On Easter Sunday, a tweet by a councilor of the Vienna Chamber of Labor, which has since been deleted, caused a stir in relevant Twitter circles. Referring to a photo of Chancellor Karl Nehammer, she described traditional costume as “Nazi code” — quickly turning political competition against her.
Viennese physicist Georg Hanisch sparked the discussion with a completely innocent tweet in which Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin, dressed in black jeans and the same leather jacket, shared a photo of Chancellor Karl Nehammer, the governor of Lower Austria, Johanna Mikl, taken at the 2020 Farmers’ Federation – Leitner and Defense Secretary Klaudia Tanner – all three dressed conservatively in traditional coats or dirndls. “Finland vs. Austria,” Hanisch wrote.
“Legal Code for Illegal Nazis”
Sylvia Reiss, communication scientist, works councilor at ÖBB and councilor at the Vienna Chamber of Labour, used this tweet to refer to the research of the South Tyrolean folklorist and philosopher Elsbeth Wallnöfer on traditional costumes in her book “Tracht Macht Politik”, last year. appeared in autumn. In Austria, traditional costumes are a “legal code for illegal Nazis,” Reiss was quoted as saying on Sunday afternoon. She deleted her tweet a few hours later, but Twitteria had already picked it up.
Among them, for example, ex-FPÖ Secretary General Harald Vilimsky, who distributed a screenshot of the deleted tweet to point out the “permanent delusion” of the Austrian left. Manfred Juraczka of the ÖVP, the third speaker of the Vienna State Parliament, also commented on the “march of traditional costumes as ‘code for illegal Nazis'”.
He posted a photo of SPÖ leader Pamela Rendi-Wagner at the Altaussee beer reception – in a dirndl.
Source: Krone
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