Architecture criticism in German

I was 15 years old on September 11, 2001. I didn't know what the World Trade Center even was, and that day was the first time I heard about Osama Bin Laden. Like everyone else, I sat in front of the television for hours. As a stupid RAF fan, I was convinced that the USA had to be attacked, but my gut feeling told me that this action was perhaps somehow too blatant. Meanwhile, my weed dealer popped a bottle of champagne because he had finally met the right people. Sure: Babylon burned. 

Wolfgang Joop, as a fashion designer not known for his taste, was a rigorous critic of capitalism: "I don't regret that the symbol of the Twin Towers no longer stands because they symbolized capitalist arrogance."

There were also stoners who didn't like the terrorist attacks; But they soon discovered who was really behind it. The two big bestsellers by Taz co-founder Mathias Bröckers are called “The Rediscovery of the Hemp Plant” and “Conspiracies, Conspiracy Theories and the Secrets of 9/11.” Other scholars also quickly found the right words from their point of view: for Peter Sloterdijk, 9/11 was “one of the most difficult to perceive small incidents” of the 20th century, Karlheinz Stockhausen recognized “the greatest work of art that has ever existed,” and the not unsympathetic Wiglaf Droste joked about “the birth of manned flying architecture criticism.” Another German thinker, Horst Mahler, simply called the attacks “right-wing.” Wolfgang Joop, as a fashion designer not known for his taste, was a rigorous critic of capitalism: "I don't regret that the symbol of the Twin Towers is no longer there because they symbolized capitalist arrogance." The rapper and alleged actor Massiv also followed a hot lead a few years later when he whispered the following: "On September 11, 2001, 4,000 Israelis did not show up for work at the World Trade Center." And so on and so on continued. 

25 years of 9/11, that also means: a quarter of a century of German madness. Joachim Rohloff and Henryk M. Broder (also men, of course) wrote entire chronicles about it at the time, and it's worth taking them out of the closet again. You forget so quickly.