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Tom Schilling: "I've rarely been so focused"
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Tom Schilling knows his way around great thinkers.
The actor embodied the playwright Bertolt Brecht as well as the painter Gerhard Richter.
Now the 28-year-old has given his thoughts to the Corona closings, which, unlike other artist colleagues, he was initially able to see something good.
"I just think states of emergency are great," Schilling told the dpa news agency.
As an actor, he has "a certain joy in extreme situations or tragedies."
"I found it incredibly great as an extreme experience of shutting down public life and one's own life 100 percent from this overheated society that is constantly on the move and constantly has to distract itself," he says.
The first Corona shutdown in the spring "really gave him wings".
He didn't work, but took care of his three children at home, cleaned the apartment and enjoyed the sight of the empty streets.
Schilling knows about existential fears
"To be put back on yourself in this way makes you inevitably have to deal with yourself and your life, your wishes and your own thoughts," says Schilling.
“I've rarely been so focused on what I'm doing in the here and now.” At the same time, he also knows “that this means existential fears for a lot of people and that is why they don't look at them as relaxed as I do”.
In the current partial lockdown, things are different for the Berliner.
»Everything that repeats itself wears off a bit as an experience».
That's why he's now working again - currently on the second album of his band Tom Schilling & The Jazz Kids.
As much as the Lockdown Schilling inspires artistically, this music is at the same time dark.
And Schilling promises: »It will be even darker and more depressing than the first album«.
The planned title: "New German songs about love and death".
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