Editing Knorkator (section)

== {{lang|mis|We Want Mohr}} controversy ==

Knorkator were planning to go on tour in spring 2014 to present their new album {{lang|de|We Want Mohr}}, which was released on 17 January 2014.<ref>[https://www.fantotal.de/de/knorkator-kaufmannsladen/tontraeger/cddvd-knorkator-luxus-edition-we-want-mohr.html Album "We Want Mohr" on www.fantotal.de (in German)]</ref> The album name is a pun, replacing "more" by the German word {{lang|de|Mohr}}, which is a dated term for black people that today is only used in a historical or literary context. The tour was advertised with a poster showing the five (white) band members in a big pot on a fire and a black person with bones in their hair and a knife in their hand next to it. This is a reenactment of a scene in the 19th-century child's book {{lang|de|[[Struwwelpeter]]}}.<ref>[http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12116/12116-h/12116-h.htm#The_Story_of_the_Inky_Boys "The Story of the Ink Boys,"] ''The Project Gutenberg EBook of Struwwelpeter.''</ref> The poster caused outrage in some German anti-racist [[blogosphere|blogs]], and the {{lang|de|Initiative Schwarze Menschen in Deutschland}}, an organisation representing black people in Germany, published a statement calling the poster racist, unreflected and degrading.<ref>[http://neu.isdonline.de/rassistische-bewerbung-des-albums-der-rockband-knorkator/ Statement of the Initiative Schwarze Menschen in Deutschland about the poster advertising "We Want Mohr" (in German)]</ref> Knorkator singer Gero Ivers published a response in which he claims to be shocked and disappointed by the statement and argues that the intention of the poster had been misunderstood and not seen in context.<ref>[http://neu.isdonline.de/rassistische-bewerbung-des-albums-der-rockband-knorkator/#comment-3385 Gero Ivers's response to the statement of the ISD (in German)], also on [https://www.facebook.com/knorkatormusik/posts/619100771481835 Facebook (Google Cache)]</ref> Subsequently, the band stopped using the advertising poster but refused ISD's demand to change the album cover as they viewed the content of the reenacted scene as "profoundly anti-racist".<ref>[http://www.taz.de/!5050709 Article in the newspaper "taz", retrieved: November 21, 2016 (in German)]</ref>