Chance 2000

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Chance 2000
founding March 1998
Place of foundation Berlin

Chance 2000 was a small German party founded in March 1998 by Christoph Schlingensief .

history

Before founding the party, Schlingensief founded the Chance 2000 association with a few other people, including Harald Schmidt and Alfred Biolek . V. , which was supposed to help the "invisible [of] society" in their attempt to position themselves as independent constituency candidates. The founding of the party took place on March 13, 1998 in a circus tent on the Volksbühne area in the Prater . There were a total of 312 founding members. The party was initially also known as the Party of the Last Chance with the slogan "Failure as Chance". The party's approach was the possibility for every person to stand up as a direct candidate with the name combination "Chance Müller" or "Müller Chance" and thus to vote himself as soon as he had collected 2000 signatures from eligible voters in his constituency. According to Schlingensief, the party had around 16,000 members in June 1998, and an article in Die Welt of August 24, 1998 spoke of "approximately 1000 members" and "30,000 sympathizers". In total, the party had eleven state associations in North Rhine-Westphalia (the state chairman was the filmmaker Detlev F. Neufert), Hamburg , Bremen , Bavaria , Brandenburg , Baden-Württemberg , Saxony , Hesse , Lower Saxony , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Schleswig-Holstein . In July 1998 the party was admitted to the 1998 Bundestag election , in which the party received 0.007% of the first votes (3,206 votes) and 0.058% of the second votes (28,566 votes).

In 1998 a book entitled Chance 2000: Choose Yourself was published by Kiepenheuer & Witsch , in which Christoph Schlingensief and Carl Hegemann acted as authors.

Despite a donation from Wolfgang Joop of 190,000 DM, the party accumulated between 90,000 and 120,000 DM in debts in the course of the federal election, whereupon Schlingensief announced the sale of the party. Federal Returning Officer Johann Hahlen responded with the statement "The laws do not allow a sale." After the establishment of a civil law company called Chance 2000 International , whose seven partners include Schlingensief, three independent labels and Tom Tykwer , the debt became taken from this.

The last federal board was elected on October 28, 1999, with the chairmen Alexander Karschnia, Matthias Riedel and Herbert Rusche . There were also 6 assessors . Schlingensief was named as honorary chairman. In December 2000, reports appeared which, after Schlingensief's statements, speculated about a possible “new edition” of the party. Schlingensief also announced that he had "only paid back the last mark [of the Chance 2000 debt] a few days ago".

Actions

Chance 2000 combined political demands with artistic actions. The founding of the party was referred to as the '98 election campaign circus, with Schlingensief appearing in circus uniform and artistic trapeze acts and animal training being part of the event. For the Baden in Wolfgangsee campaign , Schlingensief invited six million unemployed people to swim in the Wolfgangsee , on the banks of which Helmut Kohl's holiday home in Sankt Gilgen was located. The aim of the campaign was to raise the water level so that Kohl's holiday home would be flooded. While Schlingensief announced that the level would rise by two meters, an expert pointed out that the water displaced by humans would simply drain away. The unemployed were promised free tickets for the Salzburg Festival , there was no logistical concept. The action attracted a lot of attention, but participation was low. Overall, significantly fewer than 100 people took part in the campaign.

Party platform

In its party program, the party names the re-establishment of the “people in their entirety” as “sovereign of the state” as the main goal. It is particularly aimed at "all [] [...] who feel humiliated, disenfranchised and offended by the ruling society" and specifically mentions "disabled people [], welfare recipients [], [...] excluded [] and outsiders []" . It describes itself as a “non-voter party” and tries to combat the “rampant fatalism” as well as the “rampant disaffection with politics” with “common social and political sensitization and mobilization of non-voters”. The party offers "help for self-help" to "get an articulation process going". In addition, the demand “Politics must become more artistic” is raised.

Based on the slogan We are the people , the party represented the statement We are each a people! which was based on the fact that each person was counted as a people , i.e. in the sense of a unit of measurement .

documentation

On September 7, 2017, the documentary "Chance 2000 - Farewell to Germany" by Kathrin Krottenthaler and Frieder Schlaich had a nationwide cinema release.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Weber: Christof Schlingensief, "Chance 2000" and the cultural climate in Germany , from September 2, 1998, accessed on May 28, 2012
  2. ^ Kiepenheuer & Witsch: Christoph Schlingensief , accessed on May 14, 2012
  3. ↑ Anke Dürr, Joachim Kronsbein: Losrasen für Deutschland , DER SPIEGEL 11/1998, online version of March 9, 1998, accessed on May 28, 2012
  4. ↑ a b Martin Klesmann: Great Coalition of Goat and Horse , Berliner Zeitung , March 14, 1998, accessed on May 28, 2012
  5. ↑ Ronald Gläser: "Just join in" , March 20, 1998, accessed on May 29, 2012
  6. ↑ Matthias Heine: "Chance 2000 - Wahlkampfkreis '98" in the Prater ( memento of the original from October 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , BZ , March 13, 1998, accessed May 29, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / uebertheater.blogspot.de
  7. ↑ a b c Intro : CHRISTOPH SCHLINGENSIEFS PARTY "CHANCE 2000"  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Issue # 56 (July / August 1998), online version of June 7, 1998, accessed on May 28, 2012 / Thomas Kerpen: Schlingensief and Chance 2000 , Ox-Fanzine / issue # 32 (III 1998), accessed on May 28 2012@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.intro.de  
  8. ^ A b Hanns-Georg Rodek: Schlingensief wants to sell his party , from August 24, 1998, accessed on May 28, 2012
  9. ↑ a b Chance 2000: Information on the party's website ( Memento from June 11, 2000 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ↑ Christoph Schlingensief, Carl Hegemann: Chance 2000: Choose yourself Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1998, ISBN 978-3-46-202773-0 .
  11. ↑ a b Detlef Friedrich: Christoph, bring the bottles away , from August 26, 1998, accessed on May 28, 2012
  12. ↑ Roland Koberg: The unemployed voted him out of September 1, 1998, accessed on May 28, 2012
  13. ^ Spiegel Online: Clear way for "Chance 2002"? , dated December 13, 2000, accessed May 28, 2012
  14. ^ Nina Wetzel: Chance 2000 election campaign circus'98 I C. Schlingensief , pictures of the event, accessed on May 29, 2012
  15. ↑ : "The water will rise" . In: Spiegel Online . tape July 31 , 1998 ( spiegel.de [accessed October 29, 2019]).
  16. ↑ Frank Ebbinghaus: The unloved child screams loudly: Protest! , dated August 4, 1998, accessed May 29, 2012
  17. ↑ Chance 2000: Party program of the party Chance 2000 from March 22, 1998 ( Memento from November 4, 1999 in the Internet Archive )
  18. ↑ alextext: PARTY OF THE LAST CHANCE , June 20, 2011, accessed on May 29, 2012