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There was a lot of excitement this week about a play in Konstanz. The cabaret artist and author Serdar Somuncu had set up my fight for 20th of April – Hitler’s birthday – premiere of his staging of George Taboris. Taboris piece is a grotesque about young Adolf Hitler, premiered she was 1987 in Vienna. This piece, you may have to mention it after scandal of Kollegahs Echo and anti-Semitic belt attack from Prenzlauer Berg, is opposite of a glorification of Hitler. And sole fact that it is listed is also not a breach of any taboo: for three decades, Taboris has been playing my battle on German and foreign stages. A few years ago flopped a film adaptation with Tom Schilling as Hitler.
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That even in New York Times a prereport on event in Konstanz appeared, had only to do with fact that Somuncu – orwise known from Today Show, as a talk show host and chancellor candidate of party party – a special admission policy Had devised: he wanted to let people who are ready to wear a swastika bandage for free in performance. All paying guests should wear a David. The German-Israeli society at Lake Constance had first protested. Then atre of Constance broke in, which is also called a Shitstorm in German.
Before premiere, dramaturg Daniel Grünauer visibly touched. The extent of Hassmails he has received from all political camps, from neo-Nazis and Antinazis, is unimaginable. At least 20 camera teams rummaged in atre foyer on evening of premiere. Those who wanted to go on television could provide ir expertise in dealing with German past. An elderly man had affixed a sign that he was going to pay his card. But he also doesn’t want to wear a David – “The David is mainstream,” he said. Before one could even think about how many levels this sentence is problematic, something else has happened again. A sweaty reporter bumped into and yelled at Dramaturge, later he apologized for it.
Simply discriminate all
Somuncu knows how to provoke. 1996, he began to read publicly from my fight. Why? Because he had no desire to “play Turks,” he said last year. Somuncu was born in Istanbul in 1968 and grew up in West Germany. At some point he did not want to appear in Underdog role or as accuser, but as offender, as asshole. He often sat in a bulletproof vest on stage, once neo-Nazis stormed his event. His kabarettistisches principle is attack against all: “I have long considered who to attack. In end, I simply discriminated against everyone. There should not even be borders where it is delicate: for gays, Jews or handicapped. If I share hatred, one can see in cross-section of insults, that in reality I have no mine and spectators only keep in mind what discrimination means. “
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Before performance, Somuncu had dealt with his critics. The aim of piece, according to programme, is that people deal with ” Hitler in mselves”. Hitler was everywhere, Somuncu had said during a press conference that he was “in us, no matter what we believe, where we come from. No one is immune to being susceptible to right-wing radical ideologies. “
