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Solidarity
Hanns Zischler, 73, actor:
It touches me to be asked about wishes - the way you do it to children.
As if the time, the year, were a manageable space, like the days of the week once, a long time ago.
It is actually very little and goes beyond the year that I long for: that the craquelure that is now clearly emerging in the image of society is taken seriously, that it is an inalienable part of the image itself and cannot be restored.
That it is not the universally propagated empathy, but the solidarity (again?) That should become a guideline for our social thinking and action, that we understand and encourage ourselves to recognize ethics as the prerequisite for aesthetics.
Every day anew, in the encounter with the other, without whom we are simply irrelevant.
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wisdom
Doris Dörrie, 65, director and author:
My wish for the new year?
A touch less stupidity in the world.
Just a touch, I don't mean to be rude.
A touch less would bring a lot in view of the gigantic mountain of stupidity, which has increased particularly this year.
So next year mining please.
Get out of the fool.
I would like fewer people to believe that the earth is flat and Angela Merkel is a lizard, Covid-19 is just the flu, vaccination is the work of the devil and Facebook is a serious news source.
I would like to turn away from this deep stupidity, from shortenings, simplifications, conspiracies, back to curiosity about sometimes complicated facts and to science.
Stupidity endangers your health.
It has cost many people their lives, especially this year.
Now I'm by no means smart, but I trust the cleverness of others who research, revise, classify new findings for me again and again, also journalists, yes zapperlott, who enable me to add a touch of my own stupidity every day to reduce.
Hopefully.
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art
Jonathan Meese, 50, artist:
May 2021 be the year of ART.
From 2021 onwards, may all coming times be fair to KUNST and KUNST may determine Germany.
Jonathan Meese, the playful child of art, wants: the most free play of all forces, love, respect, consideration, no censorship, above all no self-censorship, much more humor, much less self-righteousness, no fear, no scare-mongering, no cynicism, evolution, personal responsibility , no gurus, no followers, enjoyment of one's own actions, no herd instinct, no peer pressure.
Unfortunately, we have forgotten how to endure ourselves and to live with our "SELF".
We have to learn to refrain from ourselves and to lovingly let the future come as the "new".
May the NEW, i.e. ART, surprise us and burst the vicious circle of ideologies.
2021 must get us to recognize the risk of life and work.
Art is the total necessity, that which survives and defines Germany.
The "total freedom of art" is vital and elementary.
2020 has been a very difficult year and must be a very great lesson for us.
In any case, art is not a »leisure activity« and must never be disqualified or negated as a »hobby«.
Art is above things.
May art conquer hearts and Germany.
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Fairy tale
Christian Berkel, 63, actor and author:
"In the old days, when wishing still helped ..." begins a fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, in which the king's daughter agrees to share her life with a cold, wet frog if only he could give her her beloved golden ball from the deep well into which it fell.
Wishes are tricky, we can mislead or - worse still - curse ourselves.
They are an expression of our desire and are inextricably linked with a loss that we cannot bear, that we are even ready to overcome by letting a wet frog into our bed.
The fairy tale shows a way out, the princess throws the frog against the wall and "a prince with beautiful, friendly eyes" falls down.
When his loyal servant Heinrich, delighted at the redemption of his master, drives the two of them to the wedding in the carriage, the king's son hears three crashes, as if the wagon wheels were breaking.
But only the iron ties that Heinrich had put around his heart are loosened, so that it does not burst in grief over the fate of his master.
I wish for 2021 that we don't weep for the wrong gold balls, that we don't curse ourselves, that we throw the frog against the wall at the right moment.
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democracy
Orhan Pamuk, 68, Turkish writer:
After a year of global pandemic, my wish for 2021 is unfortunately not global, but regional.
I hope that Turkey will return to normal democracy, to a decent system of order and law and respect for human rights and freedom of expression.
I hope that the rulers of Turkey will stop fighting Europe and European values and putting journalists and writers in jail.
I hope that in 2021 the Turkish government will honor transparency, justice and honesty more than in the past, and that it will respect the rights and dignity of Turkish citizens.
I hope my wishes for 2021 are superfluous for the rest of the world.
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Forest
Peter Wohlleben, 56, forester and bestselling author:
»I would like to see another chance for the forest next year.
He could be the winner of the new carbon tax that starts at the beginning of the year.
However, only if this is also levied on wood.
When that happens, farmers can become climate farmers.
If they let trees grow in their fields, they could receive credits from the tax revenue - after all, they stored the greenhouse gas in biomass for all of us.
On the other hand, if you fell trees, you would have to pay for coal or oil.
A reduction in meat consumption could create enough space for new forests - after all, 100,000 square kilometers (almost as much as the current forest area) are used by Germany for the cultivation of animal feed.
According to the latest research, such an increase in the forest on our doorstep would ensure more rain and cooler summers.
And for the joy of such a regulation, I would like to hug the whole world! "
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humility
Andrzej Stasiuk, 60, Polish writer:
This summer I planned to go to Central Asia.
I've done this before.
But this time I wanted to go for a long time, for a few months, and later, somewhere in northern Mongolia, in the Altan-Els desert, maybe in the Russian Republic of Tywa or in Transbaikalia, to end the trip, that is, with the Start returning.
I wanted to celebrate my 60th birthday in the steppe or the desert, alone.
Just make a campfire, lay out your sleeping bag and listen to the absolute silence.
Then have a drink and sleep.
And start to come back.
Already at the age of sixty.
Seven, eight thousand kilometers.
It did not work.
The room has been cordoned off.
We can dream about it, but we cannot conquer it physically.
This may even have advantages for the space.
He can rest and regenerate from us.
When it turned out I wouldn't drive, I was disappointed.
But only for a short time.
On my birthday I made a fire in my country house, got drunk and put in a sleeping bag.
I dreamed that the same sky stretches over my village Wołowiec and the Altan-Els desert.
I want the room to open up.
And even if we don't start physically traveling again, at least the awareness that we can do it will return.
Then we may understand that we don't have to.
Because we are a bit like leprosy on the body of the earth.
And maybe 2021 and the years ahead of the plague teach us something like humility.
That is my wish.
I would like to meet it myself.
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Concerts
Haiyti, rapper:
I would like to see spontaneous concerts again.
Then I wake up in the morning, don't know anything and stand in front of screaming fans in the evening.
That happened to me before, at the Splash Festival 2019. I wasn't actually booked there.
But then someone failed.
My booker called me at 1 p.m. and I woke up.
"Hey, do you want to play the Splash today?" He asked.
And I like: »Yes!« I picked out my outfit, was picked up by a mini nightliner an hour and a half later, changed in the toilet and then stood on the stage.
My whole team was there - my booker, my sound engineer, my DJ - and my friends.
Everyone was happy.
It was like a dream.
I'm still shy of the stage.
When I have planned concerts, I often can't sleep before that.
I like spontaneous concerts because I just don't have this mental stress beforehand.
Unfortunately, that didn't exist in 2020.
For 2021 I would like the main act to cancel the festival - and then get exactly the same fee.
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