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http://medienkunst.sk-kultur.de/core-lts/index.php/remotewords.html
Birgit Hauska
Cultural Education Media Art / Film

RW.19 …MAX, DER ERNST DES LEBENS…
Installed: 27-06-2012
Location: Max-Ernst-Gesamtschule, Köln, Germany | 50.979254,6.869216
Author: Franziska Lettang + REMOTEWORDS
Roof Size | Font Size: 250qm | 2m high
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The schoolyard of the Max Ernst Secondary School in Cologne Bocklemünd has a message: …Max, der Ernst des Lebens… /…Max the earnestness of life…
The phrase was developed in collaboration with the students and refers to the school’s name giver and to Dadaist sound poetry. Almost every child in Germany begins his school career with the portentous words: Now life starts in earnest…