dieklaumichshow.org » Felix Ensslin /blog Klau mich Sat, 24 Nov 2012 13:37:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 FREE TABU – and good bye to all that. /blog/free-tabu-and-good-bye-to-all-that/ /blog/free-tabu-and-good-bye-to-all-that/#comments Tue, 18 Sep 2012 13:36:53 +0000 http://www.dieklaumichshow.org/blog/?p=507 Continue reading ]]> After a much discussed and very well assisted – and to my taste, extremely interesting, although I must admit I am easily interested in many things- show featuring the conversation between Astrid Proll and Klaus Stern, and after dismissing the depression of Jan about audience participation, and after having Tabu encouraging the audience to keep on smiling, the last show was there. Felix Ensslin was guest for the second time and Johannes Ullmaier was his partner to speak about : Killing the father? Avant-garde and violence in post war literature and art.

The questions, more or less, and approximately, the answers:

– Is there a relation between avant garde and violence? YES. Starting from Marinetti and futurismus. Everything had to be made new again, and such a revolution had a violent component.

– Is literary or artistic influence a source of anxiety? This form of questioning belongs to the XIX century, imagining an artist or writer “creating” alone among books. Nowadays influences are too present everywhere to be afraid of them.

– Is the 68 movement still very influential? Yes, but not the 68 as it really was, but the 68 that we create today, again and again, a different product depending on who is speaking.

– Is the Oedipus complex still relevant today? We are not sure, we’ve got to ask our mothers.

– A quote from (sorry, we were not able to avoid danger) Wolfgang Huber, SPK: “I realize that theory makes you stupid, but stupidity sets you free”

FREE TABU!!!

 

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Ulf Aminde and Felix Ensslin on Jenny the Pirate: a translation into English /blog/ulf-aminde-and-felix-ensslin-on-jenny-the-pirate-a-translation-into-english/ /blog/ulf-aminde-and-felix-ensslin-on-jenny-the-pirate-a-translation-into-english/#comments Mon, 13 Aug 2012 11:21:40 +0000 http://www.dieklaumichshow.org/blog/?p=447 Continue reading ]]> Tabu: I would like to call not to the stage our guests for today: Ulf Aminde, Ellen Blumenstein, Felix Ensslin. Ladies and Gentlemen, a warm applause for them.

(The guests enter. Ulf Aminde goes directly to the pianist and begins to read accompanied by her piano)

Ulf Aminde:

Dear dad, I am doing well. How about you, How are you? When are coming home? We are waiting for you to come home again. Will you bring me something? I was bothered again by Kleo in school. I didn’t do anything and she came from the back and pulled my ears. When are you coming? I am making a band with Marta.  I hope you are doing well, you always have to work so much. Today I listened again to the song “Pirate Jenny” in Mum’s computer. I listened to it many, many times. Lost of love, Marie.

And the ship, eight sails shining,
Fifty-five cannons wide, Sir,
Will be aimed at this town.

I have read this letter to you, from my daughter who writes to me because I am so often away from home. She wonders why I am away and not with her, and I wonder why she likes so much the song of Pirate Jenny. Perhaps I could be the captain of such a boat that makes Jenny so happy.

That same ship, eight sails shining,
Fifty-five cannons wide, Sir,
Disappears with me.

Felix Ensslin:

When I think of Jenny, I make totally different associations. Jenny Müller, Jenny Jetke, Jenny Ulmaier, there is this sort of secret society of Jennys here in Germany, women that are now 44, 45, 46 years old and they are all called Jenny. And one realizes this all of a sudden, when you are in a party, in a children’s party perhaps, and in one corner you can see one Jenny, then in the other corner there is another Jenny, and she says, I know you, but she does not continue talking. And then of course you wonder, what is that supposed to mean? And when you do a little research, you realize they always had their holidays in the same place,  In the SDAJ (socialist working youth),  in Rostock, in Dresden, and of course their parents were all in the DKP (German communist party), and then the daughter had to be called Jenny, like the daughter of Karl Marx. One of those Jennys came to me and said: Hey Felix, Do you remember, we were together in the communist, anti-authority toddler school in Charlottenburg, and I said, Well to tell you the truth that memory is not that present right now, and then she showed me this picture, saying “Look at this picture, that is you” and I could see six, seven children, all naked, painting the walls, drawing, running around, and there were wooden blocks and on one of them there was this one child sitting, very shy and silent, and wearing clothes, and that was me.

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Ulf Aminde and Felix Ensslin on Jenny the Pirate /blog/ulf-aminde-and-felix-ensslin-on-jenny-the-pirate/ /blog/ulf-aminde-and-felix-ensslin-on-jenny-the-pirate/#comments Fri, 10 Aug 2012 16:09:01 +0000 http://www.dieklaumichshow.org/blog/?p=442 Continue reading ]]> Tabu: I would like to call not to the stage our guests for today: Ulf Aminde, Ellen Blumenstein, Felix Ensslin. Ladies and Gentlemen, a warm applause for them.

(The guests enter. Ulf Aminde goes directly to the pianist and begins to read accompanied by her piano)

Ulf Aminde:

“Lieber Papa, mir geht es gut. Wie geht es dir? Wann kommst du? Wir warten, dass du wieder nach Hause kommst. Bringst du uns was mit? Heute bin ich in der Schule wieder von Kleo geärgert worden. Ich habe nix gemacht und sie kam von hinter und hat mir auf die Ohren gehauen. Wann kommst du? Ich mache jetzt mit Marta eine Bande. Ich hoffe dir geht es gut, immer musst du viel arbeiten. Heute durfte ich wieder die “Seeräuber Jenny” hören, auf Mamas Computer. Ich habe es ganz, ganz viele male gehört. Viele liebe Grüße, Marie.

Und ein Schiff mit acht Segeln und mit fünfzig Kanonen wird liegen am Kai.”

Diesen Brief hier lese ich vor, der ist von meiner Tochter, die mir schreibt, wenn ich viel unterwegs bin und ich frag mich natürlich, warum bin ich jetzt hier, warum bin ich nicht da, bei ihr, aber ich frage mich vor allem auch, wenn sie so gerne das “Jenny – Lied” hört, ob ich eigentlich der Kapitän sein kann, der das Boot, auf das sich die Jenny freut, lenken wird.

Und das Schiff mit acht Segeln

Und mit fünfzig Kanonen

Wird beflaggen den Mast.

 

 

Felix Ensslin:

Also wenn ich an Jenny denke, dann kommen mir erstmal ganz andere Assoziationen, Jenny Müller, Jenny Jetke, Jenny Ulmaier, es gibt so eine Art Geheimgesellschaft von Jennys hier in Deutschland, von Frauen, die sind alle so 45, 46, 44 Jahre alt und die heißen alle Jenny. Und die erkennen sich auch alle gegenseitig, wenn man auf einer Party ist, auf einer Kinderparty und in der einen Ecke sagt eine, sie heißt Jenny, dann sagt die andere Jenny in der anderen Ecke, ah, ich weiß du – aber sie spricht es nicht aus. Und dann fragt man sich natürlich, was steckt da dahinter? Und wenn man genau hinguckt, dann erfährt man, die haben auch alle ihren Urlaub immer gleich verbracht. In der SDAJ, in Rostock, in Dresden, und dann natürlich, die Eltern waren alle in der DKP, und dann musste die Tochter, wenn sie erstmal geboren war natürlich den Namen erhalten und der war ganz selbstverständlich Jenny. Nach der Tochter von Karl Marx, Jenny. Eine von denen kam neulich zu mir und hat gesagt, hey Felix, erinnerst du dich noch, wir waren gemeinsam im ersten kommunistischen, antiautoritären Kinderlager in Charlottenburg, ich habe gesagt, ne, ehrlich gesagt, so richtig lebendig ist die Erinnerung nicht, die hatte ein Foto dabei und sagte, guck dir das Foto hier an, da bist du auch drauf, und es waren so sechs, sieben, Kinder, alle nackt, die haben an den Wänden gemalt, irgendwelche Zeichnungen, zwei, drei, sind noch durch die Gegend gerannt, und es waren so Holzklötzchen, relativ große und auf einem in der Mitte saß einer, ganz angezogen. Und das war ich.

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