Oscars – Lokomotive Altmark | nd-aktuell.de

What we call cultural operations is too large parts of a complex marketing measure, which is often important. One of his self -contradictions is that he sends cultural products into the competition against each other – just as if it could ever dissolve which cultural product is “better” than another than not every book, every film, every piece of music much more like it than that it is broken, awarded and brought to the masses.

One of the side effects of price affinity, which cultural marketers and journalists have been eaten alike, is the delicate but noticeable germination of national feelings. When Herta Müller or Heinrich Böll get the Nobel Prize, the cultural consumer is expected to make the saw internally, and almost as proud he should be on Lena Meyer-Landrut at the ESC or Christoph Waltz at the »Oscar«, even if he is only a Austrian and speaking well foreign-in his case the great German idea finds it again, and in the relevant pride of this country, it shows how it is insignificant Actually.

Do we now have to swivel flags and fired firecrackers when it works?

Only in brackets. After her prize at the film festival in Cannes this year, the German director Mascha Schilinski has now also been sent into the race for the “Oscar” with her film “Watch” in the sun, which means that it has been considered worthy of an authorized “independent” selection committee called German Films and was proposed for the further selection procedure.

Stante Pede is inclined to forget the local media scene of what to think of all this Hollywood Schmonz, which specifies the bar in the cinemas, fills the cash registers to the bursting and often also dominates the imagination and emotional worlds. “For Germany,” now, from Tagesschau.de to “FAZ”, can be read in the most beautiful sports design, Mascha Schilinski should “get” the Oscar. As if someone of us had contributed something to their skills.

Mascha Schilinski, born in the west of Berlin and filmmaker in 1984 since 2008, has created a large-scale generation epic over a village in the Altmark with “Looking into the sun”. Such topics of national self -assurance may like to be German juries – and nobody would disregard her at any prize. More money, more freedom for our cultural workers! But does Mascha Schilinski now have to wish this strange men’s statuette more than a director from Thailand, Nigeria or Denmark? Does Kultur-Man have to withdraw behind his national borders and keep our fingers crossed for our girl? Swivel flag and firecrackers when it works?

“Look in the sun” will come to the cinemas next Thursday. Of course, you can only learn from our film discussion that is worth it seriously only whether and why the visit is worthwhile.