"Sick shit": satirical magazine mocks dead Uwe Seeler – Shitstorm!
Created: 07/24/2022, 10:07 am
By: Jan Knötzsch
Hamburg is mourning the death of HSV icon Uwe Seeler.
The satirical magazine Titanic cares little: it publishes a post that causes trouble.
Hamburg – The death of Uwe Seeler affects people.
Not only in the Hanseatic city of Hamburg, where the HSV legend laced up his football boots for Hamburger SV for decades and was always a welcome guest in the Volksparkstadion, even in old age, after Seeler's death on Thursday, July 21 2022, could soon be renamed the Uwe-Seeler-Stadion.
In short: The Hanseatic city and its citizens as well as the HSV fans are mourning - and want to say goodbye to Uwe Seeler in the HSV home game against Hansa Rostock.
But while not even a date for Uwe Seeler's funeral service or the funeral has been set, not everyone apparently shares the grief for Uwe Seeler, with whose death for Hamburg's First Mayor Peter Tschentscher (SPD) the city of Hamburg "a piece of itself “ has lost: The satirical magazine
Titanic
has published a post both on its homepage and in the social networks that divides opinions.
The HSV fans are up in arms!
What exactly happened?
Former soccer player: | Uwe Seeler |
Born: | November 5, 1936, Hamburg |
Died: | July 21, 2022, Norderstedt |
Wife: | Ilka Seeler |
The satirical magazine Titanic provoked the post after Uwe Seeler's death: "Strong action!
Uwe Seeler is boycotting the World Cup in Qatar!”
After the death of Uwe Seeler, about whom ex-HSV trainer and player Felix Magath recently lost warm words and for whom there is a book of condolence in the town hall,
Titanic
published a black-and-white photo of Uwe Seeler, who died during his lifetime said "once HSVer, always HSVer".
There is nothing wrong with a black and white photo after the death of a person - if it weren't for the sentence that "decorates" the photo that shows Uwe Seeler, who died at the age of 85, in front of an HSV flag. .
There it literally says in white and yellow letters: “Strong action!
Uwe Seeler is boycotting the World Cup in Qatar!”
The satirical magazine Titanic caused a great deal of resonance in the social networks with a post about the death of Uwe Seeler – most users are outraged.
© Eibner/imago & Screenshot/titanicmagazin/instagram
The fact that the satirical magazine
Titanic
would thus provoke attention and not only get encouragement for this action should have been clear to the “makers” of
Titanic
even before they published the photo and the associated sentence.
Logically, after all it's not the first time that a form of satire has attracted a certain amount of attention, but also a good deal of indignation.
Satire, it is commonly said, is allowed - but the
Titanic
post after the death of HSV legend Uwe Seeler is too much for many users in the social networks.
It doesn't matter whether they are fans of HSV, who still want to strengthen their squad, or not.
Provocation from satire magazine: Users react irritably to Seeler's post - "absolutely irreverent, tasteless and absolutely disgusting.
And so the post about the death of Uwe Seeler brought
a real shit storm to the satirical magazine
Titanic after publication.
Both on Twitter, where users give free rein to their incomprehension, outrage and dislike of this form of satire, as well as on Instagram and Facebook.
"Tasty and irreverent," posts one user and is still cautious in his choice of words, while elsewhere it says "disgusting".
Another comment even goes a step further and states: "You have to come up with such sick shit first.
Disgusting!".
Other users just ask: Seriously? "- Or comment: "That's over it."
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It is absolutely irreverent, tasteless and absolutely disgusting.
Shame on you!!!!!
This is no longer satire.
User comment after the Titanic post on the death of Uwe Seeler
Other users are bursting at the seams: "Hey people at the
Titanic
, this is a level that I would have expected from the picture or any other nonsense sheet.
It is absolutely irreverent, tasteless and absolutely disgusting.
Shame on you!!!!!
This is no longer satire,” is another comment on the
Titanic
satire on the occasion of the death of HSV icon Uwe Seeler.
A tweet on Twitter expresses it a whole bit more moderately, but it still bothers the publication: "Even if satire, as they say, can do anything, isn't the time perhaps too early?
There are also those who are personally affected in the background, and I don't mean the football fans here, who should have been given a little more time to mourn.
Tasteless post from the satirical magazine Titanic about Uwe Seeler: Users demand intervention from HSV
On the other hand, those who
approve of the
Titanic post on the death of Uwe Seeler or who defend the satirical magazine are clearly in the minority.
"Uwe would have found the headline funny," comments one Facebook user, while another notes: "I don't understand the excitement.
Actually, this satire is a homage to Uwe Seeler and at the same time a justified criticism of Fifa and Qatar.” Other users suspect that Uwe Seeler would not have found “this bitter satire about him” that bad.
Some are even celebrating and praising
Titanic
for the Seeler post.
Any examples?
"Tasteless!
One subscriber more!”, “Well done Uwe.
Showed attitude until the end” or “I laugh more than I should” are their comments.
But the number of critics is in the majority.
And one even calls for HSV to intervene, in which the deposed sports director Michael Mutzel wants to take legal action against sports director Jonas Boldt: “Do you want to do something please?
Answer to?
I'm not an HSV fan, but that's really bottomless," the user commented.