Since the flag of the Schleswig-Holstein Landvolkbewegung (Farmers' Movement) from the 1920s – a radical, nationalist protest movement that largely merged with National Socialism – has been appearing repeatedly at farmers' demonstrations, the film Stumpfe Sense - Scharfer Stahl (Blunt Scythe - Sharp Steel) has become highly topical again. It has already been shown over 40 times in cinemas and other venues to more than 3,000 viewers and discussed with the audience.

The Landvolkbewegung was a farmers' movement that emerged in Schleswig-Holstein in the late 1920s, became increasingly radicalized, and became the driving force behind the National Socialists. The 1990 documentary film Stumpfe Sense – Scharfer Stahl; Bauern, Industrie und Nationalsozialismus (Blunt Scythe – Sharp Steel; Farmers, Industry and National Socialism) uses the example of this peasant protest movement to show, as if through a magnifying glass, the conditions that gave rise to German fascism, and is once again highly topical.

March 12, 2026, 7:00 p.m. Hamburg, mpz Hamburg e.V., Sternstraße 4, 1st floor in the pergola, 20357 Hamburg with film author Quinka Stoehr

March 22, 2026, 4:00 p.m. Potsdam, Thalia Kino Potsdam Rudolf-Breitscheid-Str. 50, 14882 Potsdam, with Julia Bar-Tal (AbL), with film autor Quinka Stoehr Quinka Stoehr

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Interview Deutschlandfunk (radio) Kultur with Quinka Stoehr “Landvolk flag at farmers' demonstrations: a symbol that ignores history”