Homework for the contemplative time: watch the depressingly true feature film “Wackersdorf” by Oliver Haffner again and be amazed that it all really happened. Although you have witnessed a lot of things originally. Then think about what a film about modern-day Bavaria could look like in 2062. And what exactly is the difference?
Hopefully 40 years from now, people will be amazed that in Bavaria by 2022 you could be jailed just like that for possibly intending to cause a traffic jam on the road. On the other hand, one could be responsible for a traffic jam on a main S-Bahn line with absolutely no penalty and not be taken into police custody if the expansion of such a main line took almost the time of a human life. In 2062 one might also wonder why some people didn’t call car lobbyists and fans of combustion engines “climate criminals” or “climate RAF”, but rather the protesters at the time against the climate catastrophe that had long since become reality 40 years later?
This film will definitely be even darker than Wackersdorf. That means: The Bavarian Economics Minister Hubert Aiwanger will hardly appear in it. You can best imagine him in a new film adaptation of the Lederhosen-Schmonzette “Zwei Bayern in St. Pauli” directed by Bully Herbig. Alexander Dobrindt would also be conceivable as a sidekick, or Andi Scheuer because of the intellectual depth.
Otherwise, unfortunately, it is difficult to foresee what will still be the case in Bavarian politics in 40 years. Because after just a few years, our state party no longer really wants to know where their hopes used to be. Does anyone remember how happy Horst Seehofer was in 2016 about the election of Donald Trump as US President and his forthcoming flying visit to the White House? Or because great statesmen like Victor Orbán and Sebastian Kurz honored themselves at CSU retreats? Yes, they used to be luminaries for those who rule today’s Bavaria. In the meantime, even the CSU thinks a little differently about them, and Markus Söder is certainly happy that the Russian Sputnik vaccine from Illertissen didn’t work out after all. At least that gives hope that one day the CSU will also shake their heads at the Bavarian law on police duties.