The TikTok-Army of the AfD
46 mins
The AfD is clearly the strongest force on TikTok. Its official account has far more followers than those of the other major German parties combined. 14 to 19-year-olds are the main users of the social media platform TikTok, followed by those aged 20 and over. That is why the AfD is particularly popular with young voters there. How does the political party manage this? And what does this mean for the upcoming early federal election in February 2025? For the documentary, the team of authors researched undercover, created numerous fake accounts and delved deep into the bubble of AfD supporters. A dark world in which even official AfD party representatives flood TikTok with massive amounts of content and in which their right-wing extremist and anti-constitutional messages reach millions of young people. The AfD has understood how to use the time that young people statistically spend on TikTok per day for their indoctrination. And that could have fatal consequences.
Simon T. Roden
Self - Narrator (voice)
Ruben Rupp
Self - Interviewee
Kimberly Nicolaus
Self - Interviewee
Till Eckert
Self - Interviewee
Patrick Kolek
Self - Interviewee
Roman Dobrokhotov
Self - Interviewee
Felix W. Zimmermann
Self - Interviewee
Erik Ahrens
Self (archive footage)
Tino Pfaff
Self (archive footage)
Anna Rupp
Self (archive footage)
Ulrich Siegmund
Self (archive footage)
Hannes Gnauck
Self (archive footage)
Dirk Brandes
Self (archive footage)
Kay Gottschalk
Self (archive footage)
Matthias Helferich
Self (archive footage)
Dennis Hohloch
Self (archive footage)
Alexander Jungbluth
Self (archive footage)
Martin Reichardt
Self (archive footage)
Roman Reusch
Self (archive footage)
Heiko Scholz
Self (archive footage)
Christoph Kürbel
Director
Christoph Kürbel
Writer
Dominik Wolf
Director
Dominik Wolf
Writer
Helmi Krappitz
Director
Helmi Krappitz
Writer
Florian Karpf
Producer
Anton Oettinger
Producer
Martin Suckow
Commissioning Editor
Jupp Tautfest
Director of Photography
Mika Völker
Director of Photography
Bojan Novic
Editor
Carsten Kramer
Sound
Kai Fürst
Sound
Damaris Becker
Graphic Designer
Ozan Şanal
Graphic Designer
Marc Trompetter
Graphic Designer