By Stephen Peter
The protest was successful: the KitKat Club uninvited the Corona belittler “Captain Future” again! He was originally supposed to DJ there for five hours.
This was confirmed by the world-famous fetish club: “The organizer has withdrawn the booking,” said KitKat founder Kirsten Krüger to the BZ
As recently as Friday, she had defended the decision to have “Captain Future” played at the “Mystic Rose” party series on June 17. “He’s quite entertaining in his yellow superhero outfit,” Krüger wrote on Facebook. At the party he was “just a DJ, nothing else”.
This statement caused huge outrage. Because “Captain Future” (real name Michael Bründel) is not just a critic of the state corona measures. At the peak of the pandemic, he and like-minded people walked through shops and trains without a mask, singing “A little Sars must be”.
He is considered a convinced “lateral thinker”, has appeared several times with right-wing extremists, and his entourage includes Reich citizens and Holocaust deniers. At the end of May, Bründel marched through Pankow with his followers – and indirectly accused the federal government of having staged the outbreak of monkeypox.
It is therefore not surprising that there was mass criticism on the KitKat Facebook page of the planned appearance of the Corona trivializer. “Are you completely stupid?” Wrote an angry user. Another asked ironically: “What time does Björn Höcke hang up?”
KitKat founder Krüger dismissed the criticism: “I think everyone should pause a little,” she wrote. “Like to unfriend & fight. It’s not my issue.”
On Sunday, Ananto, organizer of the “Mystic Rose” party, finally took a position: “I booked him as a DJ, not as a political activist,” he defended his decision. “Because I really like him as a DJ!” He finds it unbearable that the KitKat has to endure “this shitstorm”. “That’s why I will withdraw my booking from Captain Future so as not to further damage the club.” The protest was “below the belt and partly full of hatred”. “Captain Future” didn’t deserve that either.
People stand tightly packed in the pouring rain at the entrance to the Kitkat Club (stock photo) Photo: ogu kil pil djj
“In my eyes, he’s a freak, an anarchist, with more left-wing ideas.” However: “He was perhaps too stupid or naive to be photographed with Nazis or AfDlers.”
However, this statement by the party organizer was not well received by many Facebook users: “No understanding, no thinking, no awareness of the problem. Stupid defense of your own actions,” wrote Anuschka H. Add the hashtag #ohnepartysmitnazis. “Did not understand. Didn’t learn anything,” criticized Rick D. “Play victim roles and scream how mean the others are.”
However, there were also understanding responses to the statement – the cancellation of “Captain Future” was a sign of a lack of tolerance.
“Captain Future” commented on Telegram about the cancellation of his appearance at KitKat: “The club was my favorite club before Corona and I would have been happy to play there again. For me he stood for freedom, an ideal to which I feel committed. But the shitstorm was huge and I don’t want to do any further damage to it.” He wants to continue demonstrating in front of the Gethsemane Church every Monday.
