Critique after performance of rapper Massiv in RamallahBerlin (dpa) - The performance of the rapper Massiv from Berlin in the palestinian Ramallah on thursday caused critique.
The FDP-member of parliament Markus Löning criticized in Berlin the Goethe-Institution as supporter of the performance, because the rapper glorifies violence in his songs ("The mostwanted boy, who shoots you bullets in the chest"). It is a mystery to me, how the Goethe-Institution could get the idea, to support the performances of such a rapper with gouvernment money in this region that is ripped apart because of violence, meant the the speaker for policy for Europe of the FDP-parliament-fraction in a press-release.
The president of the Goethe-institution, Klaus-Dieter Lehmann, thinks about the performance very critical too. The rapper performed, within a Hip-Hop-Tour in Palestine, in Ramallah too. The concert was supported by the Frech, British and Danish culture-institution, the Goethe-Institution, the legate-office Ramallah and the general-consul of Great-Britain. Both on the website and through the stage setting was the aspects of comprose and dialogue addressed, underlined Lehmann.
Anyhow, I see the performance of the rapper Massiv very critical, said Lehmann on thursday to the German-Press-Agency dpa. Some of his texts are not free of violence. The Goethe institution aims with his work against violence and the readiness to commit violence and it stands for partnership and readiness to diaslogue. Not the provocation, but the partnership is its basis. The Goethe-institution is well counseled if it will be more critical in the choice of those performances.
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About the Goethe-Institute:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goethe-InstitutEither the president of the Goethe institution doesn't know what his employees are doing, or he is caught in the act and tries to whitewash them.
Massiv is more evil, than the short report is showing. He is an evil Islamofacist.
PI wrote an article about this issue. (
http://www.pi-news.net/2008/11/goethe-institut-unterstuetzt-gewalt-rapper)
"I am able to understand that it is a walk on a thin line to invite Massiv" said the leader of the Goethe Institution in Ramallah, Farid Majdschari. But those kids and youths here are not able to understand another language, via a Jasmin Wagner it is not possible to get contact to them. Via Massiv already."
This guy should be the better choice to relax the situation in this conflict area as the former techno-teen "Blümchen", this is for many spectators difficult to understand in the face of texts like this: "You will be encased in a white cloth. This is the honorable death. Look how Allah calls you up to heaven. This young man died for his fatherland."
For any questions here is Massiv's homepage: http://massiv.sonybmg.de