[rohrpost] Krieg im Juni / War in June

[Mindaugas Gapsevicius]

Krieg im Juni / War in June

The local armaments industry uses in fine tradition names of predators
with pleasure. Can one put in question this kind of aesthetics? In a
"Night of Bombing" in 1943 the Armament City of Kassel and exceedingly
the inner city (in the Old Town nearly up to 97% demolition) became
almost Ground Zero. Does Kassel have the "Hiroshima Bank" at the river
Fulda due to this fact or because of a strategy of distraction? With
"War in June" the POT in the Kurt-Schumacher-Str. 27 in Kassel, Germany
assembles aspects of militarisation.

Do., 21.06.2012 / Th., 21.06.2012
20:00-??:??

POT
Kurt-Schumacher-Str. 27
34117 Kassel
Germany
http://pot.top-ev.de/krieg-im-juni-war-in-june

38317: Kasseler Schule 2 / Kassel School 2
http://www.n0name.de/38317/kschul2/start.html

Joeres Wilky: 3 Fotos / Photos. Hiroschimaufer / Hiroshima Bank, Kassel

t-shirtz.org: PUMADIDAS
http://www.t-shirtz.org

Panzerknacken: http://panzerknacken.blogsport.de

glitchè: JDing* an einem Ende der Modernitaet / at one End of Modernness
*Jockey Discing


Where Vehicles of the Volk run: The so called "Pee Mile"

Kassel's old town must have been a cooking pot[1] of regional dialects
and therefore petit bourgeois-proletarian peculiarities. In a "Night
of Bombing"[2] in 1943 the Armament City of Kassel and exceedingly
the inner city (there nearly up to 97% demolition) became almost
Ground Zero. Every inhabitant knows already that this caesura was
prepared:

"All in all a sketch of town planning was pursued that was designed
during times of fascism since the 1930ies (already in expectation of
a war destruction) which was until the beginning of the war realised
alone within the enucleation of the medieval old town and the
creation of the 'Freiheiter Durchbruch' ('Freedom's Breach')."
(Wikipedia, "Kassel")

According to that this town was planning-related a War City, Garrison
Town, Military Town, Governing Town, Esoterics Town, City of Museums,
City of Burghers; after '45 for the hedging of the restauration of
German Capitalism. As a result the recovery was not at all one in the
aftermath of a general collapse, it was upgrade and update (this
becomes clear by the fomerly most modern crossroads of Europe, the
Old Market).
The Freiheiter Durchbruch[3] became a road for cars and along this
four-laneness the "Modernism of Recovery" turned into Pavillions of
Glas for china restaurants in the 1970ies and driving schools in the
1990es. This shabby row is popularly called "Pee Mile" which will be
demolished soon, as being said.

When this pejoration[4] of Modernity and the Modern in the "City"
(as the pedstrian area in competition with this street was named in
the 1980ies) concludes the fail of the monotone building up and
strives to level up the consumption configured in glas and concrete
now to a multifarious Galeria-Standard (as one might presume) we are
at this one end of modernness -- that is also an end of urban
landscape, a highly frequented dead end or cul-de-sac of an
"Automobiles up and down, in and out" in the middle of the town --
very close to a disillusioning noise of the car traffic, post-mixing,
downpitching. Here the nationalised Vehicles of the Volk with flags
run back and forth in the victories of the European Championships of
Football.

As if on command a talk was given by an urbanist in white shirt in
the neighbourhood, at a students of architecture's place, on
revitalisation, this time of Rotterdam. As is known Rotterdam was
destroyed in the course of the attack of The Netherlands by the
German Airforce on May 14, 1940. Almost three years only separate
the Kassel Bombennacht (October 10, 1943) and the "Rotterdam Blitz".
And as expected these planners care about "unxeploited
potentialities" and "forgotten leftover spaces".[5]
Does one do "Artgineering"?[6] Is the drone of bombers post-dramatic?
How far can cliché go, how far glitchè?
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[1] Axel Herwig. _Das Kasseler Mundart-Woerterbuch (Kassel Dialect
Dictionary)_. Wartberg Verlag, 2005. P. 68.
[2] The idiom "Bombennacht" has a double meaning at this place and
can be interpreted like boomerang-shaped. It can be read as
smashing night ("bombige Nacht") which implies how deep
linguistical militaria have effect. And it *must* be read
historically nearly always in rememberance of the war of
destruction which came back to the Germans in Kassel. Compare
the following website between nostalgic apotheosis and
fascination for the terror of the enemy:
http://www.hna.de/lokales/kassel/bombennacht .
[3] http://regiowiki.hna.de/images/a/ab/Altmarkt.jpg
[4] A pejoration is a reinterpretation which converts an historically
neutral or positive term into a negative term.
[5] 
http://cms.uni-kassel.de/asl/kommunikation/veranstaltungsreihen/aktuelle-veranstaltungsreihen/sub40
[6] http://www.artgineering.nl