Right-Wing Politicians Cheer German Actors' Attack on Corona Measures
A series of ironic and satiric videos from some of Germany's most prominent film and television actors criticizing and mocking new government lockdown measures have sparked a furious online debate, and support from an unlikely source. Many in the media here have sharply criticized the videos, but members of the far right are applauding Around 50 well-known German and German-speaking actors, including Vicky Kriebs (The Phantom Thread), Ulrich Tukur (The Lives of Others), Volker Bruch (Babylon Berlin), Heike Makatsch (Love, Actually), and TV stars such as Jan Josef Liefers, Meret Becker and Ulrike Folkerts, all posted short videos in which they give their personal, heavily ironic support for tighter COVID-19 restrictions.