Kruzifix – Skandal im Düsseldorfer Karneval // Filmvorführung mit Ricarda Hinz

In the organizer's words:

Crucifix - scandal at the Düsseldorf carnival
A crucifix must hang in every Bavarian classroom. This is what the Bavarians wrote into their primary school regulations back in 1995. Unfortunately, this was already in breach of our secular constitution at the time. So the judges in Karlsruhe overturned the Bavarian law. Jacques Tilly addressed this in 1996 in a carnival float that turned into a nationwide scandal. As the carnival motifs were published before the Rose Monday parade at this time, the "blasphemous" carnival motif had allowed a wave of Christian outrage and resistance to build up, which massively influenced both the press and the sponsors of the carnival parade.

Ricarda Hinz, filmmaker and partner of Jacques Tilly, was live on location with her camera at the time. The incident known as the Düsseldorf crucifix scandal unfolds before our eyes and ears in real time. The film is an excellent lesson about religiously hurt feelings, intolerance and aggressive Nazi comparisons, about supposed social moods that vanish into thin air afterwards, and about previously filmed reports that disappear unbroadcast in public service "poison cupboards". Ultimately, however, the documentary is also an instructive example of how tricky ways can be used to avoid the angry and frightened demands for a ban. The film, which is well worth seeing, premiered in a Düsseldorf cinema in 1996. Ricarda Hinz is - like Jacques Tilly - on the advisory board of the Giordano Bruno Foundation.

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