Mummy´s Bedtime Story

a. Christoph Schlingensief:

    "Art is: the transformation of Shock in to Love."

b. Angela Merkel on 8th September 2010 in her speech at

   the M100 Media Award to Kurt Westergaard (the

   illustrator of the Muhammed cartoons):

   "...Article 5 of the German Basic Constitutional Law:

   "Everyone has the right to put one´s point of view in

   words,writing and illustration and make it public"...I am convinced: if we confidently stand by 

   our values the world will meet us with more respect and acknowledgement than if we do it only

   bashfully.For me personally,freedom has been,and,is,the most blissful experience of my life."

c. The renewal of the operating time of the German nuclear power plants,as intended by the

   German Federal Government - due to an energy conception which is based on an approval

   certificate financed by the nuclear lobby - is a massive success as to the profits of the four

   large nuclear companies in Germany and a huge setback for all renewable energy solutions,

   the latter of which require urgent investment.In August 2010,an aggressive advertising

   campaign as well as through an impudent bribery offer to the amount of 30 billion Euros,the

   nuclear lobby pushed the German government to go for extended operating times of their

   power plants.At a time when brave steps towards cilmate protection are urgently required,

   Merkel´s plan regarding the extended operating times of nuclear power plants is undermining

   substantial investments in renewable energies and is also threatening Germany´s leading role

   in this field - particulary since the nuclear technology has not changed much since the 70´s:

   there is no solution in sight regarding radio-active waste disposal (add to that immense costs

   this would involve);and serveral outdated reactors such as Krümmel and Brunsbüttel have no

   future,in the medium term,as a "bridging technology".

   This type of lobbyist politics is a prime example of the influential power of large

   companies/institutions/associations over decision-making in Berlin (as well as over other areas

   such as thepublic health and banks) so that the "Berlin Puppet Show" will,for a long time to

   come,play to us a wretched soap opera and,thus,they deserve being depicted in such a way as

   I have in my drawing and,later on,garishly and colourfully transposed in 320 x 180 cm in oil on

   canvas (completion in 2011).

d. The format of my drawing is 16:9,as if one were watching TV:

   "Atom-TV"("Wir strahlen - Sie zahlen",a wordplay: we send rays - the customer pays) shows

   the "Mummy´s Bedtime Story": four little sandmen (i.e. the four German energy concerns

   masquerading as such) scatter sand (i.e. small poisonous mushrooms) and,thereby,open the

   "Berlin Puppet Show": before the sign for nuclear radiation appears Angela Merkel,on the body

   of the "Venus of Willendorf" (slightly altered,with four breasts);she is sucking a four-headed

   dinosaur (in the shape of a well-known dinosaur from a children´s puppet show programm,

   Urmel).The drawing is drafted such that one can also put it on its head - then the dinosaur

   appears as the genitor who is spewing out Merkel.

e. Friedrich Nietzsche:

   "He who has not grasped that every great man not only must be furthered but must also,for

   the sake of the general social welfare,be fought against,is surely still only a big child - or

   himself a great man."