Even before Chris Dercon spoke at the 120th anniversary of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts, there was trouble. Franz Xaver Kroetz called him a theater killer. In his speech, Dercon then takes on completely different people.
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Susanne Hermanski
When it became known that Chris Dercon was to give the speech at the 120th anniversary of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts, there was a lot of trouble: Franz Xaver Kroetz, one of the most successful German playwrights of social dramas (also famous on television as Baby Schimmerlos from “Kir Royal”), wrote a letter in armor – addressed with his characteristic fury to all other members of the Free State’s most important scholarly club.