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The inability following after that to name at all any superior
aims for development lead to the term 'post modernism,
an understandable term in this connection, but otherwise
a highly critical one. But very certainly is something to be
noticed the latest since 1989/90, what can be named as
'the end of the big stories'.
And this does not only apply to politics. This can be
noticed also in the aesthetical-art area: instead of
visionary art - works dealing with individual partial problems, instead of innovative art critic - simpl imparting of art, instead of big novels - patch-work and short-stories.
Certainly this utopia loss is to be lamented - how it happened in the sovjetunion Prof. Jan Vogeler is able to tell about. but in the retreat to small stories, with which just artists have less problems than all who are connected , who are asked to judge - in all those small stories and moments there lies a plus in individual freedom. 'Short storys at the heide" is the name of this exhibition.

* The rural field is marked neatly, but the wild , former devastating now newly inhabited land of the heath land offers possibilities for free not yet defined encounter of different stories. Stories which go from inside to outside, blueprint structures and build nets, instead of forcibly duplicate only existing ones.
Traditionally also the heath land offers space for army
practices. Great, if they stay practices only. In the long run it could be an anthropological constant that human beings long for the big stories and want to bring them to live in fights - it seems hard to do without world-concerning utopia - in lieu also magical and mystical explaining icons are savoured.

* Art again and again tries to ask for and encourage autonomy out of its individual production. But individual freedom is partially not easy to be put through, partially not

easy to bear. And the everpresent leisure industry tries to occupy possible free spaces. In addition there are so
many mediums that one almost does not know what to do with them. World companies, like Bertelsmann, employ ãContent ScoutsÒ whose task it is to look for contents for already existing technical possibilities, because hypostated communication alone cannot be last purpose. It is certainly though the wrong path to look for contents for existing means instead of creating paths for existing contents - even if these contents are the small stories for the time being and not the big utopias.

* 4. The big utopias have kept father and son Vogeler busy for the most part of their lives. The art nouveau-artist Heinrich Vogeler wanted to beautify the world and make it a better place, his path lead him from the artist colony Worpswede to the Sovietunion of Stalin's. And his son Jan, born 1923 in Moskau, went the opposite way: from education in Moskau via the entering of Berlin with the Russian troups via Prof. for philosophy an the Lomonossow-university and in Leipzig (surprisingly doctoral thesis with Heidegger, habilitation with the Frankfurter Schule), then as a counsellor at the institute for society science with the ZK of the KPofSU and
translater in talks with the leading german companions until finally to partaking in Perestroika of Gorbatshof and to him leaving the party in 1990. 1998 the emigration to germany took place. We are lucky, to have such an important witness of time of power and the dismantling of the idea of sovjetsocialism with us.
I herewith give you, Professor Vogeler, the word."

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