Twitter excitement: Murnau climate activist in the unloved center

Created: 06/07/2022, 05:45

By: Peter Reinbold

In conversation: Lisa Poettinger (r.) Discusses with Mayor Elisabeth Koch after the BR show "Now red' i".

© Peter Reinbold (Screenshot)

A figure of public interest has been climate activist Lisa Poettinger since the days of the G7 summit.

Now a retweet from her is causing a stir.

Murnau/Garmisch-Partenkirchen

– Lisa Poettinger doesn't like it at all when she's the center of attention.

She abhors, original sound, the "cult of personality", as she calls it, and prefers content that describes her work as a climate activist and that is suitable for making it clear that "the G7 countries are the main perpetrators of the climate crisis and they are the exploitation of the states of the Global South".

In recent weeks, however, it has been unavoidable that Poettinger, who comes from Murnau, has often been the focus of media reports.

After all, she acted as spokeswoman for the "Stop G7 Elmau" alliance, which was directed against the meeting of the leaders of the seven most important industrial nations in the western world at Schloss Elmau.

Poettinger speaks about her fear of demonstrations - and apparently of the police

The student, who graduated from the Staffelsee-Gymnasium eight years ago, was part of a TV report that ran on Bavarian television on Wednesday under the title “Annoyed, challenged, celebrated – How a region is struggling with the G7 summit”. had made, alongside Garmisch-Partenkirchen's mayor Elisabeth Koch (CSU), the Partenkirchen police officer Josef Grasegger and the activist Susanne Egli to the main actors.

Particularly noteworthy is the part of the report where Poettinger and Koch sit down to speak after the live broadcast of "Now red' i" from the Garmisch Bayernhalle.

You can hear Koch saying that the right to assembly should be respected and Poettinger talking about her fear of the demonstrations and apparently the police.

The officials called her "cops" several times, which Koch didn't like at all and asked her to use a different language.

Poettinger also mentions the reason why she describes the police officers so disrespectfully.

After a demonstration against the International Motor Show in Munich, against which she took to the streets in September 2021, her back was green and blue after police attacks.

How else to describe the security forces "who beat me up".

Murnau climate activist: On Twitter, Lisa Poettinger reaps Shitstorm for the statement

Poettinger loves the open and direct word - in conversation, in e-mail correspondence and apparently especially on Twitter.

She is active there.

With their own tweets, but also commenting on what other Twitter users say.

And because she has become a figure of public interest since the G7, what she does, says or writes is watched with eagle eyes.

While researching the summit, the Tagblatt editors noticed a post penned by Poettinger, dated June 13, in which they retweeted a post by Mueller Tadzio.

He said that those who kill the earth have names and addresses.

Poettinger's answer (quote): "I think it's legitimate to publish the addresses of Nazis, climate fascists and corporate owners.

The question is what to do with it: throw paint at the house or graffiti, cool.

Violence against people difficult...".

What followed was a shitstorm.

Some examples: "Violence against people is not difficult, violence against people is a criminal offence," says @Markus_HAJ.

“You are a Nazi yourself.

You can publish your address yourself”, writes @RImmelkep.., and Don Quijote Proletarus Gemei... replies: “Violence against people difficult.

That statement alone is enough to show what a bad character you have.”

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Poettinger cannot understand the excitement about comment - and is legally on safe ground

Poettinger cannot understand the excitement surrounding her comment, and certainly not the accusation that she had indirectly requested damage to property.

In conversations with the Tagblatt, she initially did not want to comment, a few hours later she decided to send an email saying that her tweet was not a call, but "an expression of opinion".

Legally, she is on the safe side.

In a judgment from 2007, the Higher Regional Court of Stuttgart determined which criteria must be met in order for the judiciary to be able to punish incitement to criminal offenses on the Internet.

Specific details of the place and time of the crime are required.

If these are missing, then, according to the judges, such a call on the Internet is just about covered by the constitutional freedom of expression.

Poettinger sees himself not as a perpetrator but as a victim.

In her email to the Tagblatt editors, she refers to the insults and death threats that have been made against her on Twitter in the recent past.

“By the way, something like this always happens after public actions and is therefore nothing new.” Climate activists must be tough – in handing out and taking in.