Dienstag, Oktober 20, 2009
Arthur Rimbaud is a paramount erratic block in the history of literature. He has written his oeuvere in teenage and has stopped writing in the age of 21 years. Afterwards he was travelling mostly by foot and finally settling in Aden as commercial agent dealing with coffee and weapons. Rimbaud was the exemplarily P0ète maudit, [...]
This was a challenge that amused and enjoyed us a lot.
Jenny Holzer is surely one of the most important contemporary artists . Her oeuvre was already presented in many grand art institutions, museums, expositions, for example Guggenheim, New York, Centre Pompidou, Paris, in the American Pavillion of the Venice Biennale.
The probably most famous work of [...]
Freitag, Oktober 16, 2009
Today Oscar Wilde could celebrate the 155th birthday. Cheers! Oscar Wilde is still a synonym for ingenious and ready witted style, l´art pour l´art. Perhaps thus many of his sentences remain forever young, modern and to the point. Like the Bible Oscar Wilde is an unfailing source of knowledge and wisdom. The British director Stephen [...]
Donnerstag, Oktober 15, 2009
Our friend Jürgen Hohmuth circumnavigated Kap Hoorn. Unfortunately in a calm without the very picturesque and dreaded hurricanes. Jürgen Hohmuth is the founder and owner of the photo agency ZEITORT. ZEITORT uses a zeppelin for air shot with low altitudes up to 100 metres. Pictures taken with this method give an unique spatial impression. One [...]
Donnerstag, Oktober 15, 2009
Virgil – bust of the young Virgil before his tomb in Naples
As recently as 21th September we have remembered the day of death of the Great Roman Poet. Dante Alighieri and Sigmund Freud have choosen him as tutor and guide for the descend into their underworlds. Is there anybody within living memory you can trust [...]
Samstag, Oktober 10, 2009
Today many people will celebrate Edith Piaf laying beautiful flowers on her tomb at Cimetière Père Lachaise in Paris. She will be unforgettable. Her art and her singing was a hymn to life from a woman who didn´t live on the sunny side of the street.
“Non! Rien de rien …
Non! Je ne regrette rien …
Ni [...]
The Palme d’Or of the 2009 Festival de Cannes was awarded to Michael Haneke for The White Ribbon – A German Children´s Story. At the German premiere in Berlin one of the actors Levin Henning (left) with mother and oder brother. The three ar wearing the Oscar-Wild-Scarf “I can resist everything withour temptation” in the [...]
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Berlin is like Merle wrote today at Day of German Unity in her declaration of love to the capital city
“Berlin is the only German city which is keeping what the city marketing is promising: to be a capital of emotions … A place for manic-depressive people. A metropolis of big emotional fluctuations … Because Berlin [...]
