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Authors Stuertz, Eckhart, Quaderer:
The material for a speech full of force
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Tara Wolff;
Paula Winkler;
Jens Oellermann / Luchterhand Verlag
The writer Benjamin Quaderer received an email on May 28th.
His publisher wrote to him that he was nominated for the debut salon at the Hamburg Harbor Front Festival.
It's about an evening in September, two authors on one stage, reading, discussion.
Enclosed the contract.
Quaderer opened the attachment and saw that the author he was to read with that evening was Lisa Eckhart.
After reading the email, he didn't feel so incredibly comfortable, says Quaderer today.
Lisa Eckhart, the cabaret artist, has been highly controversial since a debate about one of her appearances on the WDR show "Mitternachtsspitzen" broke out in May.
Eckhart had made fun of the political correctness and of what she thought were sacred cows: blacks, Jews, sexuality.
And with a pretty cool face.
The redemption that German-language cabaret usually offers its viewers did not materialize.
Eckhart didn't signal: It's just a joke, folks!
Quaderer, he says now, knew that Jewish associations had protested against the clip, that Felix Klein, the Federal Government's anti-Semitism commissioner, had criticized Eckhart.
And then George Floyd had died three days earlier in Minneapolis.
Horrified Jews, a dead black man.
An obscure comedian.
Benjamin Quaderer was worried about all this.
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