“To establish order in the country” – saarbruecker-zeitung.de

singer Xavier Naidoo stands for political statements against right-wing populists in the criticism. The Pop Academy in Mannheim, whose co-founder he is, sets working with him on ice. <- (Ver & ouml; ffentlicht October 13, 00:00) ->

As a missionary shows Xavier Naidoo like. However, for the proclamation of His truth he has an audience chosen from the political wilderness: Before the right-wing populist “Reich citizens” that Germany does not recognize as a sovereign state, he preached on the Day of German Unity in Berlin’s government district on the “by the United States occupied the Federal Republic “and called for resistance. Of his audience, he was applauded – but since it hails criticism. He no longer wanted to comment, says his management.

in Naidoo’s hometown Mannheim irritation is great. “We distance ourselves from the questionable and confusing policy statements and the appearance Xavier Naidoo,” says the Pop Academy, whose co-initiator is the lead singer. His guest lecturer was suspended.

Who knows Naidoo, the surprising his Berlin theses not. By 2011, he said about the ARD television: “We are not free. We are still an occupied country. “Criticism of the policies of the United States, he expressed for years. “What is now surprising that he deliberately on the stage of right-wing populist conspiracy theorists and enemies of the constitution arises,” criticizes media scholar Marcus S. Kleiner of the University of Macromedia in Stuttgart. How do the Christian religious singers and the Reich Citizenship together? The Göttingen democracy researchers Jöran Klatt explained it this way: “. What unites Mr Naidoo and the citizens of the Reich, is the outrage over an alleged foreign domination and anger on a diffuse enemy image”

How much wishes of the Mannheim change is In his speech very clearly: “I definitely want to, that somehow we each create order in this country,” he says. “One only has to bring even the power, to overthrow the whole thing. And if we unite, now if even a few hundred are here, then it must be us but definitely succeed. “Against whom exactly this call to teach resistance remains unclear, says political scientist Klatt. “This is also in the Reich citizens that way.” The attacks of 11 September 2001 referred to the singer as a warning shot. “Who has accepted as truth what was said there that has the veil before the eyes, easy. Everything that has happened since then has only helped that we have removed us further from each other, that more blood has been shed and that the direction we have really, absolutely the wrong is. “

For a reckless action of the singer keeps media scholar Small talk is not: “This was a deliberate staging.” In an interview with the SWR of the singer said after the speech: “There are all critics of the system, as I do. We need this freedom to tell our opinion but not quite suited to the masses. “He wanted to reach out to all, whether it be kingdom citizens or members of the NPD. If it therefore right ideology was accused that he thought sadly. “I’m an artist, I also like to use art as a provocative means at my expression.” Small thinks this is dangerous. “The wrong combination of aesthetics and politics is the entry point for right-wing populism.”

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