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Somehow you've always been waiting for that phone call.
On a sign.
For a call for help.
Let's say Angela Merkel.
Like: “Help us!
Support us, give us a part of your creative potential.
You're a professional, we don't know how to reach the people out there.
We tried dusty press conferences, frowning appeals, measures, bans and reinforcement of the control organs.
We apologize for calling them non-systemic, but now they have to help us with a fun, entertaining, deep, emotional idea that will make it clear what we mean.
Vaccinations, no contacts, homeschooling, all that. "
Against and for
I'm sure not the only one waiting for this call.
In the #allesdichtmachen campaign, we can see what potential lies idle and how it could have been used.
I appreciate it when people show themselves, when they don't go along with everything, when they make themselves vulnerable, because that's very exhausting.
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So now let's see what might be possible.
They would have needed a good direction, my God, I don't know exactly what to think of it myself.
As a rule, such face-to-face campaigns put me off, and one can discuss in detail how useful some of what is said there is.
Ironic action by actors causes discussion
Around 50 prominent film and television actors are causing a sensation with a large-scale campaign.
The artists simultaneously distributed ironic-satirical clips with personal statements on the German government's corona policy on social media platforms.
Source: WORLD / Nadine Jantz
You can also ask the emergency services out there, fighting for the lives of people who are struggling for their lives in fewer and fewer intensive care beds, whether these videos are in their interest.
One can object that the right and the stupid rub their hands, one can say a lot against it.
It is always exciting and stimulating, because it tells us something interesting about how politics deals with our culture, with our artists, with what defines civilization.
With your back to the people
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For now, I see a good sign in the campaign that appeared out of nowhere.
Because - hushed up, ignored and relegated to the corner of inactivity as not systemically relevant - the appearance of the creative is astonishing.
It proves a power that, unused for a year, is now showing, and that seems like the beginning of something good.
We are there.
Non-systemic, unite.
And that's because of my own initiative.
Politics missed harnessing the arts.
This attitude, born from the personal lack of culture, the undemanding of overemployed government employees like Laschet or Söder, who speak with their backs to the people, that art is not relevant, leads to such a somewhat helpless action by artists.
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So where is the government's campaign, aside from some aloof jokes that we'll later remember that time as couch potatoes?
Already in this campaign you could see how blatantly arrogant the representatives of the people look upon their people.
Germany has lost its language
Of course, it is correct to say that cinemas and theaters die better than people.
But it would be good if both survived.
The # all sealing campaign is a wake-up call: We are there, using our creative potential;
when it comes to a good cause we are there.
Saving lives is such a good thing.
Talking to the people out there shouldn't be left to the police alone;
getting into their hearts, not the populists;
stimulate their minds, not just the talk shows.
We can experience it at the press conferences: Germany has lost its language, its rich and powerful language, and we artists are ready to play a part in making it return.
And then it can achieve a lot more than it can in hastily formulated laws, prohibitions and measures.
The # all-sealing-making campaign has a very clear message: We are here.
We are systemically important.
What I mean by that: We could have done something useful.
With good authors, a concept and money.