As of: February 1, 2024, 5:44 a.m
By: Romina Kunze
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Düsseldorf, Munich, Berlin – Germany is loudly rising up against the right.
A woman on TikTok proves that demonstrations can also be effective quietly.
Munich – Thousands of people have recently made it clear on the streets how they feel about the recent shift to the right in Germany.
For the second weekend in a row, demonstrations against the AfD and for democracy and humanity took place across Germany under mottos such as “Never again is now”.
A young woman took a different, particularly original approach on TikTok - and hit the right nerve with many people with her “kebab poem”.
Woman goes viral with poem against right-wing: “This is how kebabs make their contribution against fascists”
“Two Nazis meet secretly in the dark so that no one can see them,” it says at the beginning of the poem, which is currently being viewed millions of times on social networks.
“You want to go out for a kebab,” the poet continues in a gentle voice.
The only problem: “Kebab is not German”, so eating it is a scandal for pious Germans.
In the next verses, the TikToker takes the twisted logic of supposed right-wing extremists to the extreme.
First she takes up the misanthropic views against homosexuals and foreigners, which do not allow for diversity in Germany, and then cynically notes that in the case of one's favorite food, differentiation must be made.
The point of the poem: despite careful planning, the two Nazis have to turn back empty-handed and hungry because they see their party colleagues in front of the kebab shop.
“Maybe diversity would actually be nice,” is the bottom line of the fictional Nazis.
“And this is how kebabs make their contribution against fascists, they simply taste too good – even National Socialists,” she concludes, putting the crown on the mocking poem.
Users celebrate kebab poem on TikTok: “Germany: the land of poets and thinkers”
While many posts on TikTok are usually intended for amusement and occasionally trigger debates about the work ethic of the younger generation, the young poet receives a lot of support for her satirical clip.
“Oh wow, the whole message and then the last four verses really blew me away.
There’s so much in it,” said one person, praising the TikToker’s poetic skills.
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Another feels that the cynical poem takes her back to her youth: “In my teenage years (yes, I’m old, 42) there were boys like that at school – bomber jackets, combat boots – who ate kebab in secret in the evenings.”
With his comment “Germany: the land of poets and thinkers,” another user takes the topic to absurdity.
Integration in flatbread: Is the kebab German or not?
However, there are also several comments in the comments that doner kebab is actually a German dish.
The city of Berlin claims the creation as its own, but rumor has it that the kebab was sold in a similar form in Baden-Württemberg three years earlier, as the German Press Agency writes.
“If you just google it, you’ll find out that the kebab was invented by a Turkish guest worker (Kadir Nurman),” writes one user.
Well, not quite.
Döner kebab originally comes from the Ottoman Empire, was first prepared there in the early 19th century in an early form and later changed to “Iskender Kebap” with yogurt and softer meat in the Turkish city of Bursa.
Then, as now, in Turkey, grilled meat is served on a plate from a skewer.
As a sandwich in a flatbread, as we know it in Germany, the dish was created in 1972 by the above-mentioned Turkish guest worker in Berlin.
There are now 18,000 kebab shops in Germany, 1,600 in Berlin alone, as the city reports on its homepage.
And is therefore perhaps the most common form of successful integration.
A TikTok user seems to be neither particularly interested in the message of the “kebab poem” nor in the actual origin of the dish; he is more concerned about the increased food and restaurant prices.
“Then please lower the kebab prices,” he writes in the comments.
(rku)