"All a Riesenwundertüte."

Markus Kavka is MTV presenter and well twice as old as its target audience. As a grandfather of music television, he still does not and would not like to even 20 years younger - an interview about growing up.

 

blogs: Mr. Kavka, you are now 41 years old and still moderate at music channel MTV, whose target audience, on average, half as old as you. What's wrong?

MTV
Moderator Kavka

Kavka: (laughs) nothing wrong, I'm just still so young! I never had the momentum on my job to make a change. It is not true that I am the program itself is no longer watch or the audience and their needs grow'm totally. Still, I feel not as a grandfather of music television.

blogs: In your book you describe yourself as "kidult" which is a mixture of "kid" and "adult". In major German cities are professional young people like you long since become a mass phenomenon. Why refuse to recognize more and more people over 40, their lifestyle was up?

Kavka: First major cities provide the perfect breeding ground for this: The entertainment is great, you can expect a lot, all sorts of jobs and has received no firm commitments. That is different than in the countryside, where they will be settled much earlier. Basically, everything in my generation backwards, because of the training periods, internships, travel - you eiert long way to go, someday will be a habit, and it is increasingly afraid of it, take responsibility.

blogs: Do you feel at all grown up?

Kavka: A little bit of what is missing as yet, although I did not say exactly what that is. Adulthood I connect with an inner calm, but I'm still pushing for anything. On good days, I would simply call curiosity. But on bad days I can about despair, not knowing where I was going.

blogs: Her brother, three years younger than you, is married with a baby and lives in a house near Ingolstadt, near the place where you grew up. Is there something about what it envy?

Kavka: Basically, I envy him for the fixed sizes in his life. So exciting and entertaining is my life, I naturally surrounds a permanent insecurity. I work in an industry where there are hardly any permanent jobs, and also my private environment is quite volatile. For me it is all a Riesenwundertüte. Sometimes I would like to have more predictability in my life wish. This ground is probably only one child. At the baptism of my niece, I thought, gosh, would I be happy.

blogs: Would you be happy again twenty years younger?

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Kavka: Nope. I can still well in the time out early twenties. That was fun and exciting, but also quite confusing, as Landei in the city of Nuremberg. I am glad that I have behind me. Now I am in the track, now I know how life works.

blogs: In your book you love from your youth, of mixtapes and painting at the young farmers next door. Sounds like a "Before, everything was better."

Kavka: ewiggestrig So I'm not. I do not belong to the people, the youth of today like passivity, political apathy and a lack of creativity in leisure accused. This is all nonsense. Sure, in the seventies, there was punk, and in the eighties have demonstrated against nuclear power. These youth movements were also very present in public. But this overlooks one would like that in the nineties, the ultimate revolution has happened, namely the invention of the Internet. The kids are all gone online and have practically the whole world upside down. That's why I envy this generation.