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Gustav Seibt
At the latest with the food attacks on famous paintings, political activism has returned to its roots, to the art of the avant-garde. And not because older contemporaries remember the use of potato salad in Frank Castorf’s early productions at the Berlin Volksbühne. No, the genealogy goes back much further, namely almost exactly a century. Knut Cordsen, culture editor at Bayerischer Rundfunk, has just demonstrated this in a collection of material disguised as long glosses – role models such as Eckhard Henscheid’s “Dummdeutsch” are unmistakable – (“The world improvers. How much activism can our society tolerate?”, Aufbau-Verlag).