Paradise Birds in the Country of Sparrows
"Lebenskunst" (Art of Living, or Savoir Vivre!) is the topic of the latest strassen|feger, the Berlin street magazine - again with great articles by the Berlin art critic and poet Urszula Usakowska-Wolff. I've mentioned her writing before when she did this great article about the Kippenberger show in Hamburger Bahnhof.
Urszula Usakowska-Wollf has also an eye for those who are not standing in the spotlight of the art market, like the photographer Gerda Schimpf. Love letters to this photographer are on show right now in the exhibition "Carte Postale" in the Akademie der Künste in Berlin. The letters are written by the artist Max Schwimmer in the late 1930s: "Ich liebe Dich, nur Dich, Du meine wunderbare süße kleine Braut." (I love you, only you, my wonderful cute little bride." In the interview with Usakowksa-Wolff Gerda Schimpf laconically comments on that: "Das ist nichts Ungewöhnliches, denn Max hat tausende Briefe, [...] auch an andere Leute geschickt. Das ging ihm ganz schnell von der Hand. Ich weiss nicht, ob das, was mich mit Max verband, eine grosse Liebe war." (that's nothing unusual since Max wrote thousand of letters to other people too. That was a piece of cake for him. I don't know, if that, what connected me to Max, was great love.)
For this "Lebenskunst" issue of the Strassen|feger Usakowska-Wolff interviews various people, who are, like she puts it so well, "Paradiesvogel im Land der Spatzen" (paradise birds in the country of sparrows).
Urszula Usakowska-Wollf has also an eye for those who are not standing in the spotlight of the art market, like the photographer Gerda Schimpf. Love letters to this photographer are on show right now in the exhibition "Carte Postale" in the Akademie der Künste in Berlin. The letters are written by the artist Max Schwimmer in the late 1930s: "Ich liebe Dich, nur Dich, Du meine wunderbare süße kleine Braut." (I love you, only you, my wonderful cute little bride." In the interview with Usakowksa-Wolff Gerda Schimpf laconically comments on that: "Das ist nichts Ungewöhnliches, denn Max hat tausende Briefe, [...] auch an andere Leute geschickt. Das ging ihm ganz schnell von der Hand. Ich weiss nicht, ob das, was mich mit Max verband, eine grosse Liebe war." (that's nothing unusual since Max wrote thousand of letters to other people too. That was a piece of cake for him. I don't know, if that, what connected me to Max, was great love.)
For this "Lebenskunst" issue of the Strassen|feger Usakowska-Wolff interviews various people, who are, like she puts it so well, "Paradiesvogel im Land der Spatzen" (paradise birds in the country of sparrows).
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