In her opening address to the first issue as editor in chief of the Cologne newspaper theater act to raise you with the words: "In a angregende, lively, joyful discussion of the future act."
This calls for a joyous culture of discussion I would like to meet, but you have placed in your criticism of our production of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice "to start a heated discussion.
criticism begins with these words: "While Israel to the Gaza Strip lays in ruins, is shown in the Severin-Burg-Theater of Shakespeare's most popular evenings." What is your riding you, your criticism with these words to start? Would it too much had to write the following: "While there is the Gaza Strip and Israel in the war" it is not expected of you, some, albeit heavy, but true at this point but necessary Objetivität? You know only too well that Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, demands not only the death of Israel, but also the distinct Palestinian people, it dares to deal critically with itself, followed tortured and murdered. For the opponents of Israel in the Gaza Strip, we are dealing with a gang of murderers who are not only cheered every dead Israeli child, but also takes its own people hostage to their own ideology.
the criticism would therefore may well begin with these words: "While Hamas Jewish and Palestinian people for the sake of their ideology of murder, is shown in the Severin-Burg-theater one of the most popular Shakespeare evenings." This you have not done so and are therefore in dangerous proximity to a terrorist group. So instead of neutral, position and place Israel as damning something dar. This will be granted, but with the same law, I wonder how you come to your position.
It took me almost ashamed, as you work hard and your newspaper with the picture of the poisoners and murderers of Israel? In a time when the Jews ban in Europe to their synagogues must, as in the first weeks of 2009 on synagogues and community centers in France, England, Belgium, Sweden and Germany arson attacks were perpetrated in a time when protesters who dare to show solidarity with Israel be attacked with iron bars (in Munich) and pipe bombs (in Malmö) - all of course, apologized to the Israeli actions in Gaza - this time with fire so you, too. German police officers forced
While the raging mob in the street burst into private homes in order to remove an Israeli flag, as happened recently in Duisburg, while Jews and non-Jews do well in Germany from Israel not to defend its existence, if they would like their health, while criticism of Israel is characterized by bias and lack of empathy for the suffering of Israelis, formulate a sentence of one side can not be thought .
go In your criticism you sharply into Served with journalist Alex TESTING, who has kept our production around one evening a lecture on "Israelktitk as a new anti-Semitism." First of all, I dare you to point out that you were not present that evening and therefore can not know what was discussed this evening. I find that fact quite remarkable, when you consider how much you trust nevertheless, to make a ruling on this discussion. Looks like the journalism of the new act? Well, you must be admitted that you at least talk FEUERHERDT had been sent by me, so therefore have at least part of its contribution read, but all other parts of the evening you have not heard! So they were not present, dare yet, the Severin-Burg-theater setting to certify the following:
says "In Hendrik M.Broder-fire fashion [TESTING] that criticism of Israel is fundamentally anti-Semitic. No matter how many civilians in the Gaza Strip, killing and illegal settlements in the West Bank to be built. "
This statement of yours is simply an outrageous lie, born of a non-paid search and thus not worthy of a journalist. I allow myself to you at least have the decency to assume that you at least know about your journalistic negligence.
keeps you not, however, depend on to suggest that the Severin-Burg-theater, it would use the inviolable for Israel's right to "strike back brutally."
draw not only the image of a brutal acting of Israel, but call Severin also the Castle Theatre brutal. Again, this is allowed you, because they have to fear anything, except this letter from me. While Many a self-proclaimed defender of the rights of Palestinians in Europe (sic) attacks Synogogen and people and demands the death of Israel, I reach back only to words. So you need not fear if you criticize me. May I point out, however, that it is the other way round quite different. Who dares to ask critical of Hamas, who must fear for his health and his life. In Munich, demonstrators were recently attacked with iron bars and the police had great difficulty to overcome this attack and to guarantee the integrity of the Hamas opponents. Denmark (sic) was recently shot two Israelis (Doppel-SIC!).
May I also point out that I will be demoted to a US-American Nazi-page to a sub-human, bear the indirect call to draw the consequences? While your critique of the Severin-Burg-theater thus only provides for a dispute that costs you more than a few hours of debate, I pay regular taxis at night as I was on the way home from the theater not only in the streets of Cologne feel more secure. In this environment, you still feel it now necessary to explain myself to a man who breaks a lance for the brutality.
However, arguing neither I nor Alex TESTING or Severin's Castle Theater for brutality. We would only point out that is labeled in the general discourse of Israel as a brutal, while in others it is just and tolerant, especially more extreme brutality. The Severin-Burg Theater-only criticized the double standards, the violence is particularly noted when it comes from Jews, Israelis, respectively. That's what you do, too, if you describe in your article, but Israel as a brutal, but lose no word on the other side.
This, Mrs. Marcus, is anti-Semitic! It is anti-Semitic when Israelis on a different measuring stick as to all other countries will be created. It is anti-Semitic, when Israelis on the most radical View port, while one is in other countries and people groups conciliatory. This "criticism of Israel is anti-Semitic! It is also anti-Semitic, a discussion that dares to this double standard to point to as "fire manner" to call, knowing that fired real fire rates from European synagogues and people, as has happened in recent months in Germany and neighboring countries!
Never has the Severin-Burg-Theater or Alex TESTING expressed his support for brutality, the opposite. Alex TESTING and Severin's Castle Theater arise even on the side of the Palestinians by focusing on the real danger of the Palestinians Indicating namely Hamas! The speech is clearly there! Hamas is there, and with it thousands of people on German streets, calling for the death of Israel. This is brutal. Not our theater!
It is not brutal, if you dare to point out that Israel in the discourse sharper than any other country in the world is criticized. In an almost manic obsession to only 0.1089% of the total world population, because this is the percentage of Israelis on the ground, the UN provides a people, the very special attention has to become part. Thus, while 99.9% of the world are viewed with an almost Christian charity, have the remaining 0.1% of the full wrath of the Enlightenment load on their shoulders. All Jews of the world taken together give just 0.22% of the total population. 99.78% of the population are thus provided by non-Jews. Yet there is still the honest belief that Jews and Israelis in particular were the major problems for world peace. It is almost amusing how many people believe this. But if one asks, even as the Dutch (0.25% of total population), Germans (1.22%), Chinese (19.5%), Muslims (19.26%), or the Christians (31.11%), was ordered look, most people just totally confused, just as if you have just asked an absurd question.
It is here a very special form of anti-Semitism can be found, tolerated the Jews as long as they allow themselves to become victims. As long as Jews are rejecting violence victims, as long as they use such as Lessing's "Nathan the Wise" than their rhetoric as a weapon if you know the words "Never mind! The Jew is burned!" be received smashed, just as long as they remain entirely peaceful, as long as they are the Christian people welcome. But when they start to fight back, suggests the alleged sympathy into bitter apathy.
The Jew has to be understanding, forgiving, and above all, to be loved by his environment. It is this requirement of the Christian world Jews, the Jew Shylock is Shakespeare in The Merchant of Venice 'undoing. In this comedy, was written 150 years before "Nathan the Wise", we find a Jew who, like all other figures is a very ordinary man who at some point simply refuses, the shame of oppression simply accept Sun While all Christians are in this comedy is not by Shakespeare is able to live their own Christian principles, they demand that the Jews just this practice and punish him even more violent, as it turns out that he is not the law of love would follow necessarily or can. Shylock wants and can not be better than all other people. He is not superman and does this with the following words to the point: not
If a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, tools, senses, affections, passions? With the same food fed, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer as a Christian? If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us, we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? If we are like you in all things, we want you in that's the same. If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should their patience be by Christian example? Well, revenge.
Shylock, in contrast to Nathan, a man with feelings and fears. As any person who is threatened and attacked, he will defend himself, protect his life and his environment necessary even put in fear and terror, this is the only way so as to preserve their own lives.
Burkhard Schmiesters staging points precisely to this cause. The shame and violence that has happened to Shylock proposes to Shakespeare in absolute revenge. Burkhard Schmiester dares even in his production, to draw the vicious cycle of revenge by those not penetrated. Of course, Shylock is unmenschmlich revenge, but why we notice the inhumanity on until you take possession of a Jew? Why this inhumanity is not controlled with the same vehemence as Shylock was the victim?
revolves around this question is Burkhard Schmiesters production and is therefore not a plea for an alleged Niebelungenallee loyalty to Israel that you believe to be discovered in this production with a distorted view.
Why, and this question is now directed to you, Mrs. Marcus, why do you strike on Israel and the Severin's Castle Theater on while you keep silent in your article then? Storming and urgency I ask you this Issue with the request to reply, hoping that you will be aware of your bias, which has brought me and my theater in quite unfairly in a bad light.
throw ourselves in error, not to be objective and make yourself your own lack of objectivity on display.
"If you wrong us, should we not revenge?"
With these words, Shylock, I would like to end my letter.
Sincerely,
gerd Buurmann
