German Anarchists in Hamburg

[redstar2000]

Originally posted by Scotsman.com
German 'Robin Hoods' give poor a taste of the high life

A GANG of anarchist Robin Hood-style thieves, who dress as superheroes and steal expensive food from exclusive restaurants and delicatessens to give to the poor, are being hunted by police in the German city of Hamburg.

The gang members seemingly take delight in injecting humour into their raids, which rely on sheer numbers and the confusion caused by their presence. After they plundered Kobe beef fillets, champagne and smoked salmon from a gourmet store on the exclusive Elbastrasse, they presented the cashier with a bouquet of flowers before making their getaway.

The latest robbery is part of a pattern over the past several months, suggesting that the thieves deliberately set out to highlight what they perceive as the inequality inherent in German society.

Carsten Sievers, the manager of a luxury supermarket in the wealthy Blankenese area of Hamburg, recently watched the robbers run off with trolleys full of expensive foodstuffs, including Kobe beef which, at more than £100 a pound, is always on their illicit shopping list.

In another recent swoop, the gang emptied a groaning buffet table in a top restaurant into sacks, while one of their number held up a sign saying. "The fat years are over" - the title of a hit film currently doing the rounds in Germany.

In internet statements, the gang have made a point of saying their booty is distributed to Hartz IV recipients - the poorest of Germany's long-term unemployed. The benefit is named after the disgraced Volkswagen personnel director Peter Hartz who, before he lost his job with the car-maker in a prostitutes-and-bribes scandal, devised the new means-testing which is loathed and derided by society's most economically challenged.

Police say they are concentrating their investigation on a loose collective of anarchists and malcontents called "Hamburg in Vain", to which they believe the superheroes belong. But they admit there is a certain panache and skill about their robberies.

The gang are also behind black market cinema tickets which they distribute free to the poor, and they have printed leaflets telling passengers how to dodge ticket inspectors on the city's underground and buses.

http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=692762006

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[RedAnarchist]

What a great group of people :). Long may they take from those who have way too much.

[violencia.Proletariat]

I've never heard of these guys, hope they keep up the good work :)

[bolshevik butcher]

Just to say the scotsman's a shit reactionary newspaper. However yeh this sounds like a good publicity campaign. Good luck to them.

[bcbm]

Awesome! Let's hope we can see this spread throughout Germany and the rest of the "First World."

[BattleOfTheCowshed]

Awesome.

[Lord Testicles]

Lets hope they never get caught.

[Sugar Hill Kevis]

Truely inspirational

[Qwerty Dvorak]

While I have my disagreements with anarchism, I commend these people for their truly inspirational campaign. :)

I hope their example will be followed by left-wing activists of all varieties across the First World in the near future.

[Angry Young Man]

Originally posted by black banner black [email protected] 9 2006, 05:38 PM
Awesome! Let's hope we can see this spread throughout Germany and the rest of the "First World."
Yeah. Why hasn't anyone thought of picketlining supermarkets in dresses?, or any corrupt capitalist organistion?! That would be quite fun!!!! :P

[Angry Young Man]

Originally posted by [email protected] 9 2006, 06:45 PM
Lets hope they never get caught.
Just remember the Anti-flag song: "You can kill the protester/ but you cant kill the protest."
Also, the poem by Shelley (which i noticed was your sig!!! What a coincidence i was gonna use this quote!) "Ye are many, They are few."

[RevMARKSman]

'Mazing! We need to see more of this! :)

[Brekisonphilous]

This is awesome! Is anyone here affiliated with the group?
What great people.

[Fistful of Steel]

That's pretty hilarious. It's witty and heartful and worthwhile.

[YSR]

The subtitle has it right. "Getting it done." Well done.

[CLOCKWORK ORANGE]

That's awesome. :D

[redstar2000]

More on this from Der Spiegel...

http://service.spiegel.de/cache/internatio...,415219,00.html (http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/spiegel/0,1518,415219,00.html)

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[h&s]

:lol:
Its not exactly going to get much done in he long run, but you have just got to laugh at this!
Hmm, I've got to stay in Hamburg for a day this summer. I don't suppose they give this food out for free, becasue its not as if I'm actually going to be able to eat anything good with all the money I'm going to be spending on beer and my complete inability to speak German, and this food sounds quite nice... :P

[Edelweiss]

In case anybody cares: The German movie that isnpired the anarchists is called "The Edukators" in the US, see http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0408777/

It's availabe on DVD.

[Nachie]

Originally posted by [email protected] 10 2006, 04:58 PM
It's availabe on DVD.
...and I recommend it as well.

But Malte, how do you know of the connections between the film and these actions? Stuff like this has been going on for a while, I think the last place I heard about it was France. This group seems to have been having more success, though.

Anyway, hooray for all Situationist-inspired actions!

EDIT: Nevermind, saw thisin the article:


"Die fetten Jahren sind vorbei" (The Fat Years Are Over) was the smug slogan on a banner the activists displayed in a restaurant in Hamburg's posh Blankenese neighborhood a year ago -- a nod to the same-named 2005 German film (released as The Edukators in English-speaking countries). The restaurant's piqued guests looked on as the activists cleared the buffet, holding up oversized cardboard cutlery as they did so. In the movie, young, idealistic people undertook similar fun-guerilla missions that toyed with the bourgeois parts of society.
Awesome :)

[Coggeh]

Good stuff , Keep up the good work

[Sabocat]

Originally posted by [email protected] 10 2006, 12:58 PM
In case anybody cares: The German movie that isnpired the anarchists is called "The Edukators" in the US, see http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0408777/

It's availabe on DVD.
I was just going to say that!

Great movie.

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

Criticism of the activism tends rather to come from within the left-wing scene. In one Internet forum a leftist accuses the activists of not behaving in an even remotely anti-capitalist manner: "They're just begging for regulated exploitation under standard employment conditions."

WTF?

[WUOrevolt]

Interesting idea!! i hope it spreads, lets make it comrades!!

[FinnMacCool]

Originally posted by h&[email protected] 10 2006, 10:21 AM
:lol:
Its not exactly going to get much done in he long run, but you have just got to laugh at this!
Hmm, I've got to stay in Hamburg for a day this summer. I don't suppose they give this food out for free, becasue its not as if I'm actually going to be able to eat anything good with all the money I'm going to be spending on beer and my complete inability to speak German, and this food sounds quite nice... :P
It might not get things done in the long run, howver someone is going to be able to eat as well as the upper class does. Surely thats a grand thing.

IN my opinion, even things that do not necesarily have long term gain, if someone can bring happiness to just one person, it makes their entire life worth something.

[Cult of Reason]

This is absolute brilliance!

[piet11111]

its the message that counts and they are doing this very well.
how can anyone possibly hate these poeple (exept the rich bastards that are victim but who gives a damn about them anyway ?)

personally i think this is really cool :D

[Djehuti]

Great&#33; <3

I am discussing similar actions with some friends of mine. Spread it&#33; :D

[bcbm]

Originally posted by [email protected] 11 2006, 12:33 PM
Great&#33; <3

I am discussing similar actions with some friends of mine. Spread it&#33; :D
Shhh. Loose lips sink ships.

[apathy maybe]

Lifesylists. It is obvious that they aren&#39;t doing anything that revolutionary or promoting revolutionary acts. As such they should be scorned.






(Joke...)

[bcbm]

Originally posted by apathy [email protected] 11 2006, 08:48 PM
Lifesylists. It is obvious that they aren&#39;t doing anything that revolutionary or promoting revolutionary acts. As such they should be scorned.
:lol: Good one.

[redstar2000]

Pictures from Hamburg


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[piet11111]

i dont like em those pics make me hungry :P

[Janus]

They look like they are about to go trick-or-treating rather than on a food raid. The Merry Robbers should be their name.

[FinnMacCool]

Originally posted by [email protected] 11 2006, 01:33 PM
Great&#33; <3

I am discussing similar actions with some friends of mine. Spread it&#33; :D
Wow okay don&#39;t tell us then unless you have a hankering for ending up in prision.

[redstar2000]

Anarchists in the U.S. sometimes feed poor people too...but it&#39;s vegan crap&#33;

Clearly, there is much to be learned from the German anarchists. :D

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[piet11111]

Originally posted by [email protected] 12 2006, 08:14 PM
They look like they are about to go trick-or-treating rather than on a food raid. The Merry Robbers should be their name.
or the gastronomic super "villians" :lol:

[bcbm]

Originally posted by [email protected] 12 2006, 03:42 PM
Anarchists in the U.S. sometimes feed poor people too...but it&#39;s vegan crap&#33;

Clearly, there is much to be learned from the German anarchists. :D

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You try dumpstering meat products. It isn&#39;t pleasant, trust me. :lol:

[violencia.Proletariat]

Originally posted by black banner black gun+May 13 2006, 03:14 AM--> (black banner black gun @ May 13 2006, 03:14 AM)
[email protected] 12 2006, 03:42 PM
Anarchists in the U.S. sometimes feed poor people too...but it&#39;s vegan crap&#33;

Clearly, there is much to be learned from the German anarchists. :D

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You try dumpstering meat products. It isn&#39;t pleasant, trust me. :lol: [/b]
I think thats what he ment by learn from the German comrades, don&#39;t salvage the leftovers just take it new&#33;

[bcbm]

But that brings us to problem number two: I&#39;ve no fucking idea how to cook meat. :blush:

[Purple]

Originally posted by black banner black [email protected] 13 2006, 07:58 PM
But that brings us to problem number two: I&#39;ve no fucking idea how to cook meat. :blush:
You can always Google it&#33;

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

Originally posted by black banner black [email protected] 13 2006, 06:58 PM
But that brings us to problem number two: I&#39;ve no fucking idea how to cook meat. :blush:
Cook until the juices run clear, or it turns black, whichever comes first.

[deak]

i needed a good smile like this&#33; thanks&#33;

[Commie Rat]

thats friggin sweet

[Tekun]

I commend them on a job well done...though they do look madd funny

In this screwed up society....stealing from the rich and giving to the poor is called theft, yet when ppl steal from the poor and give to the rich its called business :angry:

[FuzzBeast]

and good business at that.

and whoever said they look like they&#39;re going trick or treating, it looks somewhat like they are... it&#39;s just not halloween.

Vegan food is not crap, in fact most of it is quite tasty.

[Commie Rat]

Vegeterian and Vegan sasages taste better then most real ones.
Unless you get them from a real butcher, man, thoses ones own.

[Commie Rat]

Vegeterian and Vegan sasages taste better then most real ones.
Unless you get them from a real butcher, man, thoses ones own.

[Commie Rat]

Vegeterian and Vegan sasages taste better then most real ones.
Unless you get them from a real butcher, man, thoses ones own.

[bunk]

How do they distribute it?

[bunk]

How do they distribute it?

[FinnMacCool]

Originally posted by [email protected] 19 2006, 06:26 AM
How do they distribute it?
Good question. Maybe they brought it to a collective and gave it out there.

[Commie Rat]

That could probably get which ever collective they gave it too into alot of shit
"acessory to robbery"?