In this small series, he delves into the biographies of people who are known from his books or films.
With the Haushofer family, the illustrator Olaf Gulbransson, and the "Apple Pastor" Korbinian Aigner, the recurring question is: How does one behave in politically precarious phases that require courage or even bravery? The answers vary. It is not about judging comfortably from today's perspective and making judgments of right or wrong. It is about understanding why one acted one way and the other another. Biographies of other people can always help to better understand oneself and thus develop alternative actions for oneself.
Every person encounters thresholds in life. One can fearfully stand still before them because they do not trust themselves to make the change, or overcome them to embark on a new beginning. Every threshold, every door means the transition from one side to the other, the beginning of something new, the entry into a different living space.
Part 2: Between obstinacy and contemplation. The illustrator Olaf Gulbransson.
The ingenious illustrator Olaf Gulbransson, who significantly shaped the image of the satirical magazine Simplicissimus, is a contemporary who shows us how to stubbornly be eccentric, meditatively calm through the adversities of existence, and still be able to laugh. It is very worthwhile to get to know this powerful, emotional and soulful person more closely, a person of contradictions, of light and shadow.
In 1905, Olaf Gulbransson illustrated Ludwig Thomas' Lausbubengeschichten. More than the text itself, the memory of the reader is shaped by the tousled hair of a sturdy prankster, as Gulbransson drew him - this rebellious tuft in the untamable mane of a Bavarian boy. In him persists a fundamental obstinacy against all things orderly, systematic, smoothing, and above all, authoritative. That is one side, also in the life of Olaf Gulbransson.
Another: The Tegernsee has been painted a lot and often, but no one has seen it like the Norwegian Olaf Gulbransson: as a Norwegian fjord in Bavarian-Japanese mountains, the Hirschberg as Fujiyama, as a brilliantly simplified, wise, holy mountain behind the lake. A painting, of which Dagny Gulbransson recalls that her husband painted it on the day when the defeat of Stalingrad became known in Germany. A deep peace emanates from this portrait: sky, Hirschberg, starling nest are depicted in delicate, pure light blue, one single great unity.
With the narration of his life, in the polarity of obstinacy and contemplation, a piece of contemporary history emerges - and above all, a story for each of us: How do I behave in this world, especially when things get tight? Once again, the question arises as to whether the work and life of an artist can be separated from each other.
Concept & Moderation
GERD HOLZHEIMER
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GERD HOLZHEIMER is an author, editor, and literary jack-of-all-trades. Since 2011, in his series at bosco, he has been picking different fruits of literature from his tree of knowledge. This time on the theme of hope. In this three-part series, Gerd Holzheimer is accompanied by a different reader each time.
Photo: Werner Gruban
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