Berlin – No candidates for Chancellor came to the camp at the Reichstag on Thursday evening. To this end, the climate activists had set up three blocks of ice at the end of their ultimatum at 7 p.m., which Annalena Baerbock (Greens), Armin Laschet (CDU) and Olaf Scholz (SPD) were supposed to symbolize. They had already placed three empty chairs in front of a press tent. “The Chancellor candidates have still not responded,” said Hannah Lübbert, spokeswoman for the group “Hunger Strike of the Last Generation”. This would mean that the two remaining hunger strikers would live up to their announcement that they would also stop drinking.
Originally, seven climate activists had been on hunger strike since August 30th, in order to have “a long overdue, honest and public conversation about the climate crisis” with the three candidates, as they said. The politicians only offered one-on-one talks after the election, not before.
Six of the starving people had dropped out in the past three weeks, for medical or psychological reasons. What remained at the end was the 21-year-old Henning Jeschke from Greifswald, who is now supported by his girlfriend on the hunger strike. The two had announced that they would stop drinking from now on. According to doctors, the human body can withstand hunger for weeks, thirst only for a few days.
Apparently the two non-drinkers will vacate the camp in front of the Paul-Löbe-Haus in Spreebogenpark and continue the hunger strike at another location. “We did not achieve our actual goal, but we achieved a lot,” said the activist Mephisto, who like five other activists had ended her fast, at her final press conference, “but we are still being ignored by politicians.” That is why it is worthwhile not to endanger his life for it. “The climate movement still needs us.”
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