The hamburger “Pimmelgate” there is no end: A group of artists keeps the controversy about Interior Senator Andy Grote simmering with hijacked advertising display cases.
Next round in the hamburger “Pimmelgate”: An artist group has hijacked several advertising display cases in the Hanseatic city and hung posters in them that keep the controversy about Interior Senator Andy Grote (SPD) simmering. Based on the appearance of the news magazine “The mirror” is on the title page of “The dick”, on which Grote is depicted, the headline: “Andy, don’t be so stiff!”
The poster could be seen at Hamburg Central Station, among other places. The artist collective is apparently behind the action “Day of wrath”, such as the “Hamburger Morgenpost” (Mopo) reported. “Interior Senator Andy Grote uses his police officers to avert criticism of himself with disproportionate prosecution measures”the local newspaper quoted a spokesman for the group. According to their own information, I did “Day of wrath” the advertising showcases opened with a socket wrench and the “unauthorized posters” hung up.
That “Pimmelgate” in Hamburg
Triggers the controversy about Interior Senator Grote, which in Hamburg under the word creation “Pimmelgate” was a tweet sent to Grote in May on Twitter with the wording “You are so 1 dick”. It came in response to a short message from Grote, in which this person as “ignorant” who celebrated in the Schanzenviertel despite Corona. At the beginning of the pandemic, Grote himself celebrated his renewed appointment to the Interior Senator in disregard of the Corona rules in a pub and had to pay a fine for it.
To the “Pimmelgate” the matter became when the public prosecutor’s office had the home of the alleged author of the tweet ransacked in September following a criminal complaint by Grote for insult. Thousands of people criticized the action on the net under the hashtag “Pimmelgate” as completely disproportionate and excessive.
At the beginning of October, the Hamburg police removed dozens of yellow stickers with the inscription “Andy, you are such a dick”that had been distributed in the vicinity of the Senator’s apartment in St. Pauli. Last Saturday, a meter-high poster with the lettering was hung at the left-wing autonomous cultural center Rote Flora, which the police painted over several times. As a spokeswoman announced on Tuesday, they wanted to end the cat-and-mouse game and not paint over the lettering that kept appearing.
The current poster campaign was spread on social networks and has thus also reached the advertising companies concerned. “We noticed this action on social media at an early stage and accordingly initiated direct controls on our space”a Walldecaux spokeswoman told the “Moped”. This is the usual procedure for so-called adbusting campaigns. Further controls in the urban area are planned.
Sources: , with material from the DPA news agency
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