Reichsbürger bestreiten die staatliche Existenz der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. In der jüngeren Vergangenheit ist diese politische Gruppe immer wieder mit Straftaten aufgefallen. Der Beitrag untersucht, ob sich die Gewaltaffinität der Reichsbürger auch in ihren Texten nachweisen lässt. Dazu wird auf der Grundlage eines Korpus von reichsbürgerlichen Internet-Texten Gewalt-Lexik identifiziert. Ferner werden diese Texte auf charakteristische Diskurse hin untersucht. Dabei zeigt sich, dass Gewalt-Diskurse eine wichtige Rolle für die reichsbürgerliche Identitätsstiftung spielen. Zugleich kann man aber auch feststellen, dass der Schwerpunkt für die Reichsbürger dabei auf der eigenen Opferperspektive liegt, während die Heraushebung der eigenen Gewaltbereitschaft eine eher untergeordnete Rolle spielt.
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Reich citizens deny the existence of the Federal Republic of Germany. In the recent past, this political group has repeatedly struck with crime. The article examines whether the violence affinity of the Reich citizens can also be demonstrated in their texts. For this purpose, a lexicon of violence is identified on the basis of a corpus of Internet texts of the Reich citizens. Furthermore, these texts are examined for characteristic discourses. It can be shown that violent discourses play an important role in the empowerment of Reich citizens’ identity. At the same time, however, it can also be stated that the focus for the Reich citizens is on their own victim perspective, while the emphasis on their own readiness for violence plays a rather subordinate role.
The article is dedicated to the question of how health and disease discourses are linked to the migration discourse in AfD election programs. For this purpose, twenty election programs of the party from the years 2016 to 2021 are evaluated in terms of content, which were adopted for the elections to the state parliaments, the Bundestag and the European Parliament. Based on the evaluation, seven different sub-discourses can be identified in which health or disease-related topics are linked to the migration discourse. The focus here is on the portrayal of migrants as carriers of diseases, as a danger to the health of the population and in particular of health care workers, and on the exploitation and thus endangerment of the German health care system by migrants. Statistical analysis shows that references to these motifs occur continuously in the programs studied. A significantly stronger access to these discourses can be demonstrated in election programs from the new German states. In general, migrants are directly or indirectly portrayed as a threat to the health of the population in all sub-discourses. Overall, it can be shown that references to health and illness discourses are integrated by the AfD into its xenophobic program in order to generate feelings of threat and fear among voters. Overall, the AfD is thus less concerned with the issues of health and illness than with reinforcing xenophobic emotions among the population.
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