Comments on: Picture the Wirtschaftwunder!

by: Wes Truth

Tue, 04 Apr 2006 10:02:48 +0000

When will the winner be announced?

by: Bill Tell

Wed, 29 Mar 2006 14:30:29 +0000

I like the Hasselhoff theme, but may I suggest the following. Perhaps a statue of Hasselhoff standing proud wrapped in the flag of the FDR with one fist raised and one cradling a microphone beckoning statues of GDR border guards towards him. In the background the pulsating rythmns of his greatist hit ‘Hot Shot City’ can blast out.

The piece seeks to reflect the brash confidence of one of the West’s greatest cultural icons; the irrepressible march of political and sexual freedom that he represents and the inevitable crumble of the GDR before it!

by: Wes Truth

Wed, 29 Mar 2006 11:26:20 +0000

I agree.

by: Herr Mark

Tue, 28 Mar 2006 14:10:38 +0000

Thanks for your comments, and for all the pictures you’ve been sending in. There are some really very distinctive interpretations of the economic miracle coming to our attention. It seems we have opened up an area of economic history that has been under-represented by mainstream art.

So far, the best entry has been submitted by Herr Ed -

by: Klaus

Tue, 28 Mar 2006 13:24:37 +0000

I am thinking surely, we are not forgetting the music of electric pioneers Kraftwerk? I am mostly liking their unique brand of progressive pop, it is disco for the people yes? Potatos nein. Also I am very much thinking ‘Wind of Change’ by the Scorpions.

by: Dore

Tue, 28 Mar 2006 12:24:58 +0000

papier-mâché or potatoes. Either way, I don’t know how you can bring the all important Hoff-effect to life. David Hasselhoff is after all, credited with causing the spark that brought down the Berlin Wall and therefore unified the nation. Maybe we need a bronze of the famous shot of him with the puppies with a musical oom-pah rendition of ‘hooked on a feeling’ playing form speakers in the puppies. I’ll set to it.

by: Burkey

Tue, 28 Mar 2006 12:23:09 +0000

I would suggest a unique conceptual meta-comment on the spread of capitalism across the greater Germany through the 1990s and a celebration of the uniquely german single word concept of “schadenfreuden”. To wit: a time-based media representation of the fall of the wall and the development of a free market economy set against a satirical sideways-glance at steroetyping, invountary cultural ‘gag responses’ and the gift to the world that is the uniquely teutonic correlation between ‘multiple experiences’ and single word formations.

In other words a video of a fat bloke in leather shorts falling off a wall into a bucket of custard and money.