Germany’s new culture war

By artappraiser on Fri, 07/27/2018 - 12:51am |

An increasingly bold nationalist movement is now training its sights on the arts — and playwrights and politicians are locked in combat (including examples with real threats of violence)

By Guy Chazan @ FT.com, July 26

starts with one example described at length, followed by

[....] Ostermeier and von Storch are on opposite sides of Germany’s new culture war. It is a conflict that pits some of the leading lights of German literature, theatre and TV against a rightwing movement that grows daily in size and confidence. Leading the conservative charge is the AfD, a populist party that rose to prominence in the wake of Angela Merkel’s fateful decision, at the height of the 2015 refugee crisis, to keep Germany’s borders open [....]

URL:

https://www.ft.com/content/348a1bce-9000-11e8-b639-7680cedcc421