Vortex around parliamentary poets: ridicule and criticism for Göring-Eckardt – domestic politics

Huge debate in the capital: does the Bundestag really need a parliamentary poet?

Yes, says Bundestag Vice President Katrin Göring-Eckardt (55). The top Greens met on Monday with the authors Dmitrij Kapitelman (36) and Simone Buchholz (49), spoke about their demand to make “politics more poetic and poetry more political”.

Conclusion: Germany needs “a parliamentarian”.

The poet’s role model: US poet Amanda Gorman (23), who read her poem “The Hill We Climb” at the inauguration of US President Joe Biden a year ago, making her a world star.

Photo: Patrick Semansky/AP

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Role model: US poet Amanda Gorman (23) became world famous for her poem at Joe Biden’s inaugurationPhoto: Patrick Semansky/AP

▶ ︎ Bundestag Vice Göring-Eckardt promised on Twitter that she would campaign for the idea. The aim is to open up “a discursive space between parliament and living language” with poetry.

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Advance caused a spot and criticism

AHA!? The tweet sparked an avalanche of criticism, ridicule and applications.

Critics’ tenor: Germany has other problems than bringing more poetry into parliament or financing new Green projects: “Roses are red, violets are blue, gender sucks, I know that,” said a “Monique” on Twitter . “C.Storch” wrote just as succinctly: “The Scheuer! Parliament! HURZ! Do I have the job? “

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Much more serious: Göring-Eckardt’s colleague in the Bundestag Presidium, Wolfgang Kubicki (FDP): He spoke in the “Tagesspiegel” of an “elitist project” that misunderstood art and poetry: “Artists should actually be thorns in the flesh of the rulers, not their employees . “

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