A month ago, more than a million citizens were being vaccinated in Germany every day.

"People ran into us," says the head of the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Health, Uwe Lahl.

There can be no more talk of that.

There has long been more material than volunteers, even though only half of the citizens are fully protected.

This is mainly due to the many vaccine skeptics, says Lahl. There are nurses who feared becoming sterile. Russian Germans who took everything except Sputnik for the devil's stuff. And finally a hard core of religious, anthroposophists and other believers who completely opposed the vaccination. The people of Baden-Württemberg are now trying to "turn things around".

For a few days, 150 mobile vaccination teams and vaccination buses have been swarming out to address people where they are: while shopping, celebrating, praying.

Vaccination is advertised in all languages.

Rappers encourage their followers on Youtube, imams in the mosque.

In Pforzheim, at the bottom of the table, the mayor even goes door to door.

And even those who wanted to take their junk away in the Zollernalb district on the weekend couldn't get past the scouts.

You could have your syringe set in the middle of the recycling center.

Nice view during the "Schifffahrtsimpfen"

In other federal states, too, people are extremely creative, as a query from the health ministries shows. All over the country, football stadiums are mutating into vaccination centers. It is also vaccinated in prisons, job centers, universities, at train stations, in bars, discos and swimming pools. In Berlin there are “drive in” and “walk in” offers, as well as a “long night of vaccinations”. In Bavaria there is talk of “pop-up vaccinations” or “vaccinations to go”. The view is particularly beautiful during "Schifffahrtsimpfen" in Kelheim, Bavaria, under the motto "Recovered and vaccinated back home".

Thuringia and Saxony also rely on incentives.

At the upcoming home games in Jena and Sonneberg there will be a free bratwurst for every vaccinated person.

And those who get immunized in front of the Kyffhäuser Monument get in for free.

The response is good, it is said from Thuringia.

In Saxony there are free tickets for football fans.

More than 400 were vaccinated at the Erzgebirgsstadion, the captain of Dynamo Dresden advertised so convincingly that the vaccine had to be reordered.

In Bremen “foreign seafarers” also receive the vaccine, in Schleswig-Holstein the harvest workers.

In Saarland, doctors stand in front of the Globus markets and in the Ikea parking lot.

More than 300 people were vaccinated there per day, says the spokeswoman and adds: "That's a lot for the Saarland."

A team manages an average of twenty vaccinations an hour, but the doctors keep coming back to the center with full doses.

"Vaccination is now a stressful business," it says from Lower Saxony.

It works best where people “know their Pappenheimers”, since word of mouth works wonders.

"Willing to vaccinate, but not yet developed my own initiative"

Nevertheless: "Nine out of ten who walk past us are out of the question," explains a spokesman from Hamburg.

Either they have long since been vaccinated, are not allowed to or are simply not convincing.

According to consistent estimates, the tough opponents make up around five percent.

“We'll save ourselves the spit.” And yet you can always find willing people.

"The bottom line is that we say: every injection counts."

Who are the people who spontaneously allow themselves to be persuaded to have an injection?

There were actually enough opportunities, you don't even need an appointment in most vaccination centers.

Similar answers come from the federal states: Many have so far lacked the opportunity.

The spokeswoman from Saarland explains that they are happy if they can combine the vaccination with weekly shopping.

From Hamburg it is said that many are “willing to be vaccinated” but have “not yet developed any initiative of their own”.

In Berlin they put it this way: "The different motifs are taken into account by the multitude of different offers."

Uwe Lahl, the ministerial director from Stuttgart, estimates “those with weak drives”, as he affectionately calls them, at ten to twenty percent. They are not against the vaccination, but so far they have not yet felt the impulse to make an appointment with the family doctor. “Everyone knows them, everyone likes them, how they live from one day to the next,” says Lahl. You may not want to marry her, but you would like to be vaccinated.