An alternative to the German party, or the AFD, with its antimigrant and nationalist platform, has long been a Paria of German politics. Her members were fined for Nazi slogans and aired them.
On the eve of the national parliamentary elections on Sunday, the new band influencer found a voice among the voters, bringing a youthful advantage to the party known for its provocations and controversy. They welcome the contempt of protesters, journalists and major political parties. Some of them still trade jokes about Hitler and Jews, along with the occasional Sig Heil greetings.
The energy and ethos of their party won the approval of Elon Musk, the adviser of President Trump and Vice -President JD Vance. And they helped the party rise to second place at the polling station, even when the political establishment held the AFD from the Government as part of the long obligations to the sides considered extreme.
They are the variable face of AFD.
When Marie-Thérèse Kaiser, 28, first went to the 2017 AFD event, was surrounded by retirees. “They could have been my grandparents,” she said. Things have changed. Young people who may have been punk or hippies at another time now find AfD, she said – and posted about it.
Mrs. Kaiser is a parliamentary candidate and personal assistant at Alice Weidel’s office, AFD leader. She had fun for fun on a cold Saturday morning in Sittensen, a small town outside Hamburg. She chose a place because she was unknown to the panel of discussion there for a long -term controversy because of the publication on the social media that violated the law against hate speech.
2021. Mrs. Kaiser on Facebook criticized the German acceptance of immigrants from Afghanistan. In the post, she asked the mayor of Hamburg, does she create a “welcome culture for rape rape?” The government fined 6,000 euros ($ 6,275) and condemned it to encourage racial hatred. Her internet tracking has grown.
Other young activists accepted the conflict to win votes and get followers.
On the recent Saturday, Michelle Gollan, 23, stood outside the door of Brandenburg in Berlin with a strict look on her face. She held a microphone decorated with her YouTube channel, “Eingollan”, which has almost 200,000 subscribers.
Her poster read “remigracy”, which was considered an AFD code for deportations. The point on “and” is replaced by a pink arrow.
She was trying to attract protesters to talk to her, to feed a new video and, she said, she met her viewers with new ideas. She succeeded with a woman with an AFD sticker on a jacket and a rainbow flag drawn around her shoulder, which was briefly discussing her.
The tense discussion left a huge smile on Mrs. Gollan’s face: “For me, to be provocative also means running people.”
Whenever AFD gathering on the streets, as he did in Munich this month after a Mother and child killed an immigrant in an attack of a carprotesters appear. And when protesters march against the party, as hundreds of thousands did so in Berlin during this campaign, young AFD activists appear in turn.
On such demonstrations, Christopher Tamm, 24, likes to wear a hood decorated with the AFD Youth Wings Logotype, which the German intelligence service classified as an extremist. “I openly say that I am the right hand, to commit to right -wing policy,” Mr. Tamm said.
The next morning, near Hamburg, the AFD supporter waved a good morning with his colleagues to the volunteers who placed themselves on the polls. He left his hand in Hitler’s greeting, which is illegal in Germany. “He holds his hand for this longer,” he said.
Being provocative and promoting fear and hatred works well on social media, but that tone should not adopt the main party, said Emilia Fester, 26, a member of the Green Parliament. Mrs. Fester is not shy to speak against AFD. Whenever there is a lie or disinformation on social media, she said, “This is something that must be clearly called and limited.”
Young AFD activists are an extension of a party that has found support in many parts of Germany since its establishment in 2013. It is a party no longer defined by any demographic, but it is widely inscribed in a society where many still see AFD as the extremely right extremist. In doing so, they created their own counterculture.
Wutbürger, a German rock bank whose name means a “angry citizen”, began creating patriotic music against establishing. Since then, he has accepted the extremely right -wing identity and the fans base, establishing close ties with some AFD politicians. The state government in Germany in Germany also classified as a “right -wing extremist group”.
The song “Walhalla”, including Lirk, “we send our enemies back to Orrius,” became viral.
“We have achieved our own counterculture. Our own music, our rap culture, our rock culture, “said Andy Habermann, the band leader.” We no longer hear the mainstream, we don’t see them on TV, we no longer listen to the mainstream on the radio. We know they are filtered, unfortunately. We have no confidence anymore. “
