![]() A good example is how German media (in general) writes about the Greece crisis, but an even better example is German news coverage about classical music which is largely ignorant of what happens outside of Germany. German press is far from being self-loathing – quite the contrary, it can be rather self-centered and patriotic. His statements were made during a press conference in Hamburg and recorded by the public broadcaster NDR, and everything written about it by the serious German press (Frankfurter Allgemeine, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Die Welt, Die Zeit, etc.) is based on the press conference or/and on NDR’s broadcast.įurthermore, I don’t understand what you mean by “self-loathing German press”. Stockhausen’s atrocious comments about 9/11 were NOT initially reported by the Daily Mail. ![]() I am sorry but what you are offering is a factually incorrect conspiracy theory. History resonates with profound ironies…. Hitler was able to put the people of Germany in his thrall not as a politician, but because he presented himself as an artist and visionary. There is, of course, a large picture to all of this. As Mary Baumeister notes at the end of the article, they have made “a kind of Bayreuth” out of his house.” After Doris and Mary left, he he took up with two other women who lived with him as his wifes until his death. ![]() Stockhausen could pull this off due to the absolute and worshipful devotion to artistic authority that is characteristic in Germany. For such an ego, one wife was never enough. His first wife, Doris, already had three children and was pregnant with a fourth when he added Baumeister to the household. Stockhausen exploited these cultural attributes in his marriages. This mindset is apparent in Baumeister’s language, the idealism, absolutism, and transcendentalism all taken to an extreme – until the day everything collapses. They often turn those viewed as great artists into something like gurus. ![]() Politically this sort of behavior became unacceptable, but in the arts it continues unabated. One of the most striking things about German culture is capacity of so many of the people to give a boundless devotion and worship to men of authority. ![]() I’m an American who has lived in Germany for the last 35 years. ![]()
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