Der Wahlkampf Endet.
So Angie is here to stay it seems, now ruling with her right-leaning FDP buddies in what is expected to be a much more comfortable coalition than the CDU had with the left-leaning SPD in the previous years. By my accounts, Germans were lack-luster about the whole affair, which is evidenced in a drop in voter turn-out (which is anyways still a hefty 71.2%!). Rather late than never, here are some of the election posters that were on display around Berlin (and one from Kiel)
This poster stirred quite some controversy for going back to that Oslo-operahouse-excessive-cleavage picture, now paired with a female candidate for the CDU in Berlin. The caption reads "We have more to offer". No doubt.
New this year was the pirate party, which is basically pro-piracy (the caption is something like "representation change!") Blow is a colourful poster for the German Communist Party (DKP) for a rally they held back in August.
I can't help but note the Pirate Party's logo is strikingly similar to the Duffern-Peel Roman Catholic Separate School Board logo (below) - the fine people whom I credit my early education to (Shout out to St.Paul's!).
But the long-time incumbant had the best poster, done by a local illustrator in an almost simpson-esqu motif
I mean the resemblance to Jebediah Springfield is uncanny:
And there are also lots of fringe parties, for instance Mensch Umwelt Tierschutz (lit. People, Environment, Animal Protection) who used this striking poster (the caption is "Alternative methods instead of abusing the weak")
The left-leaning parties had a big presence in Neukölln, a more working-class district in Berlin. The top poster here is for a turkish candidate. Die Linke ("The Left"), a newly formed merger party of older entities proclaims "More money for building, not banks!" while the Partei für Soxiale Gleichheit (PSG, "Party for Social Equality") wants to let you know that "Die Linke want to save capitalism. Not us". While the DKP (communists) are so far beyond the economy, that they want to let you know that they're "No people of the armed forces. Their election campaign: class struggle" (it sounds better in German because election campaign and class struggle both use the same word for struggle/fight/conflict: kampf)
Also... Die Linke say to "tax the rich", while the PSG would like to see "Banks and affiliates under the democratic control of the employees". The communists just don't want you to forget who their "crisis consultants" are.
Ah ok, and not to forget the Greens. They went for a faux graffiti campaign. The upper placard is self-explanatory, the lower one I found a bit confusing. In one instance they are clearly against (gegen) Genetically Modified Organisms (i.e. foodstuffs) but the explosive stem resembles the typical logo for anti-nuclear proliferation in Germany.
But lest we forget what most posters actually looked like throughout Germany. Here are two very boring (and very typical) poster for candidates in Kiel for the SPD ("more caring, more equitable, more strong") and Die Linke ("Have courage! Make pressure!"). The bottom of Sahra's poster is where they put a sticker of when and where she will make an appearance, but it looks poorly designed when the space is left blank.
This poster stirred quite some controversy for going back to that Oslo-operahouse-excessive-cleavage picture, now paired with a female candidate for the CDU in Berlin. The caption reads "We have more to offer". No doubt.
New this year was the pirate party, which is basically pro-piracy (the caption is something like "representation change!") Blow is a colourful poster for the German Communist Party (DKP) for a rally they held back in August.
I can't help but note the Pirate Party's logo is strikingly similar to the Duffern-Peel Roman Catholic Separate School Board logo (below) - the fine people whom I credit my early education to (Shout out to St.Paul's!).
But the long-time incumbant had the best poster, done by a local illustrator in an almost simpson-esqu motif
I mean the resemblance to Jebediah Springfield is uncanny:
And there are also lots of fringe parties, for instance Mensch Umwelt Tierschutz (lit. People, Environment, Animal Protection) who used this striking poster (the caption is "Alternative methods instead of abusing the weak")
The left-leaning parties had a big presence in Neukölln, a more working-class district in Berlin. The top poster here is for a turkish candidate. Die Linke ("The Left"), a newly formed merger party of older entities proclaims "More money for building, not banks!" while the Partei für Soxiale Gleichheit (PSG, "Party for Social Equality") wants to let you know that "Die Linke want to save capitalism. Not us". While the DKP (communists) are so far beyond the economy, that they want to let you know that they're "No people of the armed forces. Their election campaign: class struggle" (it sounds better in German because election campaign and class struggle both use the same word for struggle/fight/conflict: kampf)
Also... Die Linke say to "tax the rich", while the PSG would like to see "Banks and affiliates under the democratic control of the employees". The communists just don't want you to forget who their "crisis consultants" are.
Ah ok, and not to forget the Greens. They went for a faux graffiti campaign. The upper placard is self-explanatory, the lower one I found a bit confusing. In one instance they are clearly against (gegen) Genetically Modified Organisms (i.e. foodstuffs) but the explosive stem resembles the typical logo for anti-nuclear proliferation in Germany.
But lest we forget what most posters actually looked like throughout Germany. Here are two very boring (and very typical) poster for candidates in Kiel for the SPD ("more caring, more equitable, more strong") and Die Linke ("Have courage! Make pressure!"). The bottom of Sahra's poster is where they put a sticker of when and where she will make an appearance, but it looks poorly designed when the space is left blank.
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