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Background to SPIEGEL stories from culture: the year of rejections

2020-12-31T17:22:46.115Z


Concert halls and theaters were closed for months as a result of the pandemic, but a performance was canceled for other reasons - and so the cultural year 2020 still had its excitement.


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Controversial cabaret artist Eckhart: culture of rejection?

Are you kidding me? Are you serious when you say that!

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Franziska Schrödinger

"Cancel Culture"

In the summer, Arno Frank found out that the cabaret artist

Lisa Eckhart

had been

unloaded from the Hamburg Harbor Front Literature Festival

.

Germany had its most prominent case of "Cancel Culture" this year.

Sometimes stories just get bigger the longer you write on them.

I had an appointment with Lisa Eckhart in Leipzig in the spring.

The topic was her debut novel »Omama«, but also her status as a »controversial« cabaret artist.

According to her critics, the Austrian spread anti-Semitic and racist prejudices.

Shortly before the article was published, the conflict escalated.

An e-mail leaked to SPIEGEL revealed that Eckhart had been advised to withdraw from a planned reading in the Nochtspeicher in St. Pauli because of alleged threats from the left-wing neighborhood.

In addition, two other authors had refused to read at the side of the satirist.

In the end, Eckhart was unloaded from the Harbor Front Literature Festival, and a polarized debate about the "Cancel Culture" flared up.

A rather dubious cultural battle term, as became evident in the following weeks and months.

Lisa Eckhart was on everyone's lips, she was featured on various magazine covers and gave numerous interviews.

Most recently she was a guest in the »Literary Quartet«, also accompanied by angry comments and defenses.

There can be no talk of a "culture of rejection".

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