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Es gibt ein Ziel, aber keinen Weg;
was wir Weg nennen, ist Zögern.
There is a goal, but no way;
what we call the way is just wavering.
Franz Kafka* * *Ernst Barlach: "Der Geistkämpfer"
(Nikolaikirche / Kiel, Germany)
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"Pro Patria",
Hamburg-Ohlsdorf Central Cemetery
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Too many to mention them one by one, but to name a few:
- early German silent movies like "Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari" by Robert Wiene, "Nosferatu - Symphonie des Grauens" by F. W. Murnau ...
... or "Die Nibelungen" by Fritz Lang;
- Roman Polanski's work, especially "Repulsion", "The Tenant" and "Rosemary's Baby";
- Kenneth Anger's short films, especially "Inauguration Of The Pleasure Dome", "Scorpio Rising", "Invocation Of My Demon Brother" and "Lucifer Rising";
- everything by Stanley Kubrick, especially "2001 - A Space Odyssey" ...
... and "A Clockwork Orange";
- nearly everything by Ingmar Bergman, especially "The Seventh Seal", ...
..."Wild Strawberries", "The Virgin Spring", "Winter Light", "The Silence", "Hour of the Wolf" and "Fanny and Alexander";
- "Solaris" and "Stalker" by Andrei Tarkovsky;
- "Ran", "Kagemusha" and "Dreams" by Akira Kurosawa;
- nearly everything by Rainer Werner Fassbinder;
- everything by Alejandro Jodorowsky, especially "Holy Mountain" ...
... "El Topo" and "Santa Sangre";
- David Lynch's work, especially "Eraserhead", ...
... "Wild At Heart" and "Lost Highway";
- "Naked Lunch", "Crash", "eXistenZ" and "A History Of Violence" by David Cronenberg;
- Jörg Buttgereit's work, including "Der Todesking", "Nekromantik" and "Schramm";
- "Pi", "Requiem For A Dream" and ...
... "The Fountain" by Darren Aronofsky;
- "Begotten" by E. Elias Merhige; ...
... - etc. etc. etc.
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Bismarck Memorial,
Hamburg - St. Pauli
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I don't give a shit for it ... - with only one exception: "LOST" ...
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Also too many to mention them in particular, but here's a selection of my most-favored authors:
Dr. Albert Hofmann
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Ernst Jünger (1895 - 1998)
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Robert Anton Wilson (1932 - 2007)
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Alan Watts (1915 - 1973)
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Jhonn Balance (1962 - 2004)
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Kann mir einer sagen, wohin
ich mit meinem Leben reiche?
Ob ich nicht auch noch im Sturme streiche
und als Welle wohne im Teiche,
und ob ich nicht selbst noch die blasse, bleiche
frühlingsfrierende Birke bin?
(Rainer Maria Rilke)
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