Of course he wears a mask, as naturally as he usually wears a cap that covers the receding hairline.

And a T-shirt that says “Metaphysica” and shows the heads of Aristotle, Plato, Parmenides and Pythagoras.

Peter Körte

Editor in the features section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung in Berlin.

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We have an appointment in one of these West Berlin Vorwende café restaurants with older, late lunches and dark wood.

Dietrich Brüggemann, the director and author who became known in April as one of the initiators of #allesdichtmachen, has come to talk about his new film, which has the beautiful title "Nö".

# Make all the sealing, that was this action at the end of April, in which more than fifty prominent actors from Volker Bruch to Ulrich Tukur, from Meret Becker to Heike Makatsch attacked the government's corona policy and the media in short, somehow satirical videos.

The shitstorm came as ordered, some rowed straight back, and the 45-year-old Brüggemann, rhetorically versed, intellectually agile and convinced that he had a mission, became the spokesman for this movement, which had quickly got out of step.

Shitstorm to order

Now he doesn't feel like talking about Corona, he says right away, everything has been said by him.

Good, as quoted from the Berliner Zeitung, where he said in August that the action had “massive effects on the whole country.

It hit like seldom. "

Modesty is different.

You can also read on Facebook where he recently explained why he was not going to the Festival of German Films in Ludwigshafen: because the authorities there were instructed to follow the 2-G rule.

"I think it's bad if healthy people always have to prove by test that they pose no threat to their fellow human beings," writes Brüggemann, and "if humanity is then divided into two classes by vaccination, then we should all ask us if we really want that. "

He thinks that is “devastating, and it doesn't even matter whether it is justifiable in the matter (it isn't) and how often and against what I myself am vaccinated or unvaccinated.

.. I do not appear in front of an audience that has been pre-sorted according to any biological or other criteria. "

Not in the mood for 2G

Biological?

Others?

Yes what now?

Isn't it actually more about being pre-sorted?

And wasn't Brüggemann also in Karlovy Vary, where “Nö” won the directing award and where the 3-G rule applied?

Of course, Brüggemann cannot keep silent about the pandemic this afternoon.

He speaks of the "general mistrust that is at the beginning of the entire Corona policy.

It is the upside down presumption of innocence: You are a priori suspect and have to permanently prove your innocence. ”But only if you consider the risk of contagion emanating from a person to be culpable behavior.

Brüggemann then goes over to the still low mortality rate, mentions the many who would not have noticed that they had Covid-19, says that things also turned out differently in Sweden.

Do you really have to come back with the significantly higher death rate in Sweden?

He speaks quickly, without getting tangled up, pointedly, emphatically, raising and lowering his voice in a targeted manner. This creates a dense context, there are no pauses when speaking that could lead to doubt.

Small consensus allergy

That doesn't mean he doesn't respond to questions, he picks them up briefly, continues talking, plays a few notes, but then doesn't continue playing.

Then he says: "Anyone who wants to be vaccinated can be vaccinated, what more could you want?" got.