Tuscany Group
Tuscany faction is a catchphrase of political culture in Germany and Austria. It is widely used, particularly in the press, to refer to a group of politicians and social democratic intellectuals from the political spectrum who prefer to spend their holidays in Tuscany .
The Tuscany faction is not actually a rope team (like the conservative Andean Pact ). The term, which is mostly used disparagingly, is rather coined on a hedonistic stance supposedly shared by the Tuscany parliamentary groups : The former rebels of the 68er movement , exhausted by the “ march through the institutions ”, have become thoroughly bourgeois connoisseurs in old age , which is theirs Show a preference for Italian delicacies, holiday homes and residences. The use of the term is often associated with accusations of laziness and complacency. Proceeding from this context, ethologists also use this term to characterize holiday home owners in central Italy. The origin of the term is unclear. It came up in the early 1990s and was used in particular to criticize the so-called " grandchildren " of the SPD; Klaus von Dohnanyi is named as a possible inventor .
The following politicians were and are commonly assigned by the press to the Tuscany Group:
- Björn Engholm ( SPD ; was only once in Tuscany)
- Otto Schily (SPD, formerly Greens ; has owned an estate near Siena since 1989 )
- Peter Glotz (1939-2005; SPD; spent most of his holidays in Castiglion Fiorentino )
- Gerhard Schröder (SPD; was first spotted in 2003)
- Oskar Lafontaine ( Die Linke , formerly SPD; prefers to vacation in Capannori near Lucca )
- Joschka Fischer (Greens)
- Claudia Roth (Greens)
- Jürgen Trittin (Greens)
- Michael Häupl (Mayor of Vienna, SPÖ )
- Alfred Gusenbauer (former Austrian Federal Chancellor, SPÖ)
Analogous terms
The Swiss counterpart to the Tuscany parliamentary group are the "Cüpli Socialists", including Federal Councilor Moritz Leuenberger or Bernese City President Alexander Tschäppät (Cüpli = a glass of champagne). Champagne socialist is used analogously in the English-speaking world and gauche caviar in France . Sometimes a person who is enthusiastic about the theories of Bolshevism , but only advocates them in practice if he does not have to forego personal advantages, is ironically referred to as a " salon Bolshevik ".
In the English-speaking world, Tom Wolfe coined the term “radical chic” in his essay Radical Chic: That Party at Lenny's (German translation: Radical Chic and Mau-Mau at the welfare authority ). The reason for Wolfe's essay was the behavior of the composer Leonard Bernstein , who raised money for the violent Black Panther Party at a luxury party he organized .
Web links
- Klaus Wagenbach: The Tuscany faction of the 68ers (queried on April 4, 2010)
- How we became the Tuscany Group (queried on April 4, 2010)
- Robert Gernhardt: Tuscany work in: Zeit-online (requested on April 4, 2010)
- toskanafraktion.de: Website on the history of the Tuscan faction
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cord Pagenstecher: Book review (2011) in the portal hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de on Daniella Seidl: "We are making our Italy ...". Multilocal German holiday home owners . Waxmann Verlag, Münster 2009, ISBN 978-3-8309-2211-7 , p. 86 f. ( online )
- ↑ Robert Gernhardt: About everything. A reading and picture book . S. Fischer Verlag, 2014 ( online )
- ^ Cora Stephan: The cult of concern. A political moral story . Edel Books, 2013 ( online )
- ^ Franz Walter: Farewell to Tuscany. The SPD in the Schröder era . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2004
- ↑ Merian.de
- ↑ the portrait: the Tuscany parliamentary group in: ARTE ( Memento of the original from May 17, 2010 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. of October 14, 2007 (requested on April 4, 2010)
- ↑ a b c d Geismar in conversation ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Edition 1/2009 (queried April 4, 2010)
- ↑ SPON interview (queried July 25, 2011)
- ↑ a b c Merian.de (requested on April 4, 2010)
- ↑ Chancellor came to the Tuscany parliamentary group late in: Handelsblatt of July 9, 2003 , (queried on April 4, 2010)
- ↑ "I am the Tuscany Group!" in Der Standard from August 29, 2003 (requested on April 4, 2010)
- ↑ Nationalrat, XXI.GP, stenographic protocol 113th meeting / page 94 (queried on April 4, 2010)
- ^ Salon Bolshevist on the Duden website , accessed on July 20, 2012.
- ^ Obituary by Willi Winkler: Fallen from heaven . In: sueddeutsche.de . 2018, ISSN 0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed on May 16, 2018]).
