The refusal of the Bauhaus to fine cream fish fillet was not even a day old, when from circles of the group already the message came, "naturally" one will play on 6 November somewhere in Dessau. Instead of the originally planned 45 minutes, it then became 120, "in which you can wiggle your ass," as singer Jan Gorkow said at the beginning of the concert in the building of an old brewery. From the planned concert series zdf @ bauhaus zdf @ brauhaus was so unexpected.

Now much has been discussed in recent weeks about the cancellation of the Bauhaus Foundation, from the arts pages to the parliament of Saxony-Anhalt. On the one hand, what on the one hand was regarded as "buckling" by the threats of right-wing extremist groups and, even more alarmingly, the joint pressure of the CDU and AfD, welcomed the other side as a necessary containment of radical left-wing activities.

Concretely, Saxony-Anhalt's Minister of Culture Rainer Robra (CDU), at the same time chairman of the Dessau Foundation Council, campaigned for understanding for the police. The officials could not be expected to protect a group that had attracted attention with anti-police texts.

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Bauhaus director Claudia Perren argued particularly unfortunate: she says the Bauhaus - of all things the Bauhaus - is an "apolitical place". The left-wing band had been unloaded in order to "offer no platform to the right-wing extremists in front of the Bauhaus". There were offshoots of the Bauhaus in Weimar and Berlin, but also numerous theaters and other institutions have already made available as alternative locations.

The AfD member of parliament Andreas Mrosek conjured up the Kulturkampf. He described Fine Cream Fish Fillet as "a band of left-wing extremists for left-wing extremists who bring hate and violence into the midst of society" - and reproached ZDF, who insisted on a broadcast that "left-wing ideology deep in the German media landscape anchored ".

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Deep in Dessau was anchored this afternoon neither right nor left ideas. Three demonstrations were registered. A rally commemorated the victims of National Socialist terror at the memorial "Zyklon B" (which commemorates the production of the gas in Dessau). another was dedicated to the Anhalt Theater of Artistic Freedom. There, the former Bauhaus director Philipp Oswalt demanded the resignation of his successor. Both events together were rather sparse, together they mobilized about 300 people.

A march of right-wing camaraderie, also announced, was duly canceled by the initiator. Reasons for it were not known. A restaurant had "fine cream fish fillet", a delicacy with catfish and beetroot, put on his card and advertised on the street. At the Bauhaus itself, the band issued a certificate for the "PR Action of the Month". Even otherwise it remained peaceful in the city center until sleepy.

Well-bred as we are, we just stopped by at @gropiusbau #Dessau to thank us & give them the certificate for the "PR campaign of the month". Pfeffi was on top of that. The next Pfeffi we drink that the #Nazis have canceled their rally pic.twitter.com/vnag7b36XM

- fine cream fish fillet (@feinesahne) November 6, 2018

Even the police presence was only moderate, in contrast to the security in front of the brewery. The 600 tickets for the concert (supporting group: Neonschwarz) were sold out long ago, 250 of them in Dessau. Among the usual youthful punk-audience some older Dessauer had mixed as well. The group provided 30 free tickets to young fans whose parents are involved with the CDU or AfD.

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When fine cream fish fillet entered the stage at 9 pm, DIN A4 sheets were printed in the audience with the imprint "Asocial instead of National" and transparencies painted on wallpaper, including, directly into the ZDF cameras: "Thank you, GEZ!" Again and again singer "Monchi" interrupted the concert with announcements in the direction of the fans: "We can not afford to think in drawers!"

Also dangerous radical left it was at the first encore. The main composer and guitarist Christoph Sell came on stage and explained that the Bauhaus had betrayed its Jewish heritage with its cancellation. He then played the Jewish partisan song Zog nit keyn mol, written in 1943 in the ghetto of Vilnius.

Saxony-Anhalt, noted an exhausted "Monchi" towards the end of the concert with a view to the exhausted audience, was probably "not completely in the ass".