Please, no changes.
Yesterday, the IHT’s Judy Dempsey was in town to tell you half the story about the effects that next Sunday’s regional elections could have on German national politics. Apparently she talked to the FDP’s vice chairman and former state minister of economics and viniculture, Rainer Brüderle, who has apparently told her that that “the FDP [...]
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On Brand.
Es ist beeindruckend, wie sehr dieses Plakat der Grünen “on brand” ist – der der FDP und der eigenen – zumindest typographisch und von der Farbgebung her. Allerdings bin ich mir genau aus diesem Grund nicht sicher, inwieweit es bei einem schnellen Blick nicht als FDP Plakat gewertet werden kann, mit einem “verschandelnden” Grünen-Aufkleber darauf. [...]
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Arbeitslose Frühaufsteher, verschlafene Studenten
Der frühe Wahlk�mpfer f�ngt die Stimmen, wird sich das B�ro von Herrn Schreiner wohl gedacht haben – oder aber, da� die (generell, wenn auch nicht unbedingt in seinem Wahlkreis) zunehmende Arbeitslosigkeit W�hler daf�r interessieren k�nnte, sich wegen des angebotenen Fr�hst�cks schon ab 7:30 Uhr an einem Donnerstag Morgen mit dem Thema Denkmalschutz auseinander zu setzen. [...]
read onFernsehtip
Es hat ein wenig gedauert, bis sich bei der vor der Verbreitung von PCs überaus wachsamen, aber schließlich durch den Umgang mit “bunten Bildchen”, bzw. dem WWW, in Bezug auf Datenschutz abgestumpften Zivilgesellschaft ein Problembewußtsein eingestellt hat. Aber – besser spät als nie. Nach dem gläsernen Bürger bei Maischberger wird sich nun auch Gerd Scobel [...]
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357 Magnum?
Schon beim ersten Blick auf dieses Plakat habe ich mich gefragt, warum der Typ vom CDU Wahlplakat eigentlich eine Riesenknarre über der Schulter trägt. Oder eine Abschußvorrichtung für Boden-Luft-Rakteten.
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Upside Down.
Interessanterweise stammt das einzige falsch herum gehängte Plakat, das ich auf meinem Rundgang gesehen habe von der “Generationen-Partei” “Die Grauen“ Ob das vielleicht ein versteckter Hinweis auf die durch die demographische Entwicklung gefährdete Rentenrendite sein soll? Politische Kommunikation kann ja so komplex sein…
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Horny Germans.
Yesterday evening I took a long walk and a lot of pictures of campaign posters for next Sunday’s regional election. After all, next Monday, they will be gone. So this poster is the first in the series I’m going to post over the next days – think of them as some kind of election calendar. [...]
read onA little help to choose…
If you are entitled to vote in the upcoming state elections in Rhineland-Palatinate, you might want to check with the regionalised Wahl-o-mat if your current party of coice actually pledges to do what you care about most (in German). Wahl-O-Mat – Landtagswahl Rheinland-Pfalz
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More Kids on welfare programmes! Now!
There’s only 40,000 of them in Rheinland-Pfalz now, but at least the CDU is on the case: “Jobs: Let’s not to do things by halves”, they say on this campaign poster. Quite right. There should be at least 80,000 kids in need of welfare prgrammes…
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Political communication, Germany 2006.
Looking at this SPD advertisement for the upcoming regional election, I’m thinking the American administration may have finally found their master in reductionist political communication…
read onOn German-American Day, …
“… we also honor the important friendship between the United States and Germany. Our nations share beliefs in human rights and dignity, and on this day, I join all Americans in celebrating the bonds that tie our two nations and in reaffirming the importance of our continuing friendship.” (via germany.info) Leaving the the podium the [...]
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Better Safe Than Sorry.
Besides, “Die Partei” clearly knows best how to protect expensive campaign material from vandalism…
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A Future with Future.
To bad only 10300 people voted for “Die Partei” which was created by the editorial staff of the German satire magazine “Titanic”. I would have loved to seem in coalition talks. Their most important campaign promise was to rebuild the Berlin Wall. I suppose that might have suited at least the frustated Bavarians around Edmund [...]
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2nd price.
Gregor Gysi gets the second price in the category “most blatantly stupid campaign claim” for the line “Left policy deserves to be trusted because it means developing alternatives with the people.” The first price obviously goes to everyone depicted on a poster with the claim “better for the people.”
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Property Issues
It’s a well known fact that property is not something people on the economic left have a lot of sympathy for. So it should not be too surprising to see that Oscar Lafontaine has appropriated Victor Hugo’s realisation that there are times when nothing is more powerful than an idea and put it on the [...]
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She never looked better.
Certainly not after the results were announced. Not even the little moustache someone painted above her upper lip seem to bother her. Stuff like that doesn’t bother people who have already discounted a clear-cut victory. However – losing bothers them. A lot. Return to this picture to see what I’m talking about when you’re watching [...]
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They Could Not Get Enough…
votes to fulfil their most important campaign promis – turn the state’s campaign subsidies into a beer drinking orgy. Only 4220 people voted for the German Pogo Party, far too few to be entitled to state financing. But at least the guys put the pints down to put the posters up. I guess that’s democracy [...]
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Too Much Red for a Brown Candidate
A cold shower before the photo shoot might have been helpful. Or Photoshop – edit, color balance. On the other hand, the worse the NPD’s posters look, the better.
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Yes – to healthy food
This is one of the best campaign posters I have seen this year. The Greens definetely had the most creative advertisements, at least on the postters whithout candidates.
read onA Used Papamobil.
Netzeitung.de reports (in German) that 21 year-old Benjamin Halbe from Olpe, Germany, is selling his car on ebay. Not news, you think? Fair enough, but apparently, according to the car’s documentation, it previously belonged to Joseph Kardinal Ratzinger – although I’m not really sure about how Cardinals are supposed to handle personal property. The new [...]
read onThe Bike is back.
When my sister moved to Hamburg last year, one of the first encouters with her new city of choice was that someone chose to steal her bike. As it was an unusual bike, maybe the thief was as confident as police were that they would find it and decided to take it back after sleeping [...]
read onGive him his bike back…
It may be a plot to demonstrate the inefficieny of the increasing closed circuit surveillance and increased policing of public space – or just C/conservative terror against one of the remaining true leftists in German politics. Last Tuesday, German MP Hans-Christian Ströbele’s bycicle was stolen from the east entry of the Bundestag, despite the presence [...]
read onI’m leaving the country.
You know what? A sizeable portion of Germans are probably truly mad, after all. I have just learnt of a poll result indicating that a third of Germans would support a political comeback of Oskar Lafontaine, the loony left former chairman of the Social Democrats, who blocked each and every economic reform initiative in the [...]
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