As always at his events, the rules were clear: No interrupting and stick to the facts. On the contrary: She was never able to completely hide her contempt for people who failed to seize the opportunities brought by the new era. „Dass Konstantin Wecker öffentlich erklärt hat, nicht mitzumachen, das hat mich wütend und traurig gemacht“, bekennt die inzwischen überzeugte Saarländerin. Und Sahra Wagenknecht ist sicher das größte Talent, das DIE LINKE aufzubieten hat. Biedenkopf explained in an interview that people from the east simply weren't used to living together with people from other cultures. This friend, who is also named Daniel, had known him for almost 20 years. But the 40-year-old laments that the national media are no longer interested in that story. Yet Daniel H. doesn't really fit the role of martyr for the right-wing cause. Bing helps you turn information into action, making it faster and easier to go from searching to doing. Alle Rechte vorbehalten. At 3 a.m. that night, the group wandered over to the central boulevard of Brückestrasse, apparently to get money from an ATM machine. Officially, the militant right-wing group dissolved back in 2007, but networks among its members are still active. Sahra Wagenknecht (40) ist Wortführerin der Kommunistischen Plattform in der Linkspartei. In 2015, Chemnitz hosted the initial reception center for all refugees who came to the state of Saxony. Like Dulig, Richter is a member of the SPD and would like to become Meissen's next mayor. He answered: "'I have a future in Germany.'" Die "Wahrheit" ist die Satireseite der taz. The History of DER SPIEGEL, SPIEGEL Rights, Reprints and other Usages, The Death of an Ideal: Killing in Germany Triggers Fresh Refugee Debate, Who Are We? Rise of the Autocrats: Liberal Democracy Is Under Attack. The results revealed some odd contradictions: That the overwhelming majority of those surveyed consider Saxony to be a well-governed state, but they are deeply distrustful of the "politicians," for example. A state parliamentarian from the right-wing populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party ascribed "direct complicity in the death of the doctor" to both the Baden-Württemberg state government as well as the federal government in Berlin "due to their misguided migration policies.". Sahra Wagenknecht, who has been praised as a leading member of the country's next generation of politicians, ... Man Utd will know how to exploit Liverpool weakness after Aston Villa FA Cup showing. "They may be less visible, but they are the majority," he says. Yanis Varoufakis (1961–): Minister of Finance from 27 January 2015 to 6 July 2015. The police didn't have enough officers available and were overwhelmed by the situation. Noch dazu geht es völlig an den Problemen der #Aufstehen Bewegung vorbei...lieber ein paar billige Lacher auf kosten der Erscheinung von Sarah Wagenknecht. Yousif A. told the officials why he had to flee the northern Iraqi province of Ninive, and it had nothing to do with the political situation there. Und das nur, weil sie das Offensichtliche erkannt hatte: Linke Forderungen nach noch mehr Einwanderung ins deutsche Sozialsystem vergraulen die Wähler der Linken im Osten. Jetzt ist das Paar zusammengezogen. Some participants covered their faces to avoid being identified while others raised their right arms in the Hitler salute. Even under communist rule, pogroms took place in the state. Die Initiatorin von „Aufstehen“ ist in linker Hochform. The local theater's ballet director has also recommended to her dancers, many of whom come from other countries, that they not walk through the city alone. Yousif A. was registered in Annaberg-Buchholz, a village of half-timbered houses where cows graze in the fields. But that also seems like an astonishingly optimistic goal at a time when fear is still prevailing in Chemnitz. „Es gibt also einen Mann in Ihrem Leben?“, fragen wir, doch die süße Sozialistin winkt müde ab. Richter responded in the affirmative, but also warned that it might fall into the right-wing's strategy of driving society into combat mode. „Nein“, sagt die Miss, sie wolle keinesfalls nationalistisch argumentieren. Sie pflegte seine Mutter, ihre eigene auch. Hers is the call to become true mothers and fathers in the order of grace of multitudes of brothers and sisters in the entire universe, to birth them into the new and immortal life, into the light of the new creation which Mary is unveiling ever more clearly before the eyes and hearts of each of us and of the Bride, Who with the Spirit, is saying to the Lord: "Come! Sie kommen in Booten aus Afrika! But the state government, he says, ignored these slights and the lurch to the right that followed them. Polls conducted by Infratest dimap for German public broadcaster MDR, which broadcasts in the states of Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia, show that support for right-wing populists has risen significantly in the region. Die #Aufstehen-Bewegung solle eine „Bewegung aller Linken“ sein, „und das schließt die AfD ausdrücklich mit ein – schließlich steht die AfD links von der SS, zumindest in Teilen“. Die neue Sammlungsbewegung solle auch nicht national beschränkt sein, schließlich sei die Linke „immer internationalistisch“ gewesen. In der Berliner Bundespressekonferenz, mit krassem Manifest, schickem Hashtag, einer mitreißenden Hymne – und der feierlichen Bekanntgabe von vierzig Hochprominenten. Today, he and his staff teach the basics of democracy and personal respect in schools and day care centers. Germany has been rocked by right-wing riots in the eastern city of Chemnitz that followed a deadly stabbing over the weekend. In June 2015, right-wing extremists used baseball bats to strike a car they suspected was carrying supporters of a refugee hostel in the town of Freital. Sahra Wagenknecht hat diese Unerbittlichkeit gerade wieder einmal am eigenen Leib erfahren. And there was another thing that fueled their doubts about its veracity: Two personal documents that he presented were, according to a BAMF examination, "complete falsifications." Initiatives that seek to put a stop to the right-wing groups repeatedly have the windows in their offices broken. At the same time, most in the state are satisfied with their own life situation -- their work, housing and free time -- and Saxons tend to be optimistic about the future. A quango chief charged the taxpayer almost £1,000 a year to cover the cost of his membership of an exclusive club. "Chemnitz is a big village," says Marie. He first fell afoul of the law just a few months after his arrival in Germany. In recent days, he says, he has seen citizens of his city saying on television that they no longer dared go out on the streets, adding that he was at a loss. And the effect they are having becomes apparent when you read the back pages of the newspaper. Suche. In 1987, 50 Germans and 50 Arabs clashed in Leipzig, with the mob calling out: "Germany for the Germans," "Foreigners get out," and "Germany awaken." It was an alienation that could be felt on both sides. Even before the first official police announcement, the hooligan group "New Society 2004" issued a call for a protest march on Facebook, a post that was widely shared on the internet, along with slogans like "our city, our rules!" Alienating Immigrants: Is Germany Lurching To the Right? Following the passage of a deadline in fall 2016, Germany assumed responsibility for him. Der Wortbrunnen, Lautschrift: [ös'gah lafong'däng], Franzosenschrift: الأدلةةلة, engl. No one was ever held accountable. Yousif A. already had a police record for criminal assault, among other things. Besser, Oskar Lafontaine voegelt mit Sahra (die ja wirklich verdammt gut aussieht) , als dass sie “Politik” machen. He's fond of pointing out the city's experiences when it comes to the right-wing. ", The subject of the AfD came up repeatedly. A minority here is brutally violating Germany's values and laws." Im März 2019 zog sie sich überraschend aus der Politik zurück. Like the right-wing fan group "Kaotic," members of "New Society" used their channels to mobilize people for the demonstrations in Chemnitz. Even today, the right-wing scene has its own shops in the city and PC Records is also based here, one of the most important right-wing extremist music labels in Germany. And the group is still going strong in Saxony, with hundreds of sympathizers still taking to the streets each week. "The balancing act is becoming increasingly difficult," the officer says. "Of course there were scuffles," he says, before adding that the situation has calmed down significantly since then. Waibel's research shows that at least 40 racist attacks on these dormitories took place in the GDR since 1975. Nach der 2007 erfolgten Vereinigung der PDS mit der WASG konnte sie ihren Einfluss in der Nachfolgepartei Die Linke erweitern. Politicians have pledged to take a hard line against right-wing extremist violence, but they look helpless nonetheless. Only nine years later, he would claim that the Saxon population was "completely immune" to right-wing extremist temptations. Suchbegriff. Wäre ein solcher Humorbeitrag in der BILD erschienen , hätte man oben und unten den Hinweis "Satire" gefunden. Ein wenig konnte sie sich dennoch aus ihren alten Fesseln lösen. But in the state of Hesse over in western Germany, AfD officials felt so empowered by events in Chemnitz that they waged a general attack on press freedom and issued a massive threat against journalists not to their liking. Dabei stehe ich Mutter Teresa viel näher.“ Betroffen reichen wir Sahra ein Taschentuch. "There is a large amount of irrational fear.". Even if they didn't know him well, his apartment-mates describe him as a nice guy who liked to drink, sometimes to excess. "Terms like heimat (homeland) and a strong regional identity on the one hand, and a cosmopolitan openness on the other. Prior to that, he was a public prosecutor and a judge. The emergence of a civil society with strong institutions and organizations, which took decades to establish in the West after the war, never happened in the GDR. At the same time, Saxony has long been at or near the top when it comes to right-wing crimes committed in Germany. Alexis Tsipras (1974–): Leader of Syriza and Prime Minister of Greece from 26 January 2015 to 8 July 2019. LG. We have to get rid of the migrants, so that everything will go well for us again.". And, finally, the third slight: the immigration of numerous Muslim migrants in 2015, which many Saxons perceived to be the next foreign invasion. Gerne als Leser*innenkommentar unter dem Text auf taz.de oder über das We have to counter it with hope and confidence.". When a far-right rock concert was scheduled to take place in Ostritz in Saxony in April, he took over the patronage of the counter-event. They apparently dream of a different model: nationalist, monoethnic, authoritarian and anti-liberal. Saxon Economy Minister Martin Dulig is one of the few politicians who has spoken out clearly for years when the state has been hit by right-wing extremist riots, in part due to his own personal experience. Im Hintergrund schlurft ein alter, weißhaariger Mann durchs Zimmer. The reasons the researcher provides for the attacks sound familiar: social envy and social Darwinist views. The revulsion over this fact can be heard in many voices, from the chancellor to the German president, from German business leaders to foreign commentators. As Vorländer emphasizes, however, many in the state are now standing up against right-wing extremism. They knew each other because they both come from the same city in Syria. A bit like Trump, a bit like Orbán. Klicken Sie auf den Button, spielen wir den Hinweis auf dem anderen Gerät aus und Sie können SPIEGEL+ weiter nutzen. Fifty-six percent already consider the number of foreigners in the country to be "dangerous" although most of them claim that they hardly ever have any personal contact with foreigners. The article you are reading originally appeared in German in issue 36/2018 (September 1th, 2018) of DER SPIEGEL. "But if you ask people, they say that nothing has ever happened to them," Runkel says. Dieser Artikel ist ein Satirebeitrag. The professor of political science at Dresden Technical University offers an explanation that focuses on the population's feeling that it is somehow being slighted. Firecrackers and smoke bombs flew through the air, as did paving stones. Media representatives in this country should think about that, because if the mood finally flips, it will be too late." Right-wing extremism is a nationwide phenomenon, not a specifically Saxon one. Und das will was heißen. „Die sehen doch viel eher aus wie Mülleimer oder kleine Bierzelte.“ Jetzt lacht auch der weißhaarige Mann im TV-Fauteuil, aus seinem Mund fliegen Fliegen. Sie kümmerte sich um den gemeinsamen Sohn Carl Maurice (heute 16). In the Chemnitz neighborhood of Sonnenberg, where Lokomov is located, right-wing extremists wanted to establish a "national liberated zone" a few years ago, an area that would adhere exclusively to radical right-wing ideology. Target agreements. History. Der sammelt sich ja auch selbst gerade.“ Ullrich habe lediglich zur Auflage gemacht, dass Til Schweiger nicht auch dabei sein dürfe. Sahra Wagenknecht (1969–): Left-wing politician ; Greece. Even back then, the political opposition accused the government of having lost touch with reality. The investigation was closed with the consent of the East German public prosecutor's office. The city was observing its 875th birthday and organizers were expecting more than 250,000 visitors. Vielen Dank für den Hinweis. He also indirectly called for vigilante justice. During that event, he said: "Let's send out a strong message together." The middle class defined itself in its niches through art, culture, science and literature. There were fewer break-ins, fewer car thefts and fewer robberies. Though the police have said that there is no evidence for that version of events, the story has persisted. Without registering with the police, the group set off, with some participants chanting "We Are the People!" „Na ja, erst haben wir überlegt, die Bewegung WASG zu nennen, abgekürzt für WAgenknecht-Sahras Gemeinschaft, aber dann hat sich mein Mann im Rotweinrausch an den tollen Song von den Bots erinnert: 'Alle Menschen, die ein besseres Leben wünschen, sollen aufstehn!’“ Jetzt kommt Leben in den alten Mann im Fernsehsessel. And the group is still going strong in Saxony, with hundreds of sympathizers still taking to the streets each week. For the young physicist from Templin, the GDR was a small, old-fashioned world that she quickly left behind once the Wall fell. But that didn't happen. Saxony is the fertile soil out of which Pegida (which stands for Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West) sprouted, the xenophobic group that has been staging weekly marches against Muslims since autumn 2014. It has lots of graffiti on the walls, homemade furniture in the yard and quite a few cats wandering around. Facebook. Some 81 percent want more direct democracy, but when it comes to political participation, they prefer to stay away. ", The troubles began immediately after the fall of communism, when Kurt Biedenkopf scored an election result of 53.8 percent, becoming the state's first post-communism governor. Each year, more people retired from the force than were recruited. SPIEGEL+ kann nur auf einem Gerät zur selben Zeit genutzt werden. says Yousif. Indeed, against the liberal, universal values of an enlightened, cosmopolitan society. Niveaulos wäre noch geschmeichelt. Political education, he says, has been "entirely eliminated.". The tenor was: "Yes, perhaps we are better than the others." Naja...ich mag ja oft die Wahrheit Kolumne, aber sich darüber lustig zu machen, dass eine Frau die sich in der politischen Öffentlichkeit bewegt schön ist und "oh-mein-gott-das-geht-ja-gar-nicht" sich stilvoll kleidet und noch dazu eine nicht der gesellschaftlichen Norm entsprechende Beziehung führt, ist nun wirklich von gestern und gehört eher in die Kategorie #metoo. "They certainly could have been requested from other states and from the federal government." Hundreds of people from around the region responded to a call for a civil courage initiative, one that resulted in many helping and volunteering to work with the refugees. When criticism mounted against Frohnmaier's tweet, AfD party boss Alexander Gauland stepped in to try and mollify critics. And the wording of their propaganda often even surpasses the inflammatory jargon of the right-wing extremist NPD. Das hat die G 20 im Jahr eins der großen Finanzkrise im Herbst 2008 angekündigt. But foreign students at the Technical University still aren't daring to leave home, even to just go to the library. Bei Sarah Wagenknecht, wagt sie aber die Gleichberechtigung. On Facebook, he liked Bob Marley and Left Party floor leader Sahra Wagenknecht in addition to following groups like "No Need for Nazis." Dass daran vor allem die Asyltouristen und Wirtschaftsflüchtlinge schuld sind, das will ich nicht behaupten! But those who become active as political leftists run the risk of being threatened," says Antonia. "There are idiots everywhere," he says. Gleich wie man zu Sarah Wagenknecht und #aufstehen steht, dieser Artikel ist nanometer platt. Dann mailen Sie uns bitte an kommune@taz.de. These places have become shorthand for scenes of enraged crowds, their faces contorted in anger as they chant vulgarities against refugees or the chancellor. Michael Kretschmer (left) is the governor of the state of Saxony. Besser, Oskar Lafontaine voegelt mit Sahra (die ja wirklich verdammt gut aussieht) , als dass sie “Politik” machen. Crimes that resulted in a death accounted for just 0.2 percent. As soon as she appears, people show up to scream at the "traitor to the people.". It isn't without irony that it is in eastern Germany where Angela Merkel, herself of East German extraction, is so passionately hated. There was no counter-protest because the participants' safety could not be guaranteed. He has no explanation for why acquaintances of his friend nevertheless called for revenge. "I asked him: 'Why did you come back?'" A Legacy of East Germany: Where Does the Hate Come From? Oliver Maria Schmitt, Der, die, das Berufspolitik*er/In liegt im Segment „Aussterbende Berufe“ ganz weit vorn. The attacks in Heidenau followed a short time later. Precincts were closed, leaving entire regions with almost no police. In Thuringia, support for the AfD currently stands at 23 percent, an increase of 10 percentage points over the previous year. But the 43-year-old has already been astoundingly clear where he stands in the fight against right-wing extremism. After Saxony sent out a request for help, the federal police sent hundreds of officers to the city, and other states also dispatched police reinforcements. Video cameras have recently been installed and a mobile police station has been set up where citizens can report their concerns. That such work can have a long-term effect can be seen in Pirna, a town south of Dresden that is home to a large number of active civic organizations and where those groups have a good working relationship with the responsible government authorities. There are few public spaces where the chancellor can make appearances there without being subjected to verbal attacks. "There are tight links between hooligans and Kameradschaften," says hooligan expert Robert Claus, the latter a reference to loose alliances of neo-Nazis. „Denn Konstantin ist doch immer mit dabei, wenn es um viel Wind und wenig Wirkung geht.“ Stille im stilvoll eingerichteten Salon. It was "a question of honor," he told the BAMF officials. During the communist era, foreigners, most of whom originated from the so-called "brother states" of the Eastern Bloc, were accommodated in their own halls of residence. There was never a trace of self-criticism. Dezember 1990 (kurz nach der Wiedervereinigung) und von 1995 bis 1999 SPD-Vorsitzender. Daniel H., 35, was also at the festival along with his friends. His father is involved in a pro-Kurdish political party. Berlin historian Harry Waibel searched the East German archives and listed more than 8,600 instances of neo-Nazi, racist and anti-Semitic propaganda and violent crimes in the GDR and found that at least 10 people died. September wird Sahra Wagenknecht der Weltöffentlichkeit ihre große, ihre neue Sammlungsbewegung „#Aufstehen“ präsentieren. In this 2016 archive photo, a fire truck battles the flames of a fire set at a refugee hostel in the city of Bautzen that was to open that year. Der Ort liegt unmittelbar an der deutsch-französischen Grenze. Wer also wird dabei sein? Yousif A. came to Germany in late October 2015 by way of the Balkan Route, as did so many others from Iraq and Syria during the peak of the refugee crisis. Reissig also points to the positive example set in Heidenau, the site of an incident which saw hundreds of demonstrators seeking to prevent asylum-seekers from entering their dormitory. In Chemnitzer FC, the local football club, there are a lot of neo-Nazis among the fans. ", Add to that frustration and an overload of work. But in Freiburg and Offenburg, the sober-minded have the upper hand, those who see the crimes for what they are: isolated cases. "From functionaries with the New Right to ethnonationalists, Reichsbürger to the neo-Nazi party Third Path, they have everything," Jentsch says. "These are just preliminary numbers," Löscher says. But the new state government under CDU Governor Michael Kretschmer has finally made the issue a focus and has launched an extensive education program called "V as in Values" in schools. Merkel had no sympathy whatsoever for the special mixture of self-pity and aggression that enabled xenophobia to flourish in the east. Even Marco Wanderwitz, today a top official in the Federal Interior Ministry, admits: "We as the CDU in Saxony didn't look closely at right-wing extremism for many years and didn't do enough about it. There are similarities: anger, disgust, grief, anti-foreigner prejudice and the question as to whether these felonies might be connected to the refugee policies that have stirred up and divided this country for the last three years. Die "Wahrheit" ist die Satireseite der taz. Three cities in Germany. Every fourth voter plans to cast their ballot for the right-wing populists, putting the party in second place behind Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU). "The systematic implementation of ethnonationalist, right-wing nationalist ideas in too many heads and hearts, rejection of liberal democracy, militant xenophobia, suspension of fundamental rights -- and all of it with the acquiescence or even support of the Saxony CDU, consummated by Pegida/AfD and violence-prone neo-Nazis.". But prudent prevention efforts on the part of the police, the public prosecutor and schools have brought "peace and quiet" to the city. Thus far, he has taken the so-called "Kitchen Table Tour" on the road 44 times. One group, called "HooNaRa," has attracted particularly close attention over the years, its name standing for "Hooligans Nazis Racists." "Summary of Attacks on Aug. 26, 2018," it says. He then joined a human chain. Little changed in terms of the state's commitment to combatting right-wing extremism under Biedenkopf's successor, Georg Milbradt. We have regressed. Again the police were overwhelmed and again, they were unable to disperse the demonstrations. Despite the fact that the Office for the Protection of the Constitution had warned of a number in the "mid four-digit range," the Chemnitz police declined to request backup ahead of Monday's protests. Also, goennen wir ihnen den Spass und hoffen wir, dass sie sich bald ins Privatleben in der Villa der “sozialen Gerechtigkeit” zurueckziehen und niemals wieder in einem Parlament auftauchen. The unoccupied chairs could be used by members of the audience who wanted to participate. Und Jens Spahn! Melden Sie sich an und diskutieren Sie mit, In Chemnitz, refugees find themselves under threat by neo-Nazis and hooligans. Die Wahrheit zu Gast bei Sahra Wagenknecht und ihrem Hausdiener. Of course, resistance against her open borders policy also quickly formed in the West, but it has never been as hate-filled as it has been in the east.