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The Women of Antiquity
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Octavia, Poppaea, Julia Maesa
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We may be the nameless
and forgotten ones,
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but we don't forget a thing.
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Uriel...
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Gabriel and
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Raphael.
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And there is Michael.
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Ladybird fly home,
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your father is at war,
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your mother is in Pomerania,
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Pomerania has all burnt down,
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so sleep, baby, sleep.
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BAD CHILDREN'S CELL
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For P.C. and M.H.
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Paul Celan and Martin Heidegger.
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Templum,
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that means: language
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the House of Being.
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I spilled the night out of a pot,
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it wasn't night in there enough
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for Paul Celan
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'Wolf's—bean' by Paul Celan
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You flowers of Germany,
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oh, my heart becomes
crystal incorruptible,
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in which light tests itself.
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Look the door.
There are roses in the house.
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There are seven roses in the house.
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In the Ukraine,
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where they murdered
my father and mother:
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what flowers were there?
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What flower, Mother,
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hurt you there with its name?
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You, Mother, who said 'wolf's-bean',
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not 'lupine'.
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Mother, whose hand did I clasp
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as I went with your words to Germany?
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Mother, murderers live there.
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Mother, they're silent.
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Mother, they're writing poems.
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Mother,
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no one silences the murderers!
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How difficult
it must have been for Paul Celan,
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a jewish poet, to have to
write in the German language!
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After all, both mother and father
fell victim to the Holocaust.
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Death-Fugue
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Black milk of dawn
we drink you evenings
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we drink you at noon and on mornings
we drink you at night
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we drink and we drink
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we dig a grave in the Winds
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where one lies at ease
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A man lives in the house
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who plays with the snakes
who writes
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who writes when it darkens
to Germany
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your golden hair Margarete
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he writes it and steps
in front of his house
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and the stars glisten
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and he whistles his dogs to come
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he Whistles his jews to appear
lets a grave be dug in the earth
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He shouts stab deeper
into the earth you there
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you others
play on for the dance
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he grabs the gun in his belt
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he draws it his eyes are blue
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stab deeper your spades there
you others play on for the dance
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Black milk of dawn
we drink you at night
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we drink you at noon and on mornings,
we drink you evenings
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we drink you and drink
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a man lives in the house
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your golden hair Margarete
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your ashen hair Shulamit
he plays with the snakes
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He calls out play death more sweetly
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death is a master from Germany
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he calls
scrape those fiddles more darkly
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then as smoke you'll rise in the air
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then you'll have a grave in the clouds
there one lies at ease
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Black milk of dawn
we drink you at night
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we drink you at noon
death is a master from Germany
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we drink you evenings and mornings
we drink and we drink
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death is a master from Deutschland
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his eye is blue
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he strikes you with lead bullets
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his aim is true
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a man lives in the house
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your golden hair Margarete
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he sets his dogs on us
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he gifts us a grave in the air
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he plays with the snakes
and he dreams
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death is a master from Germany
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your golden hair Margarete
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your ashen hair Shulamit
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This is the Martin Heidegger book.
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Here you see
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the brain of Martin Heidegger
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in my attic in Hornbach,
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and these are
all poisonous mushrooms
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which then cause a cancer
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to grow in the brain.
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Now there is already
a slight darkening,
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and here you see
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how the cancer is spreading.
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It becomes bigger,
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almost taking over half the brain.
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And now the cancer is all over.
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Heidegger,
I could have even met in person,
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when I was studying in Freiburg.
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He taught there at the same time.
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Paul Celan met with him once,
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in the mid-603,
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in his remote cabin
in the Black Forest.
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What did he expect from the visit
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with the German thinker?
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Some explanation
of his Nazi past?
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Into the guest book, Celan wrote:
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In the cabin book,
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with a View of the fountain star
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and a hope in the heart
for a word to come
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25 July 1967.
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But such a word never came.
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Nothing but silence
from the great philosopher.
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Nothing about his errors.
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The whole of society was silent then,
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all failed to grasp the unimaginable.
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I myself lived among people
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who had all been around
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and didn't want to talk about it.
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Now we try this one.
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Let's take off the fern,
the big one at least.
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This one we bring to the front.
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Ludwig, across like that.
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Wieslaw, alcohol...
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Ok, good.
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Careful.
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At the bottom!
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SKY...PAINTING...EARTH
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Dear Josef Beuys,
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Thank you
for your quick reply to my letter.
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I'm glad you agreed
to look at my paintings.
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I'll soon be on my way
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from the Odenwald
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to you in Duesseldorf...
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Joseph Beuys,
at the Duesseldorf Academy,
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had many
subsequently successful students.
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As early as 1972, he wanted to
save the forest with them.
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Here, with the young Anselm Kiefer,
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whom he quickly made
a master student.
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Mr. Kiefer, you live
deep in the Odenwald,
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far from the hectic pace
of everyday life.
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Is this a better way to work,
a kind of retreat?
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I live here because I need
the landscape for my work.
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I work with the landscape.
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Of course, it's also beneficial
that it's peaceful here,
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and that I have few disruptions.
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I can occupy a big house
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which would be
more difficult in the city.
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At the Biennale Anselm Kiefer
is representing
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the artistic position of the FRG.
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This choice is
a big misunderstanding.
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The museum director maybe thought
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he had found another 'Neue Wilde',
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as the German
neo-expressionists are called.
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But with his history slander,
that isn't what Anselm Kiefer is.
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At most he is a new reactionary.
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'Ways of World Wisdom'
is written on a giant woodcut.
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And what are these ways called?
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Kiefer's German nationalist answer:
'The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest'.
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Grabbe is surely not suspected
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to be a German nationalist
or a chauvinist.
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Yes, but the subject was so strongly
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utilised by the Nazis...
- Yes, totally abused.
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But that's just Why,
because I was born in 1945,
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I have the chance to take up
this subject again.
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There's no use in suppressing it,
just because the Nazis abused it.
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POPPY AND MEMORY
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This is beautiful,
Ludwig! It's getting there!
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BED MEMORY
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Herr Kiefer, a little lower?
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Lower, so it doesn't splash so much.
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But I want it to splash, at first.
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America has a new superstar:
Anselm Kiefer.
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The start of his retrospective
in Chicago
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was celebrated
as the art event of the year.
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An international Kiefer symposium
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simply added to the success
in Los Angeles.
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The MoMA in New York
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will now bestow the greatest honors.
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85 paintings, books and drawings
are included in the show.
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'Palette with Wings', 1985,
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a symbol of liberation
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alluding to the greek figure of Icarus,
and Wieland the Smith,
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the dangerous mage
of Norwegian legend.
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A hall of honour modelled on
prominent Nazi architecture
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such as the Reich Chancellery
by Albert Speer.
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While Kiefer pushes a painful
boundary for his fellow Germans,
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foreigners welcome him
as a bold taboo breaker.
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It is perhaps easier to completely
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surrender to the spell of his art,
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than to observe it with detachment.
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With Kiefer, in a most shocking way,
landscape painting is possible again.
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"You can't just paint a landscape when
tanks have driven through it", he says.
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Now!
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I remember, almost 20 years ago,
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I was disturbed
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by a performance
which you called 'Occupations'.
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You performed the Nazi salute
on European sites.
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What was that about?
Was it just a provocation?
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BETWEEN SUMMER
AND AUTUMN 1969,
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I OCCUPIED SWITZERLAND,
FRANCE AND ITALY.
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A FEW PHOTOS:
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It wasn't a provocation,
at least it wasn't meant to be.
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Not a provocation
just for the sake of it.
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I did What I thought
was absolutely necessary at the time.
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In hindsight, I think
this act was very important.
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It was during a time, 1968/69,
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when the whole subject of
World War II,
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fascism, the Third-Reich
was not addressed at all.
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In school, we had it for three weeks
and that was it.
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At this time,
it was very important
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to bring this all back into memory
and work on it.
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I held a mirror up to everyone's face.
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"The Argonauts were
the most famous Greek heroes.
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Jason called them together
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to accompany him
on his great journey.
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To do so,
he had the fastest boat built
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to ever sail the seas:
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The Argos, equipped with 50 oars.
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With this ship
and his friends' help
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he wanted to bring the 'Golden Fleece'
back home from the end of the world.
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Like a god,
Jason strode across the field of Ares,
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took the dragon's teeth
from his helmet
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and sowed them in the furrows.
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And the Argonauts watched
from the end of the field
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as behind Jason
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a Whole army of warriors
arose from the ground."
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Art and mythology
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are different forms of recognition.
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Myth provides answers
to the questions
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of where we come from,
where we are going,
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what we are.
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You are dust,
and to dust you shall return.
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Over your cities grass will grow.
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The greatest myth
is the human race itself.
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Lilith...
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has always preoccupied me.
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In Jewish mythology,
she was Adam's first wife,
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like Adam,
created from the dust of the earth.
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She felt equal to him and did not see
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why she should be inferior to him,
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or lie beneath him.
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The first marriage dispute
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was already a myth.
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Lilith has been demonized ever since.
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She's said to have fled
from the Garden of Eden,
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a restless demon of vengeance,
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threatening women in childbirth.
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She's said to rob men of their semen,
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in order to conceive
her demonic children.
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Nothing but horror stories from men,
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trying to discredit her...
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To some like a winged demon
of war and destruction,
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to others,
the patron goddess of a world
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from which the sacred has retreated.
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Petrified fighter planes
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exhibited at Berlin's
Neue Nationalgalerie
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are among Kiefer's
most striking works.
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Frighteningly relevant at the time
of the second Gulf War in 1990/91.
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The history or the wars
that are happening nowadays,
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are impossible
to understand by rational means.
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Such absurd
and impossible things happen there,
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no one can grasp them
with pure logic or reason.
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The Nationalgalerie in Berlin,
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has opened one of this season's
most stunning exhibitions with Kiefer.
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On his latest trip to America,
Kiefer was distinguished as
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'most important
contemporary artist'.
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The world Kiefer shows
isn't perfect
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with its morbid landscapes
and environments.
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A master of subtle irritation.
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He produces large format myths.
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You were accused of
your way of dealing with history,
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now you are accused of
escaping into myth.
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How do you feel
about this contradiction?
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There's no such thing as
'escaping into the myth'.
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Because the myth is present.
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Myths represent another way
of understanding history,
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beyond the simply rational.
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FOR PAUL CELAN:
SECRETS OF THE FERN
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Everyone who falls has Wings.
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The Morgenthau Plan
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Anselm, time's up!
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Thank you, Auntie Jung.
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With pencil and sketchbook,
but most of all with good ideas,
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Anselm Kiefer from Rastatt
has received an important award:
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the Jean Walter Prize.
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It is the first time for
a German graduate to receive it.
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Anselm Kiefer wanted to follow
the footsteps of Vincent van Gogh
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Starting in the Dutch city of Arnheim.
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Anselm Kiefer suggested
this study trip
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to CIS, the school organisation.
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Many send applications,
only a few are accepted.
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Anselm Kiefer was among them.
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He followed van Gogh's life
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to Arles in the south of France.
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Since 1962 Rastatt High School
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is part of the organisation CIS
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and could therefore present
it's first applicant, Anselm Kiefer,
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who carried out this journey
in the summer of 1963,
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and has now, for being
the best central European applicant,
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received the Jean Walter Prize.
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Anselm Kiefer returned with
over 300 drawings.
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These show his painterly talent.
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People search for lightness,
because they shy away from burdens,
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the abyss.
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Fundamentally,
they don't want to see it.
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That's why this lightness exists.
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If you take a look at the entire
history of the world,
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the geological, cosmological history,
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then what we are
is not even a drop in the rain.
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We're less than a drop,
we are an atom.
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Then you can obviously say:
'We are very light'.
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The unbearable lightness of being...
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Being is an absolute part of Nothing.
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Or you could also say
that Nothing is part of Being.
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They are tied together,
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there is always a simultaneity,
no chronology.
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That's reassuring, of course,
because if you plan something big,
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then you know that failure
is already part of it.
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A dead person am I,
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who wanders
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no longer registered
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anywhere.
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Unknown in the prefect's realm,
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superfluous in the golden cities
and the verdant country,
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dismissed long ago
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and bequeathed nothing
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but wind,
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and time and sound.
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I, who cannot live among people.
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I, with the German language.
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This cloud around me
which I keep as my house,
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drift through all languages.
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Oh, how it darkens,
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those dark ones,
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those rain sounds
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only a few fall
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In brighter zones
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it then carries the dead up.
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I don't feel like
I have arrived at all.
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Actually, I still feel
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banished.
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Banished, and...
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not really on the run,
but always on the way.
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I can't stop it.
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At the long tables of time
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the tankards of God are carousing...
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"At the long tables of time
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the tankards of God are carousing...
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They guzzle the eyes of the seeing
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and the eyes of the blind,
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the hearts of the ruling shadows,
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the hollow cheek of evening.
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They are the mightiest of boozers:
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they raise to their lips the empty
as well as the full
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and don't spill over like you
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or I.
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Childhood is an empty space
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like the beginning of the world.