Wenn wir einmal nicht grausam sind, dann meinen wir gleich wir seien gut

If we are not cruel for once,
then we immediately think we are good
A journey through time with Kurt Tucholsky
Sung, spoken and acted by Robert Stadlober
Everything is getting worse and worse, it's worse than ever before, such bad times, it's
hardly bearable. This or something similar can be heard from every nook and cranny. And bad
times are bad, no question, but have they ever really been better? Is it not
isn't it rather the case that the whole mess repeats itself over and over again? In faster
circles perhaps, but basically always the same? And do we perhaps simply lack
the broad perspective to recognize these constantly swirling messy circles as such in order to
to finally change their trajectory or even interrupt their gyrations?
even interrupt their gyrations? This is where literature can often help, and even more often music. In our
Kurt Tucholsky's thoughts on the course of time and the melodies that Robert
Stadlober has captured from the chaos of the spinning top and superimposed on Tucholsky's
old reflections. It is about the impossibilities of human interaction. In
matters of love and hate, the senselessness of violence and the hopelessness of politics.
hopelessness of politics that seeks to communicate itself through violence. It is about the longing
for a kind of real life and about the perpetual struggle of the many for a small
piece of the whole. And Robert Stadlober sings, speaks and reminds us that so much has not changed
that so much has not changed since Kurt Tucholsky said: "If we are not cruel for once,
then we immediately think we are good. Certainly, our times are not really worse, but
they are certainly not better either