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Wist Der Literaturladen , Potsdam

Carsten Wist made a profession from his passion: books – and he finds other lovers for them. His Book Shop is a delicatessen. And Carsten is a literature institution in Potsdam. He likes to wear PAROL scarves and he likes to give them to the authors after the readings in his rooms.
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Photo Session in Sanssouci – In Remembrance of hot summer days

We heartly thank the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg that we could portray the PAROL scarves with our wonderful team in the orangery and gardens of Sanssouci. Have you ten minutes for looking impressions of the very relaxed foto-shooting on  two  very hot summer days? Please, have a look
Photo Session 29th and 30th of [...]

Die Wahrheit ist immer konkret
Wladimir Iljitsch Lenin

PAROL was allowed to support KONKRET publishing in the campaign
PROLETARIES OF ALL COUNTRIES DRESS AND WARM UP
The scarf for the neck and books for the brains.
Revolutionaries must patiently be “fortiter in re suaviter in modo” as the old Romans have said, strong in the concern and pleasant in the sound. Dress and warm up [...]

Ne résistez pas! Don´t resist! go4cinema

German movies in the United States and United Kingdom are something exotic you don´t really exspect to see in your neighbourhood cinema, perhaps in channel 99. So you will probably not have the opportunity to enjoy this funny movie about a serious subject, the  never ending time of lab for educated young people who do [...]

Education to Poetry

“Education to poetry. One can print on T-shirts each with a line of the great poems of the world and challenge the weares to look for each other and to find together that their groups will add up to a full poem. ”
From: Botho Strauss´ new book “About Sojourn”. Translation by PAROL.  We are responsible [...]

Once more: Jenny Holzer and scarves with her “Truisms”

Source: Fondation Beyeler, Special Exhibition Jenny Holzer
Grand exhibition in and out a phantastic museum building. I was very glad to be invited by Mrs. Mühlebach to the opening of the exhibition. I had two excellent days in Basel.
PAROL realized in close cooperation with the Fondation Beyeler and Jenny Holzer the production of two scarves [...]

Scarves with “Truisms” from Jenny Holzer

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 [...]

German premiere of Michael Haneke´s movie “The white ribbon”

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 [...]

Back to the roots

The fundamental idea in autumn 2006 was to support the restoration of the monument “Winzerberg”, part of the park of Sanssouci, with a suitable product. The idea of a scarf “Sanssouci” war born. Then it was very obvious to design and produce more scarves with evergreen words and sentences knitted into. PAROL was established.
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