Horror over "open racist" request of AfD | ' | '
In addition to the issuing authority of the passport, the right-wing populist party also wants to know what kind of training ballet dancers and orchestra musicians have at state theaters and singers in opera studios. The training stations of the artists wants to experience the AfD.
"The request from the AFD speaks for itself, and it leads to the consideration of what sense behind it could hide," said the managing director of the State Theater, Marc-Oliver Hendriks, the German Press Agency. "It's hard to assume a noble motive."
Passing by the demands of the AfD laughter: Marc-Oliver Hendriks, director of the Staatstheater Stuttgart
Stuttgart Mayor Fritz Kuhn (Greens) called the request an alarm. It was an indictment of how the AfD posed against the state theaters. With around 1400 employees from 50 nations, the Staatstheater is the largest state cultural institution in Baden-Württemberg.
This coming Saturday in Stuttgart will be protested against the required listing of foreign artists. "We are appalled by this open racist inquiry of the AfD," said Cuno Brune-Hägele, the Stuttgart Verdi CEO.
Quality decides
The Stuttgart Ministry of Arts announced that it had to answer the question: "It is the right of the members of the state parliament to address parliamentary questions and petitions to the government," said a spokesman. He stressed that there were no lists of nationalities. "The selection is based solely on artistic quality standards." A detailed survey of nationality specifically designed for the request was not planned. But since the state theaters have never kept a record of the artists' origins, the effort to make lists of them now is immense, says Thomas Koch, head of communications at the Staatstheater.
Diffuse reasoning
The AfD defends itself against any criticism: "The question of the citizenship of the artists is aimed primarily at a realistic inventory of the status quo," said the education policy spokesman for the AFD parliamentary group in the Stuttgart state parliament, Rainer Balzer. In addition, an assessment of the quality of their own up-and-coming artists and training centers should be achieved in an international comparison. Due to the all-day school, artists who grow up in Germany may find it difficult to find enough time for artistic activity, Balzer suspects among other things.
What he means, however, does not open up. Initiatives such as "Every kid his instrument" (Jeki), dance workshops, theater performances and choir competitions are part of the all-day program at German schools – also in Baden-Württemberg.
cgn / rb (dpa, Stuttgarter Zeitung)
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