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Gregor Schneider has set a surreal trail in an old industrial building in Cologne. Its built nightmare resembles a bit of a funfair ghost train and is for real anxieties far too harmless. Nevertheless, you wants to get right back in the end. An experience report.
Next door, in the Neuerburgstrae 21, the youngest experiment of the play takes place: a built nightmare of Mnchengladbacher artist's brook brothers Gregor Schneider, in which the visitor suddenly becomes brook brothers the main character. And that afterwards no one can say that there was nobody warned him, each entrant will with deadly serious face pointed at the entrance to Possible panic attacks and saving brook brothers Notausgnge: "Once you are inside, there is no more Back to Tren fall behind you into the castle. "
Grusel willing spectators were so similar in the fnfziger years lured to the cinema, and while you are still wondering how empty the current promises are well, you already stands in a deep black space and gropes vorw with outstretched hands rts. It's a narrow corridor whose walls are made of black fabric and turns after a few meters turn right. In a bad horror film is now equal dignity the basement stairs tumbling down - here one flt a Grne Emergency Light Hope, and after a few more meters you stt then finally on a Tr.
Behind the Tr is a typical Gregor Schneider Shower: gray-white, cheap tiled, low, slightly worn, illuminated plan and all in all terribly bleak. The shower cubicle is closed, the sink under the mirror was removed, brook brothers a drain pipe leads who knows where, the invisible shower head drips audibly. The entrance door has fallen as threatened without Trklinke behind the castle, and so we are happy that the wet cell turns out to be a passage brook brothers room: Around brook brothers the corner it goes back out into a pitch-black passage again to a T rfhrt. And behind it is the exact copy of the first bathroom. Maze of desolation
Because one suspects, as to do so may continue, if we look now in more detail to: The light switch has small scratches, the shower stall is screwed under the drain pipe a little dirt has accumulated. In the third wet cell then provides the same image, perhaps with minor differences in the clinical messiness, but who wants to tell, when the constant dripping from the shower stall pretending to own thoughts the clock? It feels like trapped in Gregor Schneider berhmtem parents brook brothers house in Mnchengladbach which he rebuilt in the eighties on their own to a maze of desolation: The vervielfltigte Klner wet cell is symbolic brook brothers for the kleinb rgerliche life from which you want to break out, but which one, because one is always the child of his parents, can not easily escape.
So you continue to air grnen emergency exit lights passing through the dark Stoffgnge from Tr to Tr, from a bathroom to next. Sometime you annoyed that you have not mitgezhlt, then, after a few more doors, one wonders whether the maze sometime today. How many Heads of horror mgen fit in the factory? Or Schneider takes us without us realizing it, in a circle? Then gbe there is no escape except the Notausgngen. But who knows what lies behind these doors.
It is not to be revealed here, whether, when and how the author brook brothers found the exit. But he has seen during brook brothers the tour, neither real nor anxiety versprt brook brothers pale skeletons along the way. Yet Gregor Schneider built nightmare brook brothers worth the entrance fee. For the krperliche experience of being trapped can not go. An idea of biographical brook brothers hopelessness you get in the Neuerburgstrae 21 but: stuck his life in the dreary atmosphere of the past - this idea is already enough horror.
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