[Satire] Political Mottowagen: How Much Putin Criticism Is in the Carnival?
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Every year, when the Renean carnival unfolds its unmistakable mixture of criticism and scattering, there is a name that stands out with its sour floats : Jacques Tilly . Düsseldorf’s sculptor and designer understands the festival as a space of freedom where society looks into the mirror without filters. He has once again demonstrated this in his new creation in which Putin, in pain, appears dressed in military camouflage with a sword that crosse…
The Düsseldorfer Wagenbauer is sued for former satirical Putin figures by the Russian judiciary. On this year's Rosenmontag Tilly takes the case satirically to the grain.
Carnival cars are supposed to be political satire, too. While Cologne abandoned Putin performances this year, in Düsseldorf Wagenbauer Tilly was responsible for several Putin-critical cars - despite a criminal trial in Moscow.[more]]>
Jacques Tilly's satire wagons roll in spite of Russian indictment by Düsseldorf. Celebrities make for international attention.
PanoramaThe Düsseldorf carnival car maker Jacques Tilly is being prosecuted in Russia for his Putin representations. On Rosenmontag he reveals his answer to it.
The artist Jacques Tilly is Germany's probably most dangerous car builder. Not because his constructions are wobbly, but because they meet. Year after year, an entire republic stares at Düsseldorf on Rosenmonta. While elsewhere camels, schunkelparoles and politically unnulled cardboard noses roll through the streets, Tilly builds sculptures that occupy prosecutors' offices. Last year Vladimir Putin scrubbed the blood off his legs in a Ukrainian …
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