It should make the dictatorship of the “experience”. Now, the controversial art project “DAU has been canceled,” the Russian filmmaker Ilya Khrzhanovsky. For Reasons Of Safety.
The acronym “DAU” refers to the Soviet physicist and Nobel laureate Lev Davidovich Landau (1908-1968). A Film about Landau should form the core of the Berlin-based art project. Dispute over Khrzhanovskys DAU-idea ensued, however, about something else: From 12. October is a whole street square in Berlin should be sealed off-center with a concrete wall. Visitors should get through the purchase of a visa access to experience beyond-the-wall in a fictional world of Abgeschottetheit. Planned film screenings and events such as the performer Marina Abramovic and the conductor Teodor Currentzis.
Celebrities DAU-in favour of: the state Minister for Culture Monika Grütters
It won’t come to for the time being. Berlin authorities to reject a permit for the project. After that, technical problems and security have been “issues” with the rash. In the short time available it was not possible, the necessary Checks in relation to fire safety and road safety. Actually, the decision in the monument and green space protection are integrated should be, at 28. September will be announced.
To DAU are the ghosts
On the symbolic construction of a new wall in the decades of a divided city is always been a fight more violent. Among the supporters of Minister of state Monika Grütters and the governing mayor of Berlin Michael Müller, the film-maker Tom Tykwer, the actor Lars Eidinger and Director Sasha Waltz, among others, Culture. However, prominent opponents, such as Lea Rosh, Marianne Birthler, and Christian Thielemann Open letters published. Above all, they criticized the Plan, the “Dau”-site from the Boulevard unter den Linden to the werderscher Markt, with a true to original replica of the Berlin wall.
We can and must build the Berlin wall again?
sd/so (dpa, Berlin daily mirror)