They achieved in West Berlin in the 1960s: Hans Christoph Buch, son of a diplomat from Bonn, and Peter Schneider, descendant of a conductor from Königsberg. A single was the youngest member of Group 47 in 1966, the other a spokesman for the further-parliamentary opposition. The two achieved again and all over again, at times on distinct sides of the barricades, but extra normally on the identical a person. They have also grow to be buddies.
“We manufactured blunders” as a motto
Now the set up writers and essayists glance back. They satisfied three situations in Berlin-Charlottenburg to chat with out a fire, but with Italian pink wine. Peter Schneider’s speech “We created problems” ahead of the plenary assembly of all the schools of the Freie Universität Berlin on May possibly 5, 1967 could provide as a motto for the assembly, albeit broader:
“We have built mistakes, we make a full confession: we have been compliant, we have been adaptable, we have not been radical. […] When we were being in the lecture with our professor, we did not appear at his fingers, when we enable him study us, we didn’t look at his deal with, when we stood future to him in the rest room, we failed to see him search at us. The tail. We want to do it subsequent time.”
The “trash of record”
Hans Christoph Buch and Peter Schneider have prolonged considering the fact that still left powering the professor in a dressing robe. It has been a extensive time considering that Buch go through at the Group 47 convention in Saulgau. After the 19-year-previous sat comfortably in the “electrical chair” and study, he heard a good deal:
Lo and behold, Reich-Ranicki and Walter Jens ended up horrified by my text. Bloch, the thinker recently arrived from the East, explained that these kinds of a factor belongs in the dustbin of heritage. And then Grass, Enzensberger and Höllerer and other people praised me.”
An infraction by oversight
The two writers now know that preventing for a just lead to needs much more than ideology. They choose a glimpse at 6 decades of aged and new West German history, at times humorously, sometimes severe, usually associative, and often with a need for consistency. Around time, they chat about sexism in the ranks of the RAF, a breakfast with Susan Sontag that was not authorized at McDonald’s, and a damaged friendship with previous chancellor Gerhard Schröder.
Hans Christoph Buchs and Peter Schneider’s motto: Don’t be afraid of minority viewpoints and mistakes!
Speakers: Cornelia Schönwald and Markus Hoffmann
Sound: Christoph Richter
Director: Klaus-Michael Klingsporn
Enhancing: Jörg Plath
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