The rejection of the referendum on the reconstruction of the Frankfurt theater built in 1902 is sharply criticized by the initiators of the referendum.

The argumentation of the magistrate is absurd and contradicting, reports the action group Schauspielhaus Frankfurt.

As reported, the magistrate rejects the referendum mainly for two reasons: Information in the referendum is incorrect and misleading.

In addition, the proposal to cover costs is inadequate.

Among other things, the magistrate criticizes the ambiguous title "Save the theater" and false information about the supposedly still preserved building structure.

For artistic and spatial reasons, too, it is impossible to run a modern theater in a reconstructed building.

Rainer Schulze

Editor in the Rhein-Main-Zeitung.

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    The action group feels vilified by the accusation of “deliberate misleading” and invokes the Hessian municipal code: The headline over a citizens' petition is expressly not dealt with there and can therefore be freely formulated by the authors, says the lawyer Thomas Eichhorn, who wrote the text of the Had authored the referendum.

    He considers the argument that the cost justification is not precise enough to be absurd: “Citizens can only calculate building costs in advance to a limited extent.

    Nobody can seriously expect that citizens will be better and more precise than the specialist committee of the Stages unit when it comes to cost estimates. "

    In the event that city councilors also reject the referendum, the action group wants to go to the administrative court. “We receive a lot of encouragement and confirmation from the citizens and do not allow ourselves to be belittled. Our commitment to the upgrading of the historic Seeling building continues unabated, ”said the former CDU European politician Thomas Mann, who is committed to the action group as deputy chairman. The chairman Tobias Rüger hopes that the newly elected city councilors will reject the lecture of the magistrate.