Minute of silence in ARD talk show – unbearable silence in Jauch – Süddeutsche.de

60 seconds sadness and introspection? Too short, one would think. The forced minute’s silence at the Jauch-Talk proves otherwise. Silence affects us – whether we like it or not.

From Johanna Bruckner

It is not as if a “Günther Jauch” show no own dramaturgy. The dialogue in the audience with a guest who for any reason whatsoever found no place on the podium, is an integral part of the talks. Usually it is then human touch. Also on this Sunday evening, when it comes to “The refugee crisis! What is our duty?”, The camera zoomed intimitätsheischend after an hour on the moderator and a man in a blue hooded sweatshirt.

Harald Hoeppner, so did the audience from the singleplayer shown above, is one that not only watching and echauffiert when drowning in the Mediterranean hundreds of thousands of people. Harald Hoeppner, initiator of the small private Seerettungsmission Sea Watch is a man of action. He was invited as a counterpart to the word oscillators in the chair round, but the role of the smiling and good questions unanswerable guest he was not satisfied. Hoeppner got up, walked to the podium and called in the middle of the live recording a minute’s silence for the refugees perished. As the visibly by surprise presenter wanted to stop him, he was rebuked in his own studio, “Mr. Jauch, Germany should have one minute to remember these people.”

After that, no one wanted to escape the prescribed memorial measure and so there was silence. For 60 seconds. Lang? Is 60 seconds is not much too short for mourning and contemplation? How much reflection is possible in 60 seconds can argue fiercely about a subject about which politicians, human rights activists, talk show guests for months? And – this impression will be stuck with some of the viewers: Was the whole thing in the end not to get rid of as an attention-coup of activists, who seemed more interested in the course of the show’s sometimes confused agenda, as engage constructively to the conversation ( which is certainly not just blame him)?

Pain can not put a silence

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The answer to these questions must of course be: No, 60 seconds, the suffering of the people, who are commemorated, of course, not fair. Pain can not be measured with silence. And, of course, is 60 seconds is not enough time to mourn and reflect. The minute of silence still works – and in the best case more than one minute

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you could also get into the Jauch-shipment to this finding. There the camera held only on the disordered standing small groups on the podium with an amused acting ex-Interior Minister Friedrich and a thread-friendly Jauch, then click the neatly lined studio audience, then went up close to the serious expression of SZ journalist Heribert Prantl. The cameraman – and some guests – did obviously not quite know what to do with those 60 seconds in which nothing happened

So morally charged a minute’s silence is, in the end it is not so much around thinking, as. Rather Feel killed. And it is not even supposedly noble feelings which can take a while you stand in silence. But discomfort. How should we look, what to do with your hands? Curiosity. How do the other? Who moist eyes? Amusement. Is not the whole thing just ridiculous, all these bedröppelt-looking people around you? Shame. Why is not taken at this very moment? Helplessness. Why the tears come a sudden, at this very moment

The world does not revolve on, at least for a moment

One thing is certain: The silence affects us. Because we are not used to. Stagnation is a state of emergency for us. And so the minute’s silence brings us actually all those close who lost Members on the Mediterranean Sea, in the German Wings machine or the attack on Charlie Hebdo. For their world has stopped. And for which there may be a comfort when the rest of the world no longer revolves, at least for a moment

The British poet WH Auden expressed this sentiment in his “Funeral Blues” (1936) as:.

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,

Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone.

Silence the pianos (…)

The stars are not wanted now, put out every one;

Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;

Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood.

For nothing now can ever come to any good.

The poem is in the film “Four Weddings and a Funeral “(1994) presented at a funeral. It is there a stylistic device, as of course, the silence can be one – to selectively generate emotions. Film of the late lead actor Paul Walker thought; For example, in the credits of the recent “Furious Fast & amp”. Since then appears after all the noise that the massive destruction of cars and buildings so brings with it a white screen with black lettering: “For Paul”. Accompanied with silence.

This has all the more so because it is surprising. Just as a minute of silence in a talk show surprising. But she has now made a difference? At least moderator Günther Jauch held so much silence obviously not enough: “You do not look at the clock,” he whispered to Harald Hoeppner. 60 seconds may just be very long

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