The climate crisis and the shift to the right are leading to politicization in Germany - and celebrities are evidently not excluded from this. In any case, this explains why Max Herre comments on these topics within a few days - with very clear words.
Now the musician made public that the climate activist Greta Thunberg is also at home at the kitchen table a topic. There had been discussions about the 16-year-old Swede, who triggered a global movement for climate protection with her protest, said the 46-year-old.
"I think it's interesting and it's great that there are always those people who manage to inspire other people like that." Thunberg started off with an agenda, "but certainly not the agenda to become a popular girl who has so many followers, but with an agenda for a cause and if someone gets away with it, and is such a shining example, then that's important and inspiring for all of us. "
"I think that's very beneficial"
There was no time to dodge the debate over the climate crisis: he believed that everyone had to put up with questions - "about our lives, about our way of life, about the system in which we live and have settled and made ourselves comfortable . "
That also applies to those who need to act. "Politicians were also young people who somehow went into politics for activist reasons." Certainly many felt reminded of their own idealism, which would have made them become politicians. "And I think that's really healing."
Not until the beginning of the week had Herre expressed concern over the strengthening of right-wing extremist tendencies. "There were always racists and nationalists and right people," said the rapper. "But there is now a party that sits in the Bundestag, under whose umbrella - at least their right wing - people can gather with the spirit." Explicitly called the former friend-frontman the AfD not.
The fact that people with right-wing extremist views are today in decision-making positions is "the dimension that is so dangerous and that also allows this parallel to the Weimar Republic". He believes "that there is a mechanics behind it that is much bigger and also a social breeding ground that produces what is more immanent than is said in some places."