Lieder
Diese Lieder geben Wildtieren eine Stimme, die in der öffentlichen Debatte um die Hobby-Jagd oft fehlt.
Musik, die bewegt. Sie verbindet, schafft Bewusstsein und bringt Themen dorthin, wo Argumente oft nicht mehr gehört werden. Genau deshalb stellen wir unsere Antijagd-Lieder frei zur Verfügung – ohne Copyright, ohne Einschränkungen.
Jedes dieser Lieder gibt den Wildtieren eine Stimme, die in der Debatte um die Hobby-Jagd zu oft fehlt.
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Our message is clear: wild animals need protection, not bullets. And every voice counts – including yours.
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Wild animals and their families
Songs that place individual species and their social lives at the centre.
It tells of the fox in the night, pursued with spotlights and night-vision targeting technology.
It is about the black grouse in the sensitive habitat of the high moor, where hunting and disturbance weigh especially heavily.
It tells of the killing of the strongest red deer as a trophy, and of the genetic loss left to the forest when the best of the population is hung on the wall.
It leads into the fox or badger den, to the place where animals seek shelter and yet are not safe.
It sees in the wild animal a kindred being rather than an object to be shot.
It tells of the social fabric within the pack, torn apart by killings.
It tells of the family bond of wild boars, ripped apart by hunting.
It tells of the marmot, which lives in a family group, protects its clan with its warning whistle, and is hunted for fat and pseudo-medicine.
It is about the cruel artificial den facilities in which hunting dogs are trained on live foxes for earth hunting.
Hunting methods and equipment
The concrete practice of hobby hunting: driving, traps, bait, technology.
It depicts how wild animals are startled, chased and driven before the guns during a driven hunt, and what this form of hunting means for the animals.
It depicts the chase with dogs from the perspective of the hunted animals.
It tells of the deliberate luring of wild animals to salt licks, to the place where the shot awaits.
It is about the camouflage and equipment with which hobby hunting pursues the animals.
It names the consequences of bow hunting for the animal that is struck.
It is about the traces that lead ammunition leaves behind in animals and the environment.
It exposes the fallacy that more kills sustainably regulate populations, even though hunting can stimulate reproduction.
It is about the night as the last refuge, penetrated by night-vision targeting technology.
It shows how the stone marten is hunted as a supposed «cable chewer» and poultry raider, even though structural solutions such as marten grilles would help instead of the shot.
The psychology and customs of hobby hunters
The perpetrator's perspective, rituals and the passing down from generation to generation.
«Confession from the high seat»
It looks behind the façade of «ethical hunting practice» and custom on the high seat.
«Whoever once pulls the trigger»
It asks about the threshold crossed with the first shot.
«Sworn»
It is about the promise we owe to wild animals, against the logic of hobby hunting.
«Heirloom»
It questions how the hunting weapon and hunting tradition are passed down as an heirloom from generation to generation.
It asks what it does to children when they are introduced to the killing of animals at an early age.
It asks what we pass on to the next generation about how to treat wild animals.
It is the promise not to hand down the tradition of killing to the next generation.
«What begins at the high seat»
It traces the chain that begins at the high seat through to its end.
It takes aim at the self-image of hobby hunters, who like to glorify what they do as a higher calling.
It exposes how custom and feather adornment glorify killing as tradition.
Lobby, myths and whitewashing
The mechanisms, myths and the language behind hobby hunting.
It takes apart the «hunters' tall tales», the myths with which hobby hunting justifies what it does.
It dismantles the myth of «stewardship», which in the end leads to the kill after all.
It names the entanglements between hunting associations, authorities and politics.
It shows how predators such as the wolf are turned into scapegoats.
«Fair game off the production line»
It is about animals raised and released for the sole purpose of later being released for the kill, a life as a commodity for hobby hunting.
It poses the uncomfortable question of oversight and responsibility in hunting, namely who actually controls those who, in the name of stewardship, decide over the life and death of wild animals.
It questions the authority by which decisions are made over the lives of wild animals in the forest.
It exposes killing as a leisure pursuit that disguises itself as a necessity.
«Removal»
It exposes the euphemistic language of the authorities that turns a kill into a harmless «removal».
It questions how the killing of wild animals is sold as a natural «product of the forest».
It exposes the romanticised view of nature with which hobby hunting elevates its forest into a sanctuary.
Regions and politics
Concrete settings and hunting policy in Switzerland and beyond.
It reminds us that a life without hobby hunting is possible, in the canton of Geneva for over fifty years.
It turns the spotlight on the Valais killing practice and the hunting policy there.
It is about wild animals that know no borders, while protection and killing end at the border.
It tells of animals such as the wolf, which travel long distances only to meet the bullet in the end.
Loss, death and silence
Grief for the killed animal and the emptiness that remains.
It is about the silence that remains when the shot has faded away in the forest.
«Red snow»
It shows the trace that a kill leaves in the snow in winter.
It turns a kill statistic back into an individual with a story of its own.
It tells of the last of its kind, there where hunting and displacement end.
It asks who, of the hunted populations, is left in the end.
It tells of the capercaillie, hunted during its courtship display and whose habitat has all but vanished through hobby hunting and forestry.
It recalls the animals and the silence that are missing from a cleared-out nature.
It names what stands at the end of the high seat and the bait site.
It is about an animal's final feeding before the shot is fired.
It is a quiet song for all those animals that appear in no kill statistic.
It makes visible the suffering that takes place in the forest, away from the public eye.
It is about the awareness and the fear of the animals, which know full well what threatens them.
It is about those who are silenced, and gives them a voice.
Habitat and Seasons
Migration, winter coat and the threatened habitat of wild animals.
It is about the coat change of animals such as the mountain hare, whose camouflage becomes a deadly trap with climate change.
It is about animals in their winter coat, which become an easy target in the snow.
It follows the trail in the snow, which at once reveals life and enables pursuit.
It is about the refuges in the cultivated landscape, which are becoming ever scarcer for wild animals.
It is about the return of wild animals such as the beaver or the otter to renaturalised waters.
It honours what wild animals such as the beaver create for the habitat, rather than seeing them as a disturbance.
It follows the narrow paths on which wild animals travel between protection and danger.
Hope, Protection and Return
The counter-vision: peace, protection and the return of wild animals.
It is about the right of wild animals to return to their ancestral habitats.
«Return»
It celebrates the return of species thought lost and the right of wild animals to their place.
It is an appeal to lay down arms and give wild animals peace.
«An Old Promise Sounds in the Forest»
It celebrates the promise to protect the forest and its inhabitants instead of hunting them.
It lets the forest itself speak, against the noise of hobby hunting.