FOR ENGLAND´S SAKE

Audioinstallation im Antikriegsmuseum, Berlin, 2007

4 speakers | players | benches | window film

 

Losing a person as a result of war is cruel and unnecessary. Those inscriptions originating in times of war were selected from the collection of epitaphs (Loved Ones 3) for the exhibition in the Anti-War Museum. The inscriptions are heard quietly whispered from the four corners of the room.

 

Installation Antikriegsmusum Berlin
Installation Antikriegsmusum Berlin
Installation Antikriegsmusum Berlin
Installation Antikriegsmusum Berlin

 

Whispered by Christine Knispel and Carsten Soltan
Audio engineering: Dirk Bartels

 

 

SELECTION OF EPHITAPHS:

 

for england´s sake

 

Wenn Liebe könnte Wunder tun und Tränen Tote wecken,

dann würde Dich mein lieber Sohn,

nicht kühle Erde decken.

 

far away he fought and died

his mothers and his countrys pride

 

Man liebt zweimal.

Das erste Mal in der Wirklichkeit.

Das zweite Mal in der Erinnerung.

 

Mit Gott in´s Feld.

 

Im Feld zu Gott!

 

Ich muß fort von den Wegen der Erde

und den Weg zu den Sternen suchen.

 

I thank my god upon every rememberance of you