Everyone is angry!
The 15. Documenta is now over and the whirled dust of the political debate about the international art exhibition in Kassel is clearing. In a guest commentary, the authors ask themselves: What remains of the anti-Semitism debate?
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Meinungen, Kommentare und Debattenbeiträge aus Sicht der jeweiligen Autor*innen
Politics against the poor in the Wesertor
Since 7. April 2021 the city administration of Kassel dismantled all seating on Wesertorplatz and blocked off the framework of the benches with construction fences. The benches are mainly used by the homeless and the drinking scene. The seemingly absurd measure takes place within a context, in which the poor are to be driven out of the district and the district is upgraded. A commentary by Christoph Hepp.
This is what Autobahnbau looks like
"Black clouds darken the sky" – one way or another, the political observer becomes mute, when she goes for a walk in the Dannenröder forest these days and stands at a NATO wire fence in front of a sea of police helmets, while behind it a forest is being cut down. A comment.
Who else is already talking of revolution?
A group of activists toured 2019 the region of Northern / Eastern Syria and provides first-hand impressions. After the 8. March 2020 we are republishing this feminist contribution to the debate.
The Stephan Ernst complex
In June 2019 the CDUler Walter Lübcke in Kassel was murdered by neo-Nazis. The next dead in the city by right terrorist groups. Although the headlines are full of the suspected terrorists Stephan Ernst and Markus Hartmann, going on but surprisingly little in Kassel.