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Immediate Demolition of Venice!


June 23, 2010

To be honest, i don’t get what that lead architect there is saying? It strikes me as a canard. Nazis and communists have one thing in common, they always have to annihilate something to make room for themselves. They’ll rebuild the palace of the republic, too, in a few years, and some day they’ll build that disney imbecility the city palace as well, and then there will be an ordinance some day that we citizens of the federal republic have to run around in historic costumes. There is no limit to the architectonic imbecility in germany. Why does the lead architect, whom no one had ever heard of before, call for the demolition of postdamer platz. I might agree with that. That stuff is already totally stupid as it is. They could build a part of the unbuilt city palace on the site of the pavilion that’s to be demolished. To try it out! But seriously, why not just expand the building? The cupola on the Reichstag was not a bad idea. So: alter the building, but don’t raze the whole thing. What a self-important proposal? Just because the foreign ministry owns the site? (Gifted by mousolini.) That’s why we can demolish it, and the others have to keep living with their little gingerbread houses? Why not just demolish venice and paste germany over it? Because we don’t want to keep thinking anymore, just want to come to a cheap conclusion of some kind, we prefer to bulldoze everything … Well if that’s what the history books will later keep saying is a german specialty, i herewith demand the immediate deposition of the german lead architect, even if no one ever knew there was a single person behind all this german urban-planning bullshit. At least it’s a small step forward. Come on, let’s visit him at home. Architecture imbecility has a name! Christoph schlingensief



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The artist Christoph Schlingensief

“The artist Christoph Schlingensief” recently published by the Praesens Verlag.
(ISBN 978-3-7069-0592-3)

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Presentation of the Golden Lion Award

from left to right Aino Laberenz, Dr. Susanne Gaensheimer and Giorgio Orsoni, Photo: (c) Roman Mensing, artdoc.de

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Schlingensief’s opera village in Africa: A “Conversation” at the German Pavilion

Dr. Katharina von Ruckteschell-Katte, Francis Kéré, Aino Laberenz, Chris Dercon, Simon Njami und Susanne Gaensheimer
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Dr Katharina von Ruckteschell-Katte, Francis Kéré, Aino Laberenz, Chris Dercon, Simon Njami and Susanne Gaensheimer

Conversation at  the German Pavilion, 2 June 2011, Photo: (c) Roman Mensing, artdoc.de

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Link to current Schlingensief Website

Schlingensief Website

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A Church of Fear vs. the Alien Within

A Church of Fear vs. the Alien Within. Stage installation of Schlingensief`s Fluxus Oratory in the German Pavilion, Altar view with film projection. Photo: (c) Roman Mensing, artdoc.de

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A Church of Fear vs. the Alien Within

A Church of Fear vs. the Alien Within. Stage installation of Schlingensief`s Fluxus Oratory in the German Pavilion, Altar view with film projection. Photo: (c) Roman Mensing, artdoc.de

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A Church of Fear vs. the Alien Within

A Church of Fear vs. the Alien Within. Stage installation of Schlingensief`s Fluxus Oratory in the German Pavilion, Monstranz. Photo: (c) Roman Mensing, artdoc.de

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A Church of Fear vs. the Alien Within

A Church of Fear vs. the Alien Within. Stage installation of Christoph Schlingensief`s Fluxus-oratorio in the German pavilion, light box with radiograph
Photo: (c) Roman Mensing, artdoc.de

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A Church of Fear vs. the Alien Within

A Church of Fear vs. the Alien Within. Stage installation of Christoph Schlingensief`s Fluxus-oratorio in the German Pavilion, altar panel “Tolerance belt”, litter and bedside, Photo: (c) Roman Mensing, artdoc.de

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A Church of Fear vs. the Alien Within

A Church of Fear vs. the Alien Within. Stage installation of Schlingensief`s Fluxus Oratory in the German Pavilion, altar view with film projection, Photo: (c) Roman Mensing, artdoc.de

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A Church of Fear vs. the Alien Within

A Church of Fear vs. the Alien Within. Stage installation of the Fluxus-oratorio by Christoph Schlingensief in the German Pavilion, Altar view with film projection
Photo: (c) Roman Mensing, artdoc.de

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Terror 2000

Audio: Funeral

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Dietrich Kuhlbrodt, Christoph Schligensief
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Terror 2000 (Intensive Station Germany), Germany, 1991-92, Directed by Christoph Schlingensief © Filmgalerie 451

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100 Years Adolf Hitler

Audio: At Table

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Brigitte Kausch (Eva Braun)
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100 Years Adolf Hitler (The Last Hour in the Fuhrerbunker), Germany, 1988-89, Directed by Christoph Schlingensief © Filmgalerie 451

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United Trash

Audio: The birth of Peter Panne

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Jones Muguse, Thomas Chibwe
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United Trash, Germany 1995-6, directed by Christoph Schlingensief © Filmgalerie 451

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Church of Fear, German Pavilion

Christoph Schlingensief, “Church of Fear”, German Pavilion, Biennale di Venezia 2011, View of main room

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Egomania

Audio: Epilogue (excerpt)

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Tilda Swinton, Udo Kier
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Egomania – Island Without Hope, Germany, 1986, Directed by Christoph Schlingensief © Filmgalerie 451

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Menu Total

Audio: Theme Music (Helge Schneider)

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Helge Schneider
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Menu Total, Germany, 1985-86, Directed by Christoph Schlingensief © Filmgalerie 451

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The German Chainsaw Massacre

Audio: Border Control

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Artur Albrecht
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Artur Albrecht

The German Chainsaw Massacre (The First Hour of German Reunification), Germany, 1990, Directed by Christoph Schlingensief © Filmgalerie 451

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Schlingensief’s opera village in Africa: A “Conversation” at the German Pavilion

Christoph Schlingensief pursued his idea of an opera village in Burkina Faso passionately. He imagined it as a “social sculpture,” a place of encounters and of dialogue. The Goethe-Institut supported Schlingensief in this project from the very beginning and continues to be committed to its development. In March, it began the “Conversations” series in Ouagadougou: workshops and discussions both in Africa and in Europe intended to support the realization of the opera village by providing creative stimuli and promoting inner-African dialogue. Now, on 2 June the second meeting will be held at the German Pavilion. Planned participants include Aino Laberenz, Susanne Gaensheimer, Francis Kéré, Chris Dercon and Simon Njami.

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Settebello

Bayrle

Helke Bayrle for Christoph Schlingensief

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Elisabeth Schweeger: A Personal Perspective on Christoph Schlingensief

“The great power, however, rests in uncertainty, in the conviction that there are no solutions but only transformations and changes of form … that, to me, is not fatalism, it is a very big yes to life.” (Christoph Schlingensief)

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Movie Poster “United Trash”

© Filmgalerie 451, Design: Assmann/Stock

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Dear Christoph


Sunday, August 22, 2010, eight o’clock. Stunned by the news of your death that came yesterday—in the end, it was a surprise after all—and having slept only a few hours, I gaze into the morning sun, little big Scorpio brother, and find no way forward in my gloom. As though paralyzed, my mind keeps returning to something Bazon Brock made us take to heart: Death must be abolished, this damn mess must stop. Your fiftieth birthday was to be in a few weeks, the opera village project in Africa needed ongoing work, and of course you had hoped to make a personal appearance in Venice next year, where you were to design the German biennial pavilion. It would have been an honor for you to represent the nation and to irritate it as well, to challenge and provoke. more…

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Einsam

Melian


lyrics and music: Christoph Schlingensief

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A Chance Acquaintance

By 1984 I had grown tired of meeting market deadlines in my writing about movies. No launching date? No text! So it was welcome news that the people at Hamburg’s Abaton theater had put together a series of Unknown films by unknown young German directors. I went, curious to see a movie, any movie, without the constraint of having to deliver a review. Tunguska—Die Kisten sind da [Tunguska—The Boxes Have Arrived], by a guy whose name I would learn over time to pronounce without stumbling. Schlingensief. more…

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Princess Yenenga Lounge

Hotel Ouagadougou