The vegan chef Attila Hildmann caught conspiracy theories in the corona crisis. His tirades now have ramifications.
- Vegan chef Attila Hildmann causes a sensation with conspiracy theory messages and insults.
- In the Corona * crisis, he attacks Chancellor Angela Merkel, Minister of Health Jens Spahn and billionaire Bill Gates .
- Now the failures have consequences for vegan chef Attila Hildmann .
Berlin - Attila Hildmanns vegan cooking -Books were bestseller, the Berlin hoofed it through talk shows, danced with "Let's Dance" and cooked with Stefan Raab. With various products for vegan nutrition Attila Hildmann surfed for years on a wave of financial success - which he also diligently staged on Instagram and Youtube.
Then came the corona pandemic - and with it Attila Hildmann plunged into right-esoteric conspiracy worlds. He no longer drew attention to himself with vegan recipes, but with political messages: on Instagram and Telegram, he called on his followers to resist Angela Merkel's corona measures. Health Minister Jens Spahn is part of a conspiracy to introduce forced vaccination and to abolish democracy in Germany.
Attila Hildmann and Corona Conspiracy Theories: Mockery and Economic Consequences
His tirades on social media have brought much ridicule to Attila Hildmann. But they also have economic consequences for the chef: the discounter Kaufland and the drugstore chain Vitalia have now decided not to sell Hildmann's products in their branches. "We were taken aback by Attila Hildmann's worldview," a spokeswoman for Kaufland told the "Welt".
The vegan chef Attila Hildmann caught conspiracy theories in the corona crisis. His tirades now have ramifications.
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At hourly intervals, Attila Hildmann shouts obscure messages into the world on social media. The cook calls for gun violence, announces that he will go underground, and tells of dying in the "fight for freedom". Hildmann warns of the "satanic plans" of a secret society: "They manipulate the media, silence critics or shoot opponents!"
Attila Hildmann: cook and conspiracy theorist
On Thursday (May 7th, 2020) he rushed against the American billionaire and Microsoft founder Bill Gates , calling him a satanist, a "dirty liar and psychophate". Gates is currently under attack by many conspiracy theorists. The freelance journalist Ken Jebsen had also claimed that Gates and his wife had "hacked into the world community through WHO" and now had "more power than Roosevelt, Churchill, Hitler and Stalin had in common", as the "Süddeutsche Zeitung" reports .
Chef Attila Hildmann in corona crisis: crude messages about Telegram
The Messenger Telegram has now become the most important channel for Attila Hildmann's conspiracy theories . Via Telegram, he also called for a meeting in front of the German Bundestag on Wednesday (May 6, 2020). This led to riots in which an ARD camera team was attacked.
Aaaaw, you are irritated now because Attila Hildmann, the apparently nice, hip, vegan cookbook author, is currently turning freely and spreading the NWO vaccination conspiracy, even though he is such a selfless animal welfare type?
Sweet summer children. that was foreseeable - THREAD
However, the change from cook Attila Hildmann to conspiracy theorist Attila Hildmann was not as surprising as it initially seems: the cook polarized early on in social media . Hildmann posed as "Vegangsta" and attracted attention with sexist advertising. On Facebook, he insulted a journalist when she had critically evaluated his snack. When hundreds of thousands of refugees came to Germany in 2015, Hildmann saw "self-mutilation of German values and culture".
By Steffen Herrmann
The wildest conspiracy theories circulate in times of the corona crisis. However, many are only interested in gaining power. Koch Attila Hildmann * is new at the front.
* fr.de is part of the nationwide Ippen-Digital editors network.
