Overview
- Tukur called digitalization “the most undignified” development he can imagine and described a sweeping societal shift he rejects.
- He argued that celebrating digitality paves the way for the “abolition of the human,” saying, “We will soon consist only of zeros and ones.”
- He criticized productions that consider follower counts in casting, calling the practice “horror” and “the destruction of art.”
- He said he feels fortunate not to depend on these structures anymore but described the outlook for younger colleagues as “bitter.”
- His remarks were carried by dpa and widely picked up on November 17, as he appears in cinemas with Anke Engelke in Dann passiert das Leben.