Homophobic hate musicians in the Kulturbrauerei
publication date: Nov 25, 2009
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author/source: Der Tagesspiegel-Berlin
"Death to fags and perverts, what are you doing here? I am popping off the fags with the gun "- no lyric a neo-Nazi band, but one line of the dancehall artist Miguel Collins. The Jamaican, who is known as Sizzla, will occur on Thursday in Berlin. Politicians and gay groups are appalled. The organizers from the boiler house of the culture brewery in Prenzlauer Berg, the concert will be held, despite protests.
A coalition of gay organizations and leftist groups have signed up for a demonstration Saturday to protest against the presence of the singer. From 18.30 clock with the elevator to go up to 500 participants from the S-Bahnhof Schönhauser Allee to the boiler house in the Knaackstraße.
Just a few months, two albums by Sizzla Federal Department for Media minors because of the explicit incitement to violence against gays have been indexed. "The artists call to kill gay people, they burn down, burn them and sprinkle with sulfur," it says in the explanatory memorandum. Last year, a European tour of the musician had to be canceled because of numerous protests. The Interior Ministry refused to allow him to enter Germany. Subsequently, Spanish authorities arrested the singer, and sent him back.
"It is incomprehensible and unacceptable negligence, if he simply must perform again," said the managing director of the Parliamentary Greens in the Bundestag, Volker Beck. "In Jamaica, there are frequent on the murder and pogrom-chases on gays." As the music of Sizzla, would also incite the perpetrators. Beck invited CDU Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière to refuse the controversial musician again the entry. "In this country should be no artist, and earn money too, calling for killings of gays and lesbians," said the managing director of the Lesbian and Gay Association of Germany (LSVD) Klaus Jetz. Back in September, the Association of Police, the Foreign Office and the Home Office about the planned performances in Berlin, Munich and Stuttgart have informed. The LSVD urged the club to cancel the concerts.
The KulturBrauerei relies on the fact that Sizzla had signed in April 2007 the "Reggae Compassionate Act (RCA) and are therefore obliged to sing in the future no more homophobic hate texts. According to information from Collins, but not LSVD adheres to this commitment. Again and again the violent songs in Europe tours in the program had appeared. In Jamaica Collins to fans and media have even denied the signing of the RCA.
"The homophobic attitude of the artist's cause in the social and cultural contexts in which the artist lived," says a statement of the boiler room operators. These changing conditions in Jamaica is not to be the responsibility of the organizers, so the appearance would not be canceled. If the singers also play songs indexed in the boiler house, the concert would be canceled immediately. The police were present at the scene.
So-called Battyman-tunes that call for the murder of homosexuals, are widespread in the Jamaican reggae scene. "A large proportion of the population of the same sex relations are hostile," warned the Foreign Office Jamaica travelers. It always give back attacks.
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