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Berlin (dpa) - Film director Wim Wenders (“The sky over Berlin”, “Paris, Texas”) sees the processing of the corona pandemic as a particular challenge for the film industry.
“How capable of learning humanity is through such a global experience, that is an area in which films can make a big difference,” said the 75-year-old of the “Rheinische Post” (Saturday).
He and his wife tried to understand the lack of travel and contacts as an opportunity and to question their previous lifestyle.
Wenders admitted that it would be much more difficult for others than him in the pandemic.
But his film production and foundation were also threatened existentially.
Wenders takes a critical view of politics: “When nothing is at stake, politics always says how important culture is for our society, for our civilization, for our sense of community.
And hardly ever comes an emergency, it is quickly forgotten.
On the question of how he experienced Germany as a cultural nation in the Corona crisis, Wenders said: “At first it was surprisingly composed and in solidarity and much better than many other countries in the world, including our neighbors.
The serious and at the same time sensitive style of Angela Merkel contributed to this above all.
In the meantime, it becomes more and more nervous and frayed, the more "politics" takes on the topic and wants to use it for the respective political purposes. "
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He has never wanted a priority of competence and science so much.
According to the interview, he himself has already been vaccinated with the first dose of Astrazenca.
The director received the "Düsseldorfer des Jahres" award from the Rheinische Post Mediengruppe for his life's work in Berlin on Friday.
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