Today the! Morning you!

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Today the! Morning you! (Poster)

Today the! Morning you! was the name of a campaign and a festival against right-wing extremist violence that took place on December 13, 1992 in Frankfurt am Main in front of the Frankfurt exhibition center and was broadcast internationally. The 3-hour concert was moderated by Fritz Egner . Around 150,000 people attended the concert in Frankfurt.

The event, organized by the Marek Lieberberg Concert Agency, took place in response to the right-wing extremist riots in Rostock-Lichtenhagen and the Mölln murder attacks . Already on November 9, 1992, the concert Ass huh, Zäng ussenander took place on Chlodwigplatz in Cologne , for which 100,000 people gathered. Numerous chains of lights against right-wing extremist violence were organized at this time, especially in Munich and on the same evening of today! Morning you! -Concerts in Hamburg .

Performing musicians

The following artists performed as musicians at the concert:

At the end of the event, all the musicians played the song Arsch huh, Zäng ussenander together , which was written for the concert of the same name on Chlodwigplatz in Cologne the previous month and was performed there.

Originally, the German rock band Böhse Onkelz should have performed at the festival , but due to the right-wing extremist past of the quartet, a number of artists threatened to cancel their participation in the open air, whereupon the organizer Marek Lieberberg was forced to take the Böhse Onkelz, who are themselves from Frankfurt come on the Main to unload again.

Greetings

Between the performances of the artists, numerous greetings were read out, which came from national and international celebrities, or were uttered themselves:

Horst Eberhard Richter was present as a guest and was the first to read his message himself.

aftermath

Today the! Morning you! After the Cologne concert, Arsch huh, Zäng ussenander was the second big concert against the right after the right-wing extremist riots in 1992 ( riots in Hoyerswerda , Rostock-Lichtenhagen and Mölln ). This was followed by several, mostly smaller, events with celebrities from different entertainment areas. The event was generally presented positively in the daily press, but was often viewed critically. For example, Peter Kemper wrote in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung under the title “Confessor in the stomach” of a “pathos of sincerity” among those involved, a considerable signal effect of the event and an intense effect of its messages. The Frankfurter Rundschau wrote of a “festival of great emotions and unusual encounters”.

At the same time, however, Kemper criticized, among other things, the refusal of the initiators to let the band Böhse Onkelz perform, who wanted to take part in the event and had agreed. On this point he wrote: "Unfortunately, their goodwill was not allowed and thus the opportunity was wasted to integrate popular identification figures of young people who are susceptible to xenophobic slogans into the 'Action for Freedom, Equality and Humanity'." the question: "If the German rock scene is not even able to accept converted punk extremists into its own ranks, if no tolerance limits can be overcome here, how can the internationalized feelings of hatred and prejudices of skinheads be softened?"

At the beginning of February 1993, Der Spiegel headlined an article as "Overkill of good intentions" and criticized this development, in which the actual background of the protest was increasingly being pushed into the background. The musician Marius Müller-Westernhagen , who today the! Morning you! occurred, was quoted as saying: "'I don't think it is right to keep taking further action.' It is better to set an example with a spectacular major event, after which there must be calm. The way that is happening now comes down to the same thing as the peace movement. Soon nobody can see candles or hear rock musicians preach tolerance. ' Above all, however, Müller-Westernhagen feared that the 'inflation of such spectacles would ultimately reduce credibility and thus discredit the cause.' "

Based on today die! Morning you! the shallowness of the messages of the performing artists was also criticized. For example, Munich freedom was accused: “At the Frankfurt rock concert, pop fuzzis like the Bavarian“ Münchner Freiheit ”articulated not only musical but also linguistic inability to express their good will:“ I love light! ”It said Core sentence of their Schlager message - minimalism in the pop protest against the right. ”The Süddeutsche Zeitung also criticizes the quality of the contributions; In their feature section on December 15, an article appears under the title “Good people have bad songs”, under which “Much mediocrity and a lot of good will” is criticized. In addition to the moderation by Egner in “detergent advertising tone”, the “embarrassment of the musicians' statements” is presented and the article draws the conclusion “that this concert not only demonstrates the good will of German pop and rock musicians, but also their artistic and political helplessness. "

One year after the concert, in 1993, the book Heute die! Morning you! by Marek Lieberberg of the Marek Lieberberg Concert Agency with a foreword by Campino . Above all, it contains numerous live images of the participants as well as comments from musicians and organizers. According to a review by the Musikexpress , this book is “a useful souvenir for hunters and gatherers”.

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b The order of the performing artists and the senders of the greetings were taken from the broadcast of the concert by ZDF on December 13, 2012, available on youtube.com
  2. ↑ Chronology of the year 1992 with photos and video clips (" Nineteen-Ninety-Two: A Whole Nation Sinks into Powerlessness and Shame ") on the official homepage of the Böhsen Onkelz in the Timeline section , www.onkelz.de, accessed on May 1, 2020
  3. ↑ a b Peter Kemper : Confessor rage in the stomach. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , December 15, 1992.
  4. ^ "Really no room for rivalries." In: Frankfurter Rundschau , December 15, 1992.
  5. ↑ a b Overkill of good intentions. Der Spiegel 5/1993, online from February 1, 1993.
  6. ↑ Good people have bad songs. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , December 15, 1992.
  7. ↑ Marek Lieberberg : Review of Today die - tomorrow you! In: Musikexpress , January 2, 1994.