examples indicate that the program director of Radio Germany, Günter Muechler, in an interview in just three minutes four times a lingua tertii Imperii have used (see screen capture). In fact Muechler used as a rather strange and certainly sounding to LTI vocabulary. ⁵ In particular, the fact that Muechler talking about poetry, appear to be strange that terms like "clean shot", "smashed" and "offensive" fall. Well, there is the "young world" apparently a bird "shot down" (LTI?).
The language of lovers of the "young world" is so well but hopefully not to notice that Victor Klemperer has not stopped since 1945 to write. So you will have the "young world" safe even from the so-called "LQI" heard or read. Regarding the Tongue Quartii Imperii Klemperer noted:

"I have to start gradually, systematically paying attention to the language of the Fourth Reich. Sometimes it seems to me less of a distinction than that of the third as the Saxon Dresden from Leipzig ⁶ . For instance, if Marshal Stalin of the largest of the currently living, is the most ingenious strategist, etc. Or when Stalin speaks in a speech from the beginning of the war by Hitler, of course, with the utmost right, as of the "cannibal Hitler." Anyway, I want our newsletter, and the German People's Daily, which is now sent me to study exactly LQI sub specie. " ⁷
"Every day I see again the continuation of LTI in LQI." ⁸
"LTI = LQI!" ⁹
"LTI LQI does with skin and hair. Even cup - more's the Limit - writes constantly combative. Mrs. Kreisler amazed when I "in character" objectionable. In an essay that praises the humanity of the present penal (prison command), the inmates are taught to "enthusiastic" people. " ¹⁰
"[...] And this whole concentriert more and more on integrating the one differs a lot less of Nazi attitude and method. Say instead of working-class race, and both movements are identical. Tyranny and narrowness to take daily. Religious persecution, youth initiation, struggle against "ideological coexistence," against "factionalism," against "petty bourgeois arrogance" - all this is LQI. ¹¹

How about love "Young World", if you section "LTI currently" one more "current LQI" entitled hinzufügtest? Create a site should provide sufficient material for it for now.

What Klemperer's relationship to communism is concerned, but also repeatedly quoted from his diary:

"It gives me this afternoon realized that communism is equally suitable for drawing primitive peoples from the primeval slime, and in the primeval slime zurückzutauchen civilized. In the second case it is hypocritical to work and is not only demoralizing but stupefying by consistently to hypocrisy rears. I am just by my trip to China and in recognition of the tremendous achievements made here for ulterior anti-communists. This may not Marx's ideal state have been. " ¹²

But back to football coach Bernd Stange. Now we learn that his birthday at a bar committing Schnittchenbüffet in Minsk to nachzufeiern then in the summer in Jena with a barbeque. Somehow reminds that passage of Loriot lottery winners Lindemann: "My name is ... ... Erwin ... Lindemann, am retired and 66 years ... with my lottery winnings of 500,000 D-Mark, I am taking a trip to Iceland ... then I take my daughter to Rome attend a papal audience in the fall ... and then I open a men's boutique in Wuppertal. " ¹³ - Finally, we read that it was Stange's goal to qualify with the Belarusian national team for World Cup 2010 in South Africa.

Now the already amused gaze further down and stays at the following startling headline to: "Cuba betrayed". A shudder seizes at once the reader who wonders then anxious, who have betrayed the world in Cuba? The first suspect is asking that the entire former Eastern bloc - except of course the "Dear Leader" Kim Jong-il - is meant. But these suspicions are dashed once, the page 16 of the "young world" but the sport reserved. So you read further. After a qualifying match of the Cuban Olympic team, it says, five Cuban players were not returned to their quarters. Among them befänden both the goalkeeper and the captain.

Then, the "young world" indeed a lucky hand proved that she placed this item directly to Cuba under those of the former coach of the East German national soccer team. So it makes it easier for the reader to remember that the State Security of the GDR did prevent a lot better that East German athletes committed desertion. In the GDR, Republic of Volatile ever been persuaded to stay by shooting in livable socialism. The Caribbean people are a little sloppy because obviously, so that can go just five people at once through the network. Well, the matter becomes more complicated if one stays in the middle of the country of the imperialist enemy. Therefore, Cuba has, however, by its insularity turn a home advantage in the prevention of illegal emigration.

In the eyes of the glorified "Young World", the Cuban athletes have thus betraying Cuba and most likely committed to socialism as a whole. Per definitionem bedeutet Verrat „Bruch eines Vertrauensverhältnisses” ¹⁴ Hat man diese fünf bzw. all die anderen Kubaner je gefragt, ob das Kuba des Máximo Líder, ob der Sozialismus und alles, was mit ihm einhergeht, das ist, was sie wollen? Oder wird nicht vielmehr das Volk zu seinem „Glück” gezwungen? Besteht zwischen Volk und Regierung Kubas, Nordkoreas oder auch Weißrusslands tatsächlich ein Vertrauensverhältnis, das gebrochen werden kann? Oder handelt es sich nicht vielmehr um ein Abhängigkeitsverhältnis, in das man hineingeraten ist oder hineingeboren wurde und aus dem man ausbrechen möchte, sobald sich die Gelegenheit dazu ergibt? Wie lebenswert muss ein Land sein, dem selbst privilegierte Reisekader wie eben Sportler den Rücken kehren? Weiterlesen ›

Eigenangabe auf der Internetpräsenz des Blattes [ ← ]
Traueranzeige für Slobodan Milosevic aus: junge Welt (18./19. März 2006) [ ← ]
bundesweit bekannt geworden als Trainer der irakischen Nationalmannschaft von 2002 bis 2004 [ ← ]
Transkription von weißruss. Беларусь [ ← ]
Man könnte das zu seinen Gunsten auch einfach als Versuch der Anbiederung an das jugendliche Zielpublikum auslegen. Schließlich geht es in dem Interview um den Schülerwettbewerb „lyrix”. Der Versuch, Jugendsprache zu verwenden, geht ja bei so manch älterem Semester gerne mal nach hinten los. Aber gut, die „junge Welt” will es nicht zu Müchlers Gunsten auslegen, was ihr gutes Recht ist. [ ← ]
Für Nicht-Sachsen sind diese beiden Spielarten des Sächsischen nur schwer zu unterscheiden. [ ← ]
Klemperer, Victor: So sitze ich denn zwischen allen Stühlen. Eintrag vom 25.06.1945. Band 1: Tagebücher 1945 – 1949, S.24. [ ← ]
Ibid. Eintrag vom 12.10.1945, S.126. [ ← ]
Ibid. Eintrag vom 26.10.1945, S.133. [ ← ]
Ebd., Eintrag vom 15.10.1945, S.127. [ ← ]
Klemperer, Victor: So sitze ich denn zwischen allen Stühlen. Eintrag vom 14.02.1958. Band 2: Tagebücher 1950-1959, S.673. [ ← ]
Ebd., Eintrag vom 24.10.1958, S.723. [ ← ]
Loriot: Das Frühstücksei. Gesammelte dramatische Geschichten mit Doktor Klöbner und Herrn Müller-Lüdenscheidt, Herrn und Frau Hoppenstedt, Erwin Lindemann uva Zürich, 2003, S. 269. [ ← ]
Duden – Deutsches Universalwörterbuch. 4., neu bearbeitete und erweiterte Auflage. Mannheim, 2001. [ ← ]

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Quellentexte zur Existenz von Kindersoldaten in Eritrea

Tuesday 26 February, 2008

D o this site on time is too valuable to them with reports on the NDR magazine Zapp and his sometimes verquast-style reporting in the "case" to clog Senait Mehari and here, preferring again to be of Erquicklicherem the speech was now a source blog put into the grid, which is solely dedicated to the theme of "child soldiers in Eritrea"

http://textquellenzueritrea.wordpress.com/

There may also be the last Zapp employee and the last "eyewitness" convinced of the fact that there were child soldiers in Eritrea. This is demonstrated not by shady and sinister characters, or about "commercial media" ^one and certainly not bent on its image, the modern media company serving charities ² , but mainly from a friend of Julia balances taken as expert Günter Schröder, the scientist Hartmut Quehl viz.

So why this blog has been posted online source, where the journalist but for pop music, Peter Disch, who kicked off the whole debate around Mehari have never denied that there were child soldiers in Eritrea? This is actually explained in the section "concerns" of the source blogs linked above clearly, but only after several paragraphs, so you have to wade through until then. Therefore, the explanation here again divided earlier and reader-friendly.

The sources, which prove the general existence of child soldiers in Eritrea were placed online for the following reasons:

First

because the TV magazine on 14/02/2008 Zapp Mehreteab Abraham, the spokesman for the Mehari's critics showed, as he chanted in front of the Berlinale Palast, loud and clear:

"There is no so-called child soldiers in Eritrea." ³

This is of concern because both use Julia balances regularly and Peter Disch Mehreteab Abraham as a witness for their pure Meharis detailed critique of representation of a single camp in Eritrea. Why then not call the witness ". There was no so-called child soldiers in the Tsebah-school", but if it only go to this one school?

Second

Julia also balances because this false, totally generalized statement of a witness not commented on her, let alone that they are distanced about it.

Third

because Julia balances rather seamlessly joined because their own statement:

"In the movie there are child soldiers in Eritrea. He plays the early eighties. The ten-year Avet comes to the Eritrean rebels. There she is trained as a soldier. A feature film - in fact fictional, but the producers say [...] We are very close to the truth. This is a true story. '" ⁴

This type of co-cutting the unchallenged left, false claim of one of their witnesses insinuates her own statement, balance that there were no child soldiers in Eritrea and moved the debate very even on the general level to which you - as seconded Peter Disch their resistance - allegedly did not go.

4th

Julia said, because balances in this very post at a later point the following:

"Nevertheless, the film is strongly reminiscent of the book. Children will learn weapons, shoot and kill. [...] Has it really existed in Eritrea? " ⁵

Why is Julia balances that question, if they - did not deny the existence of child soldiers in Eritrea - according to Peter Disch? If it balances Julia also but not to Eritrea, but just to go to school, then why not ask: "Has it really been at the school Tsebah" This question is Julia balances may not be so, because in the film is not about the Tsebah School.

5th

because Julia balances in the context of child soldiers in Eritrea of "allegedly historical [n] truths" ⁶ spoke.

6th

because the Zapp and Disch always relied on "witnesses" on their homepage a "welcome message" published ^seven in the expressis is generally explicitly the existence of child soldiers in Eritrea in the present and the past been denied:

"In Eritrea, there was never child soldiers, to date there is not."

Due to the fact that this message without comment and was released without any distancing, must be assumed that as a "GbR witnesses Tsebah-school" operating under the name "witnesses" in the "greeting" view expressed, according to which it may never child soldiers in Eritrea have to share in full.

In this "greeting" is also at any single point of the "Tsebah-school" the speech at issue but reportedly only. On the contrary, the originator of the message is expressed at the beginning but that she could not judge what is true of Meharis history. Instead, it negates the existence of a flat rate of child soldiers in Eritrea. This solidarity will now address provided by the "witnesses" without any comment online. Dancing since the "witnesses" from the series about?

Disch's statement, according to him, basically just going to Almaz Yohannes who felt defamed in Mehari book and the fact that the "Tsebah-school" was a mere school, without a military character. What is it but the "witnesses", which surrounds the Discharge? Apparently a considerable contribution to Eritrea in general. This general discussion Disch complains but only at his critics, not with his witnesses. Had also a person as the originator of the "greeting" dared to express preferences for by Mehari, at the same time Eingeständis that she could not imagine what true at Mehari story is, would Mr. Disch her long an instructive entry into his fiery heart body dedicated to where he had explained to the person on line and thread, that they only "ventiliere", "in appearances" take and in general terms and discuss, in short, the discussion did not lost anything and have it do not worth that one ever eingehe on them.

This is essentially contradictory statements by Peter Disch, Julia and Abraham Mehreteab balances regarding the existence of child soldiers in Eritrea were also the occasion to put the sources online.

At this point, once again allowed the deputy head of the group program abroad are cited in the West German Radio, Arnd Henze, even if Mr. Disch complains that the criticism is already a year old. But now, the Disch has again changed his mind and informed his fellow man, that it does not matter how old a word, but that it depended on the quality of the text. Faced with such wisdom, remains an almost open mouthed. Anyway, now that Mr. Henze had a different view had not yet read. ⁸ also has its critics neither its topicality nor lost any relevance or significance:

Is it about self-image of the legitimate struggle for liberation not be qualified by the admission of international law of war methods [...] Did Zapp may be harnessed for a cynical historical revisionism? ⁹

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Diction of "witnesses" on their homepage [ ← ]
See Peter Disch, a journalist for pop music entry in his "Heart of Fire Blog" of 21.02.2008 [ ← ]
The contribution can be found on the homepage of Zapp watch. The quoted phrase is expressed in seconds 18-21. [ ← ]
Zapp broadcast of 20.02.2008 [ ← ]
ibid [ ← ]
ibid [ ← ]
The last time was on this side of a "welcome message" is mentioned, as has been reported as the chairman of the Communist Party, Comrade Wolfgang Fittinger, the Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, Kim Jong Il congratulated for its atomic bomb and with communist Greeting adopted. This may serve as a small note to be political milieu in which addresses were exchanged greetings and solidarity preferred. The central organ of the SED "New Germany" was the lowest GDR fully with this kind messages. [ ← ]
If that were the case, but Zapp would not hesitate for second, and the new, otherwise long statement prominently on its website. As a teaser would be standing there in perfect diction Zapp: "bicycle kick! Critic View" [ ← ]
Arnd Henze, in a letter dated 20.02.2007 to Zapp [ ← ]

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Those who live in glass houses zaps (the Fourth)

Monday, 4 February, 2008

Elder similar, like a bad joke by repetition is not better, gaining a meager statement does not sound convincing if they simply sets up again, to back them up without having at least one relevant new fact. It throws a bad light on those who alleges that the yet again, the suspicion is only natural that he lacks good arguments. Among the enterprising investigative journalists from the media magazine "Zapp" NDR seems these little truths about his childhood, but apparently not penetrated.

In the past week, namely to broadcast under the aegis of the "King of the research," ^one , also known by his middle name of "Kuno Haberbusch", a rather antiquated. The occasion was the upcoming 58th Berlinale on which the film "Heart of Fire" (directed by Luigi Falorni) on 14 Premiere will have in February. Because of this inspired by eponymous book by Senait Mehari is ringing alarm bells for all Zapp, this appeared to be Pavlovian sense, but a godsend, were produced at the heightened level of protest in secretions. Finally, Zapp, his own - usual immodest - felt it, "revealed" almost exactly a year ago , that was all lies in Meharis book. So now the film version of a "lie" ² - as you climb up at Zapp but now with battle cries, the barricades in order to avert this danger to society, for it seems to keep Mehari book. It attaches so much importance to her book as if it brought Mehari the foundations of the society works. People need to finally learn the truth, and this is a truth Zapp and spread it with missionary zeal. Otherwise it might be tomorrow for all to late. Someone might see the movie and form their own opinions without being informed of Zapp or be indoctrinated. What a risk!

It's really pointless to show at this point to again en détail how one-sided Zapp then obviously researched and argued. It is therefore referred to several articles on this site that at length with this one-sidedness and also with the double standards of Zapp deal ³ .

Zusammenfassend soll jedoch festgehalten werden, dass man bei Zapp offenbar alles andere als ergebnisoffen recherchierte, dass Zapps Argumente genauso gut oder schlecht sind, wie die von Mehari und dass Zapp eben nicht im Sinne des „audiatur et altera pars” berichtete, wie es seine Aufgabe als von der Öffentlichkeit finanziertes Magazin ist. Zapp erfüllt somit seinen öffentlich-rechtlichen Auftrag unzureichend, der auch dahingehend lautet, umfassend und ausgewogen zu informieren. Da hilft es wenig, wenn Zapp, offenbar irgendeiner Direktive der Intendanten des öffenlich-rechtlichen Fernsehens entsprechend, sich plötzlich immer bei den verehrten Zuschauern für die entrichteten Gebühren bedankt, ohne welche die unübertroffenen und bahnbrechenden Recherchen von Zapp gar nicht möglich wären. Weiterlesen ›

Zapp-Eigenwerbung, natürlich mit selbstironischem Augenzwinkern, aber tief im Innern wahrscheinlich absolute Überzeugung. [ ← ]
Die Fiktionalisierung einer Fiktionalisierung, wie auch schon zu lesen war. [ ← ]
First Wer im Glashaus ZAPPt – 2. Wer im Glashaus ZAPPt (die Zweite) – 3. Wer im Glashaus ZAPPt (die Dritte) [ ← ]

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Wer im Glashaus ZAPPt (die Zweite)

Sunday 12 August, 2007

D a sich die selbsternannten Medienwächter von NDR-Zapp in ihrer vierwöchigen Sommerpause befinden, scheint der Zeitpunkt günstig, ein kleines Resümee der vergangenen Monate zu ziehen.
Ohne Unterlass versucht man bei Zapp, die offensichtlich gefühlte Mission zu erfüllen, den augenscheinlich für ziemlich unmündig und unselbständig gehaltenen Bürger aufzuklären. So wird man nicht müde, sich in fast jeder Sendung über irgendeine Schlagzeile der Bild zu ereifern, als ob man damit noch jemanden hinter dem Ofen hervorlocken könnte. Spätestens, seitdem ein Hans Esser alias Günter Wallraff vor genau 30 Jahren bei der Bild Hannover hinter die Kulissen geschaut und darüber berichtet hat, wissen eigentlich alle, wie das System Bild in seinen Grundzügen funktioniert. Die verkaufte Auflage der Bild geht darüber hinaus offenbar stetig zurück ¹ , wozu also diese Panikmache? Es gibt zudem bereits BILDblog , wo die Falschdarstellungen der Bild bestens dokumentiert und richtig gestellt werden.

Es gehört im Übrigen zu einer der leichtesten und bequemsten pseudo-intellektuellen Übungen, der Bild Recherchefehler, Widersprüche o.Ä. nachzuweisen. Das ist in etwa so, als wollte man dem NDR jede Woche aufs Neue nachweisen, dass er sich über Gebührengelder finanziere. Letztlich handelt es sich bei der Bild-Kritik von Zapp also um nichts weiter als um von Gebührengeldern finanzierte Glasperlenspielerei – ein selbstzweckhaftes, eitles und unkreatives Hantieren mit Klischees. Zudem: Die Schnittmenge der Bild-Leserschaft und der Zuschauerschaft, auf die Zapp dem Anschein nach abzielt, ist wohl denkbar klein. Man trägt also bei den eigenen Zuschauern Eulen nach Athen. Die Bild-Leser hingegen werden eher nicht erreicht.

Nun denn, Zapp jedenfalls bedient sich in schöner Regelmäßigkeit aus dem BILDblog-Fundus, was nun auch nicht gerade als Recherche im eigentlichen Sinn zu bezeichnen ist, wie Zapp sie immer von allen anderen Medien einfordert und sich selbst als Qualitätsmerkmal an die Brust heftet. Vielmehr lässt sich angenehm billig und unaufwendig Sendezeit füllen, indem man BILDBlog-Einträge verfilmt. Der BILDblog-Gründer Stefan Niggemeier zeigt sich in seinem privaten Blog übrigens deutlich enerviert davon, dass Zapp regelmäßig BILDblog-Einträge zum Teil auch noch ohne Quellenangabe verfilmt. Er bezeichnet Zapp daher nicht gerade ungerechtfertigt sogar als BILDblog-TV. Der von Niggemeier zudem geäußerte klare Verdacht, dass Zapp im Zuge seiner Verfilmungen auch noch Ideen von ihm klaue und bestenfalls nur geringfügig variiere, lässt befürchten, dass man bei Zapp den Unterschied zwischen Copyright und Copyleft nicht kennt. Sicher „recherchiert” Zapp aber auch selbst in Bild.

Ansonsten mutet Zapp oft auch als Trailer-Show für Monitor, Panorama, Report Mainz und extra3 an. Die von diesen Sendungen recherchierten und produzierten Beiträge werden dann in Kurzform bei Zapp gezeigt. An deren Ende wird darauf hingewiesen, dass man den vollständigen Beitrag in den Sendungen der jeweiligen Kollegen sehen könne. Oder aber man sendet Beiträge, die längst anderswo gelaufen sind. Diese Art billiger Zweitverwertung erinnert arg an die nervende cross promotion-Praxis bei Privatsendern. Wo aber ist hierbei die eigene Recherche, für die man sich selbst so gerne auf die Schulter klopft? Ist das die Art „journalistischer Tiefenbohrung”, mit der das Netzwerk Recherche eV die Vergabe seines Preises „Leuchtturm für besondere publizistische Leistungen” ² begründete? Solche Art von Dünnbrettbohrerjournalismus sollte Kuno Haberbusch, Vorstandsmitglied des Netzwerk Recherche eV und Zapp-Chefredakteur sowie laut Eigenwerbung der „König der Recherche” doch nicht in der eigenen Sendung zulassen. Was die selbstgesetzten Standards des Netzwerks angeht, gelingt es ja sogar seinem Vorsitzenden, Thomas Leif, in die Kritik zu geraten, weil er es mit der von ihm postulierten Wichtigkeit der Trennung von PR und Journalismus, mit dem korrekten Zitieren des geistigen Eigentums Anderer, mit dem nicht-manipulativen Umgang von Fakten sowie mit Recherchemethoden selbst alles andere als ernst nehme ³ . Dazu fällt einem doch gleich wieder Heinrich Heine mit seinem so zutreffenden Vers ein:

Ich kenne die Weise, ich kenne den Text,
Ich kenn auch die Herren Verfasser;
Ich weiß, sie tranken heimlich Wein
Und predigten öffentlich Wasser. ⁴

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von 4.509.545 Exemplaren 1998 auf 3.444.977 Exemplare 2007. Quelle: IVW [ ← ]
im Jahr 2004 [ ← ]
siehe dazu die Quellensammlung auf Wikipedia . Diese Quellensammlung wurde mittlerweile auffällig „bereinigt”. Das ist eben Wikipedia. Böse Zungen munkeln, dass es schon einmal vorkomme, dass bei Wikipedia der Gegenstand des Artikels den Artikel über sich selbst „richtigstellt”, doch diese Meinung wird hier als Verschwörungstheorie verurteilt. Also alle Vorwürfe, die gegen Herrn Leif erhoben wurden, sind offensichtlich aus der Luft gegriffen. Die Rubrik „Kritik” nimmt sich mittlerweile nahezu wie Werbung für die Person Thomas Leif und das Netzwerk Recherche aus, angereichert mit einem bequemen Link zum Verein. Daher sei hier jedoch auf den Artikel „That's Leif” von Jörg Jacoby in „konkret”- Heft 3/2006 verwiesen. Im Archiv von „konkret” kann glücklicherweise noch nicht jedermann die Artikel nach seinem Geschmack umschreiben. [ ← ]
Heine, Heinrich: Deutschland – Ein Wintermärchen. Zürich 2005, S.12. [ ← ]

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Christian Fürchtegott Gellert – Ein FABELhaftes Grab …

Samstag, 6. January, 2007

A m 13. Dezember habe der Philosophieprofessor Gellert nach dreizehntägiger hartnäckiger Leibes-Obstruktion und innerlicher Entzündung die Zeitlichkeit verlassen, meldeten Leipziger Zeitungen. ¹ Mit ihm hätten Stadt und Universität Leipzig einen ihrer berühmtesten Männer verloren, hieß es dort weiter. In der Tat gingen die Menschen eines der bedeutendsten Vertreter der Leipziger Aufklärung verlustig, die sich auch solch bekannter Namen wie Johann Christoph Gottsched und Gotthold Ephraim Lessing rühmen kann. Mit seinen „Fabeln und Erzählungen” (1746-48), die aus dem aufklärerischen Tugendideal heraus entstanden, wurde Gellert einer der meistgelesenen Autoren des 18. Century. Sein Briefroman „Das Leben der schwedischen Gräfin von G***” begründete in Deutschland den bürgerlichen Roman. Seine Lustspiele führten das „Rührstück” (Comédie larmoyante) aus dem Französischen in die deutsche Literatur ein. Auch als Professor genoss Gellert seitens seiner Studenten große Verehrung und Liebe, wie Goethe in „Dichtung und Wahrheit” berichtet. Seine Vorlesungen über Moral, Poesie und Beredsamkeit seien gedrängt voll gewesen, so Goethe. Zu Goethes Studienzeit in Leipzig neigte sich das Leben Gellerts jedoch bereits seinem Ende zu. Mit seiner Beerdigung hatte Gellert jedoch mitnichten seine letzte Ruhestätte gefunden, wie im Folgenden beschrieben werden soll.
Nach dreifacher Umbettung befindet sich Gellerts letzte Ruhestätte nunmehr auf dem Leipziger Südfriedhof (Abteilung I). Seine erste Grabstätte jedoch befand sich auf dem Alten Johannisfriedhof. Als die heute nicht mehr existierende Johanniskirche 1894 bis auf den Turm abgebrochen wurde, um nach den Plänen des Architekten Hugo Licht im neobarocken Stil neu gebaut zu werden, fand man an der Südwand die Gebeine Johann Sebastian Bachs und diejenigen Gellerts. Man exhumierte sie und setzte sie 1897 in dem fertig gestellten Kirchenneubau in einer Gruft unter dem Altarraum erneut bei.
Nachdem das Kirchenschiff im Jahr 1943 bei Luftangriffen stark beschädigt worden war, wurden 1949 die Trümmer beseitigt und die verbliebenen Ruinen des Kirchenschiffs abgetragen. Im gleichen Jahr wurden die Gebeine Bachs in die Thomaskirche umgebettet, während die Gebeine Gellerts in die Universitätskirche St. Pauli überführt wurden. Der übriggebliebene Turm der Johanniskirche wurde 1956 saniert, was nichts daran änderte, dass das atheistische Regime der DDR ihn 1963 sprengen ließ, sodass an dieser Stelle heute nur noch der Name „Johannisplatz” an die Kirche erinnert. Der weiter südöstlich, hinter dem Grassimuseum gelegene Alte Johannisfriedhof, der heute eine museale Parkanlage ist, ist ein weiterer Hinweis auf die frühere Existenz der Kirche. Der seit 1563 bestehende Alte Johannisfriedhof war 1883 wegen vollständiger Auslastung seiner Kapazitäten für Bestattungen geschlossen worden. Fortan wurde der 1846 eröffnete Neue Johannisfriedhof genutzt, der etwa einen Kilometer südöstlich vom Alten Johannisfriedhof gelegen war. Am 31.12.1950 wurde jedoch auch dieser Friedhof von der Stadtverwaltung für Bestattungen – und zwanzig Jahre später, am 31.12.1970, für die Öffentlichkeit geschlossen. Darauf folgte zunächst die Säkularisation des Gottesackers, in deren Zuge Gruftanlagen und Umfassungsmauern abgebrochen und Gräber eingeebnet wurden. Umbettungen fanden nur dann statt, wenn sie privat finanziert wurden. Nur etwa 120 Grabmale wurden gerettet und auf dem Alten Johannisfriedhof gelagert. Unsachgemäßer Transport dorthin führte jedoch zu starken Beschädigungen der historisch bedeutenden Objekte. Vandalismus und Diebstahl taten schließlich ihr Übriges, sodass nach dem Ende des Arbeiter- und Bauernstaates nur noch 58 Grabmale übrig waren, die saniert werden konnten und daraufhin im südöstlichen Teil des Alten Johannisfriedhofs im eigens für diese Objekte eingerichteten Lapidarium aufgestellt wurden. Im Jahr 1983 wurde der nunmehr säkularisierte Neue Johannisfriedhof der Bevölkerung unter dem neuen Namen „Friedenspark” als städtisches Naherholungsgebiet zur Nutzung freigegeben. Somit fiel hier ein Name weg, der an die Existenz der Johanniskirche erinnerte. Die in nordöstlicher Richtung verlaufende Johannisallee ist jedoch ein heute noch existierender Hinweis auf diese Kirche. Die Johannisallee befindet sich zwischen Altem Johannisfriedhof und dem Friedenspark.
Doch zurück zum Schicksal von Gellerts Gebeinen. Ihnen war nur eine kurz Zeit der Ruhe vergönnt, denn die sie beherbergende Universitätskirche St. Pauli war den sozialistischen Bauplanern ein Dorn im Auge. Religion hatte in einer inzwischen in „Karl Marx” umbenannten Universität, auf einem inzwischen auf den Namen „Karl Marx” umgetauften Platz keine Daseinsberechtigung, hatte doch ausgerechnet dieser den von Lenin abgewandelten Auspruch geprägt, demzufolge Religion Opium für das Volk sei. Nun hatte aber der – seine späteren Jünger des DDR-Politbüros an Intelligenz wohl allesamt weit überlegene – Marx diesen Ausspruch in einer Zeit getätigt, als die christliche Konfession fast ausschließlich auf der Seite der „besitzenden Klassen” stand. Das „Übel” der Existenz dieser besitzenden Klassen hatte das SED-Regime im Jahr 1968 jedoch weitgehend beseitigt. Man war dem Ziel der „klassenlosen Gesellschaft” also bedeutend nähergerückt. Es ist durchaus vorstellbar, dass ein Marx diesem neuen Kontext Rechnung getragen hätte. Seine buchstabengläubigen und parolenverliebten Anhänger waren zu einer solchen geistigen Transferleistung offenbar nicht imstande. Das klerikale Übel musste allem Anschein in ihren ideologisch verblendeten Augen mit Stumpf und Stiel ausgemerzt werden. Weiterlesen ›

Vgl. Löffler, Katrin; Schöpa, Iris ua: Der Leipziger Südfriedhof – Geschichte / Grabstätten / Grabdenkmäler. Leipzig, 2004 ² , S. 46. [ ← ]

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Parallelwelten III (Hamburg, 14.10.2006)

Saturday 14 Oktober, 2006

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CDU-Wahlparty, CDU-Landesvorsitzender MVP Jürgen Seidel

Wednesday, 4 Oktober, 2006

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Parallelwelten II – Schwerin, 17.09.2006

Wednesday, 4 Oktober, 2006

Der Rechtsextremist Thomas Wulff „Steiner” hat schon frappierende phänotypische Ähnlichkeit mit Ernst „Teddy” Thälmann (beide Hamburger Gewächse) … während Letzterer aber in Buchenwald ermordet wurde, dürfen TW und seine Kameraden, dank der ihnen ach so verhassten Demokratie („Demokröten”, „Grundgeschwätz”, „Verfassungsschmutz”) öffentlich und ungehindert ihre armseligen Ungereimtheiten in die Welt posaunen – geschützt von einer Polizei, deren Angehörige mitunter nicht wissen, wer Anne Frank war.

Kleiner Kontrapunkt:

„Kein Sex mit Nazis!”

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