SALINE GRACE on women in ruins and the tree of knowledge.

Automatic translation. Improvements are constantly being worked on.

In our May/June issue, we talk to Ricardo Hoffmann about the new Saline Grace album“Tree of Knowledge”, which will be released on May 18, 2026. We discuss the thought-provoking piece “Raven Berta”: “I see more and more impoverished pensioners on the streets of Berlin, collecting bottles and drawing social welfare to supplement their pensions. It was those people, especially widowed women, who rebuilt Germany from the rubble and who got the economy going after the Second World War through very hard work. These people are now generalized as Nazis or denigrated as ‘environmental saps’ in the public media. The Second World War burned because of many factors, but not because all the citizens of Germany at the time were Nazis. This is terribly inculcated in today’s youth, but it is gross nonsense. Nobody wants war. To look at the big picture, you would have to start with the Treaty of Versailles, but that would be going too far … In fact, the current policy has plundered the pension funds in large sums, the economy is being driven completely to the wall, but salaries are being increased. Germans are expected to work more and longer. Ultimately, this only serves to divert attention from the lack of funds and to shift spending to the welfare pot. It’s a disgrace!”

This resentment is wrapped up in a poetic melancholy that is second to none. In addition to socio-political themes, Ricardo also deals with the inner self and is always thought-provoking.