Österreichische Zeitung portrays Kurz's girlfriend undressed: outrage follows - "You can't be serious"
Created: 12/23/2021, 05:00 AM
From: Bedrettin Bölükbasi
The former Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz with his partner Susanne Thier.
© Guo Chen / picture alliance / dpa / XinHua
The Austrian weekly newspaper "Falter" presented the former chancellor Kurz's partner in a completely blank.
There was a lot of criticism - also from Falter readers.
Vienna / Munich - After investigations into corruption and manipulated surveys, Sebastian Kurz had to resign from his position as Austrian Chancellor.
Finally, the former Chancellor of Austria, who recently became a father, withdrew completely from politics and stated that he now wanted to spend more time with his family.
Despite the end of his political career, the reporting does not let go of him and now even his partner has come into the focus of a weekly newspaper - in an extremely ugly way.
Austria: Kurz 'partner Susanne Thier portrayed with a bare chest - harsh criticism
The Austrian left-liberal weekly newspaper “Falter” portrayed Kurz's partner Susanne Thier in its special edition cover entitled “Geilzeit” with a bare chest. targets, meets harsh criticism.
Several faces can be recognized in the representation of Falter.
The basis is the picture by the Belgian painter Jacob Jordaens “The Holy Family with Shepherds” from 1616. In addition to Thier, Falter added the faces of Sebastian Kurz, Alexander Schallenberg and Herbert Kickl for the cover.
Kurz's partner Thier is the focus - her face was embedded on the lady with the bared breast and child in her arms.
The Austrian weekly newspaper "Falter" portrayed the partner of the former Chancellor Sebastian Kurz with a bare chest.
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Kurz 'partner Thier portrayed naked: media and politics shoot against Falter action
The newspaper's new cover did not go down well, even with long-time readers.
Falter was accused of “sexism” and “misogyny” on social media.
A wave of indignation spread among media representatives.
Armin Wolf, presenter of the ZiB2 program on
ORF
, said that as a “Falter fan” he was really astonished that there weren't enough people in the editorial team who would say: “You can't be serious.
We're not doing a high school graduation paper from the 1980s. ”His colleague Hanno Settele said the same thing and described the cover as an“ epic fail ”.
Political reactions also followed.
Daniel Kosak, spokesman for Chancellor Karl Nehammer, wrote on Twitter: “You don't have to cross every line in the name of satire.” Former SPÖ media minister Thomas Drozda also responded with unequivocal words.
The action by Falter was "disgusting, incomprehensible, out of place".
The Viennese FPÖ boss Dominik Nepp even called for specific actions and demanded an immediate stop of public advertisements in the newspaper.
Falter is condemned on social media: Violent allegations - "Sexist, misogynist, insulting"
The anger about the cover also made itself felt on social media.
The Twitter audience protested strongly against the representation.
“Who waves such a stupid rubbish through?” Asked a user and accused Falter of “sexism”.
It was “shabby” to portray a politician's partner in such a way “just to generate attention”, commented another user.
"It's only sexist, it also hurts this woman's dignity," said the user.
"Sexist, misogynistic, insulting - not funny!", Stated another user clearly.
"Uncool, Falter.
Dragging a (presumably) uninvolved woman and private person into the middle of the picture in such a bare and objectified manner is really not possible, ”was also noted.
Some users also stated that they wanted to file a complaint with the Austrian Press Council.
Apparently this actually happened.
"Since yesterday, we have received several complaints on the occasion of this year's 'Best of Böse' cover in the Falter," said the Press Council on Twitter.
The responsible Senate 1 will deal with it in its next meeting in January 2022, it said.
Falter website goes offline after criticism for depiction of animals - reason still unknown
In the midst of complaints from the media, politics and social media, the Falter website with the corresponding display
suddenly went offline
on Wednesday morning
(December 22nd)
, as
reported by
OE24
.
After around 15 minutes, the page should be accessible again.
The reason for the failure of the website is still unknown.
(bb)
