The coinitiator of Berlin Holocaust Memorial, Lea Rosh, is pleased with replica of monument on a neighbouring site of Thuringian AfD chief Björn Höcke. “That’s a wonderful idea,” said Rosh. The action so shortly before Christmas season was a “glorious punishment” for Höcke. Thus he had to endure in front of his house replica of monument for Murdered Jews of Europe. The Memorial Foundation in Berlin did not want to comment on action on request.
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The artistic group Center for Political Beauty (ZPS), according to its own information, has placed 24 concrete steles within sight of Höckes house in Thuringian Bornhagen. So y rented plot for mselves.
The ZPS protested with action against Höcke, who in a speech in January in Dresden defamed commemoration of murder of European Jews by Nazis and called for a “reminder political turnaround of 180 degrees”. “We Germans, our people, are only people in world who have planted a monument of shame in heart of its capital,” he said in Dresden in January of this year.
The action is a special project in context of third Berlin autumn salon of Maxim Gorki Theatre in Berlin. “We do not want and can not let grotesque demands on historical politics be based on mselves,” artistic director of ZPS, Philipp Ruch, shared. The group of artists called on Höcke to ask for forgiveness for German crimes of Second World War in front of monument in Berlin or replica in Bornhagen “as Willy Brandt once fell on his knees in front of monument”.
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After artists released a video of action on YouTube, platform temporarily blocked account due to serious violations of YouTube guidelines. It is now accessible again.
CDU speaks of “decomposition methods of State security”
AfD-Country spokesman Stefan Möller criticized action. That was “a border crossed,” he said. He accused artists of frightening uninvolved family members. The ZPS pretends to have observed Möller’s neighbors Höcke and its actions in recent months through a self-founded “civil society constitutional protection of Thuringia”. The AfD politician André Poggenburg from Saxony-Anhalt complained that Höcke and his family had been “spied out for months”.
The president of Thuringian Landtag, Christian Carius (CDU), also condemned action: “The overall action of Centre for political beauty has nothing to do with art,” he said. “Eavesdropping and spying on members and ir families is similar to decomposition methods of state security.”
For police on Wednesday, according to a spokeswoman, protection of Höckes House was first in foreground. “Then we will examine extent to which a possible criminal offence exists.” One was on spot with a small bid, spokeswoman said.
The Center for political beauty is known for its often provocative productions. In 2014, activists assembled 14 commemorative crosses for wall victims at spree in protest against EU refugee policy, and later y brought m back. In 2016, y held four living tigers in a large cage in front of Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin for two weeks and announced several times that refugees would be publicly “mangled”. The actions should draw attention to shortcomings of European refugee policy.
