“Center for Political Beauty”: Artists commit to anti-AfD action

As of: 09/28/2021 6:30 p.m.

The AfD had delivered them full truckloads of flyers “week after week” – assuming that the material would go to a flyer distribution service. However, the artist collective had invented the “Flyerservice Hahn”.

The artist group “Center for Political Beauty” (ZPS) has declared itself responsible for a fictional flyer service to which the AfD delivered large quantities of campaign leaflets. “We adhered to the corona recommendations of the federal government: ‘We were lazy like raccoons and did absolutely nothing,'” the artist group explained, referring to a government commercial during the corona pandemic that called for people to stay at home.

Different information about the amount

The ZPS had offered the AfD to “buy and distribute its campaign material on a large scale”. The party accepted the offer “gratefully” and delivered five million flyers “to the ZPS logistics chain”. “Whole truckloads of the AfD arrived week after week without an order confirmation or a legally valid contract,” explained the artist collective. The AfD had previously spoken of a million flyers.

The ZPS further stated that the “Flyerservice Hahn” had not been able to distribute the material because of its general terms and conditions. “The terms and conditions of the service provider expressly exclude the distribution of ‘propaganda and false statements’ as well as advertising materials of ‘political parties’,” said the artist group’s statement.

The AfD delivered the material to a “windy company with no entry in the commercial register” and with the “business address Center for Political Beauty”. 85 AfD party associations have become customers of the “Flyerservice Hahn”. The ZPS called on citizens to contribute to the recycling of the flyers with donations to finance the legal dispute with the AfD.

AfD wants to file a criminal complaint

The AfD had already announced on Friday that the federal office would “promptly file a criminal complaint and examine the further legal procedure”. The party leaders Tino Chrupalla and Jörg Meuthen had stated that the “Flyerservice Hahn” had offered the AfD a few weeks before the federal election to distribute the flyers “to households at an acceptable price”. Several orders for a total of over a million flyers have been placed. For this purpose, “a website was faked and the sales tax number of a completely ignorant entrepreneur was illegally used”.

On the Tuesday evening before the federal election, the relevant district associations and Bundestag candidates of the AfD were informed by email that the flyers could not be distributed “for organizational reasons”. Chrupalla spoke of a “massive interference in the democratic election campaign”.

The ZPS had already drawn attention to itself in the past with actions against the AfD. At the end of 2017, for example, the group of artists erected an installation in the neighborhood of the AfD far-right Björn Höcke in Bornhagen, Thuringia, which was reminiscent of the Berlin Holocaust memorial.

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