With money comes some kind of responsibility: Hoefner Volksblatt and Marchanzeiger

In her own words, Kim de l’Horizon can afford more after the book award and the success of the novel “Blood Book”. “I’ve always lived below subsistence level before and suddenly I can afford things like ordering food, even if I don’t want to live there on a large scale,” says de l’Horizon, according to 3sat in a contribution to the magazine “Kulturzeit” next week. Successes and recognitions therefore give the feeling of having “arrived suddenly in this society, but still having to ask myself: how do I deal with it? I believe that with money, even with little money, comes a certain amount of responsibility. What to buy, where to buy, etc. If you don’t have any money, you always buy the cheapest, partly out of necessity».

Kim de l’Horizon comes from Switzerland and considers himself neither man nor woman. According to 3sat, de l’Horizon says of the global political situation: “I now perceive our society in such a way that almost everything we do is actually motivated by fear, even on a purely political level.” E: «I think we are all shaped by violence, not only by macro-violence, but also by micro-violence. Through very small experiences that have always given us the feeling of not being enough. That’s not enough. That there is too little food, water, energy on earth. And these are actually fictions, these shortage narratives. If you look at the food and nutrition crisis, for example, there would actually be enough food, “but there is a shortage due to political machinations”.

In the 3sat “Kulturzeit”, in the series “Ausblicke – Künstler*innen über ihr 2023” from Monday to Friday (from 9 to 13 January, from 19:20), creative artists look back on the past and give a glimpse into what they are making hope – in addition to Kim de l’Horizon, for example, Bibiana Beglau and Caroline Peters.

3sat is a television program of ZDF, ORF, SRG and ARD.