Till Brönner criticizes the current lack of support for the event and music industry – and is widely praised for it.
Trumpeter Till Brönner (49) has put his frustration out of his mind: The Jasszmusiker has the dire situation of the event and in a six-minute clip, which he published on Instagram and Facebook, before the decision on a new lockdown on Wednesday evening Summarized culture industry. "After a long time I decided to speak up about the current Corona situation in my industry. I am honest and do not expect applause from every corner," he wrote about his postings.
"I'm pretty pissed off. For months now, I have not only watched an entire industry being paralyzed, but also experience how conspicuously restrained and almost overcautious stage artists express themselves about this misery even after eight months, although their very existence is at stake ", Brönner begins his video. The reluctance from their own ranks was fatal, said the musician. It is not about self-actualizers who are offended in their vanity, but "about money, a lot of money." 1.5 million people are active in the culture and events industry.
It was scandalous to see what "unreal spectacle we are currently witnessing. The fact that the economy was reflexively divided into systemically relevant and systemically irrelevant professions was first seen as a precautionary measure. Then came the summer …" Many people from his environment, sound engineers, Lighting technicians or club owners told him about their livelihood problems, whose livelihoods were turned off overnight.
"We all want to protect ourselves from this damn virus, but if an entire professional branch is forced by law to stop its work to protect the general public, then the general public must ensure that the people are still there after Corona," said the musician. "It's not a luxury problem, it's a core problem." One cannot "throw billions into the front yard" of corporations, fob off cultural people with Hartz IV and at the same time repeatedly call oneself the "land of poets and thinkers". The Ministry of Economics, Labor and Finance is now required to provide the appropriate help, says Brönner.
Colleagues support his video
The video has already been shared over 50,000 times on Facebook and over a million times on Instagram. Numerous musician colleagues congratulated Brönner on his video and praised him for his clear appeal. "Thank you", writes Nico Santos (27) about the video on Instagram. "Thank you Till for this really good and important statement," added Maximilian Arland (39). But stars from other industries such as TV chef Frank Rosin ("Dear Till, very impressive"), ex-boxer Regina Halmich ("True words!") Or actress Anja Kling ("Super Till, this is how it looks") can be found supportive words on Instagram.