The Twelve Nights of Christmas, the journey concluded: Night 12, the...
The title came as swiftly as the image and the artist obeyed both. The Mechanics of Longing. This drawing concludes my twelve night drawing meditation. As the new year is already starting to make its...
View ArticleBrooklyn Art Library: The Sketchbook Project … to be postmarked by January 15th
http://www.sketchbookproject.com/brooklynartlibrary The Sketchbook Project is a global, crowd-sourced art project and interactive, traveling exhibition of handmade books by the Brooklyn Art Library....
View ArticleZur Natur des Rats der Könige und Kriegstreiber – on the nature of the...
Once they realized that there was not one king or one queen, but a succession of kings and queens each of whom was “the” king or “the” queen regardless of their individual identity, so that in fact,...
View Articleassault on reason
there was a time the child knew with unfailing certitude that what was presented to her as the inevitable if not inexorable logic of reason was but a clever disguise for the a massive assault on reason .
View ArticleThe elusive act of teaching children how to be creative …
To be creative is a basic desire of humans, all humans. It is a genuine expression of who we are even before we are defined by our social and economic circumstances. To teach a child to be creative...
View ArticleDie Strafprozessordnung als Mittel zur Restitution von NS-Raubkunst?
Jenen, die mir im Zusammenhang mit meinem kurzen dpa-Interview zu der von den von Herrn Cornelius Gurlitt beauftragten Rechtsanwälte eingelegten Beschwerde gegen die Beschlagnahme der Bilder aus der...
View ArticleArtist’s logic: to a friend who just celebrated an important birthday, (isn’t...
While I travel between two very different worlds, one might just as well say, universes, between the paper world of the lawyer backed up by the many stories and needs of my clients, as different from...
View ArticleDer Fall Eichmann: Strafrechtliche Verantwortlichkeit für staatlich...
Der Fall Eichmann: Strafrechtliche Verantwortlichkeit für staatlich legitimiertes Handeln. In der letzten Wochenende-Ausgabe der “taz” (vom 15.03.14) erschien ein Interview zum Thema Restitution von...
View ArticleDas Möbiusband
K fährt vorsichtig mit der Spitze ihres Zeigefingers an der goldenen Schlinge entlang. Der Anhänger ist das kunstvolle Modell eines Möbiusbandes, ein mathematisches Fingerspiel. Ihr Großvater, Nicolai...
View Articleautocorrect
When she was ready to write, the first word that presented itself was: nocolor. Autocorrect corrected it three times over. Autocorrect wrote: “No color”. The word as it needed to be was: nocolor. She...
View ArticleMONSTER.KUNST.KINDER.RECHTE, Ausstellung im Landeshaus Kiel vom 17.11. –...
Einladung_Querformat-Monster-fuers-web Mit angemessener Nervosität zähle ich die Stunden bis zur Eröffnung der Ausstellung im Landeshaus Kiel. Die Monster, die als Botschafter der UN...
View ArticleSchrödinger’s cat – or: On the art of being in multiple locations simultaneously
After a couple of years working part time as a lawyer I just started working in a full time position. The first week brought me to about 50 hours and an additional 13 hours commuting time. My brain...
View ArticleMonsters for the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
A bit of madness, an inch of kindness, 2 grams of compassion, a squeeze of foresight, a millimeter of imagination … if you want peace for Europe you need to strive for peace outside Europe. Integrating...
View ArticleArt. 1 GG (German Constitution)
Monsters for Children’s Rights. Clausnitz: On this day when some who felt they were entitled to do so, took pride in scaring and rough handling already traumatized refugee children, I point out: Have a...
View ArticleArt.22 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: subjecting refugee children...
1. States Parties shall take appropriate measures to ensure that a child who is seeking refugee status or who is considered a refugee in accordance with applicable international or domestic law and...
View ArticleNächtlicher Brief an einen fernen Freund, zum Glück…
… Ich nehme dieses ” Sich in die Welt erzählen” sehr ernst. Das Wort, das mit einem Buchstaben beginnt, der Buchstabe, der in einer Linie beginnt. Die Linie, die tanzt, deren Ausdehnung Zeit bedeutet...
View ArticleMonstrous Creative Frenzy
The more legal work there is the more creative output i seem to generate.
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