18:30 - 21:00
City of Witzenhausen
Referent: Merlin Wolf
Venue: City of Witzenhausen, Ermschwerderstraße 6
The World Health Organization took 2019 vaccine rejection in their list of the world's top ten health threats. The uncertainty was particularly great during the Covid19 pandemic. The End 2020 According to a YouGov survey, a clear majority of Germans were afraid of side effects, a third did not want to be vaccinated at all. A movement of people formed across Germany, who also demonstrate against vaccinations. The lecture takes a look at the irrational uneasiness of vaccination while taking a stroll through history. The uneasiness about vaccination shows a defense against modernity. We find arguments today, that have only changed form over time. We encounter a romanticization of the state of nature, esoteric, conspiracy theory and anti-Semitism.
Merlin Wolf studied education and philosophy at the University of Mainz and received his doctorate in critical educational science at the University of Heidelberg. After stations in democracy education and the prevention of right-wing extremism, he is currently working in further education for children with depth psychology- and adolescent psychotherapists.
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Organized by the alliance for an emancipatory Witzenhausen without conspiracy thinking and anti-Semitism