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Rudolstadt, Germany – 15 August 2024
1. Actors of Rudolstadt theatre rehearsing
2. Actors rehearsing German folk song
3. Various of intendant of Rudolstadt theatre Steffen Mensching talking to actors
4. SOUNDBITE (German) Steffen Mensching, Intendant of the Rudolstadt theatre:
"We were also questioned by the AfD (Alternative for Germany party) in Thuringia against our theatre in parliament, because we performed a play based on a novel by a Hungarian writer, László Krasznahorkai, who wrote a novel that takes place here in the area of Rudolstadt in Kahla, ‘Khana’ is the name of his book, about a neo-Nazi troupe.”
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Suhl, Germany – 13 August 2024
5. AfD supporters at a rally
6. Parasol with AfD party logo
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Rudolstadt, Germany – 15 August 2024
7. SOUNDBITE (German) Steffen Mensching, Intendant of the Rudolstadt theatre:
"We made an adaptation of it at the theatre and then the AfD asked how we dealt with it, whether we went to schools with it, what materials we sent to schools. So there was a very clear positioning. We are producing a play in which right-wing radicalism plays an important role and the AfD is taking parliamentary action against it because it considers this to be interference or, how should I put it, an instrumentalization of public cultural institutions in the interests of a policy that it does not share.”
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Jena, Germany – 13 August 2024
8. AfD poster
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Suhl, Germany – 13 August 2024
9. AfD party supporters applauding
10. AfD Thuringia leader Bjoern Hoecke speaking onstage
11. Hoecke wipes sweat from his face
12. AfD paper flag
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Erfurt, Germany – 15 August 2024
13. SOUNDBITE (German) Torben Braga, AfD lawmaker in Thuringia parliament:
"It is right that the AfD announces that it will set other priorities. This will undoubtedly mean that certain projects will no longer be funded. This will undoubtedly mean that people in certain areas will have to look for other work. They will no longer be able to live on state subsidies. But that is the consequence of the decision for our party.”
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Rudolstadt, Germany – 15 August 2024
14. Theatre ensemble rehearsing new program
15. Mensching talking to ensemble
16. SOUNDBITE (German) Steffen Mensching, Intendant of the Rudolstadt theatre:
“I just want to say that the real aggressive polemics against cultural institutions have not yet taken place, they are only being hinted at now. But that’s a different situation. When the AfD is in government, when it is represented on the supervisory boards of theatres and orchestras, when it is so strong in the city parliaments that it appoints mayors, that it appoints heads of cultural affairs and so on, that it appoints district councillors, of course, they have a say in certain aspects of the repertoire.”
17. Poster of new theatre piece
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Thuringia, Germany – 14 August 2024
18. Thuringia landscape
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Bucha, Germany – 14 August 2024
19. Church and house
20. Farm vehicle
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Erfurt, Germany – 15 August 2024
21. SOUNDBITE (German) Torben Braga, AfD lawmaker in Thuringia parliament:
“We decide to implement the interests of our own people and see that we also have to set priorities here. And if this means that certain projects that have been politically committed in a certain direction in recent years suffer as a result, then that is a consequence that we are prepared to live with.”
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Jena, Germany – 13 August 2024
22. AfD party banner
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