Tatjana Festerling

Festerling, 2015

Tatjana Festerling (* 6. March 1964 in Wuppertal as Tatjana Schimanski ) is a German political activist . Besides Lutz Bachmann , she was following the withdrawal of Kathrin Oertel from February 2015 to mid April 2016 a leading figure in the Dresden Pegida - demonstrations . In ideological terms, it is usually located in right-wing populism .

Life

Festerling attended the Fichte-Gymnasium in Hagen until 1984 . After graduating from high school, she first completed a commercial apprenticeship at a local department store chain, before enrolling in business administration and philosophy at the University of Hamburg in 1987 . From 1994 she worked as an editor , among others for Heinrich Bauer Verlag and Deutsche Spar . She also founded an advertising agency in 1997, where she worked until April 2007. Most recently she worked as press spokeswoman for the Metronom Railway Company until 2010 . According to her own statements, she has coaching and yoga training.

Festerling is the mother of two adult children.

politics

Festerling was a co-founder of the Hamburg Regional Association of Alternative for Germany and ran for the AfD as a district councilor. Within the AfD she was, among other things, a member of the Patriotic Platform founded in Saxony and deputy marketing manager of the regional association. The formula “Courage to Truth” as the AfD's nationwide slogan on flyers and posters should be traced back to their idea. After taking part in a hooligan demonstration against Salafists in Cologne, overshadowed by massive violent riots against the clearly outnumbered police, on October 26, 2014 and later commending the hooligans despite the targeted attacks on journalists, passers-by and police officers, she came as a result of the harsh public criticism and distancing her party colleagues from the threatened exclusion from the AfD with an exit beforehand. Shortly thereafter she joined the extra-parliamentary Pegida movement, where she was accepted as a new member at the end of February and was elected to the "Organizing Committee" (a kind of extended board) as the successor to the resigned press spokeswoman Kathrin Oertel .

On Easter Monday 2015, Bachmann officially announced her candidacy for the mayoral election in Dresden at the beginning of June during a Pegida event. Only one day later, the chairman of the North Rhine-Westphalian Pegida section resigned from his position because Ms. Festerling was "too radical" for him and he did not agree with that of Marine Le Pen , Geert Wilders or Ignaz Bearth when the movement was approaching (Pegida Schweiz) “identify” the right-wing extremism represented. A week later, on April 13, she appeared together with the Dutch Islamophobia and right-wing populist Wilders at a Pegida demonstration in Dresden. In the mayoral election she received 9.6% of the votes in the first ballot, and four weeks later she did not run for the second ballot.

After a falling out between Festerling and Lutz Bachmann in mid-April 2016 and she no longer appeared as a speaker at Pegida demonstrations, it was announced in June 2016 that she had been excluded from the alliance.

Since she left Pegida in mid-April, Festerling has been concentrating on the transnational movement Fortress Europe, which was founded in Prague at the beginning of 2016, and has already had several appearances abroad and a rally in Dresden on Whit Monday (16 May) 2016. In addition, she is oriented "more closely to the Identitarian Movement observed by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution and the new right-wing ideologies around Götz Kubitschek " and is looking for a connection to the Leipzig branch Legida , which the Saxon constitutional protection classifies as "more determined and much more radical" than Pegida. She spoke on the Munich Pegida offshoot, which was also observed by the Bavarian Office for the Protection of the Constitution.

On the southern border of Bulgaria, Festerling patrolled with the nationalist vigilante Vasil Levski in military clothing in order to track down refugees and hand them over to the border police. She sees these refugees as "cold, calculating warriors of Islam who come from brutal cultures and who do not want to have anything to do with our free, decadent way of life, but deeply despise and fight it". The vigilante group is said to be hostile to the Bulgarian democratic system. In July 2016, Festerling called in camouflage clothing at a rally in Leipzig that young men should go to Europe's external borders in order to defend them against refugees. In August 2017 she posted a video on her YouTube channel on which she offered "tactical training in Bulgaria with the military veterans there".

Comments and reception

Festerling polemicizes not only against refugees and migrants ("Men who abandon their family and homeland because there is 'beautiful living' and a lot of clay from the state"), but above all against the Europe-wide gender equality and anti-discrimination policy ( "Crashed gender aunts who want to traumatize our children with their excessive sex shit") and against sexual self-determination ("The terror of the gay, lesbian, queer sexual minority - welcome to the open-air psychiatry in Germany!"). She sees Dresden as the “secret capital of Germany as a political, scientific and cultural center” after the fall of the Wall and, at one of her first appearances as the new Pegida spokesperson, asked for a “new wall” to be built (“But this time really high ! ") Between the" left do-gooders "in the west and their" ideological dictatorship "with" gender-equitable beheadings "and" condom rolling competitions in daycare centers ", their" Green Empire without pork and with full veil "and the" good Germans "in the east, where it so “safe and trusting” approaches, women and men maintain their natural roles and “maintain a healthy amount of patriotism and confidently reflect on conservative values, preserving what is their own”. In Festerling's speeches, the rulers from Berlin are generally referred to as “traitors”, “destroyers of Germany” or “Berlin dictators”, regardless of their stance on asylum and immigration policy. For Festerling, Angela Merkel is optionally “the most dangerous woman in Europe”, the “childless woman with drooping lips”, possibly a “Trojan” or “the submarine at the head of the country”, steered from the USA.

On September 28, 2015, she called members of the armed forces and the police to go on strike. At the Pegida demonstration on October 12, 2015, in front of almost 9,000 supporters, she called for Saxony to leave the Federal Republic of Germany . On the occasion of the Pegida demonstration on November 9, 2015, Festerling said in a public address as follows: "Here and now, on November 9, 2015, we will declare the guilt complex from twelve years of Nazi rule over." could put their "Hitlerites" on their hat. “Leave us alone with your guilt cult for the past, for which none of us bears responsibility!” The crowd replied with “traitors”, “resistance” and “ lying press ”.

In her speech on December 21, 2015, Festerling announced that the “defense of the homeland” demanded by her “may of course also be used with methods” that “the softened, moralized mainstream does not consider decent. Fuck this decency, which is chewed up for us by the virtuous terror of the Left and Greens and the Duckmouses and Socialists in the media in a continuous loop! ”Defense of the homeland must“ also take place in concrete terms ”and“ cannot always be comfortable ”.

Festerling also writes regularly as an author on various online platforms, including the Politically Incorrect blog . On August 10, 2015, she was banned from the social network Facebook for seven days because of repeated xenophobic and racist comments, but the criticized posts were not deleted by the Facebook administrators. In November 2015, the Dresden Public Prosecutor's Office examined and initiated investigations against Festerling for defamation , sedition and public calls for criminal offenses . At the end of May 2016, the Dresden public prosecutor announced that no proceedings had been initiated.

In January 2016, the German Association of Journalists also filed charges of incitement against Festerling in connection with a speech on January 11, 2016 in Leipzig , in which it demanded “the inciting elites with pitchforks from parliaments, the courts, the churches and the press houses A week later, in her speech at the Dresden Monday demonstration, she described the current governing parties as “today's Nazis”. The police gave this statement to the responsible Dresden public prosecutor for review. The case is closed.

Penal order for sedition

In October 2017 the Dresden District Court issued a penalty order for sedition and insult in a total of three cases, twice for sedition and once for insult. Festerling had u. a. uttered: “The Muslim throwing machines will give birth to hell” and tweeted with reference to migrants: “Shoot! Hold on, what else? ”The court imposed a fine totaling 3,073.50 euros (procedural fee included). In March 2018, however, Festerling made public that she had not paid the fines imposed (120 daily rates of 25 euros each), did not want to and could not pay, whereupon a substitute custodial sentence was ordered and the Dresden public prosecutor asked her to begin imprisonment in the Chemnitz women's prison has been. She asked her followers for payments to the State Justice Fund to save her from incarceration. Festerling described himself as a "victim of political persecution". The fundraising campaign was successful, and Festerling announced on Facebook that she did not have to go to jail after all.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ New Pegida front woman comes from Hagen. In: WAZ , April 14, 2015.
2. ^ Agency Bootsmann , accessed on October 15, 2015.
3. ↑ Thomas Mitzlaff: From Uelzen to Pegida. In: Allgemeine Zeitung , April 8, 2015.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Christina Hebel: Too right for the AfD - just right for Pegida. In: Spiegel Online , April 14, 2015.
5. ↑ Steven Geyer: Pegida is OB candidate for Dresden. In: Frankfurter Rundschau , March 24, 2015.
6. ↑ Alan Posener : Lady Right. In: Die Welt , April 19, 2015.
7. ↑ PEGIDA boss quits because of Festerling! ( Memento of the original from October 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Morgenpost , August 8, 2015. 
8. ↑ State capital Dresden: Mayor election Dresden 2015 - first ballot on June 7th, 2015 , State capital Dresden: Mayor election Dresden 2015 - second ballot on July 5th 2015
9. ↑ Break between Pegida and Festerling. In: Sächsische Zeitung , June 14, 2016.
10. ↑ Open dispute at Pegida: The scraps fly between Bachmann and Festerling In: Dresdner Latest News , June 16, 2016.
11. ↑ Legida more resolute and much more radical In: Die Welt , January 21, 2015.
12. ↑ Katja Thorwarth: Tatjana F. has lost her realm of anger. In: Frankfurter Rundschau . August 3, 2016. Retrieved August 4, 2016 . 
13. ↑ Christian Jakob: On the hunt for refugees. In: the daily newspaper . April 8, 2016, accessed August 4, 2016 . 
14. ↑ ^{a b} Stefan Locke: Former Pegida front woman persecutes refugees. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , July 1, 2016.
15. ^ Matthias Meisner : Travel ban for Dutch Pegida leaders? In: Der Tagesspiegel . Retrieved August 4, 2016 . 
16. ^ A rendezvous for neo-Nazis . In: jungle.world . ( jungle.world [accessed February 12, 2018]).
17. ↑ http://www.tatjanafesterling.de
18. ↑ Lenz Jacobsen: Pegida likes herself behind walls. In: Die Zeit , March 10, 2015.
19. ^ Tino Moritz, Oliver Hach: One year Pegida: Twilight of Democracy. In: Freie Presse , October 14, 2015.
20. ↑ Festerling calls on helpers, police and armed forces to strike. ( Memento of the original from November 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Morgenpost , September 29, 2015. 
21. ↑ Bachmann calls Galgen "exaggeration of the lying press" In: Frankfurter Rundschau , October 12, 2015.
22. ↑ Stefan Locke: "Leave us alone with your guilt cult" In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , November 9, 2015.
23. ↑ Tatjana Festerling. In: www.tatjanafesterling.de. Retrieved December 25, 2015 . 
24. ↑ Facebook blocks Tatjana Festerling's page. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , August 10, 2015.
25. ↑ Investigations against Pegida front woman Festerling. In: Spiegel Online , November 11, 2015.
26. ↑ Pegida front woman escapes proceedings for sedition. In: RP Online , May 29, 2016.
27. ^ The Nazi Phantasm of Dresden In: the daily newspaper , January 19, 2016.
28. ↑ Justice stops investigations against Tatjana Festerling. Retrieved October 26, 2017 . 
29. ↑ sz-online: Festerling is supposed to go to prison . In: SZ-Online . ( sz-online.de [accessed on March 29, 2018]).
30. ↑ Tatjana Festerling: Former Pegida front woman is supposed to be imprisoned for 120 days . In: FAZ.NET . March 29, 2018, ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed March 29, 2018]).
31. ↑ sz-online: Festerling is supposed to go to prison . In: SZ-Online . ( sz-online.de [accessed on March 29, 2018]).
32. ↑ DIE WELT: sedition: Ex-Pegida front woman Festerling should be in custody . In: THE WORLD . March 29, 2018 ( welt.de [accessed March 29, 2018]).
33. ↑ DIE WELT: sedition: Ex-Pegida front woman Festerling should be in custody . In: THE WORLD . March 29, 2018 ( welt.de [accessed March 29, 2018]).
34. ↑ Fine not paid: Former Pegida front woman should go to jail . In: Spiegel Online . March 29, 2018 ( spiegel.de [accessed March 29, 2018]).
35. ↑ sz-online: Festerling doesn't have to go to jail . In: SZ-Online . ( sz-online.de [accessed on April 9, 2018]).