(106) Wolfgang Schneider: Gelferts response to his authorship question....

fatal] human inclination to conspiracy theories ..

Schneider's commentary reinforced his "deadlocked prejudice" rather than his "own critical point of view."

Hans-Dieter Gelfert                                                            Wolfgang Schneider

Wolfgang Schneider was interviewed  at the " Deutschlandradio Kultur broadcast "  on his review  of Hans-Dieter Gelfert's (left) new Shakespeare's book "Shakespeare in his time
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The moderator initially addressed  Gelfert's view on Shakespeare's authorship problem.

          Schneider expressed that  Gelfert "quite elegantly" scraped off all the candidates for the true Shakespeare. This is difficult to understand.

Consider that Gelfert wipes aside  a single of 2  Shakespeare candidates (Christopher Marlowe) in  the prologue of his book (under "Who wrote Shakespeare's works?")

With 5 "abstruse" arguments (→ for details, see Blog 77, 78, 79, 80 ), who testify that Gelfert can never even  have opened the book Mr Schneider seems to agree with Gelfert's opinion, who concludes by dismissing the whole Shakespeare speculation that this is based on the [fatal] human inclination to conspiracy theories ... (See the problem of this term see → Blog 15 and → Blog 50)

Schneider's commentary reinforced his "deadlocked prejudice" rather than his "own critical point of view."  It is not logical to dismiss Shakespeare's "world knowledge" (according to Gelfert) claiming a university education did not impart world knowledge at that time, nor to point out Thomas Mann's two-time "repetitions of school classes"   and his missing high school diploma (Abitur).

Obviously, the complex problem of the authorship question had soon to be silenced with a single [often-used] lethal anecdotal Injection ("Circumstantial Evidence") ....

And when Schneider follows Gelfert  that Shakespeare even went to an exquisite Latin school and lived in an "intellectually very stimulating city" [Stratford], he may well know that these sentences are not substantiated by any reliable source ...

It is not even proven whether Shakespeare ever attended a school.