The coronavirus crisis makes conspiracy theorists like Attila Hildmann loud.
A poster campaign draws attention to the dangers of these crude theories.
Wild conspiracy theories circulate during the coronavirus crisis.
The Stadtjugendring Kaufbeuren is strongly critical of the statements made by corona conspirators.
With a poster campaign they draw attention to the topic and not only receive praise for it
Kaufbeuren - In times of the
coronavirus pandemic
,
conspiracy theorists
and pandemic deniers are getting a lot of momentum.
Two Kaufbeuren warn of the dangerousness of the abstruse theses that corona conspirators are currently spreading.
Coronavirus conspirators: Attila Hildman railed against the federal government - poster campaign in Kaufbeuren is intended to raise awareness
66,000 members (as of July 15, 2020) have already gathered in the Telegram group of corona conspirator Attila Hildmann *.
There the author of vegan cookbooks spread absurd theories among his followers.
Hildmann speaks of a "pharmaceutical mafia" and has
conspired
against the
federal government
.
Most recently, the Berliner even demanded the death penalty for a Green politician *.
The Kaufbeurer
Till Nissle
and
Kilian Herbschleb
from the Stadtjugendring are
extremely critical of
such
coronavirus conspiracy theories
.
“Behind conspiracy theories is often the denigration of a minority or the attempt to divide society: into top and bottom or good and bad,” says the website of a campaign that the two of them launched.
Poster campaign against coronavirus conspiracy theories in Kaufbeuren (Bavaria)
Behind the campaign is a
poster
campaign
with which Till Nissle and Kilian Herbschleb
draw attention
to the current boom in
conspiracy theories
.
That's why there are turquoise-green posters hanging
in various places in the
Bavarian town of Kaufbeuren
, on which sentences like “The Easter bunny is to blame for not becoming a top model!” Or “From a reliable source I know that it is because of St. Nicholas that I did not become a millionaire !" stand.
With this they want to
stimulate
the viewer to think about wild
conspiracy theories
on the
one hand
, but on the other
hand to approach
the topic in a humorous way.
"We didn't want to come across with a raised index finger, we wanted to approach it in a fun way so that we could reach people and not scare them," said Till Nisse to the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation.
Kaufbeuren: Feedback on Facebook on the poster campaign against coronavirus conspiracy theories
So far, the campaign in
Kaufbeuren has had a
very positive response, reports br.de.
Kilian Herbschleb
also
noticed
negative comments: "In some of them we were compared with the book burning and with Hitler's propaganda means," he says. He and his colleague
Till Nissle
are currently still considering how to deal with feedback, that hits such extremes.
Coronavirus conspirators are also
currently active
in Munich *
.
Only recently did they make their theories visible in the public cityscape * by smearing several walls in Munich's university district.
A video of a corona demo in Berlin also caused a stir, in which a police officer let a corona conspirator come up with just a single question.
* 24hamburg.de and tz.de are part of the Ippen-Digital network
List of rubric lists: © Jörg Carstensen / dpa
