Posted on 10/10/2017 8:23:21 AM PDT by cartan
Götz Kubitschek, a self-proclaimed “rightist intellectual,” lives in a medieval manor house in Schnellroda, a rural village in eastern Germany. From this isolated, antique outpost, Kubitschek, who is 47, wields considerable influence over far-right thinkers, activists and politicians across Germany, who make regular pilgrimages to Schnellroda for an audience with him. The manor serves as the headquarters for the magazine and publishing house that Kubitschek runs with his wife, the writer Ellen Kositza, and also for a rightist think tank, the plainly named Institute for State Policy, and a small organic farm where he raises rabbits and goats. Kubitschek calls himself a conservative, battling to preserve Germany’s “ethno-cultural identity,” which he says is threatened by immigration and the alienating effects of modernity. He identifies as part of the German “New Right,” which seeks to dissociate itself from the “old right,” which in Germany means Nazis. German political scientists, by contrast, classify the brand of thinking Kubitschek ascribes to as either an ideological “hinge” between conservatism and right-wing extremism, or as simply extremist — not vastly different, in other words, from the old right. Kubitschek, however, presents his views with a disarming, Teutonic idealism that recalls a Germany that long preceded the rise of Hitler. The German magazine Der Spiegel once referred to him as a “dark knight.”
It was in April that I first made the journey to Kubitschek’s stronghold. Schnellroda is in a rural part of what was once East Germany, and getting there involved taking a train though a murky river valley past villages dotted with medieval castles, Gothic churches and drab apartment complexes built during the Communist era. As the train chugged farther into the valley, the towns looked increasingly forlorn.
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It was interesting. However, now I want to see pictures of this manor of his.
Good example of well camouflaged bias. Reader is goaded towards hostility to the subject by means of carefully crafted language
Rittergut Schnellroda
RitterGut translates as noble estate
August Kubizek (basically the same name) was Hitler's (only?) friend in his younger days, but Kubizek got into the Conservatory and Hitler couldn't get into the Academy of Fine Arts.
You know the rest.
“It was in April that I first made the journey to Kubitschek’s stronghold. Schnellroda is in a rural part of what was once East Germany, and getting there involved taking a train though a murky river valley past villages dotted with medieval castles, Gothic churches and drab apartment complexes built during the Communist era. As the train chugged farther into the valley, the towns looked increasingly forlorn.”
With great prejudice and before even getting to any intellectual part of the report, the propagandist for Pravda on the Hudson tries to set the scene as “darkly” as possible, of course hoping that dark emotions will also great the intellectual part when they get to it.
That is typical of the very best writing for Pravda on the Hudson - very political editorials masquerading as mere news or “reports”.
Yes :-) Most articles about him in the German press are similar. Usually, the German press copies what is written in the NYT. This time, it is the other way around. Except that the German articles are typically more openly negative.
“Götz Kubitschek...Ellen Kositza”
Two people - with last names that don’t sound all that German - who want to keep Germany German. Why, how dare they!
“Kubitschek”? Is her a Sorbian German? That’s isn’t a Germanic name.
Well, if he's opposed to further muslim integration, I'd give him a point there, as the nazis thought they had a great deal to offer...outside Germany anyway.
What does he think of Jews?
What does he think of Jews?Not much, I think. I have never heard him say anything antisemitic, nor read anything like that in his magazine. Antisemitism is taboo in New Right circles. If you notice an antisemite anywhere, you can be sure it is just an old-style neonazi. These people are not welcome there.
That website also mentions Silesia which is a bit further East.
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