Daniel Carinsson

Do you remember? 2008? The incantations? "Never again," they said, over and over. "Never again shall and never again will losses be socialized and profits privatized." That should have been the great lesson learned from the financial crisis. The grand promise....

Race riots, the USA at the top of the Corona victim lists, military operations against its own civilian population and with every mad tweet we stare at Donald Trump again and again. But do we actually have our eyes on the right person? Sure, the president has the responsibility. But is he really responsible when the USA staggers into chaos and towards autocracy? Some pressing questions... I had barely turned 18 and only recently got my driving license when I was on my way to a concert with my first car and two friends on board. The father of the two was also with us, as they were not yet of legal age. But of course, I was driving - proudly. Eventually we got endlessly stuck on a country road behind a tractor. Constantly cars were coming towards us and if not, the road would make a bend. As a beginner I stayed well-behaved behind the chugging vehicle. But finally, the father of my friends, looking back at the queue that had formed behind us, said to me: "You're holding up...

When I was watching the final part of 'Hunger Games' a couple of years ago, I was thinking by myself, well, it will  be just like that one day. Just that we - the White, the European, the self-acclaimed 'first world' - are not Katniss. We're not District 12. We are all President Snow. We are all the Capitol. And we will lose everything. And when we lose, we lose rightfully. Sadly it seems that I was right.

When the Corona crisis is over, everyone will come back out of their holes. Concerned citizens, those in government and even those not in government shake their heads and agree on one thing: "It was very bad that during the crisis we were so dependent on foreign countries for systemically important goods such as protective masks and respirators. This must not happen again, we must become self-sufficient."

We are quite proud! Although we had to cancel the annual CRIMINALE - the biggest German-language crime festival - and the big GLAUSER-AWARD gala due to the Corona crisis, my colleagues of the SYNDIKAT and I managed to produce a 90-minute show in just two weeks and in a decentralized way that is really woth seeing.

Lesung im Turm aus der CRIMINALE Anthologie 2019 "Mord im Dreiländereck"

Like almost all live events around the globe, unfortunately all my current readings had to be cancelled too. Of course, it is particularly unfortunate that we lost SYNDIKAT's   CRIMINALE 2020 in Hannover, which again would have been a great experience with over 250 participating authors. Stay tuned! As soon as the fog begins to lift, you can find the latest dates here.