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Hvorecký, Michal
Schriftsteller Michal Hvorecký, geboren 1976, lebt in Bratislava. 2007 erschien sein grotesker Europa-Roman "City. Der unwahrscheinlichste aller Orte". In diesem Frühjahr kommt sein neues Buch "Eskorta" heraus
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2 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
Director Christoph Schlingensief was avant-garde
Michal Hvorecký praises the life work of German theatre director Christoph Schlingensief in the liberal daily Sme, and regrets that the Slovakian media made almost no mention of his death on Saturday: "Elfriede Jelinek said that one of the greatest artists of our day has passed away, as if life itself had died. ... Our theatre scene is utterly conformist and has no personalities like Schlingensief. Although he started out by making films he became a phenomenon of German-speaking theatre at a young age. He proved that there is still room for the avant-garde on stage. With his unconventional direction he found refuge in Berlin's Volksbühne, which was the hotbed of new staging trends in the 1990s. Whenever I could I'd go there to take a break from the depressing Slovakian productions. But most of all I was impressed by his Parsifal in Bayreuth. I will never forget that work."
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Michal Hvorecký on the tired Central European tiger
In the conservative daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Slovakian author Michal Hvorecký takes his country as an example for the end of the economic miracle and turbo capitalism in Eastern Europe: "The Central European tiger is tired. And the [Slovakian] government is proving itself incompetent, ill-prepared and corrupt in these difficult times. The great rhetoricist [Slovakian Prime Minister Robert] Fico is silent while his government wallows in scandals. Not only the market, but also political life are now in desperate need of speedy, well-directed help in order to stabilise. That will not be easy for this euro-newcomer, where many people are only now really understanding how little they actually earn in comparison with others. My mother, a special education teacher with 30 years' experience, has a gross monthly pay of 650 euros, while the cost of living is dangerously close to that of the West. And now this salary is to be frozen? The government alleges that people urgently need to save, but can they be any more thrifty than they are at present? Twenty years after the fall of communism, scientists, artists and academics are still earning precious little and have to get by on 700 euros, less than cleaning ladies in Austria. They'd never be able to keep their heads above water if they didn't all have another job on the side. Slovakians' wallets are full of euro coins, but they haven't seen a bank note for a long time."
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