modern21

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Discussants Martin Reiter (Tacheles eV), Nadia Panknin and Hartmut Lühr at the Kunsthaus Tacheles , 2010

Moderne21 is a group of political activists that emerged in 2007 from an initiative by the Berlin art house Tacheles . After the eviction of the Kunsthaus in September 2012, the group continued to exist on the Internet, where they satirically tackle social problems such as loneliness and disenchantment with politics .

Initiatives

The satirical initiatives of moderne21 are each based on action videos with actors and activists that are distributed via social networks . Panel discussions on the respective initiatives took place there until the Kunsthaus Tacheles was cleared .

"Double stop"

Katharina Gebhardt, action in front of the GEMA headquarters in Berlin-Schöneberg, 2007

In 2007 the initiative “Double stop - music without compulsion” was launched, with which the phenomenon of involuntary music consumption in public spaces should be brought into public awareness. The activists around Katharina Gebhardt , supported by DJ Paul van Dyk and Bela B. among others, also sharply criticized GEMA because of the monetization of the music industry .

"Violence is always possible"

The initiative “Violence always works - Violare humanum est” followed in 2008 and dealt with the perpetrator-victim reversal, also known as “ victim blaming ” , which is supposed to be observed in politics and the media . At the opening panel discussion in Berlin, Hans-Günter Mahr from the White Ring took part, who criticized the political instrumentalization of the fear of violent crime exaggerated by the mass media.

"Election rejection"

The satirical initiative “Election cancellation - less politics, more democracy”, which was launched in 2008 and deals with the non- voter phenomenon, had activist Malah Helman polemicized in a video that a newly founded “party against assholes” of Mercedes drivers and attack dog owners is probably not one only voice. In addition, the initiative also tried to make constructive contributions to the non-voter debate by publicly discussing ways to modernize the electoral law with the publicist Florian Felix Weyh and the Green politician Stefan Gelbhaar .

"We are important"

The initiative "We are important - for the sake of the economy", also launched in 2008, dealt with the losers of individualization and the single society, which because of a " spiral of silence " in the mass media hardly find a place in the public consciousness. On the occasion of the “International Day of Happiness”, the initiative advised in 2014 to compensate for feelings of loneliness with “expanded consumption opportunities”.

Controversy with the mirror

On the occasion of the federal elections in September 2013, the Hamburg news magazine Der Spiegel reported critically about the activities of modern21 and “election cancellation” as part of a cover topic on the non-voter phenomenon. The activists around the sociologist Hartmut Lühr were accused of arrogantly drawing an enemy image of so-called "habit voters".
The article did not mention that the "electoral cancellation" initiative was a clearly marked satire whose supporters were avowed to push for a modernization of the electoral law. The lack of reference by the Spiegel editors to the satirical character of the modern21 initiative led to a discussion on the Internet about the care and intention of the reporting. A correction was published in the following issue of Spiegel, which attested the satirical character of the figure of an “election cancellation” activist, embodied by actress Nadia Panknin.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Own representation. The self-image on the Moderne21 website
  2. ↑ Oskar Piegsa: Be quiet for a while! In: zeit.de. May 10, 2007, accessed January 19, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Reinhard Jellen: Action against forced sound. In: heise.de/tp/ (telepolis). April 29, 2007. Retrieved January 19, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Sandra Lukosek: Initiative is against acoustic pollution. In: tagesspiegel.de. September 7, 2010, accessed January 19, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Michael Pilz: Dudeln and Tulden. In: welt.de. May 9, 2007, accessed January 20, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Press release of the Kunsthaus Tacheles on openpr
  7. ↑ initiative election cancellation - More policy, less democracy on YouTube
  8. ↑ Reinhard Jellen: "We are not yet giving up on the ailing patient". In: heise.de/tp/ (telepolis). January 24, 2008, accessed January 19, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Baran Korkmaz: Professional success is a fetish. In: taz.de. March 20, 2014, accessed January 19, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Nicola Abé, Melanie Amann, Markus Feldenkirchen: The Shameless. In: spiegel.de. September 16, 2013, accessed January 20, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Lena Kaiser: "Non-voter bashing is flat". In: taz.de. April 14, 2015, accessed January 19, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Markus Kompa: "Moldy Cookies". In: heise.de/tp/ (telepolis). September 16, 2013, accessed January 20, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Torsten Engelbrecht: Telepolis: In its cover story “How non-voters gamble away democracy”, DER SPIEGEL considers a fictional radio play figure to be real. In: spiegelblog.net. September 18, 2013, accessed January 20, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Correction to issue 38/2013. In: spiegel.de. September 21, 2013, accessed January 20, 2019 .