Ivo Sasek

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Ivo Sasek (born July 10, 1956 in Zurich ) is a Swiss lay preacher , author of religious writings and leader of the Organic Christ Generation (OCG) he founded in 1999 . This organization, classified as a sect , has between 2000 and 3000 German-speaking members. In 2008 Sasek founded the Anti-Censorship Coalition (AZK), a forum for right-wing esotericism , conspiracy theories , anti-Semitism , xenophobia and historical revisionism through to Holocaust denial . These organizations and their numerous media, including the new right online channel Klagemauer.tv , are managed from Sasek's Panorama Center in Walzenhausen (Switzerland) .

Career

Ivo Sasek is a trained car mechanic . According to his own statements, he experienced a visionary conversion to the Christian faith in 1977 . In 1978 he gave up his profession, joined the Newlife movement and worked, among other things, as a preacher at Gospelradio Zurich . He attended a Bible school , but without a degree. The school is said to have rejected his visionary experiences as Pentecostal gifts . From 1980 Sasek became known through work with drug addicts and gained his first followers. In 1984 he founded the Obadja drug rehabilitation center in Walzenhausen. A "life school" and a "discipleship school" followed. He began a «church teaching service», traveled to churches in German-speaking countries and spread his messages with writings and audio cassettes. Around 1999 he introduced a “measurement service” to examine the spiritual condition of a person, from which the Organic Christ Generation (OCG) emerged.

Sasek has been married since 1983. The married couple Anni and Ivo Sasek (as of 2004) have eleven children who, together with their parents, have been spreading the teachings of the OCG since 2010. In the summer months they go on tours with musicals , children's songs, films and testimonials that they have written themselves. A network of house groups of OCG supporters organizes their appearances in which they present themselves as followers of fatherly teaching, ideal Christian families and role models for the “organic” family and community life of the OCG. At times, Sasek also undertakes «mission trips» through France, Belgium, Ukraine and Romania.

"Organic Christ Generation"

End-time absoluteness claim

Sasek can be described as the "perfecter of the Reformation " and a "true theologian " who speaks "through God his current word into this time". In his publications he claims that he “saw God” and that God “gave birth” to him when he was born. He sees himself as an apostle for the peoples and judgment prophet, who can measure the faith of other Christians, recognizes and distinguishes truth and lies. The benchmarks for this are the personal visionary experiences of life and God that he claims. He equates himself and his message with God: «I say: whoever speaks against this message; I say: anyone who speaks against me and this message, who does not obey the word that I say, I Ivo Sasek here in Walzenhausen, is not a real servant of God. " "If someone speaks against me, then he is speaking against God, I'll say it as it is."

Sasek understands the Bible as the incomplete word of God , which is supplemented by current spiritual revelations. He believes in the imminent end of the world, relates texts from biblical apocalyptic directly to historical events and links them with current conspiracy theories. Since 2008 Sasek has also integrated the idea of reincarnation into his system. Since there is hardly any biblical evidence for it, he claims that the Second Council of Constantinople (533) deliberately removed this idea from the Bible.

Sasek conveys his message to OCG groups, but also to local church congregations, in the manner of early Christian letters. In it he preaches against "self-sufficient prosperity Christianity" and "security of salvation", describes other church leaders as false prophets, invites them to his events and threatens them with God's judgment if they are canceled. For Sasek, Christians can only survive God's imminent Last Judgment if they incorporate themselves into a divine overall order with absolute obedience in marriage, family and upbringing. In March 2017, he described this order as an “organism” in which everyone, like a human body, “existentially grown together” and “united with one another in accordance with organic laws and principles”. This organic community is superior to every individuality and is currently "newly generated (brought about) out of Christ". In order to fit in with it, each individual must complete a radical rejection of sin , give up his will and separate himself from sinners. However, it does not require leaving traditional congregations, but rather that you acknowledge the OCG and form small, non-denominational house cells.

"Rating"

With regular “assessment services”, Sasek and the “sinless” helpers trained by him claim to determine the degree of integration into the OCG. In three-day courses, the participants from Sasek are supposed to work on given questions in order to induce self-reflection, self-change and community building. Sasek describes this “measurement” as “helping people to help themselves”, which has grown out of “decades of therapy and family help” and has already helped “thousands of people and hundreds of families to live harmoniously together”. However, participants report that Sasek shows that she is completely unsuitable for the organism of Christ, that she has also been confronting alleged sins from previous lives since 2008 and that she does not allow her own conception of being a Christian: Only those who follow his radical rules of obedience, submission and self-abandonment exist the « Assessment ”and be numbered among the“ new, redeemed and sinless ”generation. This compulsion to submit causes severe identity crises and psychological breakdowns.

raising children

For Sasek, children are the “birth of a whole generation of redeemers”. If they grow up "in undisturbed eye contact and undivided relationship with God Almighty," they would "become, without distraction, an increasingly swelling force field of God," through which "works of God happen as the world has never seen them." Birth control and abortions are a hostile wave of murder to stop this generation of redeemers. In order to prepare children for their divinely predetermined task, parents and educators would have to combat all carnal passions contrary to the Spirit of God from the beginning. In order for children to learn complete submission to what Sasek claims to be God's will, he recommends physical violence as an allegedly necessary, biblically based educational tool. Parents cannot assume good will on the part of children, but have to break their will. If they drive out the evil from them only thoroughly enough, the good will flow in like a natural law, regardless of Christian faith. Ingratitude, dissatisfaction, or listlessness of the children, the parents should punish them with renunciation or arrest in order to teach the child humility. If they resist, they should be hit on the buttocks with a bamboo rod up to "bloody welts". Just as Sasek cites the example of his mother, who rightly hit him as a child, three of his underage children published the book Mama, Please Chastise Me! in Sasek's Elaion publishing house. In it, Sasek's eldest son Simon described the punishment with the bamboo rod and the child's fear of it. Sasek's parenting advice on corporal punishment led to child abuse charges twice ; the investigations were discontinued.

Sasek's teaching gives rise to a strong distrust of state institutions and a position against authorities. The OCG rejects legal vaccinations, sex education classes and scientific pedagogical concepts, which often leads its followers to conflict with schools, youth welfare offices and family courts. The networking of the OCG groups and their propaganda take place via digital media, courses and training camps. Despite the relatively small number of members of around 2000, the OCG should therefore reach tens of thousands of people at times.

A 21-year-old dropout reported in August 2018 that she had been punished and beaten repeatedly until she was a teenager for the smallest mistakes. External contacts have been minimized, attempts have been made to break their will. Brainwashing , mutual control, indoctrination and intimidation would rule life within the group. She succeeded in getting out of the hospital through a stay in hospital, during which she received personal attention for the first time. Sasek denied the portrayal and asserted that the OCG existed “in a commitment to the heart, in a deep awareness of the togetherness of all people in this world”.

Other people left the OCG by November 2018, including Sasek's eldest son Simon. Almost all of them reported serious experiences of violence to the ORF , but did not want to appear in front of the camera or only anonymously for fear of repression. Sasek attributed his son's exit to "persecution by the mass media" and declined to be interviewed.

Data collection

After research by the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation , the OCG asked its supporters in January 2020 to collect data on politicians and journalists and to find out “who is friend or foe”. By the end of April 2020, the OCG had collected and saved private data from around 8,200 people from German-speaking countries, largely publicly available data such as home addresses, mobile phone numbers, religious affiliation, nationality and sexual orientation. Affected are representatives of all German parties, state parliaments and the Bundestag as well as civil servants, journalists and activists, including critics of the sect and several chairmen of Jewish institutions. Some of them have their "Jewish origins" noted. Sensitive information was also collected from some government officials. In response to inquiries, Sasek stated that the data collection was used to “further educate” OCG members about “the nature and attitudes of our representatives” and was only for “internal use”. He did not explain the notes on Jews.

The extremism researcher Andreas Zick , because of the categories recorded, spoke of a “racist list” with a scope that is otherwise only known from lists of enemies of right-wing extremists or jihadists . Because of the murders of people who were previously on such lists, there is also a high risk for those affected this time. The Bavarian State Parliament commissioned the state government to clarify the activities of the sect in more detail. The Munich Public Prosecutor's Office is conducting preliminary investigations into suspicion of sedition against the OCG.

«Anti-Censorship Coalition»

aims

In 2008 Sasek founded the Anti- Censorship Coalition (AZK). It is called “Europe's largest platform for uncensored information” so that people could hear “voices and dissenting voices”, including “highly qualified specialist voices from all over the world”. Sasek organizes and leads the annual anti-censorship conferences and has representatives of all possible conspiracy theories appear there. His aim is to unsettle the listeners until they turn away from democracy: «I say, it won't work without a dictatorship because: This creation is not geared towards democracy. It doesn't work according to democratic principles. " According to Heinzpeter Hempelmann ( EKD ), the AZK does not represent a common concern in terms of content, but rather forms a reference group for people who feel oppressed by the alleged mainstream and who try to sell their interpretation of freedom of expression. The AZK specifically writes to politicians in order to win them over to the ideas. At the same time, according to ORF , Sasek and the AZK are hindering media research, insulting and threatening critical journalists.

Speakers and topics

At the first AZK in spring 2008, Werner Altnickel claimed that chemtrails were sprayed to poison the mind ( mind control ) and to trigger droughts, famines and wars. At the second AZK on September 27, 2008, Sasek had Ryke Geerd Hamer's “Germanic New Medicine” present in detail.

At the AZK 2009, the history revisionist Gerd Schultze-Rhonhof and Jürg Stettler , press spokesman for the German Church of Scientology and president of its Swiss department, spoke . Stettler mainly attacked the media. At the 2010 AZK, the convicted Swiss Holocaust denier Bernhard Schaub represented right-wing extremist views. Sasek congratulated him on his speech. At the AZK 2011, the right-wing extremist filmmaker Michael Vogt (" Hess Secret Files ") claimed that the National Socialist Rudolf Hess had made his flight to England in 1941 on the initiative of Adolf Hitler in order to hold peace talks. Sasek invited the right-wing extremist Holocaust denier Sylvia Stolz, who had previously been convicted, to be the main speaker at the AZK 2012 in the Chur town hall . To greet them, he said that the AZK wanted to “wake up” the people against the “manipulation of opinion” by the media and make them bearers of light and fighters of the truth. He asked the audience to repeat the motto "I am strong through the truth" in the speaking choir.

In her lecture, Sylvia Stolz claimed, contrary to the facts, that the Holocaust had never been proven in court, that all “testimony, documents or other evidence” for “the crime scenes, methods of killing, number of deaths, periods of the crime, perpetrators, corpses or traces of a murder” and for the National Socialist "intention to completely or partially destroy Jewry". The German people can no longer be suppressed. She challenged the audience to meet Nazis and received enthusiastic applause. Sasek thanked her emotionally and described her as a woman with the "courage of a lion" who had helped "to seek and find the truth". He published her lecture on the Internet.

The Bern lawyer Daniel Kettiger then reported Stolz and Sasek for violating the racism penal norm : Sasek had invited Stolz in the knowledge of her crimes and did not deny her "as the responsible moderator" when she pursued obvious Holocaust denial for a long time. Sasek emphasized that he did not necessarily adopt the content of guest speeches at AZK meetings. All guest lectures would be legally checked beforehand. Nothing was found in Stolz that "had anything to do with Holocaust denial or anti-Semitism". That is why her presentation was judged to be flawless and published. He received a penalty warrant in 2017 for providing a stage for Holocaust deniers. After an objection, he was finally acquitted in 2018. Sylvia Stolz however, was in 2018 after a final judgment of a revision process sedition sentenced to 18 months in prison without parole.

The AZK 2013 took place on November 23, again in the town hall of Chur. Its administration, the Expo-Chur AG, had refrained from a ban because Sasek had not been convicted under criminal law by then.

Until then, the AZKs were mainly advertised and announced in right-wing to right-wing extremist circles. Sasek kept the location of the AZK 2014 a secret and only issued tickets through personal mediation. He gave an introductory lecture on "How do you prevent a world war?" In the unabridged version available to the Tages-Anzeiger , he claimed: The political and economic establishment as well as the “warmonger media” were deliberately misleading them to prepare for a third world war . These media must therefore be silenced. Christians who do not believe in the secret, conspiratorial powers are "bullshit and useless" and "real assholes". Because of them, the devil is currently " letting the pig out". With his tool America (the USA ) and conspiratorial forces he begins an annihilation of 6.5 billion people in order to «reduce humanity to a minimum». Bankers, politicians and media people are satanic bandits and criminals. The people are "stupid with the media" and are led to the slaughter by the warmongers like irrational animals. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion would have described the devil orchestrated chaos. With this, Sasek took over the anti-Semitic conspiracy theory of an alleged world Jewry . He also recommended reading Hitler's book Mein Kampf and called for all media to be mistrusted. As a goal he formulated: "I am preparing to change the people, to manipulate them, if you want, for my way."

The Swiss historian Daniele Ganser then spoke on the subject of “Covert warfare: a look behind the scenes of power politics”. He emphasized that he had not known Sasek until then and only found out from Google that Sasek, like himself, was against warmongering. Moreover occurred Jürgen Elsässer , Mathias Ebert for the initiative "Concerned parents" and the US-based political scientist Judith Reisman as a speaker. Ebert and Reisman argued that the current sexology , sex education and the sexual revolution were one of the sex researcher Alfred Kinsey introduced pedophile , conspiracy to draw the western curricula a " Frühsexualisierung enforce" the children. Ebert pleaded for a boycott of sex education classes in schools, in which parents should take prison sentences if necessary. The heterosexual nuclear family is the only right place for sex education of children.

A regular AZK speaker is the interest critic Andreas Popp ("Wissensmanufaktur") , who is oriented towards the National Socialist Gottfried Feder . Other AZK speakers were representatives of SVP such as Olivier Kessler , initiator of the “No Billag” initiative (March 2015), Luzi Stamm (November 2015) and Ulrich Schlüer (October 2016). The sect expert Hugo Stamm criticized such appearances as an irresponsible legitimation for and trivialization of Sasek's sect and conspiracy theories.

The AZK 2016, declared as a “Friends' Meeting”, took place again in the town hall of Chur. Sasek again kept the place and speaker a secret. Up to 2500 visitors were expected. At the AZK 2017 he claimed that many new books by "high-level historians" show "a completely different picture of Adolf Hitler, for example." He asked his audience: “Yes, and now, if that was someone who comes right after Jesus Christ , what do you do then? What if that is one of the rank of apostle? " When asked by the “ Rundschau ”, Sasek replied that the quotation was only an extreme example in the context of his speech.

Media and organization network

In 1997 Sasek founded the "Elaion-Verlag" and the "Community Teaching Service". Since 1999 he has expanded the OCG from a family business to a barely manageable network of commercial subsidiaries , organizations and media products that spread his political mission worldwide. According to his own information, since 2012 his companies have produced around 100,000 programs in 42 languages ​​in 165 film and sound studios with more than 213 female and male presenters, which have been broadcast in 212 countries. In 2006, Sasek directed the monumental film "Heroes die differently", which he initiated, about Arnold Winkelried , a mythical figure in Swiss history. He made other films, which he promoted through his Panorama Filmverleih as moral life aids for marriages and families. In 2008 he founded an anti-genocide party (AGP) against an allegedly imminent genocide against "freedom-loving people, Bible believers, Jews and Muslims"; Vice President was his wife.

Sasek's print and web media rate current topics with conspiracy-theoretical comments, for example on chemtrails, the new world order , high finance, terrorist attacks, climate change , the euro crisis , Germanwings flight 9525 . They print “uncensored” speeches by Muammar al-Gaddafi and Mahmud Ahmadineschād , warn of an allegedly imminent obligation to implant electronic identity chips for total state surveillance, discredit vaccination campaigns, claim an “ AIDS lie ”, and interpret the 2014 Ukraine crisis and the refugee crisis in Europe 2015 as a means of targeted destabilization and prophesy a third world war.

Sasek's online channel Klagemauer.tv publishes numerous videos on current political events. In a professionally designed studio, a spokeswoman reads out various "news" that allegedly suppress the "mainstream media". According to Meedia observers, the programs are reminiscent of the earlier news programs of the Kopp Verlag and, like these, try to give conspiracy-theoretical reports a serious character. The station spreads anti-Semitic conspiracy theories on September 11, 2001 : The US government carried out the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 itself. Behind her are the " Rothschild family ", who strive for control of the national banks worldwide. A “ financial oligarchy ” in the USA is using the influx of refugees to Europe to cause chaos in Germany, divide the population and drive it into civil war . In sermons, Sasek claims that Freemasons , Bilderbergers or a Jewish sect are secret masters of such processes. The aim of these secret societies is the almost complete annihilation of humanity and the world domination of the devil they serve.

In October 2016, Klagemauer.tv showed the propaganda film “Hellstorm” by the American neo-Nazi Kyle Hunt. The passage according to which the National Socialists had made Germany a hopeful country again was left out, but the end credits with children greeting Hitler and people dancing in front of swastika flags were retained and only deleted after media criticism. Sasek said the purpose of the show was "Never again war ... No more war propaganda by US warmongers". Like right-wing history revisionists , he spoke in a sermon of an "ordered" writing of history. Decades of memories of the Holocaust and National Socialism serve the devil's plans for world domination. The alleged “constant agitation ... against national consciousness (Holocaust because of national pride)” serves the goal “to dissolve both every nation state and every religion. The first world state is to emerge from this with only one world government, with only one world religion, one world currency, etc. ».

Youth TV is presented in terms of appearance and content like Klagemauer.tv , only with 8 to 20-year-old speakers for the relevant target group. They too come mostly from families of the OCG, including Sasek's children. The covert, non-contactable operators could be traced back to the Saseks' “Panorama-Film-Café” in Walzenhausen via the page source text. The speakers claimed, for example, that schools and teachers propagated homosexuality and urged young people to become homosexual. Ebola is comparable to ordinary influenza ; the World Health Organization used the epidemic as a means to rule governments. Israel is the world market leader in organ trafficking and sees this as compensation for the Holocaust. Like the AZK, Jugend-TV represents all varieties of the conspiracy-theoretical scene and packs them as short messages in child-friendly language. The station presents anti-Semitic, homophobic propaganda and rejection of a free lifestyle as a normal attitude and conveys a basic anti-democratic skepticism towards society when young people are looking for orientation. So he wants to recruit new followers for the OCG. According to a former youth TV presenter , Sasek and his staff see themselves in an information war against the mass media. In order to cast doubt on their information, they took over their broadcast material unchecked from right-wing populist, conspiracy-theoretical websites. The cultural scientist Eva Kimminich analyzed the programs as fake news , in which facts were placed in other, invented contexts and thus twisted.

The video clips from both broadcasters match in terms of content and often literally, without referring to each other. The address in their imprint, which can be traced back to the Saseks, was changed after media reports about it. The broadcasters do not provide any information about locations, producers or editors of their videos. Alleged “studios” in Augsburg, Roth, Nuremberg, Karlsruhe and Dresden have no addresses. Adults, young people and children from OCG house groups create sound recordings, television graphics, books and DVDs, for example the association “Leben in Christus” in Mertingen. Sasek rejects responsibility for their products, but emphasizes that the producers do everything voluntarily and without coercion. The children involved hardly noticed the contents of the conspiracy program. The Bavarian State Center for New Media declared in 2016 that it could not take legal action against programs broadcast by Swiss servers.

Against the allegedly censored mainstream press, Sasek and his followers publish the leaflet "Voice and Counter- Voice" (S&G), the anti-citizen newspaper (AZZ) and circulars such as "Der Ölbaum" and "Panorama". On numerous of their own websites such as www.ivo-sasek.ch, www.klagemauer.tv or www.anti-zensur.info, Sasek and his followers counter criticism with counter-statements allegedly alleging "the most serious lies about Ivo Sasek, his family and his ministry" correct. The pamphlet “Voice and Counter-Voice” was regularly offered at the Monday vigils for peace from 2014 and sold as “serious reporting that helps to find the truth”.

In May 2019, representatives from Kla.TV and the AZK took part in a conference of right-wing extremist, right-wing populist and ideological conspiracy media, to which the AfD parliamentary group in the German Bundestag had invited. The AfD MP Nicole Höchst , who had already been interviewed by Kla.TV, accepted wish lists from the representatives that she wanted to submit to the parliamentary group. It was desired, for example, that AfD members only share their own posts on Facebook and Twitter, no longer those of the “system press”. These contacts are classified as the formation of right-wing anti-democratic networks. The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution has barely observed esoteric media like those around Sasek.

reception

National churches in Switzerland and free churches classify Sasek's teaching as heresy . For representatives of the large churches, his messages show typical characteristics of a sect. The sect commissioners of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) describe the OCG as a Christian fundamentalist group whose strict understanding of faith is combined with current conspiracy theories. Scientific studies refuted Sasek's educational advice: Corporal punishment is pedagogically pointless, if used systematically, it damages child development and creates a spiral of violence. The Swiss Evangelical Alliance (SEA) and the Association of Evangelical Free Churches and Congregations in Switzerland distanced themselves from all forms of physical violence in upbringing. In contrast, Sasek's theses are discussed in the Christian fundamentalist scene; his patriarchal family model and his upbringing ideas find imitators. Other Christian special groups often form alliances of convenience with the OCG, although they mostly reject Sasek's claim as an apostle and prophet.

The sect researcher Georg Otto Schmid ( Evangelical Information Center: Churches - Sects - Religions ) said in 2014 that the OCG had shrunk. Sasek has changed from a conservative fundamentalist to an esotericist and world conspirator. He only finds followers whose world conspiracy picture comes together with faithfulness to the Bible, not among larger sections of the population. However, the voluntary self-regulation multimedia service provider (FSM) classified youth TV as a danger for children and young people because the broadcaster presented conspiracy theories such as youth news, created a reference to the child's world through direct addressing, and caused “socio-ethical disorientation” through an appeal. In July 2015, the city council of Frauenfeld banned Pegida rallies where Sasek was scheduled to speak for security reasons . His influence extends beyond the OCG on esotericists, Holocaust deniers, Scientologists and right-wing conspiracy theorists. According to the Sekten-Info NRW association, groups like the Saseks are attracting more attention via the Internet . The propagation of fear, social isolation and ineffective esoteric healing methods are particularly dangerous for children. Schools, on the other hand, must promote media literacy among young people and adults.

The hacker collective Anonymous Germany announced as part of their "Operation Tinfoil" in July 2020 that they would uncover the activities of Saseks OCG. In two weeks, the activists hacked several OCG websites and servers, including its youth broadcasters. They now have 30,000 emails and more than 20 gigabytes of internal documents that they are gradually publishing. As of July 24, 2020, Anonymous put OCG documents online that prove Sasek's media network, production locations, the takeover of KlaTV content by cable network stations, child abuse and OCG's contacts with Scientology . Sasek attributed the hacker attack in two videos to the Antifa and described the hackers as “virtual hit men” in the service of hostile mass media. Anonymous countered Sasek's claim with its own independent video that describes the intentions and structures of the sect: Sasek is relentlessly exploiting the current COVID-19 pandemic and the insecurity of many people with his anti-Semitic-esoteric conspiracy ideologies, including financially. Anonymous announced further actions against the OCG and its propaganda stations.

Publications (selection)

  • Shock: causes - effects - ways out. 4th supplemented edition Elaion, Walzenhausen 2007.
  • Simon, David and Loisa Sasek: Mom, please chastise me! 2nd revised and supplemented edition, Elaion, Walzenhausen 2002

literature

  • Matthias Pöhlmann: Organic Christ Generation / Anti-Censorship Coalition / Ivo Sasek. In: Matthias Pöhlmann, Christine Jahn (ed. On behalf of the VELKD ): Handbook Weltanschauungen, Religious Communities, Free Churches. (with CD-ROM) Gütersloher Verlagshaus / Random House, Gütersloh 2015, ISBN 978-3-579-08224-0 , pp. 378-390
  • Claudia Knepper: harmony, obedience and punishment. Ivo Sasek's teaching on raising children. In: Material service of the Evangelical Central Office for Weltanschauung questions. 4/2011, pp. 132-139. ( Text excerpt online )
  • Harald Lamprecht : Organic Christ Generation. Ivo Sasek and his movement. Material service of the Evangelical Central Office for Weltanschauung questions. 4/2003 , pp. 132-143

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Christoph Grotepass: Fundamentalism and belief in conspiracies using the example of the Organic Christ Generation (OCG). Sekten-Info-NRW, March 17th, 2017.
  2. ↑ Thomas Schneider: Ivo Sasek's “Royal Rule” - How a leader casts a spell over people. AGWelt, February 27, 2017.
  3. ↑ The sect family. In: Tages-Anzeiger , August 17, 2010.
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g Hans Stutz: Right-wing extremism and conspiracies: In the preacher's network. WOZ Die Wochenzeitung , No. 43, October 23, 2014.
  5. ↑ Claudia Knepper: Harmony, obedience and punishment - Ivo Sasek and raising children. In: Materialdienst 4/2011, Evangelical Central Office for Weltanschauungsfragen, pp. 132-138, here p. 135.
  6. ↑ Sect dropout unpacks: «They are trying to break you inside». welt.de , August 9, 2018; No more obedience: How Abigail escaped the cult. In: rnz.de , August 31, 2018.
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  11. ↑ a b Stefan Lauer: Youth TV: The child soldiers of the conspiracy theorists. Vice , September 17, 2014.
  12. ↑ Christoph Grotepass: The "Germanic New Medicine" by Ryke Geerd Hamer. SektenInfo NRW, April 13, 2016.
  13. ↑ The School Reunion of the Scary Patriots. Tages-Anzeiger, October 31, 2009.
  14. ↑ a b Hugo Stamm: The great appearance of the Holocaust denier. In: Tages-Anzeiger, January 16, 2013.
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  16. ^ A b Hugo Stamm : Swiss sect leader offers Holocaust denier in Chur platform - acquittal. Watson.ch , August 21, 2018
  17. ^ Newspaper: Anti-censorship coalition meets again in Chur. Kipa , October 30, 2013.
  18. ^ Hugo Stamm: sect leader conjures up the 3rd world war. Tages-Anzeiger, August 7, 2014.
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  22. ↑ Frida Thurm: The very own world of the Monday demonstrators. Die Zeit , April 22nd, 2014.
  23. ^ A b Gianluca Galgani, Sebastian Gänger: Dangerous preacher - SVP politician with the sect guru. SRF , March 1, 2017
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  31. ^ Marc Latsch: Youth TV - Right esoteric for the young. Belltower.News, September 12, 2014.
  32. ↑ Daniel Schmidthäussler: "Fake News" maker unpacks. NDR , February 1, 2017
  33. ^ Vigils in Berlin: How conspiracy theorists tick. Tagesspiegel , March 31, 2017
  34. ↑ Mio Liebentritt: Right esotericism: Meditate, heal, hate Jews. Die Zeit, January 20, 2020.
  35. ↑ Harald Lamprecht: Ivo Sasek and his movement. ( Memento from December 1, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Material service of the Evangelical Central Office for Weltanschauungsfragen, 4/2003
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  37. ↑ The confused world of the Swiss sect guru Ivo Sasek. Focus , September 19, 2014.
  38. ^ Steffen Grimberg: Questionable youth news on the net. NDR, September 17, 2014
  39. ^ No Pegida rallies in Frauenfeld. SRF, July 6, 2015
  40. ↑ Torben Heine: Essen sect info warns against belief in spiritual healers. Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung , April 28, 2018
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personal data
SURNAME Sasek, Ivo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss lay preacher
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich