# Do it all after the Shitstorm: Were the videos justified?

Yes, says Andreas Rosenfelder

Source: Claudius Pflug

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A scandal shakes the German cultural landscape.

The focus is on 53 theater, film and television actors, including Volker Bruch, Nadja Uhl, Wotan Wilke Möhring and Heike Makatsch.

The accusation weighs heavily: the actors are said to have joked about the federal government's corona measures.

That sounds like a joke itself, but unfortunately it isn't.

Because the actors really did nothing more than advertise the German corona policy in sarcastic clips - and thus question them.

In 53 videos, city dwellers in bright loft apartments seem to ask for acceptance of those restrictions that cut deeply into freedom but are less sustainable and that the German pandemic fight against.

“Stay healthy and support the government's corona measures!” Says Ken Duken in a black architect's sweater: “Because how can we actually be sure that the pandemic is over?

We can actually never be sure about that. "

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If the actors had seriously campaigned for maximum caution, the closing of all schools and the tightening of curfews, they would have been guaranteed the applause of the media bubble.

Instead, they got a shit storm.

No wonder: after all, the films with the ironic hashtag #allesdichtmachen show that the lockdown is a project of urban elites who are reluctant to deal with the consequences for the rest of society.

The criticism sat.

The moderator and paramedic Tobias Schlegl tweeted the most tasteless reaction: “The actors from #allesdichtmachen can shove their irony deep into the ventilator.” However, Minister of State for Culture Monika Grütters also reprimanded the action in front of the press: she wanted “a lot more empathy “For the corona sufferers.

An unfair accusation.

Because #allesdichtmachen is about how the inhabitants of a society with limited contact hide themselves in their own worldview.

The ability to empathy, which is central to the art of acting, as shown by the hatred reactions, is lost there.

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Some contributors, including Duken, have since withdrawn their videos and "distanced themselves" - interestingly, not from the contributions, but only from the accusation of "right-wing ideas".

It's not a good sign for people to apologize publicly for things they didn't do.

So you have to be all the more grateful to Jens Spahn, who invited the actors to a dialogue.

"Criticism of the measures", said the Federal Health Minister, was "not only normal", but "desirable in a free democracy".

That the only sensible comment on #allesdichtmachen comes from the man who is responsible for the corona measures - that is also a funny punch line.

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Andreas Rosenfelder never looks at “Tatort”, although he heads the feature section.

For this he follows the theater of Corona politics intensively.

No, says Jennifer Wilton

Source: Claudius Pflug

Please not Tucholsky again.

He is often quoted in these moments.

To anticipate: yes, satire is allowed to do anything.

Say everything, mean everything.

But isn't it also the question of what satire wants or can?

For example, when she reaches the level of a four-year-old who throws himself on the floor and yells, "I won't let myself be locked up"?

52 actors, most of whom have not spoken up in the past few months, while other, lesser-known artists had no work, were desperate and would have wished that a common idea had come up to draw attention to this, 52 well-known actors so record videos where they make fun of one thing above all else: people who are afraid.

Those who follow rules out of fear or make rules or defend rules.

Staring at numbers and using strange words as we have all been doing for many long months of the pandemic.

In which direction this is going, a look at the hashtags that flank the action is enough: close everything, lockdown for ever, never open again.

So it is apparently about the criticism of restricting freedom of movement in the pandemic. So far one of the most effective means of containing it. It may also be about criticism of the government, which, without a doubt, is not always comprehensible, issuing rules on this. But none of this is known exactly, because there is not much content to be found in the videos. Instead, ridicule, irony, and cynicism. Against - against whom? The government? The fellow citizens? The pandemic? The fear? The media that, according to a narrative there, allegedly accompany it without criticism, although not only one of the largest media in the country criticizes in capital letters every day?

In any case, almost everyone in this country currently shares this fear. Your subject is not an abstract one. It is very real for thousands and thousands of people to this day, day after day, in the intensive care units. How appropriate it is to even give the impression of mocking it is not a matter of taste.

There's a video of the action, # 53, that doesn't.

Here someone keeps saying that he is distancing himself.

Of all.

Hans Zischler manages to describe another feeling that many currently share: insecurity.

It might be helpful for everyone to admit this commonality.

Because the worst thing that this pandemic has brought about, besides illness, death and suffering, is the irreconcilability with which people of different opinions position themselves against one another, and the lack of empathy with which they meet.

52 actors have just made their contribution.

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Tucholsky wrote that if you made a good political joke here, half the country would resent.

That video joke was neither good nor political.

Or as the actor Kida Ramadan, who had been asked but canceled because he was not sure what it was about, commented: “This is not an art event, Digga”.

The author usually looks at the crime scene, but often reads the newspaper.