In the summer of 2009 Nicolas Hodges performed my "Orpheus Unplugged" (text: Albert Ostermaier). After the concert these two cherished friends kidnapped me... to the next pub.

 

 

 

 

 

 

As the Catholic Church has specialized in all forms of sex during the last decennia, I decided to seduce (and to marry) a holy man from that club.

Since 2000 years they are immensly rich. In 2006 I found my ideal lover on a bench in a Cologne Hotel (a previous monastery). Brother Martin was a wooden replica of his former earthly life. Makes things easier to get ones hands on the money of 'Rome' without permanent disputes with your wooden lover...

 

 

In 2007 something dramatical happened in my life. It had pleased Her Majesty, the Queen of the Netherlands, to confer on me the Royal order of "Officer of the Order of Oranje". The most important advantage: All my English colleagues have to call me "Sir Konrad" from now on.

The disadvantage: My dearest friend, the composer Willem Breuker immediately tried to deprive me of the high decoration.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A week before that Royal Decoration, I returned from North Korea, where I posed before the gigantic statue of the late president Kim Il Sung. But I also had talks with high governmental officials concerning the rights of their authors. During that stay I was invited at the newly built "Kim Wong Gyun" conservatory of Music. As I was told, this impressive, wonderful building had been designed entirely by Kim's son Kim Yong Il.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In the Golden Book I invited him to come over to Europe to built at least 10 of these wunderful conservatories of music here. Look how I am writing my - slightly ironical - text in their Golden Book.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2009, back to the future. Returning from a lecture-trip to Dresden, I passed through the "Bergisches Land" (East of Cologne), where I have spent the most happy years of my childhood.

In that beautiful little house in the hamlet Durbusch (it had other colours in my time) I learned from the wunderful communist couple Aenne and Willy Lindenberg more about ethics and justice than at every later moment in my life.

 

 

 

A day before my trip to Durbusch, my dear friend Wolfgang Hamm made this photo. Once upon a time we edited the "Sozialistische Zeitschrift für Kunst und Gesellschaft".

The photo shows that I am still young enough to restart the adventure (or at least: to keep to its ideals), even after some very big and good glasses of Whiskey from Wolfgangs abundant cellar...

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