Tolerance price for intolerant actress
A famous Austrian actress received the tolerance price of the book trade for her “tolerance in thinking and acting.” But in her acceptance speech she declared that she is not tolerant to everything. She won’t show any tolerance to fundamentalism and Mr. Strache, the leader of the Freedom party, she said.
The actress continued that she is either not tolerant to factory farming, animal testing, too much profit acceleration, xenophobia, and if someone wants to cut a tree in her neighbourhood. If someone shows up with such kind of ideas, she is going to become a termagant, she confessed.
Viennas city councillor in charge of cultural affairs said that “she is a very special personality for that price.” Austrias culture secretary of the Socialdemocrats explained that “the principle for her life was the dialogue, and her road of life characterized by a permanent emancipation.”
The tolerance price of the Austrian book trade for thinking and acting exists since 1990. Previous prize winners are Milo Dor, Viktor Frankl, Inge Merkel, cardinal Franz König, Gerhard Roth, Simon Wiesenthal, Hugo Portisch, H. C. Artmann, Christine Nöstlinger, Sir Peter Ustinov, Josef Haslinger, Karl Markus Gauß, Ilse Aichinger, Konrad Paul Liessmann, Erich Hackl, Barbara Frischmuth, Klaus Wagenbach, Martin Pollack and Paul Lendvai.