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"That's why I'm gone!" - World star Ai Weiwei rumbles violently against Germans

2020-02-14T13:20:46.900Z


The world-famous artist Ai Weiwei accounts for Germany - and seems to want to finally break with Berlin. He poisoned again in a new interview.


The world-famous artist Ai Weiwei accounts for Germany - and seems to want to finally break with Berlin. He poisoned again in a new interview.

  • The Chinese regime critic and artist Ai Weiwei accounts for Germany.
  • The 62-year-old has lived in exile in Berlin since 2015. Now he lives in England.
  • He did not get warm with the mentality of the Germans.

Update February 12, 2020: Here someone really wants to break with Germany. After world star Ai Weiwei already settled with Germany in an interview with the Guardian (see below) and claimed that Germany was still a Nazi country, he now shoots violently against Berlin and German students.

In Berlin the artist has his studio in the Prenzlauer Berg district. In an interview with the Berliner Zeitung he says that the capital is "the most boring, ugliest city" there is. Students in Germany also get their fat off. He gave up his visiting professorship at the University of the Arts because it was impossible to teach the students in this country. "They are lazy, they don't do their homework. And the system is extremely corrupt. (...) It is intellectually unbearable, so I am out of there, "moans Ai Weiwei.

He could write an entire book about Germany, but he was too busy for that. If you keep putting him under pressure, he wants to give up his studio in Berlin. He only hinted at what Ai Weiwei meant in the interview with the Berliner Zeitung - in which he again alluded to the darkest chapter in German history: “I am being put under pressure by German society. That's okay. I know her story, I know who her grandparents are. But I'm trying to imagine that they can improve their society. "

Ai Weiwei does the accounting for Germans: He has authority like the Chinese

First report January 23, 2020 - Berlin - Hard verdict by the famous Chinese exile artist Ai Weiwei. Although the regime critic lives in Berlin after being forced to leave China, he does not get warm with the Germans . In China, he most recently lived in state-controlled house arrest for months.

In the Guardian newspaper the 62-year-old now settled with his adopted home. The Germans are rude, intolerant and xenophobic. What is more: there is an authoritarian way of thinking in the country as well as an attitude like in the 1930s.

He compares life in Germany with that in the People's Republic of China : "I don't like states and cultures that are so authoritative (...). People like the comfort of being suppressed. The same can be seen in China. As soon as you get used to it, this situation can be very pleasant. ”

Ai Weiwei: Germany is still a Nazi country - not a good place for foreigners

Ai Weiwei thinks that German society is still fascist. Fascism means putting an ideology above others and declaring that ideology purely by devaluing other ways of thinking. That is Nazism. And this Nazism exists in everyday German life today. "

Germany is not a good place for foreigners, complains the world-famous artist. As an example, he told the Guardian that his 10-year-old son had been threatened by a shopkeeper. It is not the first time that Ai Weiwei scolds the Germans. In a world interview in August 2019, he already complained about the climate in the country. Germany judged at the time that Germany was not an open society. He flew out of taxis three times in Berlin. One time because he was on the phone with his mother, another time because he only rolled down the window.

The Chinese now emphasized in an interview with the Guardian that the Germans were “very rude in everyday situations”. "They don't like strangers at all." This aversion is deeply rooted.

Selfie by Ai Weiwei with Alice Weidel (AfD) appears in a new light

It is criticized again at the Internet that Ai Weiwei posed for a selfie with AfD top politician Alice Weidel in 2018. His criticism of German xenophobia is contradictory. Weidel proudly posted the photo on her Twitter profile.

Ai Weiwei later defended the selfie with Weidel against dpa: "Although their views are completely opposite to mine, nobody has the right to judge them personally. I do not believe that conflicting political views or values ​​should be an obstacle to communication. I'm fighting to break down these limits. "

#AiWeiwei is in the capital !!!! I almost didn't dare to ask him for a selfie ;-) pic.twitter.com/UxOSWeDhc2

- Alice Weidel (@Alice_Weidel) April 18, 2018

Ai Weiwei moves to friendlier Great Britain: "There is no such courtesy in Germany."

Due to German xenophobia, he had now moved to Cambridge with his son. In view of Brexit, he has no illusions that the British are particularly tolerant. But at least the island people offer a clear advantage: “The British are at least polite. There is no such politeness in Germany. "

However, he would initially keep his studio in Berlin.

Archive video: Ai Weiwei demands more humanity towards refugees

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Source: merkur

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