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2020331<div class="author">Romila Thapar </div><div class="loctitle">Historian, New Delhi</div><div class="zitat">Was globalization not meant to be improving standards of living, eliminating poverty, providing health care for all, educating everyone and upholding human rights and social justice? May we ask what happened? Can globalization be defended as a continuing future form? Today all our aspirations are being cremated daily and one waits for the devastation of the earth.</div><button><a style="color:#a0c814;" href="https://www.goethe.de/en/kul/ges/eu2/pco/dan/21817046.html" target="_blank">Read full response</a></button>
Historian, Neu-Delhi https://www.goethe.de/z/cct/pictures/romila.jpeg© Romila Thapar
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202041<div class="author">Michael Zichy</div><div class="loctitle">Philosopher, Salzburg</div><div class="zitat">The corona crisis has put the globally networked economic system on hold, thereby exposing its vulnerability. But the crisis also makes it clear that states and societies can counteract the crisis by taking resolute concerted action. Like any pivotal experience, it will ensure that things do not continue the way they were before.</div><button><a style="color:#a0c814;" href="https://www.goethe.de/en/kul/ges/eu2/pco/dan/21817035.html" target="_blank">Read full response</a></button>
Philosopher, Salzburg https://www.goethe.de/z/cct/pictures/zichy.jpg© Michael Zichy
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202042<div class="author">Oleg Nikiforov </div><div class="loctitle">Publisher, Moskau</div><div class="zitat">My hope is a new unity of humanity, despising its “yesterday's” Babylonian scattering, in our laughing at the formal distinctions of races, classes, nations and historical circumstances. Indeed, the challenging power, opposing the mankind now as COVID-19, does not recognize these differences, – and why should we?</div><button><a style="color:#a0c814;" href="https://www.goethe.de/en/kul/ges/eu2/pco/dan/21817054.html" target="_blank">Read full response</a></button>
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202046<div class="author">Anne Weber</div><div class="loctitle">Author, Paris</div><div class="zitat">President Macron spoke of war, a war that I, armed with soap and disinfectant, am supposed to fight mainly by holing up at home. Another war awaits me there: the war against myself and my fears, which no soap will wash away and for which there is no cure.</div><button><a style="color:#a0c814;" href="https://www.goethe.de/en/kul/ges/eu2/pco/dan/21818513.html" target="_blank">Read full response</a></button>
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202047<div class="author">Georg Seeßlen</div><div class="loctitle">Journalist, Munich</div><div class="zitat">The crisis can’t go on forever, otherwise it wouldn’t be a crisis, but the end. The crisis is an interruption; whether it is also a break with the past remains to be seen. All sorts of different forces are at work in it; it is a period in which some forms of action are curtailed or even completely prohibited, while others are expanding. </div><button><a style="color:#a0c814;" href="https://www.goethe.de/en/kul/ges/eu2/pco/dan/21820816.html" target="_blank">Read full response</a></button>
Journalist, Munich https://www.goethe.de/z/cct/pictures/georgs.jpeg© Georg Seeßlen
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202048<div class="author">Dan Perjovschi</div><div class="loctitle">Artist, Bucharest</div><div class="zitat">Free to think. Forbidden to move. It is a slowdown shutdown sort of wake-up. We will never ever stop by will. We stop only by force. Global quarantine? Who would imagine? Borders closed inside Europe? European citizens forbidden to pass en route to their home country?</div><button><a style="color:#a0c814;" href="https://www.goethe.de/en/kul/ges/eu2/pco/dan/21821740.html" target="_blank">Read full response</a></button>
Artist, Bucharesthttps://www.goethe.de/z/cct/pictures/dan.jpg© Dan Perjovschi
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202044<div class="author">Eva Illouz</div><div class="loctitle">Sociologist, Jerusalem, Paris</div><div class="zitat">I think that, because of the corona virus, the young people who see and experience firsthand what the collapse of the world may look like will know how to monitor the world better. Short of that, there will no longer be a public or a private interest to defend. It will become nasty and brutal, as the Philospher Thomas Hobbes said, it is about the state of men in nature.</div><button><a style="color:#a0c814;" href="https://www.goethe.de/en/kul/ges/eu2/pco/dan/21818888.html" target="_blank">Read full response</a></button>
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202049<div class="author">Matti Bunzl</div><div class="loctitle">Director Museum of Vienna, Vienna</div><div class="zitat">What worries me is that the EU, yet again, is not playing the role it should be – nowhere near it, in fact. The coronavirus is the epitome of a crisis that does not stop at borders. So this is where we need unified, coordinated strategies. The epidemic absolutely must not lead to a resurgence of the nation-state.</div><button><a style="color:#a0c814;" href="https://www.goethe.de/en/kul/ges/eu2/pco/dan/21823092.html" target="_blank">Read full response</a></button>
Director Museum of Vienna, Viennahttps://www.goethe.de/z/cct/pictures/matt.jpg© Matti Bunzl
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2020410<div class="author">Urvashi Butalia</div><div class="loctitle">Author and Publisher, Delhi</div><div class="zitat">As I write, there are hundreds of thousands of informal workers crowded together at the border Delhi, waiting to go to their villages. They have no food, no water and they are fully at risk. The lockdown is a luxury the rich can afford, for the poor, there’s nothing.</div><button><a style="color:#a0c814;" href="https://www.goethe.de/en/kul/ges/eu2/pco/dan/21822973.html" target="_blank">Read full response</a></button>
Author and Publisher, Delhihttps://www.goethe.de/z/cct/pictures/urvashi.jpg© Urvashi Butalia
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202045<div class="author">Susanne Kennedy</div><div class="loctitle">Theatre Director, Berlin</div><div class="zitat">We all want all the answers right now. We want to know everything that is going to happen. What is the world going to look like after this? Which consequences are we facing? What kind of utopia or dystopia is awaiting us? But we don’t have the answers yet. This needs time. Maybe a lot of time. </div><button><a style="color:#a0c814;" href="https://www.goethe.de/en/kul/ges/eu2/pco/dan/21825093.html" target="_blank">Read full response</a></button>
Theatre Director, Berlinhttps://www.goethe.de/z/cct/pictures/susan.jpg© Manuel Schäfer
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2020411<div class="author">Robert Alagjozovski</div><div class="loctitle">Author, Skopje</div><div class="zitat">The history of humanity is still a happy end, despite dystopia. We have survived until this day and we have shown readiness to change. We are rational beings with capacity and methods to learn from our mistakes and improve our behavior and society</div><button><a style="color:#a0c814;" href="https://www.goethe.de/en/kul/ges/eu2/pco/dan/21826299.html" target="_blank">Read full response</a></button>
Author, Skopje https://www.goethe.de/z/cct/pictures/alagjozovski2.jpg© Sasho N. Alushevski
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2020412<div class="author">Nanjira Sambuli </div><div class="loctitle">Political Scientist, Nairobi</div><div class="zitat">The rug under which much of Kenya’s problems — mostly stemming from exclusionary politics and governance — had been swept, has been lifted. We must deal with the mess. The current administration finally has to work to survive. I don’t believe we can cover up that mess anymore. There will be concerted efforts to do so, nonetheless. </div><button><a style="color:#a0c814;" href="https://www.goethe.de/en/kul/ges/eu2/pco/dan/21825601.html" target="_blank">Read full response</a></button>
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2020413<div class="author">Oriza Hirata </div><div class="loctitle">Artistic Director, Tokyo</div><div class="zitat"> I hope, Japanese society will become more tolerant. I also hope Tokyo will change from an overpopulated metropolis towards a more decentralised structure. In times of crisis, we must be very careful not to allow for our personal rights and freedoms to be taken away, when states of emergencies require temorary limitations.</div><button><a style="color:#a0c814;" href="https://www.goethe.de/en/kul/ges/eu2/pco/dan/21826371.html" target="_blank">Read full response</a></button>
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2020414<div class="author">Yudhanjaya Wijeratne</div><div class="loctitle">Author, Colombo</div><div class="zitat">If language is a way of denoting concepts and the relationships between them, the coronavirus has become the concept of an unknown future, plagued by recession, the retreat of freedoms formerly taken for granted, a world bending away from the rights of the individual and privileging those of the community.</div><button><a style="color:#a0c814;" href="https://www.goethe.de/en/kul/ges/eu2/pco/dan/21825670.html" target="_blank">Read full response</a></button>
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2020415<div class="author">Génesis Alayón </div><div class="loctitle">Artist, Caracas</div><div class="zitat">I can compare this to an endless play where we all act to be well. Since before I was born everyone was acting, “this is going to happen”. Many actors have left the scene and others were forced to leave the theatre. This pandemic has invaded the scene with an atmosphere of uncertainty, but this has to make us stronger.</div><button><a style="color:#a0c814;" href="https://www.goethe.de/en/kul/ges/eu2/pco/dan/21828531.html" target="_blank">Read full response</a></button>
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2020416<div class="author">Dossym Satpayev </div><div class="loctitle">Political scientist, Almaty</div><div class="zitat">The crisis situation that has emerged is a new object of research and a case study on crisis management. It is also a case study on human psychology in emergency situations, when many are out of their comfort zones. In Kazakhstan, it is a new challenge for the authorities and society, a kind of indicator which revealed many problems.</div><button><a style="color:#a0c814;" href="https://www.goethe.de/en/kul/ges/eu2/pco/dan/21832430.html" target="_blank">Read full response</a></button>
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2020418<div class="author">Ani Qananyan and Ed Tadevossian</div><div class="loctitle">Artists, Jerewan</div><div class="zitat">Like any deep wound, this, too, will leave a scar on the surface of mankind's evolution, but after two generations, fairy tales will be told about it. The human body will develop immunity, virologists will come up with a magic pill. The contents of first-aid kits will change. People will not stop doing what they are used to doing.</div><button><a style="color:#a0c814;" href="https://www.goethe.de/en/kul/ges/eu2/pco/dan/21837631.html" target="_blank">Read full response</a></button>
Artists, Jerewanhttps://www.goethe.de/z/cct/pictures/kpa.jpg© Ani Qananyan and Ed Tadevossian
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2020420<div class="author">DETACH</div><div class="loctitle">Curators, Athens</div><div class="zitat">Our Covid-19 forced entertainment via Zoom/Skype/Houseparty or other video platforms is becoming our new multiple selfie. A new Lernaean Hydra in real time. A new mass pop perception/consumption of the screen has arrived. Check your resolution now! </div><button><a style="color:#a0c814;" href="https://www.goethe.de/en/kul/ges/eu2/pco/dan/21837634.html" target="_blank">Read full response</a></button>
Curators, Athenshttps://www.goethe.de/z/cct/pictures/detachp.jpg© Daniel Peace
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2020421<div class="author">Sampson Wong</div><div class="loctitle">Artist, Hongkong</div><div class="zitat">The hegemony of the authoritarian Chinese regime is finally facing a huge challenge to its incessant rise to power in the last decade. People around the world will remember that the Chinese government’s cover up and censorship were crucial factors that lead to a global pandemic.</div><button><a style="color:#a0c814;" href="https://www.goethe.de/en/kul/ges/eu2/pco/dan/21837642.html" target="_blank">Read full response</a></button>
Artist, Hongkonghttps://www.goethe.de/z/cct/pictures/sampson.png© Sampson Wong
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2020422<div class="author">Paul Diamond</div><div class="loctitle">Author, Wellington</div><div class="zitat">After a month of enforced rest from rampant consumerism, will New Zealanders keep doing the things they did while they weren’t shopping? More broadly, the pandemic will force a rethink of the whole basis of our economy.</div><button><a style="color:#a0c814;" href="https://www.goethe.de/en/kul/ges/eu2/pco/dan/21837652.html" target="_blank">Read full response</a></button>
Author, Wellingtonhttps://www.goethe.de/z/cct/pictures/pauld.jpeg© Markus Stein
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2020423<div class="author">Bence Fliegauf</div><div class="loctitle">Autor und Regisseur, Budapest</div><div class="zitat"><a href="https://www.goethe.de/en/kul/ges/eu2/pco/dan/21839291.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.goethe.de/z/cct/pictures/bencefliegauf.jpg" /></a></div><img src="https://www.goethe.de/z/cct/pictures/benny.jpg" style="float:left; width:50px; height:auto; margin-right:10px; padding:3px; border-radius:50%; border: 3px solid #a0c814; margin-top:-5px"><strong>Author and Director, Budapest</strong><br>Bence Fliegauf is a writer, director, production designer and sound designer who lives between Budapest and Berlin. He is a father of two.
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2020424<div class="author">Rachida Lamrabet</div><div class="loctitle">Author, Brussels</div><div class="zitat">I see people dreaming and thinking out loud. I believe we have the ability to reimagine our world, to refute the dogma of “There is no alternative.” We could create a future that is better than the world we live in.</div><button><a style="color:#a0c814;" href="https://www.goethe.de/en/kul/ges/eu2/pco/dan/21840654.html" target="_blank">Read full response</a></button>
Author, Brusselshttps://www.goethe.de/z/cct/pictures/rachida.jpg© Koenbroos
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2020425<div class="author">Sunjung Kim</div><div class="loctitle">Curator, Seoul</div><div class="zitat">The prolonged practice of social distancing, self-quarantine, and stay-at-home is changing our view of life, and changing people's ideals of everyday life as well.</div><button><a style="color:#a0c814;" href="https://www.goethe.de/en/kul/ges/eu2/pco/dan/21841772.html" target="_blank">Read full response</a></button>
Curator, Seoulhttps://www.goethe.de/z/cct/pictures/sunjung.jpg© Sunjung Kim
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2020426<div class="author">Raqs Media Collective</div><div class="loctitle">Artists, New-Delhi</div><div class="zitat">The world, and our interconnected consciousness, ravaged by quarantine, will emerge, inheriting a new sense of danger and possibility. Perhaps this time will teach us to turn time into our comrade, not our adversary. Perhaps we will find new languages to think and act in. Perhaps we will be short of breath. We hope we will not be short of time. </div><button><a style="color:#a0c814;" href="https://www.goethe.de/en/kul/ges/eu2/pco/dan/21841777.html" target="_blank">Read full response</a></button>
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2020427<div class="author">Angela Su</div><div class="loctitle">Performance Artist, Hongkong</div><div class="zitat">The laws and regulations that we have today were often the result of epidemic outbreaks. However, even if the COVID 19 pandemic brings about more than just a temporary rupture, there won’t be any fundamental changes as long as we are still in a neoliberal capitalist patriarchal xenophobic society.</div><button><a style="color:#a0c814;" href="https://www.goethe.de/en/kul/ges/eu2/pco/dan/21841782.html" target="_blank">Read full response</a></button>
Media and Performance Artist, Hongkonghttps://www.goethe.de/z/cct/pictures/ange.jpg© Angela Su
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2020428<div class="author">Bethany Younge</div><div class="loctitle">Composer, New York City</div><div class="zitat">Never before has the lack of medical support for the uninsured in the United States seemed so repugnant to society at large. The fact that Covid-19 has in many parts of the country taken a greater toll on African Americans lives throws pre-existing racial and economic disparities into new light (for some).</div><button><a style="color:#a0c814;" href="https://www.goethe.de/en/kul/ges/eu2/pco/dan/21842860.html" target="_blank">Read full response</a></button>
Composer, New York Cityhttps://www.goethe.de/z/cct/pictures/bethy.jpg© Shawn Lucas
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2020429<div class="author">Julieta Lomelí</div><div class="loctitle">Philosopher, Mexico City</div><div class="zitat">We believe that the enemy is an invisible virus. However, the enemy is not Covid-19. The enemy is the shortage of health supplies, the illness and death of thousands caused by decades of political neglect, by the lack of empathy towards the preservation of human life.</div><button><a style="color:#a0c814;" href="https://www.goethe.de/en/kul/ges/eu2/pco/dan/21849895.html" target="_blank">Read full response</a></button>
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2020430<div class="author">Nicolas Wild</div><div class="loctitle">Graphic Novelist, Paris</div><div class="zitat"><img src="https://www.goethe.de/z/cct/pictures/nicwen.jpg" /></div><button><a style="color:#a0c814;" href="https://www.goethe.de/en/kul/ges/eu2/pco/dan/21849972.html" target="_blank">Read entire comic</a></button>
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202051<div class="author">Giang Dang</div><div class="loctitle">Scientist and Activist, Hanoi</div><div class="zitat">They say a crisis lays bare what’s already there. It’s certainly true with the Vietnamese nationalism. Blinded by their hatred against China, many Vietnamese celebrate Trump like a hero, because he called the Corona virus the Chinese virus.</div><button><a style="color:#a0c814;" href="https://www.goethe.de/en/kul/ges/eu2/pco/dan/21849985.html" target="_blank">Read full response</a></button>
Scientist and Activist, Hanoihttps://www.goethe.de/z/cct/pictures/giang.jpg© Giang Deng
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202052<div class="author">A. L. Kennedy</div><div class="loctitle">Author, North Essex</div><div class="zitat">In the UK we watch our government do nothing in good suits, listen to it lie and deflect when we need truth more than ever. We see – once again – huge policy differences and differences in public health between regions of the UK. And every day now, people die who do not need to be dead.</div><button><a style="color:#a0c814;" href="https://www.goethe.de/en/kul/ges/eu2/pco/dan/21849987.html" target="_blank">Read full response</a></button>
Author, North Essexhttps://www.goethe.de/z/cct/pictures/alken.jpg© Robin Niedojadlo
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202053<div class="author">Georgi Gospodinov</div><div class="loctitle">Author, Sofia</div><div class="zitat">How will rituals of intimacy change as a result? How will we touch, embrace, get close to each other again? We’ll have a long way to go, inch by inch, to close the distance between our bodies. </div><button><a style="color:#a0c814;" href="https://www.goethe.de/en/kul/ges/eu2/pco/dan/21849989.html" target="_blank">Read full response</a></button>
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202054<div class="author">Amar Kanwar</div><div class="loctitle">Artist and Director, New-Delhi</div><div class="zitat">If every moment contains the possibility of being alive and being dead, could an acute awareness of every moment then also create an acute consciousness of living and dying? This moment of the virus does exactly that. An unknown invisible killer who may or may not kill makes us suddenly become acutely aware of being alive, of the possibility of living and the possibility of dying.</div><button><a style="color:#a0c814;" href="https://www.goethe.de/en/kul/ges/eu2/pco/dan/21849991.html" target="_blank">Read full response</a></button>
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202055<div class="author">Petra Hůlová</div><div class="loctitle">Author, Prague</div><div class="zitat">What we are all currently experiencing is pushing the boundaries of our imagination. We have always been told that we live in a system that cannot be changed, one for which there are no alternatives. Yet now we see how radically life can change within a matter of days.</div><button><a style="color:#a0c814;" href="https://www.goethe.de/en/kul/ges/eu2/pco/dan/21851280.html" target="_blank">Read full response</a></button>
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202056<div class="author">Assumpta Mugiranzea</div><div class="loctitle">Sociologist, Kigali</div><div class="zitat">It is for the first time, in decades, that Rwandan society is facing a “shared” crisis, the factors of which are entirely external. It will be necessary to analyse in more depth what has changed in the perception of oneself, of one’s country, in the relationship one has with one’s neighbours (26 years after the local genocide), of the citizen to the authorities, and of the individual to the institutional structures.</div><button><a style="color:#a0c814;" href="https://www.goethe.de/en/kul/ges/eu2/pco/dan/21852275.html" target="_blank">Read full response</a></button>
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202057<div class="author">Tiago Sant'Ana </div><div class="loctitle">Artist, Salvador</div><div class="zitat">There are only limited measures to protect poorer people. Campaigns to encourage donations and philanthropic actions will not be enough because we need more far-reaching, effective social policies - in both the short and long terms. We have a far-right government in power in Brazil, so I don’t anticipate investment reaching the social sector anytime soon.</div><button><a style="color:#a0c814;" href="https://www.goethe.de/en/kul/ges/eu2/pco/dan/21856136.html" target="_blank">Read full response</a></button>
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202058<div class="author">Esther Dischereit </div><div class="loctitle">Author, Berlin</div><div class="zitat">Maybe those who’ve still got a job and a flat will end up being a lousy minority. An envied little clique who get to travel the world as much as they like, spreading emissions across the globe – and planning flights to the moon because Antarctica is melting and bears in the woods are dying of diseases somehow caused by the heat.</div><button><a style="color:#a0c814;" href="https://www.goethe.de/en/kul/ges/eu2/pco/dan/21856139.html" target="_blank">Read full response</a></button>
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202059<div class="author">Trimpin</div><div class="loctitle">Artist, Seattle</div><div class="zitat">Art and culture survived centuries of disasters and economic problems. Each individual person on this planet recognizes that humanity cannot exist without art and their cultural heritage. This unprecedented challenge will require that all of us must contribute whatever we can do to keep art alive.</div><button><a style="color:#a0c814;" href="https://www.goethe.de/en/kul/ges/eu2/pco/dan/21856142.html" target="_blank">Read full response</a></button>
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2020510<div class="author">The Packet</div><div class="loctitle">Künstlerkollektiv, Colombo</div><div class="zitat">Choosing the question ‘What do we see?’ we draw from direct experience, from micro-moments located in the immediate. Instead of speaking to, we speak from, and with each other. Suffering from the exhaustion brought on by incessant hot takes, we converse and question, resisting the rush to theorize.</div><button><a style="color:#a0c814;" href="https://www.goethe.de/z/cct/pictures/lettercollective_srilanka.pdf" target="_blank">Letters suffering (from the exhaustion brought on by incessant hot takes) </a></button><style>[src="https://www.goethe.de/z/cct/pictures/packet.jpg"] {
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2020511<div class="author">Lídia Jorge</div><div class="loctitle">Author, Lisbon</div><div class="zitat">The poet Robert Musil said a new era is born every day. That may well be true, but some days new eras are born with capital letters, and that's the case with this one. We’re witnessing the labour pains of the birth of a new age.</div><button><a style="color:#a0c814;" href="https://www.goethe.de/en/kul/ges/eu2/pco/dan/21856147.html" target="_blank">Read full response</a></button>
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2020512<div class="author">Pravin Kannanur</div><div class="loctitle">Artist, Chennai</div><div class="zitat">The prescription of social distancing exaggerates existing class hierarchies, discrimination and deprivation. In India, there is a sizeable percentage of the most needy that has no bank accounts and will slip through the safety net of immediate cash transfers from the government. In an environment without formal contacts, they face abrupt job terminations or evictions.</div><button><a style="color:#a0c814;" href="https://www.goethe.de/de/kul/ges/eu2/pco/dan/21864112.html" target="_blank">Read full response</a></button>Artist, Chennaihttps://www.goethe.de/z/cct/pictures/pravin1.jpg© Pravin Kannanur
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2020513<div class="author">Behzad Nejadghanbar</div><div class="loctitle">Curator, Teheran</div><div class="zitat">We have all gone through an irreversible condition. What seemed impossible two or three months ago has just happened and we now live in a suspended world. So we have to admit that if life apparently goes back to normal, nothing would be the same as before. Life would go on more vulnerably, with a constant fear of danger around the corner.</div><button><a style="color:#a0c814;" href="https://www.goethe.de/de/kul/ges/eu2/pco/dan/21864127.html" target="_blank">Read full response</a></button>Curator, Teheranhttps://www.goethe.de/z/cct/pictures/behzad.jpg© Behzad Nejadghanbar
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2020514<div class="author">Parsa Sajid</div><div class="loctitle">Author, Dhaka</div><div class="zitat">There was an ordering of life in that pre-Corona normalcy, a discriminatory structure, and which lives, how, and where those lives are put first becomes manifest in this crisis.</div><button><a style="color:#a0c814;" href="https://www.goethe.de/de/kul/ges/eu2/pco/dan/21864191.html" target="_blank">Read full response</a></button>Author and Scientist, Dhakahttps://www.goethe.de/z/cct/pictures/parsa.jpg© Parsa Sajid
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2020515<div class="author">Olivier Rey</div><div class="loctitle">Theatre Director, Lyon</div><div class="zitat">As far as cultural structures are concerned, I think the “big” institutions will find a way to withstand this crisis, as will big businesses. But for the more independent sector, it will be more difficult to continue to exist. I’m afraid that many companies and small independent spaces are going out of business.</div><button><a style="color:#a0c814;" href="https://www.goethe.de/en/kul/ges/eu2/pco/dan/21863742.html" target="_blank">Read full response</a></button>Theatre Director, Lyonhttps://www.goethe.de/resources/files/jpg920/rey-formatkey-jpg-w245.jpg© Olivier Rey
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2020516<div class="author">Chuah Guat Eng</div><div class="loctitle">Novelist, Kuala Lumpur</div><div class="zitat">The banning of religious and other rites-of-passage gatherings must surely be keenly felt, perhaps long-term, by those whose loved ones die during this crisis. But what impact will it have on devout followers of religions that place doctrinal emphasis on the indispensability of regular fellowship and group rituals in worship and personal salvation? Time will tell.
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2020517<div class="author">Jahman Anikulapo</div><div class="loctitle">Journalist, Lagos</div><div class="zitat">When the metropolitan city of Lagos, the economic and cultural capital of the country, launched a desperate cocktail of measures to implement the WHO protocols, the federal government, led by a usually taciturn albeit seemingly aloof president, did not initiate any action until March 29 – nearly three months after the enemy had been travelling around the world ravaging communities, killing people and maiming systems.</div>
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2020518<div class="author">Yan Lianke</div><div class="loctitle">Author, Peking</div><div class="zitat">The eruption of a global pandemic leads to a lot of patriotism and questions about how to be patriotic. This issue, which is both general and specific, encompasses all of the conspiracy theories, schadenfreude, empathy, apathy, ridicule, boasting, attempts at rationality, and idealistic global Utopianism.</div>
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2020519<div class="author">Daniel Blaufuks</div><div class="loctitle">Artist, Lisbon</div><div class="zitat">The situation shows also how weak the European Union has become, incapable of facing united such a pandemic catastrophe and, I think that will remain indeed symbolic, how the rich countries in the north, such as Germany, Netherlands and Sweden, are unwilling to help, at least in quick and decisive way, their poorer partners in the south. And this will, unfortunately, not be forgotten so soon.</div>
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2020520<div class="author">Tahmineh Monzavi</div><div class="loctitle">Photographer, Teheran</div><div class="zitat">Consequences of Corona are losing the sense of smell and taste, mostly for people who catch it mildly. That would be me. The fear of losing the true taste of life and other tastes and scents will remain strong. Life after Corona may not ever appear and it will just continue to exist, but hope will always do what it has to do …</div>
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2020521<div class="author">Mike van Graan</div><div class="loctitle">Playwrite, Capetown</div><div class="zitat">South Africa serves as a metaphor for the world, polarized by inequality, a legacy of Apartheid which benefited a white minority through the exploitation of the black majority, much lik colonialism contributed to current global structural inequities.</div>
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2020522<div class="author">William Pierce</div><div class="loctitle">Publisher, Boston</div><div class="zitat">But as researchers struggle to understand Covid, our president gins up the divide in our outlooks and conclusions. He doesn’t want national unity. He wants States’ Rights, more now than ever. Fifty Americas serve him better than one, because unifying isn’t a huckster’s schtick.</div>
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2020523<div class="author">Greg Yudin</div><div class="loctitle">Philosopher, Moscow</div><div class="zitat">The country lays split between those willing to keep Putin forever and those looking to replace him, between the quarantine that was never officially announced and the quarantine that was de facto introduced, between the two versions of Constitution operating at the same time, between the pre-lockdown stable past and the post-lockdown uncertain future.</div>
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2020524<div class="author">Kalaf Epalanga</div><div class="loctitle">Musician, Luanda</div><div class="zitat">The COVID-19 crisis is also an opportunity to reform health system practices, which brings me back to the 17 optimistic sustainability goals and the UN report. The report emphasises the need to step up measures in countries where malaria is still endemic. In Angola alone, around 150,000 children die from malaria and malnutrition every year.</div>
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2020525<div class="author">Martín Kohan</div><div class="loctitle">Author, Buenos Aires</div><div class="zitat">The margin of uncertainty has grown exponentially, just like the spread of the virus; we don’t know what is going to happen, not even in the near future. And this not knowing, in my opinion, defines this state of suspension. What we don’t know prevails. The profound need for certainty (even of the most modest kind) shows us evidence of this time and time again: that we are buried in what we don’t know.</div>
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2020526<div class="author">Driss Ksikes </div><div class="loctitle">Cultural Operator, Rabat</div><div class="zitat">Will we draw new arguments from this crisis to make people look at the social classes that have been left behind, and at the countries of the South without resources or infrastructures to face the emerging worrying world that those of the North have largely plundered?</div>
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2020527<div class="author">Filipa Ramos </div><div class="loctitle">Author and Curator, London</div><div class="zitat">I dream of a world in which toilet paper is seen as a problem, not a solution. While this world comes into being, I see toilet paper as the white, normative and selfish son of our times. </div>
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2020528<div class="author">Nida Kirmani</div><div class="loctitle">Sociologist, Lahore</div><div class="zitat">In the context of Pakistan, where gender inequality is particularly high, a pandemic such as COVID-19 will be disastrous for many women, particularly those living in the peripheries and those occupying the lower end of the economic spectrum. It is imperative that policy makers take this seriously and for gender to become one of the main considerations in terms of how responses to the pandemic are being designed.</div>
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2020529<div class="author">Liu Ding & Lu Yinghua</div><div class="loctitle">Artists and Curators</div><div class="zitat">The discussions and controversies that have arisen from the epidemic have caused us to realize that many cornerstones of human life that we took for granted, such as conscientiousness, justice, moral feeling, the ability to distinguish true and false, good intentions, compassion, equality, and respect for the lives of all individuals, are not the unspoken universal values that we thought they were. Instead, they are things that must be fought for and protected.</div>
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2020530<div class="author">Deepika Arwind</div><div class="loctitle">Playwrite and Performer, Bangalore</div><div class="zitat">We can read people who have thought and written about the world and civil society. We can try to look past the warlike nomenclature of these times and find a language that cares about the collective. We can define our ‘we’ and find ways to expand that definition, including non-humans as well.</div>
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2020531<div class="author">Friederike Meyer & Doris Kleilein</div><div class="loctitle">Architects, Berlin</div><div class="zitat">The jury is still out on whether the crisis will break or consolidate old systems. While we still rejoice at pop-up bike paths and streets sealed off for playing, the automotive lobby already proposes introducing a scrappage bonus, and the government is to save Lufthansa – without additional environmental regulations. Will we repeat the mistakes that were made after the 2008 financial crisis?</div>
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202061<div class="author">Naeem Mohaiemen</div><div class="loctitle">Filmmaker, Dhaka</div><div class="zitat">This disease, which many have called “a great equalizer,” is actually an exercise in creating an intricate ladder where everyone is made to recognize how much their lives actually matter. We are continuously reconfiguring our positions on the rung as we hover over our respective rungs, as we wonder: will I get a ventilator if my life is at risk?
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202062<div class="author">Zarmeene Shah</div><div class="loctitle">Curator and Author, Karachi</div><div class="zitat">An invisible enemy, COVID-19 makes visible to us all of our faults and divides, our failures and inevitable future, more clearly than any person could ever have done. It also clearly highlights the ugliness of ‘othering’ that has gone on for centuries, and which continues now unchanged, with a shockingly long list of incidents of xenophobia, and discrimination and dangerous levels of rising nationalism as the fear of the virus spreads.
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202063<div class="author">Poorna Swami</div><div class="loctitle">Choeographer, Bangalore</div><div class="zitat">This time is ripe for tyranny. For fascism to dig its heels into the ground, then trample it. The police brutalise those who have no choice but to be out on the streets. The Prime Minister calls for symbolic gestures on balconies—clapping hands, lighting candles—that will flash across social media and television screens as propaganda. These are the portraits of what they call an emergency.
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202064<div class="author">Phoebe Greenberg</div><div class="loctitle">Cultural Entrepreneur, Montreal</div><div class="zitat">Moving forward, this crisis has shown that Canada must reconsider its position in relation to foreign policy. We must find a way to minimize our dependency on our neighbors to the south, and their radical presidency. In this regard, I believe this moment has exemplified the importance both that Canada be more self-sufficient, but also that we continue to forge bonds and a deeper strategic relationship with the rest of the world to ensure that we remain resilient.
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202065<div class="author">Andrei Babitsky</div><div class="loctitle">Science Journalist, Moscow</div><div class="zitat">The situation with fakes in Russia is terrible, but again it seems to me that this did not start with an epidemic, but it always has been. And in principle, there are a lot of fakes in the world now. Of course, every day I see a lot of fakes related to coronavirus, very often spread by people who, in general, seem reasonable, rational and educated to me.
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202068<div class="author">Ala Younis</div><div class="loctitle">Artist, Curator and Publisher, Amman</div><div class="zitat">The disease is suspected in us. These gatekeepers are us. This smallness is also us. Our precarious beings, our suspended jobs; our hope for little earnings from anything and everything.
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202069<div class="author">Nanjira Sambuli and @kuebrag</div><div class="loctitle">Instagram Debate</div><div class="zitat">Is this really solidarity?
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2020610<div class="author">Mami Kataoka</div><div class="loctitle">Directress Mori Art Museum, Tokyo</div><div class="zitat">It is essential to heed the ancient wisdom of indigenous peoples, who survived, thousands, even tens of thousands of years ago, without any advanced technology or global economy. First and foremost, we must look for a new form of ecology that can preserve the essence of human life. In the meantime, we must always bear in mind that COVID-19 may be but the harbinger of an even bigger crisis. In this context, we need to get together and think about what would make up a sustainable human society in the long run.</div><button><a style="color:#a0c814;" href="https://www.goethe.de/en/kul/ges/eu2/pco/dan/21884401.html" target="_blank">Read full response</a></button>
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2020611<div class="author">Naveen Kishore</div><div class="loctitle">Photographer, Publisher, and Lighting Designer, Calcutta</div><div class="zitat">The lockdowns are clearly a rehearsal for authoritarian regimes to test the waters for when things arrive at what you label ‘normal’. A laboratory in the time of crisis that is always looking out for newer ways of turning citizens into petitioners. The citizen as a constantly beseeching subject. You rule by fear. By coercion.</div><button><a style="color:#a0c814;" href="https://www.goethe.de/en/kul/ges/eu2/pco/dan/21890152.html" target="_blank">Read full response</a></button>
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2020612<div class="author">Bence Fliegauf</div><div class="loctitle">Autor und Regisseur, Budapest</div><div class="zitat"><a href="https://www.goethe.de/en/kul/ges/eu2/pco/dan/21891147.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.goethe.de/z/cct/pictures/bence3.jpg" /></a></div><img src="https://www.goethe.de/z/cct/pictures/benny.jpg" style="float:left; width:50px; height:auto; margin-right:10px; padding:3px; border-radius:50%; border: 3px solid #a0c814; margin-top:-5px"><strong>Author and Director, Budapest</strong><br>Bence Fliegauf is a writer, director, production designer and sound designer who lives between Budapest and Berlin. He is a father of two.
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2020613<div class="author">Przemyslaw Czapliński</div><div class="loctitle">Historian, Posen</div><div class="zitat">During the epidemic we have gained a unique social experience: we have tested our capacity for long-term isolation, for spending time in small circles and coming to each other’s aid. We have discovered a path to greater autonomy. This experience has a broader meaning. Our withdrawal from shops and streets, restricting our time at work, offers a strong force of agency. Our absence is a way of exerting an impact.</div><button><a style="color:#a0c814;" href="https://www.goethe.de/en/kul/ges/eu2/pco/dan/21891721.html" target="_blank">Read full response</a></button>
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2020614<div class="author">Maristella Svampa</div><div class="loctitle">Sociologist, Buenos Aires</div><div class="zitat">There is no doubt that the globalisation model as we know it has burnt itself out, but nothing has been said about where we are heading. Whether we will move towards a globalisation that is unequal (with a low low-level intensity neoliberalism) and more authoritarian (with extreme right, deeply xenophobic and nationalist regimes) or whether we will construct a globalisation that is democratic, solidary and sustainable, both from a social and environmental point of view.</div><button><a style="color:#a0c814;" href="https://www.goethe.de/en/kul/ges/eu2/pco/dan/21891731.html" target="_blank">Read full response</a></button>
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2020615<div class="author">Asma Abbas</div><div class="loctitle">Professor for political science and philosophy</div>In constituting our memory of this crisis as it unfolds - rather than waiting for until after dusk - we determine who we grieve for and who we bury, which crisis calls we heed as calls to which order, what questions we will even dignify, which cases we will no longer make, which starting points we will no longer entertain even for a little bit, whom we will refuse to hand over, and whether our prayers for the dead will be an appeal, or a complaint, or a call to arms. </div><button><a style="color:#a0c814;" href="https://www.goethe.de/en/kul/ges/eu2/pco/dan/21892527.html" target="_blank">Read full response</a></button>
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2020616<div class="author">Savic Ali </div><div class="loctitle">Activist, Jakarta</div><div class="zitat">In Jakarta, the most populous city in the country, we don’t see cars stuck in traffic jams like there used to be. We don’t see people cramming into trains. Since the middle of March, people have started to work from home, even though the Health Minister declared that the coronavirus is not as dangerous as the media have been reporting.</div><button><a style="color:#a0c814;" href="https://www.goethe.de/en/kul/ges/eu2/pco/dan/21894826.html" target="_blank">Read full response</a></button>
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2020617<div class="author">Huang Yi</div><div class="loctitle">Choreographer, Dancer, Artist in Taipeh</div><div class="zitat">I see much space for necessary organisational and structural changes: Waste of healthcare resources must be stopped. Artists and society as a whole must create new systems on the economic level. Taiwan’s art scene is characterised by a lack of sound and fully developed structures, the whole branch of industry therefore requires a comprehensive upgrade.</div><button><a style="color:#a0c814;" href="https://www.goethe.de/en/kul/ges/eu2/pco/dan/21897224.html" target="_blank">Read full response</a></button>
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2020618<div class="author">Bina Shah</div><div class="loctitle">Author, Karachi</div><div class="zitat">The COVID-19 pandemic has forced us to examine the role of life and consciousness in the real, physical world. A virus has forced millions of people to stay indoors, practicing proper handwashing and hygiene, but it has also forced millions out on the streets, to travel back home, as in India, or to demand cash and food relief, as in Pakistan. They say that they worry about the virus, but they fear hunger more.</div><button><a style="color:#a0c814;" href="https://www.goethe.de/en/kul/ges/eu2/pco/dan/21897212.html" target="_blank">Read full response</a></button>
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2020619<div class="author">Bebeti do Amaral Gurgel</div><div class="loctitle">Journalist, Curitiba</div><div class="zitat">It is sad, difficult and heavy to be in the hands of a government that practices the pandemic's denialism. There is no sympathy for the families of those who died, not even a gesture. There are also no instructions on what to do, how to do, what to expect. </div><button><a style="color:#a0c814;" href="https://www.goethe.de/en/kul/ges/eu2/pco/dan/21899857.html" target="_blank">Read full response</a></button>
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2020620<div class="author">Odeh Bisharat</div><div class="loctitle">Author and Publicist, Tel Aviv</div><div class="zitat">​Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took advantage of the exceptionally extensive media visibility to tout his self-proclaimed achievements on the one hand while simultaneously calling upon his opponents to join him in an extended cabinet, thus crushing the widespread coalition of opponents to his corrupt regime. As a result of the blatantly cynical use of the virus by the accused prime minister, for the first time in Israeli history, at its helm is a person accused of criminal activity.</div><button><a style="color:#a0c814;" href="https://www.goethe.de/en/kul/ges/eu2/pco/dan/21900359.html" target="_blank">Read full response</a></button>
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2020621<div class="author">Aukje van Roessel</div><div class="loctitle">Political Journalist, The Hague</div><div class="zitat">During my many strolls, I was struck by how similar social distancing actually is to dancing, which is why I have started to call it social dancing. In the streets, we swirl and twirl around each other. And, just like dancing in the pre-Corona era, you need to pay attention to your dance partners' body language. What move are they going to make?</div><button><a style="color:#a0c814;" href="https://www.goethe.de/en/kul/ges/eu2/pco/dan/21900516.html" target="_blank">Read full response</a></button>
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2020622<div class="author">Meryem Jazouli</div><div class="loctitle">Dancer and Choreographer, Casablanca</div><div class="zitat">I believe that, unfortunately, the world will change permanently only for those who have suffered the loss of a parent, a loved one. For these people, the world is changing in an inescapable way. For those of us who have been lucky enough to be spared from illness and the loss of a loved one, I am a little skeptical.</div><button><a style="color:#a0c814;" href="https://www.goethe.de/en/kul/ges/eu2/pco/dan/21900848.html" target="_blank">Read full response</a></button>
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2020623<div class="author">Anam Zakaria</div><div class="loctitle">Expert for Oral History, Karachi</div><div class="zitat">The politics of emergency, the measures used to combat the emergency, can (and may) certainly transcend into the politics of the everyday, into the state of whatever form of new normalcy we may return to. States rarely give up control or recede power. Covid-19 may just give them a chance to flex their muscles, to become more emboldened, more powerful, all in the name of citizen protection. </div><button><a style="color:#a0c814;" href="https://www.goethe.de/en/kul/ges/eu2/pco/dan/21901805.html" target="_blank">Read full response</a></button>
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2020624<div class="author">Mahmoud Muna</div><div class="loctitle">Owner of a Bookshop and Author, Jerusalem</div><div class="zitat">Of course, the economic recession resulting from this crisis will be long felt. However, for an occupied territory that has been subjected to decades of oppression and segregation, perhaps the most worrying long-term consequences are the notions of self-care, isolation, and assuming that there is danger within the “other”.</div><button><a style="color:#a0c814;" href="https://www.goethe.de/en/kul/ges/eu2/pco/dan/21902938.html" target="_blank">Read full response</a></button>
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2020625<div class="author">Lina Gómez</div><div class="loctitle">Choreographer, Berlin</div><div class="zitat">This time of Corona invites me to establish a solo discipline, something that has never been my strength. Now it is the body of the screen and me, in my house. A new routine, a new kind of body perception, which in fact emphasizes the need for another person. But it was in the absence of someone else that it appeared. A re-establishing of self-contact that was born from being deprived of contact. Such are the curious contradictions of these times.</div><button><a style="color:#a0c814;" href="https://www.goethe.de/en/kul/ges/eu2/pco/dan/21904949.html" target="_blank">Read full response</a></button>
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2020626<div class="author">Arnon Grunberg</div><div class="loctitle">Novelist</div><div class="zitat">I'm writing this in New York, at a moment when Corona in the US is being eclipsed by the killing of George Floyd, by the protests, by police violence, by looting. If right now the post-war order is actually collapsing – which I neither hope nor expect (if only barely) – Corona will relate to that like the Spanish Flu related to the Weimar Republic.</div><button><a style="color:#a0c814;" href="https://www.goethe.de/en/kul/ges/eu2/pco/dan/21906369.html" target="_blank">Read full response</a></button>
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2020627<div class="author">Kanayo Ueda</div><div class="loctitle">Poetess, Osaka</div><div class="zitat">The coronavirus pandemic may be prompting people to reassess their globalized way of life and livelihoods. They may also be thinking more deeply about their encounters with others, developing an awareness of social rifts and inequalities or a sense of solidarity. At any rate, I’m convinced that our todays won’t resemble our yesterdays anymore.</div><button><a style="color:#a0c814;" href="https://www.goethe.de/en/kul/ges/eu2/pco/dan/21907571.html" target="_blank">Read full response</a></button>
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2020628<div class="author">Hanna Parry </div><div class="loctitle">Artistic Director, Helsinki</div><div class="zitat">Performing arts do not fit on screen: that cuts facial expressions, gestures, tones, movements and attention. Performance happens in moments between people that are never the same again. The internet is filled with attempts to maintain operations and momentum, but alongside film, theatre recordings look awkward and the distance between online festival and your sofa at home is exhausting.</div><button><a style="color:#a0c814;" href="https://www.goethe.de/en/kul/ges/eu2/pco/dan/21907619.html" target="_blank">Read full response</a></button>
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2020629<div class="author">Frederic Hanusch </div><div class="loctitle">Scientific Director</div><div class="zitat">The pandemic has also opened up a window of opportunity for us to gain a better understanding of how we are connected to the earth, above and beyond what can be directly perceived by our senses. For the pandemic silence makes it possible for us to listen to the planet – and how we are already connected to its soundscape from the earth's interior all the way to the atmosphere.</div><button><a style="color:#a0c814;" href="https://www.goethe.de/en/kul/ges/eu2/pco/dan/21907821.html" target="_blank">Read full response</a></button>
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2020630<div class="author">Joshua Muyiwa </div><div class="loctitle">Poet and Columnist, Bengaluru</div><div class="zitat">If the Indian Muslim body was the site of dissent and deserved the state’s violence before, it has only turned worse now during this lockdown. Now, the body of the Indian Muslim has also turned into the site of the virus’ origin and seems doubly deserving of the state’s vitriol, too.</div><button><a style="color:#a0c814;" href="https://www.goethe.de/en/kul/ges/eu2/pco/dan/21909007.html" target="_blank">Read full response</a></button>
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202071<div class="author">Wjatscheslaw Schadrin </div><div class="loctitle">Scientist, Yakutsk</div><div class="zitat">What is happening is a kind of a warning for the whole mankind: the man has become too proud, has stopped considering the Nature’s needs, and is now claiming to be the master and ruler of everything. And this is only the first signal meaning that, unless we change our approaches, things will be getting worse: the disturbed environment and the effects of the global climate warming will lead to more severe natural disasters, like fires, floods, draughts, storms, twisters, tsunamis, etc.</div><button><a style="color:#a0c814;" href="https://www.goethe.de/en/kul/ges/eu2/pco/dan/21910803.html" target="_blank">Read full response</a></button>
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202072<div class="author">Ra-Sablga Seydou Ouédraogo</div><div class="loctitle">Economical Scientist, Burkina Faso</div><div class="zitat">The economists envisage a severe economic crisis that is already present with the halt to international trade and business activity. The IMF predicts that the crisis will be more severe than that of 2008. The loss of more than 5 points of growth should bring sub-Saharan Africa into recession in 2020 with a decline in GDP of 1.6%, a level never seen in the region.</div><button><a style="color:#a0c814;" href="https://www.goethe.de/en/kul/ges/eu2/pco/dan/21909007.html" target="_blank">Read full response</a></button>
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202073<div class="author">Ahmet Ümit </div><div class="loctitle">Author, Istanbul</div><div class="zitat">The threat is not yet over, but this invisible enemy has shown us once again how selfish, how selfless, how cowardly, how brave, how clever, how stupid, how sensitive, how foolish, how generous and how greedy our species is. Yes, Covid-19 is also a kind of litmus paper: a tiny litmus paper that is invisible to the naked eye, showing us humans, self-proclaimed rulers of the earth, how powerless we really are.</div><button><a style="color:#a0c814;" href="https://www.goethe.de/en/kul/ges/eu2/pco/dan/21912873.html" target="_blank">Read full response</a></button>
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202076<div class="author">Vítor Belanciano</div><div class="loctitle">Journalist, Lisbon</div><div class="zitat">So far, the EU is following the lead of the stronger instead of going along with the weaker, not even realising that it is disintegrating in this way and that this will have consequences for everyone. After all, if there is a time when it is necessary, from a geopolitical point of view, to strengthen the EU's values, it would be now.</div><button><a style="color:#a0c814;" href="https://www.goethe.de/en/kul/ges/eu2/pco/dan/21913775.html" target="_blank">Read full response</a></button>
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2020710<div class="author">Sifiso and Sipho</div><div class="loctitle">Artists, Johannesburg</div><div class="zitat">If the virus continues in the long-term, we will face a huge crisis in our health department. We will have shortage of medication and chronic diseases like TB and cancer will contribute to more deaths. People with money are more likely to survive in the long-term than the underprivileged, due to the unaffordability of quality health care.
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2020825<div class="author">Myint Zaw</div><div class="loctitle">Author and activist, Yangon/Rangun</div><div class="zitat">During the pandemic, we wondered out loud in various online discussions: How much power do we have as individual activists, artists and writers? Are we powerless against institutions and structures? In other words, does nothing we do matter? Or can institutions and structures change when individuals engage in agency? In other words, does everything we do matter?
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2020825<div class="author">Myint Zaw, August 25th</div><div class="loctitle">Author and activist, Yangon/Rangun</div><div class="zitat">During the pandemic, we wondered out loud in various online discussions: How much power do we have as individual activists, artists and writers? Are we powerless against institutions and structures? In other words, does nothing we do matter? Or can institutions and structures change when individuals engage in agency? In other words, does everything we do matter?
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