Kreuzberg Patriotic Democrats / Realistic Center

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Kreuzberg Patriotic Democrats / Realistic Center
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Party leader Hans Joachim Grimm (iU)
Secretary General Judith Jahnke (iU)
vice-chairman Stephan "Mao" Meyer (iU), Alex Zielke (iU), Riza A. Cörtlen (iU)
Federal Treasurer Rolf Götze (iU)
founding September 18, 1988
Place of foundation Berlin, Lausitzer Platz
Number of members about 400
Average age 39 years
Proportion of women 60%
Website www.kpd-rz.de

Kreuzberg Patriotic Democrats / Realistic Center (short name: KPD / RZ ) was a fun party , in the tradition of the fun guerrilla , founded in 1988 in the north of Berlin-Kreuzberg . It described itself as the only mass democratic party of the extreme center. Their motto was Radical against all extremism . Since around 2005, the KPD / RZ has been difficult to identify in public, according to its own language, "the entire executive committee of the party is underground". Former leaders like Riza A. Cörtlen have been running for Die Party in the Berlin House of Representatives elections since 2006 . The merger of the KPD / RZ with the party was announced in 2005 in an Arte contribution . On April 3, 2016 published the party of Berlin on their Youtube channel video recording of the preliminary farewell press conference Kreuzberg Patriotic Democrats / Realistic center from April 1, 2016, entitled "KPD / RZ passes political responsibility to the party PARTY" , on the Riza A. Cörtlen, hooded, reads a text in front of press representatives.

history

The Kiezpartei KPD / RZ began as a humorous columnist faction of the Autonomous called “MuZ” (inhuman and cynical). It first appeared with a free newspaper called RZ (12 issues in total), the first edition of which appeared on April 1, 1989. Employees were: Bommi Baumann , Bert Bunkert, Karsten Dose, Hans Durst, Wiglaf Droste , Bernhard Feder, Rolf Goetze, Gernot Hoffmann, Helmut Höge , Thomas Kapielski , Cluse Krings , Christiane Kühn, Beate Kupstor, Harm Los, Stefan M. Meyer, Isabel Montes, Pinus, Otto Graf Vieh, Sibylle Schmidt , A. Schmidt, Wolfgang Kröske alias “Dr. Strange “Sabine Vogel, Frank Wendler. She later ran for elections. The top candidates of the KPD / RZ included Norbert Hähnel and Bela B. In addition to the terror group , the doctors were among the party-affiliated music groups from Berlin. The terrorist group took the name Stadtteilgruppe a campaign single for the KPD / RZ entitled Kreuzberg first! on. In 1993, the KPD / RZ organized an indefinite hunger strike in front of the post office at Hallescher Tor as well as resistance to the introduction of the new “wrong” postcodes with a chain of lights around post office 36 in Skalitzer Strasse. Another important action of the party was the demonstration against nocturnal disturbance of the peace and senseless violence, in which around 2500 demonstrators marched through Berlin-Kreuzberg at night on May 1, 1995, using all possible instruments to make a hell of a racket while saying "Quiet!" Chanted. This demonstration had to be organized by the KPD / RZ at short notice, as no political group was willing to hold a rally in Kreuzberg on May 1st. One focus of the political work of the KPD / RZ was the rejection of the district reform through which Kreuzberg was merged with Friedrichshain. This resulted in the (officially announced) annual street battles against Friedrichshain on the Oberbaum Bridge from 1995 to 2006. A. Friedman (USA) and K. Klimkiewicz (Poland) filmed an award-winning documentary about these battles in 2007 for the Berlinale Talent Campus : Water battle - The Great Border Battle .

Election results

In the 1995 election for the Berlin House of Representatives , the party in the Kreuzberg district received 1,472 second votes (2.8 percent in Kreuzberg) and became the fifth largest party in Kreuzberg. The motto of the election campaign was “What we promise are promises”.

In the 1999 parliamentary elections , it received 3,390 votes (0.2 percent) nationwide. Quotation: In 1999 the KPD / RZ won more than twice as many votes as the FDP in Kreuzberg after a fulminant election campaign with demands such as “smoking ban in one-way streets” and “no going out for men at temperatures above 30 degrees”. In Kreuzberg, the KPD / RZ won a mandate in the Kreuzberg BVV with 1,950 votes (4.2 percent) , which was filled as the first candidate in the rotation principle by Nanette Fleig (list number 1). This was followed by other mandate holders. However, due to the combination of district reform and early elections caused by the Berlin banking scandal , this was lost in 2001.

In 2001, due to the forced situation of the district reform, KPD / RZ and Friedrichshainer Amorphous Centralists (FAZ) united for a short time to form a party called SED (from Latin sed : but, nevertheless), which in the newly created Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg district was still in the same party Year ran for election. It met with election posters with the slogan “SED - Victims must be able to do without” (early September 2001) and political campaigns (mid-August 2001), such as For example, the urban subsidization of the building and civil engineering industry along the former wall strip in Berlin, although the "nerve of the times", was nevertheless punished with 1.9 percent and failed because of the 3 percent hurdle .

All three parties (KPD / RZ, FAZ, SED) have continued to exist independently of one another since the “election failure”.

Since the Bundestag election in 2005 , the KPD / RZ no longer competes in elections, but advises ideologically in the background, among others, The PARTY on their political appearance.

Known members

Political goals

The KPD / RZ calls for “radical democracy”. Some of their party goals are:

  • No going out for men when the outside temperature is over 30 °
  • Night flight ban for pollen
  • Promotion of the Kreuzberg zeppelin industry
  • No smoking in one-way streets
  • Brisker melodies for police and fire service vehicles
  • Kreuzberg needs a year-round ice-free deep sea port
  • Halving gravity by 2010
  • Ecological warfare through lead-free fueling of tanks
  • Rotation principle for street names
  • Dismantling of the Kreuzberg and backfilling at a representative location

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b parliamentwatch.de
  2. ^ "PARTY" and KPD / RZ: The Association of 2005 (ARTE)
  3. ↑ KPD / RZ hands over political responsibility to DIE PARTTEI party
  4. ↑ a b Helmut Höge : Reintegration Measures . In: taz , October 8, 1999
  5. ↑ biblioman.info ( Memento of the original from September 14, 2016 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / antiquariat8218.biblioman.info
  6. ↑ zvab.com
  7. ↑ The morning pint
  8. ↑ Mocking newsreel
  9. ↑ The Brick Burner
  10. ↑ jungle-world.com ( Memento of the original from September 14, 2016 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / jungle-world.com
  11. ↑ Holger Stark : Berlin KPD / RZ candidate Nanette Fleig wants to be mayor of the hearts - after the Sponti group is dissolved, she is non-party . In: Der Tagesspiegel , October 11, 1999
  12. ^ Andreas Spannbauer: TAZ October 12, 1999
  13. ↑ Angie Pohlers: End of the World in Kreuzberg “The Party” celebrates hip hop concert and political satire with KIZ at Oranienplatz: KIZ let their fans shake their booties, Riza A. Cörtlen from the “Party” proclaims himself ruler and Berlin celebrates the “successor” of Michael Müller . In: Der Tagesspiegel , July 16, 2015
  14. ↑ Middle Extremists . In: Die Zeit , No. 30/1993
  15. ↑ hansdurst.com ( Memento from February 14, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
  16. ↑ a b freshfamily.de
  17. ↑ die-beste-band-der-welt.de
  18. ↑ Ingeborg Harms: Berlin Canapés: Grotto TV . In: Die Zeit , No. 19/2015
  19. ↑ Jens Uthoff: With all the strength of the nostrils . In: taz , 30. April 2012
  20. ↑ Jens Uthoff: Cleaning the tines - Oberkreuzberg Nose Flute Orchestra celebrates its 20th birthday . In: Der Tagesspiegel , May 12, 2012
  21. ↑ Karin Schmidl: The Kreuzberg Nose Flute Orchestra is anything but serious - beeping cuddly redhead . In: Berliner Zeitung , December 7, 2005
  22. ↑ lecorte.de
  23. ^ Sabine Lueken: Mrs. Schmidt from Kreuzberg . In: Kreuzberger Chronik , July 2005, issue 69
  24. ↑ Gunnar Hinck: candidate for Berlin election - formerly taz, now AfD . In: taz , August 4, 2016
  25. ^ Fabian Federl: AfD election campaign in Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg. How right and left alternatives advertise . In: Der Tagesspiegel , July 21, 2016
  26. ↑ Fabian Federl: Left district in Berlin How the AfD wants to score in Friedrichshain and Kreuzberg . In: Der Tagesspiegel , June 9, 2016