{"id":89530,"date":"2016-03-09T18:11:07","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T02:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=89530"},"modified":"2016-03-09T18:11:07","modified_gmt":"2016-03-10T02:11:07","slug":"play-about-a-french-muslim-president-hits-nerve-in-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=89530","title":{"rendered":"Play about a French Muslim president hits nerve in Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.afp.com\/en\/news\/play-about-french-muslim-president-hits-nerve-germany\">09 Mar 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stage adaptations of French author Michel Houellebecq\u2019s novel \u201cSubmission\u201d, in which a Muslim president takes power in 2022 France, have been a hit in Germany where a huge Mideast refugee influx has stoked fears of the impact of Islamic culture.<\/p>\n<p>The first German theatre version sold out in the northern city of Hamburg, while in Dresden, birthplace of the Islamophobic PEGIDA street movement, a play premiered last weekend, with a third adaptation planned for Berlin in late April.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt seems like it\u2019s a very timely story because everybody, each in their own way, picks up on a point of the topic that concerns them,\u201d actor Edgar Selge, who plays the central character Francois in Hamburg\u2019s Deutsches Schauspielhaus theatre, told AFP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>09 Mar 2016 Stage adaptations of French author Michel Houellebecq\u2019s novel \u201cSubmission\u201d, in which a Muslim president takes power in 2022 France, have been a hit in Germany where a huge Mideast refugee influx has stoked fears of the impact &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=89530\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13633,139],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-germany","category-islam"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89531,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89530\/revisions\/89531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}