Punch of the week
Penzing district council honors “beautiful smoker”
Deliberate statement, provocation, coincidence or negligence? A poster on the Penzing office building is irritating. Read the explanation here.
The 14th district honors Johanna Dohnal (1939-2010), SPÖ politician, Minister for Women and an icon of the feminist movement, with a poster on the fence of the Amtshaus.
What puzzles passers-by: Dohnal is pictured smoking with a cigarette in her mouth. "What kind of role model effect does that have?" asks a Krone reader. A landlady, whose restaurant has long had a strict smoking ban, rages: "In times when politicians want to ban almost everything, I feel like I'm being taken for a ride."
In the distant past, women and smoking stood for emancipation. So is Dohnal's image a somewhat outdated message? Just like the legendary Helmut Schmidt (1918-2015). The German chancellor was only half a man without his "menthol". No, explains district leader Michaela Schüchner (SPÖ) to the "Krone" newspaper. This Dohnal portrait is simply a "beautiful picture", which is why it was chosen. There have been no complaints from the head of Penzing as a result.
A "beautiful picture". Wouldn't there have been others? The electronic photo archive of the "Krone" counts 15 pictures of the former minister dating back to the year 2000. Not a single one shows the Viennese woman with a cigarette.
Some may not care, others lack the necessary sensitivity. Hence the "Punch of the week" for the Penzing district council.
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