At the beginning we were looking for a symbol. It ended up being the pennant because I thought, right, this time we\u2019ll have a symbol from the start. Christoph created the logo, I made and printed the pennant. It was clear to me that the whole thing would prove really difficult to get off the ground because people are scared of a large investment company. It was obvious that they\u2019re neighbours, they\u2019d never done anything political before. They use the park, take part in a planting action now and then, but taken a stance on something, that\u2019s something they hadn\u2019t done yet. Except for two of them. It was clear that we needed a symbol from the outset, something that could be hung out the window and others could see and think: Oh, they\u2019re not afraid, they\u2019re getting involved, so maybe I should too, and I can say to count me in too\u2026It was then really important to make sure that it wasn\u2019t a flag or a banner with some complex message, a statement that would be impossible to agree on. It needed to be something more abstract: a pennant. That\u2019s what they have at St Pauli Football Club. The fans hang the pennant out the window and it doesn\u2019t take up that much space, the window isn\u2019t covered over. The owners can\u2019t say anything if you hang out a pennant, but with a flag or a banner then you can quickly get into trouble. So it had to be something that was low-threshold and one could still signify that a stand was being taken. We also had to be mindful not to give the pennant two equal sides. That was important so that it doesn\u2019t recall the yellow patch triangles the Nazis used in the concentration camps. And that\u2019s how it came about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"