Anti-racism award for Igor Levit
NewsThe Russian-born German pianist Igor Levit has received the 10,000 Euro Carl von Ossietzky Prize for Contemporary History and Politics by the town of Oldenburg.
The prize commemorates an anti-Nazi journalist who won the 1935 Nobel Peace Prize for exposing the German rearmament race. Von Ossietzky died in 1938, aged 48, of longterm effects arising from his mistreatment in a concentration camp.
Levit was honoured ‘for his work against racism, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia and the brutalization of the language’.
Very ironical that woke activists claim to work against ”brutalization of the language”.
File this comment under ‘accidental self-owns’.
Completely!! They never get irony. Call them out on it and you hear shrieking from hell.
What exactly do you mean by “woke” activists. I hear this word a lot these days but could you please help me with where it comes from, what it means and who uses it? Thank you in advance.
That must be a joke. Twittering is „work against racism…“? LOL.
There are so many people and NGOs doing the hard work, walking the walk, and our classical narcissistic crybaby gets the price. What is wrong with people in Oldenburg?
And the self-regard is palpable.
Feel that virtue-signalling.
Since I know what a sh*tstorm of comments is coming, let me just say, ‘well done, Igor.”
Ossietzkys footsteps have become VERY small, one must say.
What nasty comments from readers of this blog!
Because some of us can see right through the leftist politicisation of musical life and are heartily sick of it?
Not everyone sees the world through your easily-offended, woke world view. He should stick to playing the piano, which he does very well.