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Star violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter is disappointed and angry about how she dealt with artists during the Corona crisis.
“This year, the lives of artists have been so restricted that one can speak of a professional ban, a cultural ban,” she says in WELT AM SONNTAG.
The artist, who was discovered and promoted by Herbert von Karajan at the age of 13 and is now one of the most famous classical musicians in the world, goes on to say that she first tried to get into conversation with politics, among other things the Minister of State for Culture adroitly.
“I was hoping that direct communication with politicians could get things moving.
It wasn't like that. "
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In the course of time, politics has shown itself to be “more and more culturally distant, almost culturally contemptuous”, which would have been particularly painful in view of the many pilot studies, reports and concepts that would have allowed more openings in the cultural sector.
Therefore, according to the 57-year-old, she also joined the initiative “Stand up for art”, which has submitted a constitutional complaint to the Constitutional Court.
A rare appearance: violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter performed with Daniel Barenboim and the Staatskapelle Berlin at an open air event in the summer
Source: ZDF
Mother also warns of the tragic consequences of the months-long culture lockdown: “Some of us don't exist anymore” and: “Whole orchestras have fallen apart, ensembles anyway. It is a dying of a cultural diversity that did not come into being in a day. The second tragedy is that a young generation of music students think twice about whether they want to take this already difficult path, which apparently receives so little support. "