But the artists – and the subject matter - will definitely do the rest.
„Work began Tuesday to repaint Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev’s passionate kiss with East German strongman Eric Honecker on the longest-surviving stretch of the Berlin Wall.“
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Actress Tilda Swinton will be biking along the same ex-Berlin Wall route she and filmmaker Cynthia Beatt took ten years ago when they filmed the wall that wasn’t there then, either. This Gesamtkunstwerk (total art form) will then be put together in a piece to be called “Cycling the Invisible Frame.”
Whatever. But if I were her I would take it easier on myself and travel along what used to be the Berlin Wall on what used to be a bike – and take a car instead.
“The title refers to the fact that most of the wall has been torn down, though many Germans still speak of an invisible wall in the minds dividing east and west Germany.“
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Wall, somebody had to do it.
“Khrushchev told East German authorities to lay an iron ring around Berlin.”
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Pathologist types at Berlin’s Charité hospital claim to have discovered a headless “mystery corpse” in its mortuary that is actually the one belonging to the leftist leader who was shot by right-wing extremists in 1919.
“The notion that millions of her fans have been duped for 90 years by going on pilgrimages each January to a grave that does not contain her body was greeted with shock and consternation yesterday.”
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I could have done that. And I would have, too, had I known you could get paid for it. But Art doesn’t even want the 3000 euros the East Side Gallery is willing to pay him for his old (or soon-to-be-repainted?) Kunst. I tell you. Some folks are never satisfied.
“Some artists refused to join in the effort and are demanding 15,000 euros (19,900 dollars) in compensation instead of the 3,000 euros on offer, arguing that they have not received a fair share of the Gallery’s earnings over the years.”
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By doing this, they say, they are giving a “clear signal” and showing that their city fosters a conscious and sensible handling of the past. Of course by waiting until 2009 to do so and then making a big noise about it is also giving a clear signal that they are morons, too, but still.
“Wir setzen mit unserem heutigen Beschluss ein klares Signal und weisen gleichzeitig darauf hin, dass unsere Stadt einen bewussten Umgang mit der Vergangenheit pflegt.”
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“Die Produktion ist ein gutes Beispiel dafür, wie das Fernsehen unsere Vergangenheit entsorgt.”
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And otherwise they wouldn’t think of setting up a huge path of dominos in Berlin to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. That’s right; a two or three kilometer-long chain of Styrofoam domino slab thingies will be set up on the 9th of November in order to, well, get knocked down again. You know; the Cold War domino effect and all that? Only without the Cold War. Whatever.
I want to take this opportunity to remind any or even all of you out there that recognizing symptoms like this in yourself or in others is the first step toward recovery and finding appropriate treatment. Or if you prefer, think of it as being that frist domino thingy that gets knocked down in the process. Fragen Sie Ihren Artzt oder Apotheker or something.
„Der Fall der Mauer in 33 Minuten.“
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Thought to be lost forever in the bureaucratic recesses which continue to shroud anything that has to do with Berlin’s mysterious neoclassical Museum Island complex, “Indy” Chipperfield, as his friends call him, pulled off the tarp that had been covering the unsightly construction sight to unveil the now brand spanking new New Museum, although it’s old, like I said already.
“The Neues Museum has finally awoken from its coma.”
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