Slim-fit aesthetics, polished rhetoric, exhibited youthfulness: Sebastian Kurz is a starting point for authors, as a non-fiction book and a novel show. About a fictional yet irritatingly real Vienna.
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Cathrin Kahlweit
Whether you like it or not, you can only read Elias Hirschl’s new book as a parable on Sebastian Kurz and his “New People’s Party”. Message control, permanent staging, slim-fit aesthetics, polished rhetoric, exhibited youthfulness, practiced nonchalance, redundant phrases, coldness and calculation – everything is well known. The fictional and yet irritatingly real Vienna and the perfected political machinery in which the 27-year-old author, musician and poetry slammer stumble around his nameless and overwhelmed antihero, in their intensification – sometimes exaggerated into the absurd – are strikingly reminiscent of the meticulous Well-planned and well-designed system that made the Austrian Chancellor great.