Prepper

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Prepper (derived from English to be prepared , be ready ' , or the scout greeting: English Be prepared , Be ready !, " Always ready "' ) refers to people who are using individual measures to any type of disaster prepare: by storage , or own cultivation of food supplies, the erection of protective structures or protective devices on existing buildings, the provision of protective clothing , tools, radios , weapons and other things. It is unimportant which event or when a disaster is triggered.

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The verb preppen was included in the 2020 edition of the Duden.

backgrounds

The prepper scene originated in the USA in the 1970s. Climate change , armed conflicts and economic crises such as B. the financial crisis from 2007 , led to a growth of the prepper scene with increasing spread also in Europe. Scientists like the cultural scientist Julian Genner attest this scene a fatalistic worldview. In the meantime there are even companies in Germany, Austria and Switzerland that focus on supplying “all-round packages” such as B. Supply and equipment packages. It can also be observed that preppers create “shelters” in which they want to stay in the event of civil wars. The possibility of protecting one's own supplies in such a situation is also mentioned as a motivation. In parts of the prepper scene, the procurement of weapons for self-protection is at least supported.

Situation in Germany

Right-wing extremist circles and " Reichsbürger " call on their supporters to become "preppers", and the Federal Office for Civil Protection and Disaster Aid (bbk.bund.de) recommends that the population stock up on emergency supplies for around 10 days.

Since August 2017, the Attorney General has been investigating several members of the prepper scene in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , who are said to have left out in chats that a crisis could also be an opportunity to take over power with subsequent internment or murder of left-wing politicians. During house searches, the police found the addresses of politicians from the Left , the FDP and the Greens, as well as refugee associations, workers' welfare organizations and trade unions . A commission from the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania state police is now supposed to create a detailed picture of the scene. The AfD MP Nikolaus Kramer criticized the police's project, while the SPD MP Martina Tegtmeier welcomed it.

In the summer of 2018, Der Spiegel reported on an eleven-page report by the Federal Criminal Police Office and the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution on the “prepper scene”, which was picked up in February 2018 by the Bundestag's interior committee. The members of the scene therefore have in common that they were waiting for an apocalyptic event; in this respect, the impact of the asteroid Apophis is named, which will hit Earth in 2036. In many searches, in addition to food supplies, large quantities of weapons and ammunition were found, in one case from Schleswig-Holstein a "private Nazi museum with machine gun, rifle grenade, explosives and 40 kilograms of ammunition" was excavated. “The arsenal was rounded off by a battle tank of the type 'Panther' and an anti-aircraft gun, caliber 8.8 cm.” Two cases: A “prepper” from Chieming expressly expressed the fear “that the Muslims will overrun us and as the reason for his actions The police and the military could no longer stop them. ”Another expected that the euro would soon no longer exist. The security authorities estimated the size of this scene at "between 10,000 and 180,000" members; the protection of the Constitution sees “no greater danger” in this.

In 2020, another right-wing extremist prepper group became known in Saxony-Anhalt.

In connection with the right-wing extremist "Refuge" prepper group, which is preparing for a "race war", the Attorney General Naumburg determined in August 2020 . Proceedings were initiated against several suspects and the State Criminal Police Office of Saxony-Anhalt was charged with the investigation. It was about alleged violations of the gun law and the use of symbols of unconstitutional organizations , said the attorney general to the taz , which had first reported on the group's activities.

Composition of the scene and motivation

Preppers do not present themselves as a homogeneous grouping. Among the preppers, there are also said to have been isolated Reich citizens , right-wing groups and conspiracy theorists trying to subvert the scene. In recent years, the large communities (organized preppers) such as PGD ( Prepper-Gemeinschaft Deutschland ) and the Prepper-Verein eV have distanced themselves from these groups.

Prepper often cite the advice of the Federal Office for Civil Protection and Disaster Relief as a motivation . Among other things, this recommends that every German citizen should keep a supply for 10 days in order to be prepared for possible crises.

Regardless of the intensity of the preparatory actions, according to the Federal Government, crisis prevention should not be assessed as extremist.

Media processing

Since October 1, 2012, the National Geographic Channel has been broadcasting the series Preppers - Ready for the end of the world (in the original: Doomsday Preppers ). The third season began broadcasting in December 2013.

In episode 16 "You have to reckon with it" (first broadcast: December 17, 2014) of the TV series Der Tatortreiniger , the serial character Schotty is called to an electronics store in the evening, where he gets to know the employee and prepper Olaf during his assignment. In the further course of the evening he explains to Schotty what preparations one must have made in order to survive a sudden collapse of the existing social order over a longer period of time.

Episode 176 “Ready to Death” of the TV series SOKO Stuttgart also plays in the prepper scene, as does the 368th episode of the TV series Polizeiruf 110 : “ Democracy dies in darkness ”.

In the novel power of Karen Duve holding narrator his wife several years Prepper space being caught in a soundproof. The English edition of the book at Dedalus is entitled The Prepper room .

literature

  • Maik Baumgärtner, Sven Röbel, Wolf Wiedmann-Schmidt: Ravioli and guns. How "preppers" prepare for the apocalypse . In: Der Spiegel . No. 27 , 30 June 2018, p. 49 .
  • Alexander Neubacher, Tobias Schulze, Michael Stürzenhofecker: Safety: canned bread and a crank lamp . In: Der Spiegel . tape July 28 , 2013 ( spiegel.de [accessed September 22, 2018]).
  • Rainer B. Jogschies: Where, please, are you going to my bunker? Night table book, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-937550-19-0 .
  • Amanda A. Sims: Survival of the preppers: An exploration into the culture of prepping . Ed .: University of Missouri – Columbia. University of Missouri – Columbia, Missouri – Columbia 2017 ( handle.net - dissertation).
  • Bertrand Vidal: Quand la bise fut venue. L'imaginaire alimentaire de la sub-culture prepper . In: ESSACHESS - Journal for Communication Studies . tape 8 , no. 2 (16) , April 12, 2015, ISSN  1775-352X , p. 195-204 ( essachess.com [accessed September 22, 2018]).

Documentation

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jürgen Reuss: NETZWELT: The rulers of the front garden. In: badische-zeitung.de. Badischen Zeitung, July 31, 2012, accessed on August 1, 2012 .
  2. ↑ https://www.spiegel.de/kultur/literatur/duden-neuausgabe-die-deutsche-gegenwart-auf-den-punkt-haben-a-00000000-0002-0001-0000-000172378548
  3. ↑ https://www.nzz.ch/schweiz/prepper-in-der-schweiz-einblick-in-eine-wundersame-parallelwelt-ld.1524419 , accessed on April 17, 2020.
  4. ↑ https://www.nzz.ch/zuerich/coronavirus-in-zuerich-die-prepper-sahen-es-kommen-ld.1549860 , accessed on April 17, 2019.
  5. ↑ Alexander Neubacher, Tobias Schulze, Michael Stürzenhofecker: Security: Canned bread and crank lamp . In: Der Spiegel . tape July 28 , 2013 ( spiegel.de [accessed September 22, 2018]).
  6. ↑ a b Maik Baumgärtner, Sven Röbel, Wolf Wiedmann-Schmidt: Ravioli and guns. How "preppers" prepare for the apocalypse . In: Der Spiegel . No. 27 , 30 June 2018, p. 49 .
  7. ^ [1] Federal Office for Civil Protection and Disaster Aid (bbk.bund.de) Ratgeber
  8. ↑ Police target the "Prepper" scene. Norddeutscher Rundfunk from September 14, 2017
  9. ↑ Suspicion of terrorism: raids on police officers and lawyers. Norddeutscher Rundfunk from August 28, 2017
  10. ^ State Parliament of Saxony-Anhalt: State Parliament of Saxony-Anhalt - right-wing extremists prepare “Day X”. Retrieved June 18, 2020 .
  11. ↑ taz: Right-wing extremist prepper. Public prosecutor determined. taz (without date; accessed on August 5, 2020)
  12. ↑ Per Hinrichs: Is the end of the world looming? These men are ready. In: The world . April 5, 2016. Retrieved August 23, 2017 .
  13. ↑ "Prepper scene" in Germany . German Bundestag. January 21, 2019. Accessed October 30, 2019.
  14. ↑ Preppers - Ready for the end of the world. In: fernsehserien.de. imfernsehen GmbH & Co. KG, accessed on April 28, 2014 .