# Make everything tight: Jan Josef Liefers, Ulrich Tukur and Co. take a lot of criticism

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Ulrich Tukur is calling for all grocery stores to be closed, Meret Becker prays an ironic text about protective masks from an oversized piece of paper, Richy Müller alternately breathes in two bags: Dozens of actors have criticized the protective measures to contain the pandemic in videos with ironic and sarcastic contributions.

The Munich company Wunder Am Werk GmbH is behind the campaign.

It is not yet clear who coordinated the project under the hashtag #allesdichtmachen and what exactly is intended.

Some of the reactions are already very clear: there is euphoric approval - and a lot of outrage.

For example, the former President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Hans-Georg Maaßen, responded enthusiastically.

The CDU right wing called the action on Twitter as "great".

The Hamburg virologist Jonas Schmidt-Chanasit spoke of a "masterpiece" that "should make us very thoughtful".

And the AfD member of the Bundestag Joana Cotar tweeted that she was celebrating Jan Josef Liefers for his media criticism: "This is an intelligent protest."

"They are welcome to shove their irony deep into the ventilator."

Tobias Schlegl

There was, however, sharp criticism from many other celebrities. "The actors from #allesdichtmachen can shove their irony deep into the ventilator," tweeted presenter Tobias Schlegl, who is also an emergency paramedic. The actor Marcus Mittermeier commented: »Nobody asked me if I wanted to take part in #allesdichtmachen. Thank God! "The bluntest weapon against the pandemic, as the pianist Igor Levit put it on Twitter, is" bad, narrow-minded shrinking sarcasm that is ultimately just bland cynicism that doesn't help anyone. Only divides. "

The media journalist Stefan Niggemeier wrote of "disgusting irony" and a "breach of the dam", which is also the "greatest success of the lateral thinker scene so far".

The Green MEP Erik Marquardt found the action to be an "expression of the increasing resignation of those who are actually sensible."

Other prominent actors joined the discussion via Instagram.

Elyas M'Barek wrote: "Cynicism doesn't help anyone." Everyone wants to return to normal, and that will happen.

Hans-Jochen Wagner called the action embarrassing.

He doesn't understand her, the actor wrote and said to Jan Josef Liefers: "You can't be serious."

Liefers distances himself - but not from his contribution

Liefers had sharply criticized the media coverage of the pandemic in a sarcastic way.

In the meantime he distanced himself from many who celebrated his video contribution: »A growing closeness to unconventional thinkers and the like that oracle was being drawn into it.

I clearly reject it, «wrote the 56-year-old on Twitter.

“There is no party in the current spectrum of the Bundestag that I am further from than the AfD.

Because we're at it, that also applies to Reich citizens, conspiracy theorists, corona ignoramuses and aluminum hats.

Point."

The fact that right-wing extremists and believers in conspiracies in particular feel confirmed by the action, however, did not surprise some von Liefers colleagues.

Christian Ulmen, for example, felt reminded of the right-wing conspiracy narrator Ken Jebsen, as he wrote: Jebsen "couldn't have said it more beautifully."

“Really yes, Leude?” Asked Nora Tschirner on Instagram.

"It could be that you will be ashamed of yourself in a few years (weeks?)," She wrote, adding: "Unfucking comprehensible." She suggested that the makers of the clips act out of boredom and cynicism - and suggested an alternative hashtag : #making it all simple.

The satirist Jan Böhmermann countered the action on Twitter that the only video that you should watch "if you have problems with Corona containment measures" was an ARD documentary: The production with the title "Station 43 - Die" was made during the pandemic in the Berlin Charité.

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