USA under Trump
Daniel Kehlmann sees equal circuit of the US culture
Daniel Kehlmann’s book “Lichtpiel” experiences a hype in the USA. Many look at Trump in the novel about the culture under Hitler. So also the writer himself.
Writer Daniel Kehlmann observes the culture of culture in the United States under Donald Trump, which he compares in Germany with the time of National Socialism. “Of course the Nazis were a bit faster,” the 50-year-old told “Deutschlandfunk”.
But: “The equalization of culture takes place drastically” – by painting money or also by a kind of predictive obedience. “Where there is still support, people have to be extremely careful what they say if they don’t want to lose them.” In his opinion, many cultural workers are silent “because people are afraid to lose their role in the next Marvel film”.
Through the so -called synchronization, the National Socialists tried to control people’s areas of life and subordinate their world view. In culture, for example, this meant that certain art was defamed as “degenerate”.
Hype around Kehlmann’s novel “Lichtpiel”
Kehlmann’s book “Lichtpiel” about a film director in the time of the Nazi dictatorship and how it can finally be instrumentalized by the National Socialists, according to his information, is experiencing a hype in the USA in the English translation. Many see the novel about the culture under Adolf Hitler parallels to US President Trump.
“It is astonishing how quickly this country has adapted”
“Nobody is still in prison in the field of culture, in other areas,” said Kehlmann, who lives in Berlin and the USA. And for people with a visa or a green card, “Free Speech, which America is so proud of, is now” “practical”. And soon it will no longer apply to people with a US passport.
“It is astonishing how quickly this country has adapted and has come in line,” said the 50-year-old. Even people who had been critical of Trump before his re -election “accept this government and the terrible things it does”.
The only hope he has is that the Americans avert to Trump’s customs policy. “Strangely enough, the destruction of the American economy is the best hope you have,” said Kehlmann. “Better an end with horror than a horror without end.”
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Source: Stern
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