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Berlin Swabians hit back with noodle attack
Published: 15 Jan 13 12:56 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.de/society/20130115-47343.html
South-western Germans in Berlin are hitting back at recent criticism that they have been ruining certain neighbourhoods with their monied ways and funny dialect - and covered a statue with their regional speciality Spätzle noodles on Monday.
- Thierse welcomes Swabians after hate mail - Society (13 Jan 13)
- Thierse 'drags Berlin debate to a new low' - Analysis & Opinion (3 Jan 13)
- Thierse laments Swabian invasion of Berlin - Society (31 Dec 12)
Now a group has set up a website calling for the creation of a "Free Swabylon" in the area around Kollwitz square - and demanding the expulsion of Thierse.
He had in a newspaper interview criticized what he said was a takeover of the neighbourhood by the southwesterners and said they needed to adapt to Berlin customs and local jargon and not the other way around.
In a manifesto published on Tuesday online, the group called for an autonomous area, and singled out the Kollwitz monument as a "symbol of the authoritarian Berlin minority" in the area.
The manifesto said the Swabian population in Berlin had lived long enough under "foreign domination and discrimination."
The group did not say if or when there would be another Spätzle attack. The paper said, however that the immigrants have shown that at least when compared to Thierse, they had a sense of humour.
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... wait, yes I do! A Spätzle-war would be amazing.
I like graffiti. If you don't like it, why are you in a city that is full of it?
Anyway, I hate it when people waste good food. During the riots in Friedrichshain last year, someone threw an egg on our apartment doorbell. I'm hungry, throw that egg in my mouth. And that spaetzle
If you are hungry to somewhere you can earn a living instead of hanging around the deadbeats.
By the way I like graffiti also if it is the artistic kind. Not the mindless stains on beautiful buildings that is prevalent in Berlin.
wa
Show me a single major city in the world where that isn't true. The Kremlin certain has beauty, but.... Washington has beauty, but it was where slavery was sanctified. Paris? London? The list is endless, and every city with history has "bad history." Berlin is hardly unique in that regard, and, in truth, because of the damage done over the years actually has fewer original buildings from those eras than most. Dalmation hit the nail on the head. I think you're hammer probably hit your thumb.
wa
I think, in London, people are glad if you just speak English these days, they're not going to complain about your accent.
Anyway, I'm with the Swabisch, Baden-Wurtemburg was part of united Germany last time I looked, so Berlin is their capital too.