Anne-Sophie Mutter leads closure protest at German court
OrchestrasThe star violinist has joined a group of musicians who have issuing legal threats for several months over government closures of concert halls and opera houses.
The group’s case was rejected by courts in Bavaria.
Today, they filed a complaint with the German Federal Constitutional Court, demanding justification for the continued closure.
The signatories are: violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter, the singers Okka von der Damerau, Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke, Kevin Conners, Christian Gerhaher and the conductors Hansjörg Albrecht and Thomas Hengelbrock.
Germany may need more freedom. I just read this morning that the German economy shrank by 1.7% in the first quarter and that is the worst in Europe.
Everyone needs more freedom, friend.
“Everyone needs more freedom.”
The Corona virus would certainly agree.
No pandemic without freedom.
Freedom to sit at home while your rent is automatically deducted from your sinecure, and working class people risk their lives to bring you things?
God bless her for fighting totalitarianism. The state has no evidence. I hope she and others win.
How can half of the votes be down for this post. Are there really so many who enjoy lockdown? Or are there many former Stasi agents around?
Yes, God bless her for sincerely if misguidedly trying to help artists. Not you though, who cynically and knowingly spreads every form of disinformation in the hopes of earning a few bitcoin and spreading misery.
It’s a shame that more British organisations (and star performers) are not following her lead!
When Germany goes dark green after the next general elections I wonder what will become of opera houses and concert halls?
Will they survive a decentralised way of living? Or will there be justification for more diverse venues and events spread out across the country to reduce traffic?
BRAVISSIMA!!! Enough with this madness. Enough!!!
We were told that protesting the lockdowns and closures was indicative of white supremacy and white privilege; that not staying home for anything other than the most essential necessities was tantamount to a crime against humanity as so many innocents could be hurt by that brazen level of carelessness and selfishness. We must wait for the science to let us know when we can return to our lives.
Science can’t “let us know when we can return to our lives”. All “science” can do is tell you the likely consequences of any policy choice. It is up to society to decide which of those choices it wants to make.
Eventually, we are going to have to accept that we can’t stay locked down for ever, and that we are going to have to learn to live with Covid (including the fact that it will kill some people).
There is no way I will add another disc by Anne-Sophie Mutter to my collection then. Was not the recital she gave in Houston 25 years ago with Lambert Orkis mediocre enough?
Christian Gerhaher Must Be Heard Live!
I rode my bike through downtown of my city, and was quite shocked to see that people, without masks, were sitting socializing at tables, in bars in restaurants. This is across from each other. The total amount of them going on the whole day I would think far exceeds a concert facility, where they would be sitting with masks, not facing each other, not eating without masks to enhance the spraying of water droplets in every direction which has shown to be the major way the disease infects others
I also completely fail to understand one very dangerous activity is allowed while the other, less dangerous, is then used to make out there is some sort of protection for the masses going on.
Adding to this, I also doubt quite strongly that all of the eating is at all healthy, let alone the alcohol use in bars.
I completely don’t understand people at all anymore. They don’t want to eat healthy, they don’t want to social distance, they don’t like lock down, they won’t wear masks; and this all supposedly is for their “mental” well being, as if that’s going to work, and when it doesn’t more of what won’t, instead.
And I’m not even touching on the spiritual side of healing, consequently, which I don’t think involves the above said negligence as if that will bring out the spiritual, as little as getting oneself crucified would, by default.
I completely don’t understand it anymore, but then I see the trash people leave all over the place desecrating nature, and I shouldn’t have been surprised.
It doesn’t need to make sense. Many people want to be told what to do by “authorities” no matter irrational.
I really hope your crass insensitivity to the vital importance of liberty and freedom of association is sarcastic. We cannot live under lockdown forever, and we cannot endure another “just a few more months” bait-and-switch. Basta! Lockdowns cause incalculably more harm than they prevent, especially when they last for so long. Time to reclaim our liberties and to reclaim live music.
No lock downs can help stop the spread of a dangerous virus. Australia is a prime example of that, as are other places. There are now 185 times more daily cases in Munich than in the whole Country of Australia (23 million). One in 74 people die of covid, you can add up the math. And Australia did their lockdowns properly, not start and stop which you saw everywhere else just about, and so you can’t use those instances as example at all.
I’m not saying that that’s the only way, but to dismiss that outright with such hostility, as if my concern for the lives of others is crass insensitivity towards freedom of association, that quite highlights my point to begin with.
Having a fit knowing how it’s supposed to go according to one ideology while creating such cleavages amongst different methods that might all have their helpfulness is also exactly what the pandemic was stopped already, or started to begin with.
Australia only proves that if you never let anyone in or out that it won’t have any covid cases. But who really wants to live like that forever. Sooner or later they will open, and then covid will spread there too. Many Australians are starting to understand this. Lets hope they can get lots of people vaccinated before they open to reduce the number who die.
Amazing, I didn’t know that as long as you close the borders covid then actually decides it’s not going to infect anyone from the inside, anymore and people can run around and do whatever the please but the disease stops infecting them.
Are there any other such diseases, that shut down once the [political] border has been. Please let the medical authorities know! (SIC).
Sorry about the sarcasm, but I simple don’t know what to make out of such easy hand out logic, except people think: “oh, yeah…..”
No lock downs can help stop the spread of a dangerous virus. Australia is a prime example of that, as are other places. There are now 185 times more daily cases in Munich than in the whole Country of Australia (23 million). One in 74 people die of covid, you can add up the math. And Australia did their lockdowns properly, not start and stop which you saw everywhere else just about, and so you can’t use those instances as example at all.
I’m not saying that that’s the only way, but to dismiss that outright with such hostility, as if my concern for the lives of others is crass insensitivity towards freedom of association, that quite highlights my point to begin with.
Having a fit knowing how it’s supposed to go according to one ideology while creating such cleavages amongst different methods that might all have their helpfulness is also exactly what the pandemic was stopped already, or started to begin with.
I notice that I forgot to mention vaccines as something else people don’t want to do. Along with not wanting to social distance, not wanting to eat healthy, not wanting to wear masks, and not wanting lock down. And then it’s as if denying the danger of the disease is some magic to act as if they are safe. And this is simply surviving at a very pragmatic level.
There’s also, for me, a whole other side of things. I know of a lady who found she had a gift for healing, was tested in quite a few hospitals and was found to be able to heal. She felt she needed to be tested because she didn’t want to deceive the vulnerable people that would be looking for help. People that had received help from her had a friend in the hospital with covid whose case looked hopeless and they called her up, it seems she was somehow able to help him because then things turned around, and the man who survived actually thanked her, himself, afterwards. But that’s a whole other thing, such healing comes from a different place than magical beliefs in some fabricated means of believing it’s happening. That’s no different than denying the danger and not wanting to take the physical measures to stop the spread and strengthen you immune system.
Music itself was meant to be healing, but then it has to be something more than the sensation oriented drug it’s made out to be, or the worshiping of a performer’s “artistic” or virtuosic abilities.
Sorry: ” is also exactly what the pandemic was stopped already, or started to begin with.” was supposed to read “is also exactly why the pandemic wasn’t stopped already, or started to begin with.”