Til Schweiger has spoken out against vaccinating children.
The actor and director described the vaccination of children and adolescents as "terrible" in a trailer published on Sunday: According to the director and actor, the coronavirus is "absolutely harmless" for children.
Instead, the risk of a vaccination that has not been “researched” is “much higher,” continues Schweiger.
Schweiger is part of the documentary “Another Freedom”, in which the filmmaker Patricia Josefine Marchart and the cameraman Georg Sabransky, both from Austria, want to deal with the subject of vaccinations for children and adolescents.
In addition to scholars, a number of cultural workers have their say, including the Austrian actress Nina Proll and the opera singer Nina Adlon.
Trendy trailer
In contrast, the Standing Vaccination Commission (STIKO) has been expressly in favor of vaccinating adolescents from the age of twelve since mid-August.
After evaluating current scientific data, the experts have come to the conclusion that the benefits of vaccination outweigh the very rare side effects.
However, according to STIKO, vaccination should not be made a “prerequisite for social participation” for young people.
The Austrian National Vaccination Committee has been recommending unrestricted vaccination for children aged between twelve and 15 since the end of May.
The documentation project wants to criticize the fact that children are still exposed to “vaccination pressure”.
Cinematographer Sabrasky is also the organizer of an Austrian referendum that demands "reparation" for the corona measures.
In fact, the more than six-minute trailer already seems tendentious: Those scientists who recommend vaccination only support it to a limited extent: Vaccination is only advisable in order to be able to participate in general social life.
The "committed people from art and culture" speak out vehemently against it.
When the statements in the film were recorded, however, it is not clear from the trailer.
Dietrich Brüggemann, who cannot be seen in the trailer, is also part of the film.
The German director initiated the protest campaign #allesdichtmachen in April.
At that time, 50 personalities from the entertainment industry opposed the political Corona measures.
Schweiger hadn't been there.
Change of heart at Schweiger
At the beginning of the pandemic, Schweiger had spoken out in favor of compliance with corona measures. Now, however, he takes a different position in the video: “The other bad thing is the change in the law that has more or less suspended our Basic Law. People are practically being blackmailed or seduced with it - by saying: We will give you some of your basic rights that we cannot take away from us due to our constitution, but then you can travel again, then the children can go to Grandma again without Anxiety. ”Schweiger did not comment on a dpa request from his PR agent.
Schweiger already received criticism in June when the 57-year-old uploaded a picture with the former Focus journalist and “lateral thinker” Boris Reitschuster to Instagram and called him “his hero”. This now supported Schweiger and the documentation project as a “new protest film” on Twitter.