In the course of his career, the Portuguese soccer coach José Mourinho was asked repeatedly whether he felt under pressure: “Do you feel pressure?” His conclusive answers to the question have become legendary.
"Pressure?
What is pressure
Pressure is when the world's poor try to feed their families.
That's pressure. ”Or cool and terse at a press conference in 2015 after his team Chelsea lost 3-1 to Everton:“ Pressure?
I think the refugees are under pressure, not us. "
Do I feel discriminated against? Many are now asking the question. And come to ever clearer answers. Surprisingly, little is said about discrimination in the supplier milieu or among cleaning companies and a lot about that in the political and media elite district and in high culture. The last stop was the express train in Nuremberg: Discrimination is when an aging director makes a black choir singer her horror of a pistol muzzle so clear in a scene: “It's like in Africa when a lion comes towards you , then you can't look away either. ”Is that discrimination? Mourinho would have a brief answer to that. What he actually wants to tell us in his cheeky way is: Don't wear the terms out like that.Do not stretch them excessively at every opportunity so that they can no longer grip at the crucial moment.
Negligent to cowardly
The official accusation against the seventy-six-year-old opera director Konwitschny, who has already thrown many aesthetic principles overboard in the name of a daily political morality, is that he expressed himself during the rehearsal "in a way that was perceived as discriminatory by those involved".
It is difficult to deny that the lion species is more common in Africa than anywhere else.
Whether the old left director could not have come up with another comparison to make it clear to a black (maybe German) singer that he wanted to see clear signs of surprise on her face remains to be seen.
How the management of the State Theater in Nuremberg ended the collaboration with him is negligent to cowardly.
The fact that the German city theater is now said to have been shaken by another racism scandal (at “Kulturzeit” Konwitschny was already sitting on the confessional and defending himself against the racism accusation in all seriousness with the reference to his Korean wife) is not only hysterical, it is unrealistic : The call to mindfulness in dealing with language must go in all directions: If you don't want to hear a lion roar, you shouldn't speak of denigration, if only cliché can be meant.