It’s small steps that gradually lead the Austrian film director Georg Wilhelm Pabst onto a path that leads to something morally problematic. A commitment here, a compromise there, and the artist was one of the most important cultural representatives of National Socialism. Daniel Kehlmann, German, Austrian, world observer and author, deals with the filmmaker in his new work “Lichtspiel” https://www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/.”We often do things and don’t know exactly why we do it,” says Kehlmann about the director at the “Night of the European Economy” on the second evening of the SZ economic summit in Berlin. In this case, Kehlmann himself knows exactly why he wrote the book – and, as cynical as it sounds, he is lucky because When the book was published.
Author Kehlmann does not see his book about the Nazi era as “historical” – economics
