Fun party

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A fun party is the colloquial term for political parties or groups of voters for which programmatic content is less important than the entertainment value of their actions.

In 2002, the fun party for Germany took part in the state elections in Saxony-Anhalt and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and each received 0.7% of the vote. Since then, some small parties have occasionally been referred to as fun parties , even if they expressly distance themselves from this characterization.

Political scientist Viola Neu describes the term fun party as misleading. Anyone who uses the stylistic device of satire ( satirical party ) cannot be denied serious goals per se.

Examples

In 1904 Jaroslav Hašek founded the Party for Moderate Progress within the Limits of Law in Prague . In 1911 she took part in the elections for the Austrian Reichsrat . As a candidate in the Royal Vineyards constituency , Hašek propagated his program as a parody of the election campaigns of the other parties. Of the total of 3,000 votes cast in the constituency, the party received 38, according to another publication only 16 votes.

The Radical Center was a registered "association against the seriousness of animals", which was founded in 1950 by Werner Finck together with Thaddäus Troll in West Berlin . The movement also caused a stir in West Germany . Heinz Greul assessed the “Parody Party” as the “educational attempt to establish humor - as a willingness to discuss and tolerate - in political life” in Germany during the Adenauer period . The Radical Center did not run for elections.

The Parti Rhinocéros ( French for rhinoceros party ) was a registered political party in Canada from 1963 to 1993 . At the elections she made demands and promises to entertain the public. Although it did not win a single mandate, in 1988 it had around 33,000 members in Canada alone and supporters in the USA, Belgium, France and the Netherlands. According to her own statements, she maintained a formal alliance with the British Official Monster Raving Loony Party (German about the official party of the maddening crazy monsters ).

The Official Monster Raving Loony Party has participated in the general election since it was founded in 1983 by Screaming Lord Sutch . Its creation was probably inspired by a Monty Python sketch in which the Silly Party and the Sensible Party competed against each other. Based on this sketch, the later party member Tarquin Fin-tim-lin-bin-whin-bim-lim-bus-stop-F'tang-F'tang-Olé-Biscuitbarrel was in the 1981 by-election in the Crosby constituency in England Merseyside County .

The official chairman of the Swedish Ezenhemmer Plastpåsar och Barnuppfostringsredskapspartiet (German: Ezenhemmer Plastic Bags and Child Education Tool Party ) was Mickelin the cat , often abbreviated as KM. The party's program arose from KMs Goda Bok (KMs Gutes Buch), a 99-chapter book that contains only fragments of KMs Goda Bok's original holy book. The party first ran in the Reichstag election in 1988 and received "a handful of votes". In 1991 it increased to 49 votes, in 1994 it achieved its best result with 102 votes. In September 1994 the party said it had 72 members.

The Polish party Polska Partia Przyjaciół Piwa (PPPP, German: Polish Party of Beer Friends ) was founded in 1990 by Janusz Rewiński . In the parliamentary elections in 1991 it received 3.27% of the vote and was represented with 16 seats in the Sejm . After the decline in her share of the vote to 0.1% in the 1993 elections, she stopped her political activities. In 1997 she was no longer registered for the elections.

The Dutch electoral list Partij van de Toekomst (German: Party of the Future ) competed in the 2003 parliamentary elections. She used the television character Johan Vlemmix, developed by Eric Hoogerheide , as the “top candidate”.

On the Faroe Islands , Johan Dalsgaard founded the Hin Stuttligi Flokkurin party (German about The other short-term party ). For the Løgting elections in 2004 he stood with the election promise “I will do nothing”. With 747 votes, he achieved a 2.4% share of the vote, but no mandate.

The most successful fun party was the Icelandic Besti flokkurinn ( Best Party ) founded by Jón Gnarr in 2009 . In 2010 it became Reykjavík's strongest party in the elections to the city council with 35 percent of the vote and six of the 15 seats. Gnarr became mayor of Reykjavík. By taking office, the party became more serious and ruled on a center-left course. Björt framtíð ( Bright Future ) was founded from the best party and ran for the 2013 Icelandic parliamentary elections. The best party itself was disbanded after Gnarr's tenure ended in 2014.

In some countries there are beer parties , which are usually also pure fun parties .

Use in Germany

In order to be able to participate in an election in Germany, a political party must submit its statutes and program to the Federal Returning Officer and be recognized by the Federal Electoral Committee. In addition, she needs a certain number of support signatures for each election if she is not represented in a parliament. In 1986 the federal electoral committee did not approve the Union as a party because of the fact that it “does not guarantee the seriousness of its objectives” and “has neither income nor membership fees”. In addition, the Federal Returning Officer suspected that the party's statutes would “ridicule a party statute”.

For the 2002 federal election, the FDP started an image campaign after its party congress in 2001 to emphasize “fun and events as central elements of the fun party”. However, with this "slapstick campaign" she clearly missed the target she had set herself in Project 18 of 18% of the votes; it achieved 7.4% of the valid second votes . For the 2005 election campaign, “the former fun party… (again) emphasized seriousness and state support”.

The fun party for Germany , founded in 2002, took part in the state elections in Saxony-Anhalt and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in the same year. During the election campaign, for example, she called for “energy drinks for the employment office” and for salaries in West Germany to be aligned with those in East Germany. In the state elections in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in 2002, she received 0.7 percent of the vote. Since then, she has not participated in elections.

Also in 2002, the satirical magazine Titanic carried out an “Election campaign on behalf of the FDP” in Eisenach as the “FDP local association Frankfurt-Bockenheim” . With a yellow VW Golf labeled “Guidomobil” on one side and “Möllemobil” in blue on the other, the campaign referred explicitly to the fun election campaign led by Guido Westerwelle and the anti-Semitism debate surrounding Jürgen Möllemann. The Eisenach district chairman of the FDP, Klaus Schneider, commented on the posters presented on the information stand with the words: "That is packaging, that is part of it." The Young Liberals of Thuringia distanced themselves from Schneider's statements, and a lawsuit against the Titanic was also considered, however not collected. Klaus Schneider resigned from his post.

For the state elections in Bavaria in 2003 , the SPD was predicted in surveys to slide to below 20%. Three days before the election, the Titanic in Aschaffenburg "carried out one more election campaign in the name of social democracy". A red van was marked “We're giving up. SPD ”and“ Lose with decency. SPD "labeled. On election posters with photos of the SPD top candidate Franz Maget were slogans such as “Stoiber election 2003 - Whistle it!” And “Your tried and tested opposition in the state parliament. We'll be back: State elections 2011! ”Sonneborn himself pretended to be Maget and was mistaken for him. Two days after the action, Maget appeared at an election campaign event in Aschaffenburg. He later stated: "The Titanic is supposed to lead the next SPD election campaign, they obviously understand more about it than we do!"

In order to address the opening of the border in Germany , the Titanic founded the Party for Labor, the Rule of Law, Animal Welfare, the Promotion of Elites and the grassroots initiative (Die PARTEI) in 2004 . In the election campaign for the 2005 state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia , chairman Martin Sonneborn expressly affirmed : "We are not a fun party like the FDP". "Die PARTTEI" has been represented in the European Parliament since 2014, initially with one seat and since 2019 with two.

The Kreuzberg Patriotic Democrats / Realistic Center (KPD / RZ) was founded in 1988 in West Berlin and took part in the elections for the Berlin House of Representatives in 1995 and 1999. The KPD / RZ has been supporting the PARTY since 2004 .

The Anarchist Pogo Party of Germany (APPD) was founded for the first time in 1981 in Hanover . She first took part in a federal election in 1998 . In the early elections to the German Bundestag in 2005 , the APPD was approved despite considerable reservations on the part of the Federal Electoral Committee . The election campaign was carried out with slogans such as “Ultimate and total dummification of humanity”, “Drunk the government reimbursement for election campaign costs when cracking the 0.5 percent hurdle” and “Balkanization - Dummification - No more work”. An election commercial could only be broadcast after a decision by the OVG Münster . The court judged the spot to be “tasteless”, but it did not exceed the limits of criminal pornography or the like. Against the broadcast protested u. a. the then President of the Bundestag Wolfgang Thierse , Interior Minister Otto Schily ("It is a scandal that such a report is broadcast and the viewers are expected to be expected at prime time.") and Wolfgang Bosbach ("unbearable if such garbage in connection with the election is compulsorily over German screens flicker "). The office manager of the Federal Returning Officer Heinz Christoph Herbertz saw in a statement no reason to refuse the admission, since the political parties law does not prohibit fun parties. The APPD does not claim to be a fun party: The APPD is not a fun party! The APPD has fun being a party! .

In Berlin, the pogo party split off under Karl Nagel . Members of this party ran in 2005 on a joint list with the party The PARTY .

Since 2006 at the latest, many small parties have been confronted with the charge of being a fun party . Be it because of the party's own designation, or because these parties are suspected of being politically insignificant. The chairman of the then newly founded Pirate Party Germany declared : "We are definitely not a fun party - even if the name polarizes."

literature

  • Andreas Dörner, Christian Schicha: Politics in spot format: On the semantics, pragmatics and aesthetics of political advertising in Germany. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften: Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3-531-15408-4
  • Eckhard Jesse, Roland Sturm (ed.): Balance sheet of the federal election 2002: requirements, results, consequences. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften: Wiesbaden 2003, ISBN 3-531-14172-4
  • Eckhard Jesse, Roland Sturm (Hrsg.): Balance of the Bundestag election 2005: Requirements, results, consequences. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften: Wiesbaden 2006, ISBN 3-531-14968-7
  • Udo Leuschner: The history of the FDP: Metamorphoses of a party between right, social liberal and neoconservative. , Edition Octopus: Münster 2005, ISBN 3-86582-166-9
  • Martin Sonneborn: The PARTY book: How to found a party in Germany and take power. Kiepenheuer & Witsch: Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-462-04090-6

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ At the beginning of 2009, dictionaries such as Wahrig or Duden did not record an entry Fun Party, nor did the German National Bibliography provide a catchphrase or catchphrase for Fun Party .
  2. ↑ In: Frank Decker, Viola Neu (Ed.): Handbook of German parties. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2013, ISBN 978-3-658-00962-5 , p. 360
  3. ↑ The day of elections. In: Jaroslav Hašek: The party of moderate progress within the limits of the law. Suhrkamp: Frankfurt a. M. 1971, Appendix, pp. 141-143.
  4. ↑ Radko Pytlik (ed.): Jaroslav Hašek in letters, pictures and memories. Construction-Verlag: Berlin (Ost) / Weimar 1983, pp. 213f.
  5. ↑ Heinz Greul: Boards that mean time - The cultural history of cabaret. Kiepenheuer & Witsch: Cologne / Berlin 1968
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  7. ↑ no author details (February 21, 1988). Rhinos elect the 'Spaceman'. (New York print edition: Section 1, p. 42) New York Times (accessed March 29, 2009)
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  9. ↑ http://mickelin.com/ezen/#members
  10. ↑ Jakob Nielsen: Færøsk valgslogan: »Jeg vil gøre ingenting«. Politiken , January 19, 2004, accessed September 16, 2016 (Danish, Faroese election slogan: “I will do nothing”).
  11. ↑ January 20, 2004 Election Results - Faroe Totals. electionresources.org, accessed September 16, 2016 .
  12. ↑ Henryk M. Broder : Political Clown wins local elections. Spiegel Online , May 30, 2010, accessed September 16, 2016 .
  13. ↑ Invalid joke . In: Der Spiegel . No. 51 , 1986 ( online - 15 December 1986 ).
  14. ↑ Eckhard Jesse, Roland Sturm (ed.): Balance of the Federal Parliament election 2005: Requirements, results, consequences. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften: Wiesbaden 2006, ISBN 3-531-14968-7 , p. 103ff
  15. ^ A b Andreas Dörner, Christian Schicha: Politics in the spot format: On the semantics, pragmatics and aesthetics of political advertising in Germany. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften: Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3-531-15408-4 , p. 272
  16. ^ Andreas Dörner, Christian Schicha: Politics in the spot format: On the semantics, pragmatics and aesthetics of political advertising in Germany. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften: Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3-531-15408-4 , p. 285
  17. ↑ Report of the Netzeitung from January 23, 2003: Fun party: align west salary to east level ( memento from February 11, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), accessed on July 17, 2009
  18. ↑ a b c Martin Sonneborn: Election campaign in the name of the FDP , in: Das PARTTEI book: How to found a party in Germany and take power. Kiepenheuer & Witsch: Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-462-04090-6 , p. 18ff
  19. ↑ cf. Titanic actions : Poster texts: “FDP - the (liberal) fun party”, “Finally give Friedman”, “Germans fight back! Vote for the FDP! Laugh. Laugh. Laugh."
  20. ↑ a b Martin Sonneborn: We give up. SPD , in: Das PARTTEI book: How to found a party in Germany and take power. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-462-04090-6 , pp. 39-46
  21. Jump up to go under. Welt Online, September 19, 2003, accessed July 9, 2009 .
  22. ↑ Martin Sonneborn: For the final division of Germany: Der Weg zur Macht , in: Das PARTTEI book: How to found a party in Germany and take over power. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-462-04090-6 , p. 47ff
  23. ^ "The wall must be restored" - "Titanic" and disaffection with politics , Süddeutsche Zeitung, May 19, 2010; accessed on March 17, 2015
  24. ↑ European elections 2019 The results from Germany . In: Der Spiegel . May 27, 2019 ( [1] [accessed October 24, 2019]).
  25. ↑ a b c d Thierse and Schily exercise severe criticism of the APPD TV commercial. (No longer available online.) German Bundestag, September 12, 2005, archived from the original on June 13, 2007 ; Retrieved June 17, 2016 .
  26. ↑ a b c Pogo party promotes "total dumming back". Spiegel Online, September 7, 2005, accessed July 9, 2009 .
  27. ↑ “The APPD is not a fun party! The APPD has fun being a party! ” - on“ Facebook ”on August 24, 2014; Retrieved September 20, 2014
  28. ↑ Jan Huwald on September 12, 2006 in German Pirates: "We are not a fun party" , accessed on April 23, 2009