Productive Discord: Schlingensief, Adorno, and 'Freakstars 3000'

Abstract

In an interview with Alexander Kluge conducted in 2001, Christoph Schlingensief reflects on the degree to which he is often perceived as a prankster: someone who just likes to have fun and who cannot, as a result. be taken very seriously. I In another context, and presumably in reaction to" this negative portrait generated by the media, Schlingensief discusses the critical, one-dimensional conception of fun that underpins such criticism of his work: