“Has Strache already contacted you?” «kleinezeitung.at
A contribution in the ORF program “Gute Nacht Österreich” was dedicated to “Graznost” on Friday night – including an original interview with “Frau Comrade Kahr”.
4 p.m., January 22, 2022
“We have left the free Western world,” says Peter Klien, dressed in a Soviet fur hood and red FFP2 mask complete with hammer and sickle. The ORF satirist has lined up at Jakominiplatz to prepare for the show “Good night Austria” to report from the “People’s Republic of Graz”.
Pedestrians are asked about this – is there a risk of a Cold War, since the Graz area is shaped further west? Are you looking forward to a possible state visit to North Korea? Would you like to see the Kim Jong-un military parade? Do you think that Graz, like its partner countries Russia and China, should also become a nuclear force?
A visit to the Graz town hall is also a must, where Klien immediately notices that even after two months, the old city government is still on the sign. The first question “Ms. Comrade Kahr”, who are known to collect for the socially needy: “Has HC Strache already reported?” He hasn’t, but he also had no chance, as the KPÖ mayor asserts. She doesn’t like the suggestion of a military parade to mark the anniversary of her assumption of power – the suggestion to get a sausage roll together, but more. And when the interviewer expresses interest in the “means of production” on Kahr’s desk (“they belong to us all together”), she counters wittily: “You’re welcome to take the stapling machine with you, it doesn’t work anyway.”