Playwrights played with parties in Serbia

Two young playwrights from Serbia, Maja Pelević and Milan Marković, after losing their jobs, embarked on an unusual experiment. Guided by the fact that membership in the party ensures their existence, they moved from party to party and joined each, writes the Croatian Jutarnji list.

They were welcomed everywhere with open arms, in the "left" LDP of Čedo Jovanović, as well as in the right DSS of Vojislav Koštunica, or SNS of Tomislav Nikolić.

Maja and Milan presented themselves to the parties with their true identity, and everywhere they immediately joined the party council for culture, and in several parties they were offered positions

Right-wingers have a warmer welcome

"We are welcomed somewhat more warmly in those right-wing, conservative parties, because they lack younger, urban and educated people, unlike, say, the Democratic Party, which has been in power for a long time and has enough personnel," says Maja Pelević.

Although young, they are already established: Maja performed the plays "Orange Peel", "Belgrade - Berlin", "Me or Someone Else", and Milan Marković's two plays "Cleaning the Idiot" and "Good Boy" were also staged in England. As playwrights, I cannot work because the theater in Belgrade's budget was cut in half this year.

"We wanted to get material evidence that as a member of the party you can have a job and function, and progress, everything you can't do in a regular way. Without the support of the party, you can't be an art director, not even a playwright," explains Maja Pelević.

She worked in a Belgrade theater for two years, but she was fired when the director who brought her was dismissed for political reasons. With the same biography, the same professional background, she would not have lost her job if she had been in a gang.

Maja and Milan presented themselves to the parties with their true identity, and everywhere they immediately entered the party council for culture, and in several parties they were offered positions.

Goebbels delighted the people from DSS

Only in the DSS did they ask them to send them a text in which they would present their ideological views, so they came up with the idea of ​​sending a text by Hitler's propagandist Joseph Goebbels. They downloaded Goebbels' 1929 speech "Knowledge and Propaganda" from the Internet and sent it to the DSS.

"That idea came to us like the icing on the cake! We changed the text a little, instead of Hitler we wrote the name of the party president Vojislav Koštunica, instead of National Socialism we would write democracy," reports Maja. They then sent the same text to the other six parties.

Everywhere they were delighted with the clear and strong ideas of their newly minted party colleagues. The LDP published that text under the title "Idea - strategy - movement" on its website. The action was abruptly stopped five days later when they saw that the LDP had removed the text from the website.

They don't know if someone in the LDP realized who was actually the author of the text, or if someone from Milan's and Maja's circle of friends tipped them off.