Swabian hatred

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Graffito in Prenzlauer Allee 53 on the wall of the Sporys bakery, which is advertised as "Swabian bakery". The first lettering was "Anti Schwa" as a modification of "Antifa". The motif "Schwabees Welcome", modified from "Refugees Welcome - Bring your families", which was directed against hostility to Swabia, was again painted over with "not". Above is the word "Schwabenhass".
Spraying against Swabia at Leipzig Central Station

The term “Schwabenhass” is used by some media as a catchphrase to describe an aversion to the Swabians living in Berlin . The so-called Swabian dispute (also called Spätzle dispute) led to a political dispute and further media attention.

Media coverage

According to an article in the Tagesspiegel , the Swabians who moved to Berlin are “as rent drivers and spearheads of gentrification ”, while the term “Swabians”, as the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung writes, is synonymous with pedantic and comparatively wealthier newcomers from the south and west of the republic used. On posters they are accused of having a lack of sense of “Berlin culture”. In addition, they are accused of contributing to an increasing narrow- mindedness. According to the Rheinische Post , most of the inner-German immigrants to Berlin come from Brandenburg . At the same time, there is also a countercurrent from Berlin to Baden-Württemberg . As a result, 20 percent more Swabians stayed in Berlin than moved from Berlin to Swabia .

According to media reports, the so-called Swabian hatred is expressed in the form of graffiti and as a motif of a perpetrator who gave "hatred of Swabians in Prenzlauer Berg" as the reason for his property damage through arson. For example, slogans such as “Swabians kill” and “We are one people” were on posters and house walls in Berlin's Prenzlauer Berg district . And you're someone else ”or“ East Berlin wishes you a safe journey home ”to read. The police are investigating after strangers sprayed a graffito "Do not buy from Schwab'n" on a house wall. The then governing mayor Klaus Wowereit (SPD) called this “an unspeakable action for which there is no justification”, Interior Senator Frank Henkel (CDU) as “tasteless”, as it took place in Rykestrasse , where there is a synagogue.

The urban sociologist Hartmut Häußermann explained the phenomenon that Swabians of all people act as a “scapegoat” as follows: “On the one hand, we Swabians are relatively easy to recognize by our dialect ”. On the other hand, the Swabian stands for efficiency, performance, prosperity and the Kehrwoche more than any other German citizen . This is not what the alternative Berlin would like, so they looked for the enemy image "Swabian". Häußermann also said: "We still don't know whether there are three or four people who are sticking these posters, or whether it's a broad mood." In addition, the phenomenon is limited to Prenzlauer Berg.

Due to the hate graffiti, the “Swabians in Berlin” put their first play on stage in 2010: “The Swabian is to blame for everything”. Only a Swabian as mayor can save the capital threatened by bankruptcy (and Swabian hatred), said the bold one Claim. In 2011 an authors' competition was announced and in 2012 the play “Schwabenhatz” was performed as part of a culture week, the first Schwabiennale. The hated Swabians wanted to show themselves to Berliners and everyone else: dramatically, literarily, painterly, musically and epicurally.

The so-called Berlin Swabian dispute in 2013 led to fun actions by artists such as the movement “Neuschwabenberg” or the fun guerrilla “Free Schwabylon”, which satirically calls for an autonomous district for Swabians around Kollwitzplatz and the expulsion of Wolfgang Thierse and their actions even led to a report in the New York Times . The New York Times headlined a half-page article under the heading "Swabian Separatists Fling Spaetzle to Make Their Point" (German: Swabian Separatists throw spaetzle to make their concerns clear ). The Kollwitz Association called the “spaetzle attack” on the Käthe Kollwitz memorial “tasteless”. The publicity joke with food is a taste derailment and the dispute between long-established Berliners and Swabians is "a petty feud at the front door".

Political debate

The topic reached political circles. Bundestag Vice President Wolfgang Thierse (SPD) complained about Swabia in his home town of Prenzlauer Berg at the end of 2012 and blamed them for a lack of willingness to adapt. According to an interview, he was annoyed that bread rolls in Prenzlauer Berg are now called Weckle instead of Schrippe and the plum cake is becoming a -datschi : "In Berlin they say Schrippen - even Swabians could get used to it". Actually, Thierse only wanted to make an article for the Berlin local press with his statements. But his allegations against Swabians in Berlin led to a nationwide debate. The journalist Peter Hahne accused Thierse of hypocrisy: the argumentation pattern he uses is that of xenophobia, which he himself fights so vehemently. The former Prime Minister Günther Oettinger (CDU) criticized that without the Swabians the quality of life in Berlin would be difficult because they paid a lot of money every year through the state financial equalization system . Cem Özdemir (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen) pointed out that many Swabians come to the capital to work and that we should be grateful to them. The journalist Reinhard Mohr criticized Thierse, who “fights against the foreign infiltration of the original Berlin arable tops, where dog shit steams like currywurst every ten meters”, was born in Breslau and grew up in Thuringia.

After 3000 protest mails, some of which were filled with hate, Thierse welcomed the Swabians to Berlin. He was the first non- Swabian to receive the "Golden Fool's Bell" from the Association of Swabian-Alemannic Fools' Guilds (VSAN), which he accepted with humor and as a "symbol of Prussian-Swabian reconciliation".

"Swabian hatred" historically

In the literature, Schwabenhass has been assigned to different groups in different contexts. Among other things, this still applies to Baden in a regional, particularistic sense .

"Badeners are Badeners above all when they are mistaken for Swabians north of the Main ."

- Amadeus Siebenpunkt : Germany Your Badeners

In the time of national historiography in the 19th century, Swabia emerged in Switzerland , later Gummihals as ethnophaulism for all Germans, similar to Szwab in Poland. Among the Magyars as “contempt for the Germans” in the emerging Hungarian national movement of the 19th century, similar prejudices related to the Danube Swabians .

humor

The first to respond was the “Schwaben in Berlin” initiative founded by Achim Ruppel in 2010: One can only respond to Swabian hatred with theater.

The actress Bärbel Stolz became known via her YouTube channel “Die Prenzlschwäbin” by parodying the cliché of Swabia in Berlin.

literature

  • Bov Bjerg : love of big mouths - East Berliners of Swabian hatred. In: Moritz Kienast (Ed.): I hate Berlin. Our overrated capital. Bastei Lübbe, Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-431-03847-7 , pp. 161-168.
  • Thomas Bürk, Thomas Götz: Swabia in Berlin: Metamorphoses of a cultural figure and its urban topographies . In: Places - Situations - Atmospheres: cultural-analytical sketches . Edited by Beate Binder u. a. Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-593-39269-1 , pp. 307-320.
  • Hannelore Schlaffer : Philistines, philistines, Swabians. In: Merkur 69,4 (April 2015), pp. 87-95 (PDF; 144 kB) ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ).
  • Martina Schöller: From Swabia to Berlin: an empirical study on the importance of origin for internal migrations . Master's thesis University of Tübingen, Tübingen 2004.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See http://www.tagesspiegel.de/images/baeckereiklaas/7582344/2-format14.jpg
  2. ^ Next act in the Swabian dispute - Sträßlemacher versus Spätzlekrieg , n-tv.de, accessed on February 23, 2013
  3. ↑ New round in the Swabian dispute - The Strässlemacher from Prenzlauer Berg , Tagesspiegel from February 8, 2013.
  4. ↑ Capital: Gässle and Sträßle in Prenzlauer Berg , Focus Online from February 10, 2013
  5. ^ "Prussian-Swabian Reconciliation" - fool's bell for the "Schwaben-Goscher" , rbb of January 23, 2013
  6. ↑ Spätzle dispute goes into another round - crown for Käthe Kollwitz , Tagesspiegel of January 21, 2013.
  7. ↑ Berliner Kollwitz-Verein is planning a protest letter in the "Spätzle-Streit" ( memento from April 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), Deutschlandradio from January 21, 2013
  8. ^ Kollwitz memorial: Berliner Spätzle dispute continues , Berliner Zeitung of February 24, 2012
  9. ^ Moritz Honert: Swabian hatred in the trendy neighborhood. In: Der Tagesspiegel from December 20, 2011.
  10. ^ A b Anna Loll: Swabian hatred in Berlin. The super wessis and proto-yuppies. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of April 5, 2009.
  11. ^ Next round in the Swabian dispute , Die Zeit , January 1, 2013
  12. ↑ a b Gregor Mayntz : Where does the Swabian hatred in Berlin come from? , Rheinische Post, January 4, 2013
  13. ↑ Tanja Buntrock, Nana Heymann: Lighted prams in Prenzlauer Berg. Perpetrator names "Swabian hatred" as a motive. In: Der Tagesspiegel from August 22, 2011.
  14. ^ Marc Hippler: Swabian hatred in the net. “Swabians out!” . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung , August 24, 2011.
  15. ↑ Birgit Loff: Arson attacks "from Swabian hatred". In: Stuttgarter Zeitung of August 24, 2011.
  16. ↑ Stephanie Beisch: Berlin wants to curb Schwabenhass with a festival ( Memento from August 31, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), Financial Times, August 21, 2012
  17. ↑ Tanja Dückers: Berlin's new hate culture , Süddeutsche Zeitung , January 17, 2012
  18. ↑ Swabian haters smear house walls , Frankfurter Rundschau from May 5, 2013
  19. ↑ Moritz Honert: Schwabenhass im Szenekiez p. 3, In: Der Tagesspiegel from December 20, 2011.
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  23. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vg15dSurJjY
  24. ^ Charm Offensive: First Schwabiennale in the capital Berliner Morgenpost from August 22, 2012
  25. ↑ First Schwabiennale: one week Swabian culture in Berlin Stuttgarter Zeitung on August 21, 2012
  26. ↑ Schwabenhatz also on stage Der Tagesspiegel from May 5, 2013
  27. ↑ Dough activists want to wear down Berliners , Berliner Zeitung of January 21, 2013.
  28. ↑ Counter-protest: Crown for Käthe Kollwitz B.Z. from January 20, 2013
  29. ↑ Swabian Separatists Fling Spätzle to Make Their Point , The New York Times, January 17, 2013
  30. ^ Die Strässlemacher from Prenzlauer Berg , Tagesspiegel of February 8, 2013.
  31. ^ "Kollwitzsträßle" - artist group swabbing street names , Berliner Morgenpost from February 10, 2012.
  32. ↑ Kollwitz-Verein calls spaetzle attack tasteless , rbb of January 21, 2013.
  33. ↑ Wolfgang Thierse railed against Swabians in Berlin , Berliner Morgenpost , December 30, 2012
  34. ↑ Thierse sways the Swabian dispute aside , dpa in the Stuttgarter Zeitung of January 23, 2013
  35. ↑ Wolfgang Thierses Schwaben-Schelte is pure hypocrisy
  36. ↑ Torsten Holtz: FDP Minister Niebel calls Thierse "Zickenbart" , Die Welt , January 1, 2013
  37. ↑ And the German philistine greets forever , Cicero January 3, 2013
  38. ^ Thierse makes an offer of peace to Swabia , Augsburger Allgemeine , January 14th
  39. ^ "Spießer, Rassist, Nazi": 3,000 hate mails to Wolfgang Thierse , Augsburger Allgemeine , January 13th
  40. ↑ Thierse receives Fool's Bell from the Swabians , Tagesspiegel of January 23, 2013.
  41. ↑ Waltraud Linder-Beroud: How Baden is the Badnerlied? On the history of the state anthems in Baden and Württemberg. In: Eckhard John (Hrsg.): Volkslied - Hymne - political song. Popular songs in Baden-Württemberg. Volksliedstudien, Vol. 3. Waxmann, Münster 2003, ISBN 3-8309-1351-6 , pp. 54–95, here p. 89 .
  42. ↑ The name of the Baden as " Badenser ", although it is true according to Duden be correct nowadays perceived as pejorative.
  43. ↑ Amadeus Siebenpunkt: Germany Your Badeners. Group picture of a confused family . Badenia, Karlsruhe 1997, ISBN 978-3-7617-0340-3 .
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  45. ↑ Anonymous: The Magyar Revolution. Brief description of the most recent events in Hungary and Transylvania. Heckenast, Pest 1849, p. 197 .
  46. ↑ Political Miscellen from the author of the "Sibylline Books from Austria". Tendler, Vienna 1848, p. 79 .
  47. ↑ https://schwaben-in-berlin.de/
  48. ↑ “Prenzlschwäbin” in conversation, “The Swabians didn't want Schwabylon” , faz.net of April 13, 2015
  49. ^ With Friedrich-Anthony on Bikram Yoga , Deutschlandradio Kultur, April 28, 2015
  50. ↑ How this woman manages a million video clicks on Facebook , welt.de of March 27, 2015