Hamburg ǀ Die Wirkungsmacht der Klobürste — der Freitag
Hamburg ǀ Die Wirkungsmacht der Klobürste — der Freitag
The effective power of the toilet brush
Hamburg Police has declared parts of downtown to the danger area with limited basic rights. Now the citizens fight back - with a toilet brush
Photo: Screenshot, YouTube
The protest against the proclamation of the danger area in the center of Hamburg uses increasingly and successfully satirical means. In the Internet there are a photomontage that the danger area as parlor game presents for the whole family - as it can sometimes make Puff and then there's a big hello and lots of fun. Also circulating a " bonus card risk area "that a fundamental law promises free based on commercially available trading cards in the tenth police check. Even in real life the protest is always humorous: on Thursday evening, the first pillow fight took place, more are planned, to which more than 1,000 participants are expected.
The: the undisputed icon of the struggle for the city, however, a less suspicious utensil designed toilet brush . Each familiar from childhood, they now unfolding political impact of power and is the symbol of subversive avant-garde. Who would have guessed how much potential lies in this brush!
The success story began on Tuesday evening. To guide the police threatening scenario absurdity, some hamburger came up with the idea of things like a backpack full of dirty clothes, plastic bags with dried parsley or cucumbers fuse the evening stroll through the danger area to carry with you. The ARD-night magazine revealed because even prompt a police check in the danger zone, when a police officer to a young man pulled a toilet brush from his waistband. The video caused a general laughter on Facebook and Twitter.
Since then Hamburg's creative minds run riot on their image editing programs: Depending on personal taste, you can photo by Master Yoda, Harry Potter, Mel Gibson view or the little mole armed with the toilet brush on the way through the danger zone. Both in the flag of Altona and into the arms of St. Pauli , the brush has already been integrated, a wealth of other pictures circulating on the net.
But in real life the triumph seems unstoppable. In many a supermarket in downtown Hamburg toilet brushes were temporarily sold out; creative protest runs in the Hanseatic city only under the label "Brushmob". "Loo-loo-Klobürsteneinsatz" is chanted by the protesters who now speak only of the "Klolizei". Wearing the brush in public has become a form of civil disobedience.
It seems as if the Hamburg police spokesman the only one who responded with bitter earnestness. He speaks in the ARD in dry, wishful official style of the danger to life and limb, which consists in the city center, and in view of which the forbidding laughter.
It's even? From a serious danger to life and limb, only the Lampedusa refugees are in Hamburg threatened, by the state authority - of all the supposedly dangerous population of St. Pauli protects them.
The battle lines have hardened in recent weeks. All the more is the triumph of the toilet brush to be welcomed. The protest shows its sovereignty in the ability to mock and to win ironic distance. On the fundamental democratic rights of the Left reacts with jeers.
The brush provides not only due to the strong expressiveness of fecal-associated objects, but also because it stands for everything that St. Pauli and the Schanze district is about: it is incompatible, dirty and rebellious. In the most positive sense. There could be no better symbol that Hamburg police have resorted to the danger area in the toilet. The toilet brush is becoming the scepter of the democratic sovereign.
