Translation: Ksenia Belyakova Proofreading: Jo Pi
I actually start with some bad stuff,
with some bad news,
I am here to tell you
What’s going on out there?
We have a kind of cultural struggle on the street and on the internet,
we see more than 500 extreme right-wing attacks there,
we have more than 1800 people, asylum seekers who have been attacked,
and we have more than 87 fires at asylum seeker homes,
7 homicides counted the police.
That’s an increase of 30 percent
and that was only until October this year.
That’s 30 percent more than the year before over the entire course.
If you stand there thinking, Okay, what are we going to do with it?
I have a little story.
I come from a country
where we always tried to make the most of it,
what we had.
This country does not exist anymore, it was the GDR.
There you tried everything that you had
to make something out of it, because there was a lot, and not much.
So you had to see that you make something out of it.
One example was: It’s Christmas soon,
and many may know the Dresdner Christstollen.
It is made from citron.
In turn, lemonade is made from the lemon peel of a lemon.
You have to canditate, and then use this lemon.
You did not have that.
So you thought about it, you make something else out of it.
You just take Kandinat, you make Kandinattee.
That’s what you make of a tomato, a green tomato.
So you make a green tomato
a yellow lemon for a Christmas stollen.
This is impressive.
(laugh)
So impressive that I thought you had to make something out of it.
And when I crossed the border at that time
and became an involuntary refugee overnight,
because my country was not there anymore,
I was greeted by border clappers and banana throwers,
in a positive sense,
others may know that a bit negative,
Olli Kahn here from Munich, he also has experience there.
It was positive for me.
But as I said,
in that country we then tried to get what we have there,
to make the best of it.
As it was said
then you just make candy out of crap.
I thought: Okay, out of crap candy?
It may sound a bit drastic,
but you can not say otherwise.
Shit stays shit, even if you say shit,
that’s just shit, and the situation
as we described earlier, that’s just shit.
So, the problem was there
it just was missing the right idea,
to make something out of this shit.
I thought, okay, if the neo-Nazis march there
and if the neo-Nazis hate the net,
then at least they should do this against themselves
or somehow self-effective.
Or if they already hate and demonstrate
then maybe – for – something, so for refugees,
or against yourself and for the exit?
Okay, so the idea was a bit more concrete,
and I thought that could work.
So what was missing was what was missing: the money.
So I tried fundraising.
Who does not really know fundraising now:
Fundraising is quasi qualified begging.
(laugh)
Good.
I did that, and it worked. It worked!
In the end we finished our little action.
Interestingly, it was almost exactly two years ago in Wunsiedel,
So a little further from here, and that’s what neo-Nazis could do
the first time around the world involuntarily running against oneself,
(laugh)
which was very interesting, and what that looked like
I’ll show you shortly.
(Video) Wunsiedel in Upper Franconia:
a small town with a big problem
a Nazi problem.
Because for more than 25 years right-wing radicals have come and marched
Hundreds once a year by Wunsiedel.
The city – helpless.
That’s why 2014 is a bit different.
Because we have secretly transformed the Nazi march into something meaningful
the involuntary donation run of Germany.
The idea: For every meter of neo-Nazis, 10 euros go to a drop-out program
for just these neo-Nazis, “EXIT Germany”.
The longer you march, the more money comes together.
So the neo-Nazis step by step against neo-Nazis strong
and unwittingly finance their own exit from the scene.
And the best thing is that they do not experience all this until they march.
Punctually at 13:48, the action “right against right” officially starts.
For the first time in history, neo-Nazis are marching against themselves.
As befits a charity run,
provide motivational posters and signs
that the participants persevere and do not forget
what they are marching for or against.
Markers on the road inform serious looking subscribers
about the current donation status.
Even the condition of the right was thought.
As a refreshment, there are bananas, including the untrained neo-fascist
comes in the donation step over the finish line.
At 15:28 the neo-Nazis have reached the goal.
10,000 euros go to the neo-Nazi drop-out initiative
EXIT Germany.
10,000 euros to help the right, get out of the right scene.
Collected by the right-wingers themselves.
Thanks to all helpers and sponsors!
Thanks to the neo-Nazis for fundraising!
Thank you for the wonder of Wunsiedel!
Wunsiedel in Upper Franconia: a small town with a big idea.
(Laughter, applause)
Okay, it was then 20,000, so again 10,000 euros more,
EXIT Germany was …
(Applause)
EXIT Germany was even presented in the White House.
The European Commission has awarded it as Best Practice,
and – which made me even more happy – one or the other fundraiser said
we would have revolutionized fundraising.
And I did not really know the term before.
That in turn annoyed others.
Okay, we made it to Wunsiedel and Remagen
and many communities at once wanted to have generously spendable neo-Nazis.
Understandable!
(laugh)
The idea multiplied, even today,
not today, but a few days ago,
and we thought: we have it so often in reality,
but there are certainly other places
where hatred is and where you can do something.
Where is more hatred these days than on the street?
That’s actually only on the internet.
There you can wish your counterpart a virtual concentration camp,
to the gallows or to the firing squad.
I do not want to bring the details now,
because we’re talking about good news here, so I skip that part.
We thought about it: Facebook.
Everyone knows Facebook and everyone knows what hatred there is
and that’s where we’re going.
We said: Then we seek hatred and let the donors donate there.
How it works?
You may know it: you’re on Facebook,
scroll through the pages and accidentally you come
in the comments and think to yourself: What a shit!
And it’s exactly this “shit” the user sees and sends to us.
We look at the hate comment and say: Okay, it fits, it hits.
Then we give one Euro
to the action “Germany Helps” for their refugee work
and free at EXIT Germany.
So far so good.
But: the user who of course wrote this comment,
will of course be kindly informed
that he once again released a euro with his hatred,
and we thank you very politely for that.
And so he is aware of his situation.
And if you use this hatred on the net, what do you get?
Even more hatred. (laugh)
This is very convenient: There you can make more help out of it.
You get love from the people,
who send us the hate comments and donations,
and you get the situation that makes you laugh.
And that is exactly when we are hated people
threaten with their lawyer because they see themselves cheated
or because they check their account balance,
to check if there really is a euro missing,
to say then: Of course there is no euro!
(laugh)
We get all that back.
That can be very successful, we can see that now.
We have been here for a year.
We have now donated 20,000 euros over it involuntarily.
We reached 38 million users this year
and we’re still going on.
Because the hatred is still there.
If you think so now: Very nice, what they do, great, I think,
then I say yes, and we like to do it for you.
Because the hatred is there.
But, if you help us make that hate,
if you donate, if you support us in this work,
then we can make a big deal out of it together,
and then these 20,000 euros donations are still a small thing.
We will set a sign to say:
People, that hate in the net, we do not take it.
Thank you.
(Applause)
I actually start with some bad stuff,
with some bad news,
I am here to tell you
What’s going on out there?
We have a kind of cultural struggle on the street and on the internet,
we see more than 500 extreme right-wing attacks there,
we have more than 1800 people, asylum seekers who have been attacked,
and we have more than 87 fires at asylum seeker homes,
7 homicides counted the police.
That’s an increase of 30 percent
and that was only until October this year.
That’s 30 percent more than the year before over the entire course.
If you stand there thinking, Okay, what are we going to do with it?
I have a little story.
I come from a country
where we always tried to make the most of it,
what we had.
This country does not exist anymore, it was the GDR.
There you tried everything that you had
to make something out of it, because there was a lot, and not much.
So you had to see that you make something out of it.
One example was: It’s Christmas soon,
and many may know the Dresdner Christstollen.
It is made from citron.
In turn, lemonade is made from the lemon peel of a lemon.
You have to canditate, and then use this lemon.
You did not have that.
So you thought about it, you make something else out of it.
You just take Kandinat, you make Kandinattee.
That’s what you make of a tomato, a green tomato.
So you make a green tomato
a yellow lemon for a Christmas stollen.
This is impressive.
(laugh)
So impressive that I thought you had to make something out of it.
And when I crossed the border at that time
and became an involuntary refugee overnight,
because my country was not there anymore,
I was greeted by border clappers and banana throwers,
in a positive sense,
others may know that a bit negative,
Olli Kahn here from Munich, he also has experience there.
It was positive for me.
But as I said,
in that country we then tried to get what we have there,
to make the best of it.
As it was said
then you just make candy out of crap.
I thought: Okay, out of crap candy?
It may sound a bit drastic,
but you can not say otherwise.
Shit stays shit, even if you say shit,
that’s just shit, and the situation
as we described earlier, that’s just shit.
So, the problem was there
it just was missing the right idea,
to make something out of this shit.
I thought, okay, if the neo-Nazis march there
and if the neo-Nazis hate the net,
then at least they should do this against themselves
or somehow self-effective.
Or if they already hate and demonstrate
then maybe – for – something, so for refugees,
or against yourself and for the exit?
Okay, so the idea was a bit more concrete,
and I thought that could work.
So what was missing was what was missing: the money.
So I tried fundraising.
Who does not really know fundraising now:
Fundraising is quasi qualified begging.
(laugh)
Good.
I did that, and it worked. It worked!
In the end we finished our little action.
Interestingly, it was almost exactly two years ago in Wunsiedel,
So a little further from here, and that’s what neo-Nazis could do
the first time around the world involuntarily running against oneself,
(laugh)
which was very interesting, and what that looked like
I’ll show you shortly.
(Video) Wunsiedel in Upper Franconia:
a small town with a big problem
a Nazi problem.
Because for more than 25 years right-wing radicals have come and marched
Hundreds once a year by Wunsiedel.
The city – helpless.
That’s why 2014 is a bit different.
Because we have secretly transformed the Nazi march into something meaningful
the involuntary donation run of Germany.
The idea: For every meter of neo-Nazis, 10 euros go to a drop-out program
for just these neo-Nazis, “EXIT Germany”.
The longer you march, the more money comes together.
So the neo-Nazis step by step against neo-Nazis strong
and unwittingly finance their own exit from the scene.
And the best thing is that they do not experience all this until they march.
Punctually at 13:48, the action “right against right” officially starts.
For the first time in history, neo-Nazis are marching against themselves.
As befits a charity run,
provide motivational posters and signs
that the participants persevere and do not forget
what they are marching for or against.
Markers on the road inform serious looking subscribers
about the current donation status.
Even the condition of the right was thought.
As a refreshment, there are bananas, including the untrained neo-fascist
comes in the donation step over the finish line.
At 15:28 the neo-Nazis have reached the goal.
10,000 euros go to the neo-Nazi drop-out initiative
EXIT Germany.
10,000 euros to help the right, get out of the right scene.
Collected by the right-wingers themselves.
Thanks to all helpers and sponsors!
Thanks to the neo-Nazis for fundraising!
Thank you for the wonder of Wunsiedel!
Wunsiedel in Upper Franconia: a small town with a big idea.
(Laughter, applause)
Okay, it was then 20,000, so again 10,000 euros more,
EXIT Germany was …
(Applause)
EXIT Germany was even presented in the White House.
The European Commission has awarded it as Best Practice,
and – which made me even more happy – one or the other fundraiser said
we would have revolutionized fundraising.
And I did not really know the term before.
That in turn annoyed others.
Okay, we made it to Wunsiedel and Remagen
and many communities at once wanted to have generously spendable neo-Nazis.
Understandable!
(laugh)
The idea multiplied, even today,
not today, but a few days ago,
and we thought: we have it so often in reality,
but there are certainly other places
where hatred is and where you can do something.
Where is more hatred these days than on the street?
That’s actually only on the internet.
There you can wish your counterpart a virtual concentration camp,
to the gallows or to the firing squad.
I do not want to bring the details now,
because we’re talking about good news here, so I skip that part.
We thought about it: Facebook.
Everyone knows Facebook and everyone knows what hatred there is
and that’s where we’re going.
We said: Then we seek hatred and let the donors donate there.
How it works?
You may know it: you’re on Facebook,
scroll through the pages and accidentally you come
in the comments and think to yourself: What a shit!
And it’s exactly this “shit” the user sees and sends to us.
We look at the hate comment and say: Okay, it fits, it hits.
Then we give one Euro
to the action “Germany Helps” for their refugee work
and free at EXIT Germany.
So far so good.
But: the user who of course wrote this comment,
will of course be kindly informed
that he once again released a euro with his hatred,
and we thank you very politely for that.
And so he is aware of his situation.
And if you use this hatred on the net, what do you get?
Even more hatred. (laugh)
This is very convenient: There you can make more help out of it.
You get love from the people,
who send us the hate comments and donations,
and you get the situation that makes you laugh.
And that is exactly when we are hated people
threaten with their lawyer because they see themselves cheated
or because they check their account balance,
to check if there really is a euro missing,
to say then: Of course there is no euro!
(laugh)
We get all that back.
That can be very successful, we can see that now.
We have been here for a year.
We have now donated 20,000 euros over it involuntarily.
We reached 38 million users this year
and we’re still going on.
Because the hatred is still there.
If you think so now: Very nice, what they do, great, I think,
then I say yes, and we like to do it for you.
Because the hatred is there.
But, if you help us make that hate,
if you donate, if you support us in this work,
then we can make a big deal out of it together,
and then these 20,000 euros donations are still a small thing.
We will set a sign to say:
People, that hate in the net, we do not take it.
Thank you.
(Applause)
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