Why independent bookshops strike fear in the heart of Germany’s culture tsar | Fatma Aydemir

Why independent bookshops strike fear in the heart of Germany’s culture tsar | Fatma Aydemir

First he came for Berlin’s film festival. Now it’s books. Wolfram Weimer seems to be on a mission to curb progressive thinking There is a particular kind of danger that smells like paper and dust. You find it in independent bookshops. Those with uneven wooden floors and handwritten staff recommendations, where someone has shelved Audre Lorde next to Karl Marx and a debut novelist from Neukölln. Places where no algorithm is trying to guess who you are before you have the chance to change your ...

By Fatma Aydemir