About a Tragic-Comic Paradox

Monthly thoughts on society, politics, culture and art. Bayreuth, Ring, state ceremony, tuxedo and evening dresses: ‘Ruhe, Ruhe Du Gott!’ — Brünhilde calls out to the king of the gods Wotan in her final song, and she lights the apocalyptic fire. Valhalla, the abode of the gods, burns. But the myth does not tell of the end of the world, but of the declining world of the gods, on whose ruins a new world arises …