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JOCHEN GERZ
The Square of the European Promise, A speech by Jochen Gerz:
“49th City Talks”, Bochum Museum of Art, January 17, 2007
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“If it were possible
to start Europe all over again,” said Jean Monnet, the European
Union’s French father, “then I would start with culture.” Culture
has certainly not been waiting for politicians in order to make a contribution
to Europe >>
GEORG FRIEDRICH NICOLAI
Manifesto to the Europeans, October 1914
While technology and traffic
clearly drive us toward a factual recognition of international relations,
and thus toward a common world civilization, it is also true that no
war has ever so intensively interrupted the cultural communalism >>
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