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The television director Dietrich Brüggemann justified the controversial video campaign #allesdichtmachen, but also expressed understanding for the criticism.

The action had been misunderstood, which he also expected, said co-organizer Brüggemann to “ntv.de” at the weekend.

“Our country is so divided at the moment that some of the people cannot understand the action at all.

You feel extremely offended by it, hit in the face and so on. "

He pointed out that in addition to a lot of criticism, there was also encouragement.

"The email address on the site is overwhelmed with messages, 98 percent of which say 'Thank you'", said Brüggemann, who directed many of the ARD "Tatorten" films.

He fundamentally criticized the handling of the corona virus in Germany.

“What we do with Corona, we can do with anything,” he said.

"We can stop car traffic completely, then we will have no more traffic fatalities." And "we could take all sorts of draconian measures so that nobody gets cancer anymore".

Director Dietrich Brüggemann (archive image from February 2020)

Source: pa / Eventpress / Eventpress Golejewski

There is "no great correlation between measures and the course of the pandemic," said Brüggemann.

"There are more and more studies that say that lockdown brings little or nothing." There is little about it in the press.

“But if you follow a few international scientists on Twitter, you can see a lot.

If you say that in Germany, you will be insulted as a lateral thinker again. "

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Celebrities like Nadja Uhl, Ulrich Tukur and Jan Josef Liefers had published more than 50 ironically pointed videos online on Thursday evening in which they made fun of politics and the media.

After praise from the AfD and so-called lateral thinkers, some celebrities distanced themselves from it.

“Tatort” star Liefers tweeted: “A growing closeness to unconventional thinkers etc.

I clearly reject it. ”He is no further from any party in the Bundestag than the AfD.

Brüggemann also distanced himself from the AfD.

Meret Becker received death threats, according to her brother Ben.

“My sister is devastated.

She's sitting at home crying, ”he said,“ Bild ”.

The actress Ulrike Folkerts said on Instagram that her participation in the campaign was “a mistake”. The videos intended as a contribution to the discussion were "perhaps to be misunderstood".

The actor couple Martin Brambach and Christine Sommer also admitted possible mistakes after participating in the #allesdichtmachen Internet campaign. "Our goal was to initiate a discussion, but should we have injured people by participating in this action, we would like to apologize," said the performers in a joint statement on Sunday. Nothing was further from them than to mock corona victims or to play down the disease. "We also dissociate ourselves most resolutely from being appropriated by the AfD and other right-wing groups," said the couple. "Perhaps it was a mistake to publish such videos without any context or at least a few explanatory words ...".