What is culture of Dresden? You can have baroque castle and Kunstschätzeaufzählen, as well as countless great spirits and thinkers. The nature of this city also includes: Dresden is a capital of dispute. And if last Thursday evening two most famous writers of city meet in Palace of culture, n not to read each or out of ir works. DursGrünbein and Uwe Tellkamp are also not here because of Concord: There will be tensions, which has been clear long before. Because it goes into this "dialogue", organized by Dresden Cultural Capital Office, UmMeinungsfreiheit.
An estimated 700 visitors jostle, much more than expected, Sodassdie debate is moved from foyer to Grand Hall in short term. DasInteresse is also enormous, because in core, in Dresden, PersönlicheBekenntnisse of two cultural professionals: how do you actually think Tellkampund Grünbein with right to freedom of expression? And: Is she wirklichbedroht in Germany?
The two know each or, y have several similarities, HochdekorierteSchriftsteller, esteemed intellectuals of country. Dresden is more than just a sideshow in IhrenBüchern, but at same time a homeland and a hotspot. Durs Grünbein has done that among or things in his commemorative band years in zoo, Uwe Tellkamp in his epic tower. In DiesenWerken, Dresden appears in rear-view mirror. But how do you stand for Dresden DerGegenwart? To birthplace of Pegida?
It was like an outingGrünbein has made his opinion known early, positioned himself, sought debates. Tellkamp remained silent for a few occasional local Einwürfeauffallend, for years. Until after Frankfurt Book Fair Plötzlichseinen name sometimes. At fair, re had been turbulence between organizers, visitors and national publishers of law. In short: You did not get sichgegenseitig in grip. The whole grew into a discursive great storm Lageaus. In Dresden a little later behaviour of book fairs-Organisatorenprotestiert, with a so-called charter 2017, in which some words stood out: one warned against a "dictatorship". DieAktion was initiated by a Dresdner bookseller, Tellkamp belongs to DenErstunterzeichnern. This was same as an outing, at least all hand people were surprised at location near such vocabulary. Customs just a few words or was re any more? It did not take long until from or artists of city showed protest against this protest. Reminders, this time "before a sacrifice habitus" and "verbal derailments". On this web, Durs Grünbein was most prominent subscriber.
So again fronts. Two writers sitting next to each or in Palace of Culture just before Leipzig Book Fair, whose launch is flanked by similar debates, but rarely look in eyes. Who first marks his position? DieEntscheidung falls by coin toss. Durs Grünbein starts with his plea for freedom of expression, "one of highest goods in a vital democracy". From him comes a resolute no to "fear propaganda" and "world demise demagoguery".
Tellkamp again opened with a flurry of snippets. Reports, talk shows, incidents, which he has collected meticulously toger and in staccato: "A lecture at Frankfurt University of Police Gewerkschaftlers RainerWendt is canceled. The accusation: Racism and racial profiling. At a Berlin university a poem by Eugen Gomringervon is removed from façade... The University of Greifswald wants to put name Ernst MoritzArndt... " Behind all this, Tellkamp believes, "mindset", a "system" led by a government that has "lost control" and "journalists who are in advance on government line".
Date Of Update: 10 March 2018, 12:03
