STERN Fernsehen und die Fluechtlinge: Was denken sie ueber Schwule Ehen, Bier, Hot Pants?

HIER KANN MAN MEHR LESEN, UND AUCH DAS VIDEO ANSCHAUEN

TV-Umfrage

Was sagen Flüchtlinge zu deutschen Werten und Bräuchen?

Die Debatte um die Integration der Flüchtlinge wird teils hitzig geführt und dabei oft die Frage gestellt: Haben die Zuwanderer überhaupt eine Vorstellung vom Leben in Deutschland? stern TV hat 40 Flüchtlingen in Berlin symbolische Bilder gezeigt - und ihre spontanen Reaktionen eingefangen.

Am Montagabend hat stern TV auf der eigenen Facebook-Seitedrei Fotos gepostet: Mädchen in Hotpants, ein schwules Paar, das sich küsst und Angela Merkel. Dazu hat die Redaktion drei einfache Fragen gestellt:

Was denkt ihr, wenn ihr dieses Foto seht?

Wie findet ihr dieses Foto?

Was fällt euch zu diesem Bild ein?

"Das ist ein freies Land und ein sehr schönes Leben, die wissen das Leben zu genießen. Wir sind hierhergekommen, weil es ein freies Land ist, das will ich auch genießen. Ich finde das sehr schön", formulierte einer der befragten Flüchtlinge den Konsens der meisten.

"Schweinefleisch und Alkoholkonsum können nicht verpflichtend sein"

Und zu Discos?

Ein Mann sagte aber auch: "Ich gehe nicht in eine Disco. Ich mag das nicht", sagte ein Mann. "Da ist Porno drin, unsaubere Sachen." Ein anderer: "Vor zwei Jahren war ich mal da. Wenn es Gottes Wille ist, werde ich noch mal hingehen. Ich fand es schön."

Alle Flüchtlinge fanden Mädchen in Hotpants in Ordnung

37 von 40 Flüchtlingen zeigten sich religiös tolerant

Ein Foto war von einem Juden mit Kippa vor dem Brandenburger Tor, also in Berlin. Wie wir es uns wünschen, zeigten sie sich tolerant. "Ich persönlich habe keine Probleme damit. Ich bin zwar Muslim, akzeptiere die aber auch. Auch wenn sie zu mir nach Hause kommen und mein Brot essen. Oder ich ihr Brot esse", so eine Reaktion. Und: "Ich bin hier, in einem Land, das uns so sehr respektiert, ich werde auch dieses Land und die Menschen hier sehr respektieren." 37 von 40 Flüchtlingen akzeptieren Juden in Deutschland.

Aber was denken sie über eine Hochzeit unter Homosexuellen?

"Bei uns im Nahen Osten ist das nicht erlaubt. Das ist keine normale Sache. Aber hier in Europa und in diesem Land ist das eine normale Sache. Das muss man akzeptieren. Wir können hier nicht so weiterdenken, wie wir dort gedacht haben", erklärt einer der Flüchtlinge. 

Doch tatsächlich dachten längst nicht alle so: "Diese Heirat ist verboten. In allen Büchern aller Religionen steht, dass das nicht erlaubt ist, deswegen ist es auch bei uns verboten." 

Insgesamt wollen nur 25 von 40 Befragten Homosexuelle in Deutschland akzeptieren. Zärtlichkeiten zwischen Mann und Frau in der Öffentlichkeit waren für alle der 40 Flüchtlinge in Ordnung – und schön.

Herzlich willkommen nach Hause, Königin der Herzen, Conchita Wurst

Bei einem freien Konzert in Wien Ballhausplatz-



1.  Do You Believe in Life After Love (No Matter How Hard I Try, There's No Talking To You..I really don't think I'm strong enough..)
2.  That's My Destiny  (Conchita's 2012 Eurovision Song attempt, in which she placed 2nd in Austria)
3.  Rise Like a Phoenix (Europe's 2014 Eurovision's Top Song)
4.  My Heart Will Go On (This song changed Conchita's life)


Der Sieg der Freiheit, der Offenheit, der Toleranz...was Tom Neuwirth vom Anfang an gekämpft hat.



Und ist Conchita plötzlich eine Politikerin?

Opinion  REUTERS   By John Lloyd  May 12, 2014

The Great Debate 

Eurovision’s Conchita brings out Russia’s worst and Europe’s best

 

The most complicated thing said over this past weekend by a public figure came from the perfectly rouged lips of the winner of the Eurovision song contest, Conchita Wurst. “I really dream,” she said, “of a world where we don’t have to talk of unnecessary things like sexuality.”

That’s silly on two levels and deeply idealistic on a third. It’s silly, first and most evidently, because sexuality won’t be unnecessary for a long while, and may last as long as this world does.

It’s silly, second and most personally, because Wurst (her second, adopted name means “sausage” but apparently is also Austrian German slang for “whatever…”) had just won the first prize in the world’s wackiest tournament ­– the Eurovision Song Contest held this year in the Danish capital Copenhagen. She was dressed in the slinkiest of gowns hugging a perfectly sexy figure, the perfectly rouged lips set off by a perfectly trimmed black beard. ‘Unnecessary’ had nothing to do with it.

The statement is deeply idealistic because what she was saying was: it’s time we stopped thinking that it’s necessary to make a fuss about a man who’s become a woman and grown a beard. I have my thing and you have yours and if we don’t hurt each other, who is to say who’s better? It’s like … whatever.

Conchita, born Thomas Neuwirth in a small Austrian town is a kind of mascot for the European Union, which takes pride in being neither one thing nor the other – it passes laws, but is most definitely not a single state.

Conchita is everything the EU aspires to be in the eyes of the world – open, tolerant, plural, wholly accepting of every kind of sexuality in every kind of expression, shorn of narrow, cramping, sexual assumptions. She sang, in her winning number “Rise like a Phoenix” that “once I’m transformed, once I’m reborn, (I will) Rise like a phoenix!” – like the mythical bird, rising from the ashes, in Conchita’s case, the ashes of sexual prejudice.

The Russians didn’t see things that way: Conchita was fully aware of that, telling reporters on Sunday that “This was of course directed against some politicians that we know…” “Putin?” “Among others.”

Maybe she also meant back home in Austria, where less than a quarter of one of the EU’s more conservative states had expressed themselves in polls as proud that she was representing their country.

But none expressed themselves publicly like leading Russian politicians felt it was necessary to do. Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin employed sarcasm: he tweeted that the win “showed supporters of European integration their European future: a bearded girl.”

Culture Minister Vladimir Medinsky preferred irony. Claiming he was distressed that his children had watched Eurovision, he tweeted — “how am I going to explain all this to them in a ‘politically correct’ and ‘tolerant’ way?”

More crudely, the never-to-be-outdone leader of the Liberal Democratic Party Vladimir Zhirinovsky spat that “Fifty years ago the Soviet Army occupied Austria. We should have stayed there.”

 
As Conchita celebrated the ballot results in Copenhagen, the organizers of a grimmer referendum in eastern Ukraine set up booths in schools, churches and the streets to tally support for a vaguely worded resolution that could lead Donetsk, Slavyansk and Luhansk to greater autonomy and, perhaps, a union with Russia.  And what a Russia it has become.

European tolerance is seen by its leaders as degeneracy; a willingness to acquire territory by force and by guile; an attachment to race, so that ethnic Russians everywhere outside of Russia should be seen as “ours” and, where possible, brought back – along with the land they live on — to Mother Russia.

In case there’s any question about how all of this is playing in the rest of Europe, the Eurovision contest offers another insight.

Russia’s contestants, two sweet-faced sisters named Tolmachevy, suffered boos when they qualified for the finals. A long way from its 2012 entry, the Buranovskiye Babushki, a group of grannies whose sprightly number — “Party for everybody” — got a standing ovation and nearly won the whole competition.

What a difference intolerance, and an invasion, makes.

PHOTO: Conchita Wurst representing Austria performs the song “Rise Like a Phoenix” after winning the grand final of the 59th Eurovision Song Contest at the B&W Hallerne in Copenhagen May 10, 2014. REUTERS/Tobias Schwarz

Conchita delights fans with free concert

From AUSTRIA's THE LOCAL
"Austria's News in English"

                                 Conchita Wurst singing at Ballhausplatz. Photo: APA

Published: 19 May 2014 10:05 GMT+02:00

Ten thousand admiring fans crammed into central Vienna's Ballhausplatz on Sunday afternoon to hear Conchita Wurst's first public performance since her Eurovision win in Copenhagen last weekend.

• Conchita receives invites and death threats (15 May 14)
• Conchita: Poster girl for a more liberal Austria (12 May 14)

An eclectic crowd - young and old, straight and gay – many wearing fake beards, cheered and waved rainbow and Austrian flags as Conchita took to the stage.

Humbled by the attention, Wurst opened and closed the show with her winning ballad, Rise Like a Phoenix, as well as a stirring rendition of Cher's hit, Believe and her 2012 Eurovision entry, That's What I Am.

Fans enthusiastically sang along to a karaoke version of Phoenix, following the English text from a giant video screen.

"It was only a week ago. This is unbelievable. It means so much to me that I am not alone. It's beautiful to believe in a future without discrimination and hate, and I'm honoured that next year the Song Contest will come to Austria," Conchita told her enraptured audience.

Ukrainian students, Katya and Valeria. Photo: Kim Traill

Longtime supporter, Christina Pichler, travelled from Burgenland with her mother for the spectacle, which was broadcast live on ORF.  "It's absolutely incredible. She is really uniting everyone. By creating this figure of Conchita, she is showing there is major rethinking and change going on in Europe and all over the world, including in countries where this topic is so negative," Pichler told The Local. 

Ukrainian students, Katya and Valeria, were equally awed. "We think she's great. We were unsure about her at first, but now we're used to her."  But they don't expect their friends in Ukraine to understand their enthusiasm for Austria's new heroine.  "We know when we post pictures on Facebook and people back home see we were here, they will say 'Ugh, how could you?'"

Prior to her performance, the newly crowned Queen of Austria met with Chancellor Werner Faymann and Minister of Culture, Josef Ostermayer, at an official reception at the Federal Chancellery.  "You have made Austrians very proud by what you have achieved at the Song Contest," an impressed Faymann told Conchita.

"Conchita stands for openness and freedom, and I wish that all of Europe will have such an image," he added. 

Wurst, wearing a figure-hugging white dress, appeared overwhelmed by the media attention, as she clutched her Eurovision trophy.  "I feel a freedom that means more to me than winning the Song Contest. Thank you, thank you, each and every one of you," she said.  "Austria has sent a signal to the world. This is overwhelming."