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For the eighth time the price of literaturhaus.net and networked homes Literature is awarded. This year it receives the writer Ilija Trojanov. The work Trojanow from novels ("The Collector of Worlds"), travel reports, anthologies and essays ("The unleashed globe") is a unique way from the cultures of the world. We met him in Cologne, and spoke with him about the thesis of the "clash of civilizations", the importance of tourism murukku machine for the culture, the myth of the "Judeo-Christian tradition" murukku machine of Europe and on current conflicts in Africa, such as the Darfur conflict and the pirate problem off Somalia.
You just won the Prize of the Literature Houses 2009. In the jury her work to date is referred to as a "unique collection of examples and models of the meeting of cultures", "does not take place under the sign of struggle." In the media, murukku machine you always hear instead only the mantra of the "clash of civilizations." You were born in Bulgaria, grew up in Germany and Africa, and have lived for several years in India. How do you feel about this theory of the "clash of civilizations", as someone who has experienced different cultures and religions immediately?
Ilija Trojanov: I believe that the thesis is not interesting, murukku machine because someone may itself with a very superficial knowledge of history refute this thesis. It is interesting why the thesis is flogged repeatedly public, that is, we must inquire into the reasons why certain murukku machine stakeholder groups, including many people stop positions of power, exploit this thesis, use these keywords, and what serves for interests. This question can, I think, not very easy to answer. There are the so-called "war on terror" that is, there is a "war on terror", which is unique in the history of mankind, because he has not been explained, because he can not be completed murukku machine because it is not clearly defined opponent, that is actually the prototype of the perfect war, because you can hernehmen him for absolutely everything. We see this even now again. Suddenly includes "war on terror" Somali pirates, who really have nothing to do with areas in northern Pakistan yes. It's actually a rhetorical tool to aggressively enforce all its own positions of power in the age of globalization. Any such power expansion required course in the cultural arenas a corresponding cultural rhetoric. Since it is so that it is shocking to me how many so-called intellectuals take this rhetoric without added look more closely, without question, murukku machine without informing about the others, about the stranger. That means these days especially, the Islamic world is superficially judged in a way that none of these intellectuals would afford it would go to a neighboring European country.
In your book "Kampfabsage" that you have written with the Indian poet Ranjit Hoskote together, it is said that the West was not only characterized by its Judeo-Christian tradition. In what other stamping or embossing They point out here?
Ilija Trojanov: You have to say first, we have only reiterate what really surprisingly few people know that this word alone of the "Judeo-Christian murukku machine tradition" is very very new. The only arose after the Second World War. Previously, he was the exact opposite prevailing opinion. No one would have come up with the idea to talk about the similarities between Jews and Christians, but for centuries were the differences in focus. Exactly that's the point. Considering the different spheres of culture from the perspective of the difference murukku machine or similarity? Of course you can always murukku machine find differences, and one can on the basis of differences then also justify aggression, paranoia, and war. But you look at the similarities, so there is unzähl