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Rallye against the Ultra-Right

Yesterday the newly elected parliament of the state of Bavaria had their first assembly, including 20+ members of a ultra-right party with a middle-class camouflage but strong ties to neo-nazi structures. In the evening, about 5000 citizens assembled within sighting distance of the Parliament (the building in the background) to express their disdain about this…

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Away with all Hate Speech

The new Synagogue, Munich

I am mourning with many others for the victims of the Pittsburgh massacre. And I clearly name those who support hate speech as responsible for these murders – not by shooting themselves but by creating a homely climate for hatred and violence. But I doubt #45 and his crew of vile advisors will listen (can…

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The Party that invented Beautiful Bavaria

Traundamm, Traunstein

In one week’s time we are going to have elections in the state of Bavaria, and unlike for many other elections here in Europe, the polls don’t predict a landslide towards the right. Instead the (conservative) party, the CSU, that had invented the ‘Beautiful Bavaria’ and for decades had all reasons to think itself being…

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Navis Gaudiorum

Lagerhausstr., Munich

When I came across this scenery, I was reminded of the old Christian carol “Es kommt ein Schiff geladen” (roughly “there comes a ship, loaded”). Looking up if there would be any reasonable translation of the lyrics, I found the term “navis gaudiorum”. In the original sense this is a metaphor for Mother Mary as God Bearer, but here – the words match in a different sense: The hull of this ship was placed on an unused bridge here in Munich to become a pub and party location. A “navis gaudiorum”, a ship of joys, in the truest sense of the words now.

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