The continued success of the (or even "the") best-selling non-fiction books of recent decades evokes envy and resentment, especially with representatives of the writer's guild. When SPIEGEL the writing of the book is reinterpreted as "accident", and the publisher and of course the 1.2 million readers benörgelt and criticized it in retrospect. In humorless, korinthenköttelnder manner the Jan Fleischhauer (worried . Issue 51/2011, page 40 ff ): "To tell the story of a monster between book covers, which has overwhelmed all - the author, critic and certainly the publisher, the it sat vacant. "
Jan Fleischhauer. Sarrazin book - "fatal accident" (Image Source: Wikimedia Commons)
Fleischhauer draws a lamentable Portrait of boss DVA (German publishing house), Thomas Rathnow, the success of the book "Germany abolishes itself" completely surprised, yes drawn. "He does not want to publicly distance himself from the author who will get him so much money that he can finance it badly salable books. But he did not also manages to defend the text correctly. "
Stupid for the mirror that the DVA-chief makes the pudding and can not be nailed to the wall. Is it really not necessary according to the sales figures. Fleischhauer complains Rathnows interview refusal and his reluctance to distance himself from his own best-selling author. If the mirror asking someone for public self-flagellation and self-blame, but you have to make manfully as the publisher chief desire result is Fleischhauer was thinking. If not, well, it must act, "the tale of a fateful coincidence" If the book is about. Yeah, but yet, and now the mirror history of improper compassion begins to drip: "A handle, a life long dream of other publishers and [Rathnow] now robs him of sleep. A lecturer Sarrazin had seen on a talk show and draufhin written, if you would not even talk. No one could have guessed what will happen, says Rathnow exhausted. The name of the colleagues he would not call the man does not want to even find in the press better. "
The publisher had actually wanted a text about the German welfare state. "From foreigners had never been mentioned at the beginning, says the publisher" ... And so the Erschröcklichkeiten took their fateful course.
The interviewer, a closeted chief prosecutor, the interviewee missing any stuff to the resistance fighters, who comes to compassion, unexpectedly associated to two wimps in limbo that can not go! (more ...)
