Nestroy Award winner Felix Hafner, the author Marie Luise Lehner and Stefan Mendl, two-time Echo Klassik Award winner, talk about the significance of criticism for society.

Just where the term comes from etymologically, how artists deal with criticism, and why music criticism often devolves into mere music journalism.

May we permit ourselves to reject criticism? And would, absent criticism, the endeavours of art, music, and literature lose their social functions?

Objectivity, Crisis and Ratings, Praise and Derision.