KURT FRANKFURTER - HOW TO SURVVE AUSCHWITZ, BUCHENWALD - AN ANTI-SEMITIC DEATH MACHINE - SEE AN INTERVIEW I MADE IN THE 1990s - Berlin 2024
Language of Emigration / Sprache der Emigration
Kurt Frankfurter, 1999
4 images 20x 24 inches / 1 b/w and 1 color image on a board of 20 x 34 inches
DVD 55 min, Edtion 3/3
born / Geboren: Wien 1920
Emigration: Vienna /Wien – Belgium / Belgien 1938, Belgium /Belgien – Auschwitz 1942, Auschwitz – Buchenwald 1945, Buchenwald – Theresienstadt 1945, Theresienstadt – Belgium / Belgien 1945, Belgium / Belgien – New York 1952
Profession / Beruf: waiter (retired) / Kellner in Ruhe
Interview: New York 12/26/1999
Given the complicated situation in the world, this DAUMENLUTSCHER BERLIN 2024 SHOW allowed me to distract a bit from the current political climate where everybody can't believe WHY DO WE STILL HAVE TO SEE RELIGIOUS WARS - why is there after the HOLOCAUST, after KILLING PEOPLE ON AN INDUSTRIAL LEVEL.. why can't people live peacefully wherever they are ... and why are their displacement politics that are only creating more hatred in the world
I have many more of these survivor interviews.
The place was filled with people who had grand parents NOT return from camps
sorry if I scare people making these newspaintings of really horrible content... sorry but i also paint and do not only regret that i have a very good memory and was trained in many things including history, languages, and philosophy .... plus the art of waiting for better times.. *pychology and better personal times ... PARTICULAR when destitute and childless (also quite a problematic history wiht also grand parents and grand grand parents under duress ... )
lady friend below, artist living in berlin but grew up like me in Austria ... also a bit complicated family back ground to say the least.... ( history affected)
thinking about conflict can make you feel crazy - here commedesmarxsits ... is my homeless brand that is based on colors and fabrics.. in this case ... think what you want but this is how i imagine a war zone .. no matter what size one is in but given the interview with KURT FRANKFURTER - AN AMAZING STORY .... I TRIED TO SHOW IN VARIOUS CITIES AND I WANNA SHOW IN MORE CITIES.. i failed to do that in Vienna but may be one day I can .... be aware, MARXISTS AND communists (ALSO landed in labor and killing camps)
but let me say simply one thing ... it expresses my feeling in a non verbal way
here ... the clown who is nervous about people coming to see the presentation. also the reception... in this commedesmarxists nonsense dress and the recycled toy of a house... the colors associated with a land under distress... blue and white and then a military store... put togehter by me as a taylor who makes dresses that are useless when it comes to economic survival... also the the art works around .. the half cricle and the crazy postures to show that i am not driving cars but only bicycles ... so i do not need ... unlike trump /... use and bed on fossile fuel since i believe in climate change and on top of it in respect of women, in respect of the laws that the current president elect... written in november 2024... is apparently above the law.
It is super complicated but yes...
my old old swiss berli friend .... how i know for decades
recycling art... since the war with the ukraine is near by and the new Trump election .... to be guessed.... digital .. the cup was celebrating a millitary training station in Southern Germany ... hopefully never needed but the way it looks... TRUMP might in spite of the rocket billionionaire and x (twitter) social network help... who know is chatting daily with the INCOMBANT PRESIDENT... well... lets see if they can stop the war before he takes office... that i also switch the party because the democratic governer from where i am living,.. she sold the subway systesm out... she pulled the congestion pricing scheme that would have repaired NYC transportation for those without cars... hence...
in the corner is a film maker and NYc former gallerist MX gallery who has shown me his best side ... lets be possitive !!!
here is my other art work that did not survive : basic chinese on a news papers handed to me on soe airport
it has something to do with internationalism versus americanism only / wo ai peng xhiangheng
commedesmarxists - when it is really cold... better wear something warm .... the american falg i found before i took off to berlin to learn more chinese and pick up very important papers - it was interesting to fly while there are wars and an economic crisis in my house.
