Günter Grass brings “obligation quartering” in the play

Hamburg - the remark fell rather in a subordinate clause, has it however in itself: With a Hamburg event of the German PEN section on the occasion of the 90-year old existence of the author combination the writer Günter Grass compared the today's refugee situation with after the Second World War. It hold, should it emergencies with the accommodation of refugees give, also today for “obligation quartering” for an option.

Before Grass with his writer colleagues Christoph Hein and Josef Haslinger with clear words the failure of the rich countries had denounced in view of many refugees drowned in the Mediterranean and a “policy of the bulkheading” had criticized.

The west disappointed 1989 in Eastern Europe after the peaceful revolution including fall of the wall in the GDR hopes for an end of the block thinking and an overcoming of the north south conflict, the contrast of arm and realm, said Hein. In a call the authors the “fortress and called in at the same time the humanitarian obligation castigated Europe” to protect and for them future prospects make possible humans. Where Grass sees in principle quite helping readiness with the Germans, it is thereby often not all too far ago, as citizen protests show against asylum-seekers' hostels in several German cities.

The success of the engagement of intellectuals and writers like grass but not faith: media and politics Autorenproteste took far too little true. He reminded us of the call of 30 writers including Ilija Trojanow or Juli Zeh, and 70,000 other signatories in the autumn 2013 the United States against the Spahangriffe. Toe requested at that time Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) to a conversation. Grass: "Until today, Juli Zeh received no reply. If I decades young, I wouldn't have a tent set up in front of the Chancellor's Office, until a reply would be."