"Art as Dekokirsche" A similar problem as in Hamburg Niklas Maak writes in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of 18 November 2009 under the title "Down with the white cardboard. would like to go till it is the last main building site in Berlin at the Humboldt harbor, Wowereit with a new art gallery, after "Alexander Platz and plastered Potsdamer Platz with shopping malls and cinemas were on Pariser Platz, the silent facades of banks and embassies, dominate at the Republic Members' offices and dog poop. " Here are some verbatim excerpts
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"Where there is much more obvious to capitalism, is summoned to art Like here ...."
"... The real question is: Why again an art gallery? Why do you build again the same dull white box? Could one not very different art show
?..." "... It's become fashionable to use art spaces as a value-added Dekokirsche on commercial real estate projects, the artist should give the flavor of the neighborhood urban resistance and thus counteract the sterility, the project until the city brings. It is understandable that artists go on strike because, they can not make the sausage, to which Wilhelm Brandt, spokesman of the real estate developer VIVICO, she explains, when art in the "Daily Mirror" as a bait to important people in the city to attract "the is like a meat counter, the larger the selection, the better
...." "... The port is Berlin's Humboldt last place, could indicate to the architect and city planner, what is the public space of the twenty-first century and the role of culture to play ... "
Perhaps we should go back to the concept of history in the Hellenistic antiquity, which concerned the word museum is not only a house, but that marked a whole neighborhood, a" porous and also socially permeable structure, one from open spaces-knit cultural landscape in the arts - including dance, theater, music - would otherwise performable ?..."
Alliance Mayor - Investor in Altenburg The Skat Altenburg makes talked about. The municipal housing company Altenburg (SWG) is planning to support the OB Michael Wolf (SPD) to demolish a listed, but so far unrefurbished building at the marketplace in favor of a new building with apartments and shopping center. It will eliminate a "urban maladministration. However, resistance excited by City Council members of the CDU and the Left Party and the citizens against the project because "in Altenburg, Thuringia, one of the most beautiful market squares in Germany threatened with mutilation" (FAZ). Alleging that the refurbishment of the listed building not economically feasible, the SWG will not even for its new "architectural award suspicious new construction.
Wolfgang Hirsch has published in the TLZ 19:11:09 by a caustic comment:
"The crux of the monument. He points to the east of Germany out in such great variety obtained inner cities that have come down for lack of war damage and monetary policy and lack of capacity during the communist era on us by politicians and business leaders are often viewed as contaminated sites.
Literally: "So, unfortunately, many local town centers retained their faces and are grown for the great guide especially since West German, often from home, yes. spoiled by faceless city centers and shopping malls are designed uniform drive, like the East - such as the "German Renaissance" in Altenburg to bewundern.Trotzdem Geschwiemel we are the lost heritage now sorry! And visitors who may spend more money on holiday, need certainly not a dying city like the Old Castle. It is high time to ruin the market place once and for all. The unholy alliance of city tip and housing association that is - thank God -.. Be trusted "
Now one can only hope that the resistance of the citizens and stubborn city councils of the city leading to today's Council meeting are going to upset bill How yet the images same! (See Speyer).
Today, Oscar Wilde Birthday The 16th November is the birthday of Oscar Wilde's, in 1854 was the second child of William and Jane Wilde, under the name Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde born in Dublin. Even the twenty year old announced he wanted to be a poet and, moreover, famous. "And even if not famous, then at least notorious." And he was both.
place in my library, the biography of the American literary scholar Richard Ellmann (1918 - 1987). Famous of these was his biography of James Joyce (1959) and his work on William Butler Yeats. One of my greatest antiquarian Acquisitions was an issue of "Salome" with the 16 drawings by Beardsley Aubray (German translation by Curt Moreck) - an edition of the publisher Heinrich Böhme Hannover 1919, printed in the pharmacy of Mandruck- company in Munich. A scaled-down version brought to the island-Verlag Frankfurt 1919 Island Library No. 247 out (translation by Hedwig Lachmann).
"Without us!" - The reaction The "Süddeutsche Zeitung" of 13 November 2009 reported that the City of Hamburg with the Dutch investor "HANZEVAST" to the repurchase of the artists agreed bestzten Gängeviertel. For a sum of two million euros, the investor was prepared to transfer these Hamburger occupied by more than 200 artists since the end of August vacant houses in the district transitions back to the city. Ca. 150 Hamburg architects had previously appealed to the city and the public, "the district programs for artists, including their use concept for the long term."
The remains of the New Town district programs, with their courtyards and narrow streets of a group of three centuries of architecture. With the protest, the historic building worthy to be saved. See my post of 8 November 2009.
