Recommendations of the Editorial team
The Last edition of Jan Böhmermann’s “ZDF Magazin Royale” should be remembered a little longer. Keyword: clown world. The moderator had taken a closer look at a YouTube channel in the show and exposed right-wing populist to right-wing extremist views behind it. He was also based on research of the “time”.
At the same time, Böhmermann obviously made what you would otherwise have to look for on the net-whoever hides behind the pseudonym of the YouTube producer. You learned that this is also a metal guitarist. That initiated rights loudly “Metal hammer” Apparently to be directed against the affected PowerGame group with desert attacks.
Already on April 28th-more than a week before the Böhmermann program-she had not publicly worked with the guitarist. There was talk of “insurmountable personal differences”. Now the formation from Bielefeld reported again and writes: “The fact that the right collective works on a small metal band from East Westphalia shows its lack of understanding of the big picture.”
More specifically, the very emotional communication with the title “Five years of door on door with Alice” is said: “In the past few days we have been insulted, undemocratic, system bikes, Stasi, Faschos and Nazis, among other things. Why? Because we have separated from our guitarist Marc-Philipp, with the worldview of which we do not even go to a matter of particular compliance with it and this is incorrectly. ‘ZDF Magazin Royale’ was and will be interpreted. “
Metal band PowerGame clearly position themselves
According to a private hint, the musicians first saw videos of clown world on YouTube and the material shocked them so much that they immediately reacted with the tape. “The complete right program can be found here, and the hatred of everything foreign and different is omnipresent,” PowerGame continues to write in your statement. “We immediately clearly recognized the anonymous voice from the off-you off in all videos to be heard as Marc-Philipp, a fellow musician for five years, from whom we would never have expected such a mindset and radicalization.
The guitarist had apparently never said loudly his worldview that the band claimed that they had not known anything about the production of the clown world clips. He did not respond to his colleagues’ request.
Right groups and right-wing populists accused Powergame of only thrown out of the band because of the Böhmermann knowledge. In addition, the group in their communication: “It is not a question that we have ‘betrayed a friend’. Someone who consciously hits us for years that he is spreading rights and knows that we would never accept that was obviously never our friend.”
Powergame no longer wants to publish an EP on which her guitarist could still be heard. At the same time, the Bielefeld used the attention of the moment to clearly pay themselves against the right: “Powergame stands for intercultural exchange, for tolerance towards immigrants, refugees, the LGTBQ+ community and other groups that are found from the loud right. But power game does not stand for tolerance towards hate, agitation and defamation.”
What are the consequences of the Clownswelt-Causa?
Jan Böhmermann has repeatedly pointed out the influence of right -wing populists and right -wing extremists on the Internet in “ZDF Magazin Royale”. His attempt to show a partial anonymous YouTuber, which apparently also cooperates with the AfD, reproduces their views at least, but rather unreflect, as a person of public life, brought him criticism. In a counter reaction, the clown world operator announced legal consequences and speaks of so-called doxxing. Meanwhile, rights reacted tuned to the fact that the clown world found thousands of new subscribers after the show. The AfD, on the other hand, senses an attack by public service broadcast on freedom of expression behind the contribution in the ZDF program.