As of: February 4, 2024, 7:40 p.m
By: Antonia Reindl
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On Sunday, a long procession of demonstrators marched along Bahnhofstrasse up to the roundabout and back to the town square.
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Penzberg sent a clear signal: around 2,000 people took part in the demonstration for tolerance, diversity and democracy on Sunday (February 4th).
According to the organizers, everything went peacefully.
A passport in which no nationality is recorded, but earthlings, “just earthlings”.
An idea that Gianna Lisci took from the song “Boundaries” by the artist Dota.
When the woman from Penzberg sang the lyrics at the end of the demonstration “United in diversity and tolerance.
For Democracy – Against Exclusion”, hundreds of people listened to her.
Lisci, Clemens Meikis and Bärbel Scholz registered for the rally as private individuals - and numerous children, men and women came to stand up for community, respect and democracy.
There were speeches and music on the street square.
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Supporting the intention with music
“We want to stand up, approach each other, learn from each other, how to deal with each other,” goes the refrain of a well-known children's song.
Alexandra Link-Lichius chose this song, which contains valuable messages not only for young minds, for the demonstration.
The woman from Penzberg was not the only one who accompanied the meeting with meaningful music.
The intro belonged to Thomas Müller, who made the crowd in front of the stage on the town square thicker with “One Love”.
Looking out of an upper floor window in the town hall, the police initially estimated that there would be around 1,000 people, but they noted that experience shows that more people will join in as the demonstration begins to move.
Clear statement.
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Set a sign
We want to set an example for respectful coexistence, for diversity, for tolerance, for democracy, said Clemens Meikis.
The co-organizer had recorded his speech, in which he discussed, among other things, the importance of political education and fact-based information, the understanding of values of right-wing extremists and the relevance of colorful demonstrations, on several DIN A4 pages.
Meikis clearly emphasized, among other things, that human dignity is inviolable.
“Of man,” he repeated.
There is no restrictive addition.
A long procession of demonstrators marched across Bahnhofstrasse
“Never again is now” and “Penzberg is colorful,” Meikis' words echoed from the speakers.
The fact that the city with its many nationalities should remain colorful was shown by the demonstration from the town square into the Berggeist roundabout, then back onto Bahnhofstrasse to the junction onto Ludwig-März-Strasse and back to the starting point.
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Warning words and a clear commitment.
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The entourage confirmed the police's experience: numerous other people joined the procession.
At times this stretched over a length of a good half a kilometer.
Posters as colorful as Penzberg stood out from the crowd: here a heart with the words cosmopolitanism, respect and solidarity, there a sign with the inscription “Be a human!” and a cardboard with the sentence “Better colorful than brown”.
People got particularly creative with the word “solidarity”, here it was “solidarity, solid, solid Aryan”, there “Anyone who is proud to be Aryan has one 'i' too many”.
The train was not only obvious, but also unmissable.
“Together instead of against each other”, “All together against extremism” and “Democracy, diversity, tolerance” echoed from the crowd.
“Let’s be colorful, loud, human!”
Gianna Lisci, co-organizer
Back in the town square, Bob Dylan's "Blowin' in the Wind" played.
After more than an hour and a half, Gianna Lisci ended the demonstration and suggested that there may be more events of this kind.
We'll see.
Her appeal at the end: “Let’s be colorful, be loud, be human!”
Afterwards, co-organizer Clemens Meikis told the Rundschau that there were around 2,000 participants, the police assumed there were 1,200, and some even said there were 3,000 participants.
According to Meikis, the event was peaceful.