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"Babylon Berlin" actor Volker Bruch 2018
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Actor Volker Bruch has applied for membership in the protest party »Die Basis«.
The party's media officer, David Claudio Siber, confirmed this to SPIEGEL.
Bruch's party membership has not yet been completed because he still has to be finally identified.
Bruch, together with Jan Josef Liefers and the author and »Tatort« director Dietrich Brüggemann, is said to have been one of the initiators of the # all sealing action, which had caused a lot of criticism in recent weeks because around 50 actors and actresses opposed the had put state corona measures.
Even though Bruch does not want to provide any further information on the distribution of tasks within the group when asked: »We were always concerned with content.
Who called whom and when to make all of this possible does not matter. "
The research portal “netzpolitik.org” had previously reported on Bruch's membership application.
Even on the set of the series »Babylon Berlin«, the fourth season of which is currently being shot in Berlin, Bruch apparently caused some irritation. With his exemption from wearing a mask, the hygiene concept of production had to be adapted. As SPIEGEL reported, TV set employees also reported that the 41-year-old had violated alcohol and distance bans at celebrations.
In addition, Bruch and his partner, the actress Miriam Stein, support the "Voices of our members" initiative, which had a corona statement on their side that played down the Holocaust for a long time. “A piece of cloth is again used to separate people into good and bad. In Germany in particular, we should know better. ”The statement has now been deleted. “When I read the position paper a few months ago,” said von Bruch in general about the initiative, “I was enthusiastic and signed it straight away. Every single point on it is definitely worth supporting and actually a matter of course.
The small party »Die Basis« emerged from the scene of opponents of corona protective measures.
It emerged in the summer of 2020 from the "Resistance 2020" party, which quickly disappeared from the scene.
The party is directed against the corona protective measures and has already been able to win several more prominent corona deniers and people who play down the corona, such as lawyer Markus Haintz or doctor Wolfgang Wodarg as members.
So far, the protest party has not played a politically relevant role nationwide.
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