a few days ago, i spoke with tina and now i got it ready finally. (it’s not bad to do an interview, it’s not bad to translate or type it. the worst thing about it, is listening to the interview about 20 times to understand it fully and write it down per hand.)
so, let’s get started:
lahja: now i’m talking with a very ,very old friend and former school collegue, tina.
tina, you are sick what do you think about the university protests? you can’t be there live at the moment, but what do you think about it in general? what would you do, if you could (go outside, etc.)?
tina: yeah, i notice this via live-streams and with help of videos in internet, which are online and on the one hand i think it is very infantile, like p.e. someone shouted at gabi burgstaller (governor of salzburg) and the rector with a megaphone during a speech at audimax.
students were booing and running to the podium with a megaphone and then shouted and making a tumult and the one girl in front of the rector and burgstaller, who shouted at the two – or i think they were even three – this is in my view not necessary. perhaps this was a bit overreacted, but it seems there is sadly no other way.
because i read our demands, and they exist since ages, but if you don’t demonstrate or doing marches, there seems to be no changes. so, it is infantile, it is maybe overreacted but sadly it’s necessary.
lahja: so, would you say, that the austrian politicians are like a kindergarden? because they are only reacting on infantile actions, really tough instruments and signs of public?
tina: yes, sadly. but you can see, there is no other way. but about the demands themselves: some of them are utopic – i think – and the thing with tution fee.
when i started studying, the tution fee was etablished and now it’s gone and i think until i’m finished this changes about another three times, but i’m sure there will come a new tution fee. at least with next change of regime.
lahja: and when we are talking about government, state and politics, how did you think about the handling of the whole situation by minister of science hahn?
tina: i have to confess, i didn’t go after this.
lahja: okay. in my view he somehow helped us with our protests, because he said the occupation of audimax vienna is only a local problem. of course the people were annoyed about this, because principally these tiny words worked like dropping a stone into water.
tina: well, probably with this statement the whole thing expanded and now it’s a national problem. (laughing)
lahja: and what are you doing at weekend, when you’re feeling better? are you having a look at university or are you going to cure yourself better. because you’ve been quite affected by your disease?
tina: so, i have to work beside university and i’m going to save my energy for this.
lahja: so we have a perfect exemple, that students are not only studying, do nothing or hanging around in front of the tv, but also that students are going to work, although they are studying. why do you have a job?
tina: well, because you simply have more money for living and i don’t want to be dependent on my parent. not even during my studies for 100%.
lahja: thank you, dear tina, for this nice interview.
tina: you are welcome.
so, as you can see, students are working. korbi, my former interview partner, as well. and me too.
we need the money, we want money and we don’t want to be dependent on our parents.
yesterday i had to decide university or working. i decided to do the job. because in this world there is not so much space for idalism, only for money. and that’s a bitter fact.
i’m not fully against capitalism, because it would work great, if there wouldn’t be sooo many people, who are unbelieveable greedy.
at university are some students or non-students, who want to use this protest to stop the whole capitalism-system. i’m not at their side. i only want the governament to spend more money for the universities, i’m against the whole bologna-system and i want it to be possible that everyone, who wants can study what he/she likes. without having the problem of not understanding the prof or having no place inside the audition room.
that’s what i’m for. and this is my reason to support “uni brennt”
