90-year-old is museum-bust-up with a famous Cologne … – Südwestpresse

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A few letters that she entered in a crossword puzzle, has Hannelore K. (90) brings headlines: “Kunstschänderin!” she remains calm

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Modern Art – that has always been their thing and not just since her for leaves of retired enough time. Hannelore K.s motto: “You have to inform what the young artists do so nevertheless. You can not always just look at van Delft and Rembrandt. “Ironically, their interest in contemporary art has the lives of mentally pot rode 90-year-old from Nuremberg to Cologne roots, a former physician, whirled exactly one month ago.

a few pen strokes has caused a small museum scandal on July 13. The brought her not only a criminal complaint for “common malicious damage to property” one but catapulted them even global headlines. TV crews ask for interviews, talk show host load them into their talk show a – mostly unsuccessfully. Already out of consideration for her family wants K. not be more than necessary in the media.

In addition, the Cologne-born who wants to read her full name not be positioned in the newspaper, the excitement surrounding the incident understood not. When she for coolie attacked at a museum tour and in a collage of deceased Fluxus artist Arthur Köpcke several boxes of crossword filled -. Because they have but acted only in the artist

“In addition to the crossword is but clear, insert words’ ( “carrying a dictionary”). That’s Fluxus art, otherwise I would have not done, “argues K. Fluxus is an open art and invite viewers to a, to complete the works of artists.

In the Germanic Museum, a few stone throwing Next, they would never get the idea, scribble art by old masters, says K. “But in the new Museum’s different. They’re modern artists. “

In the writing workshop circle of the Evangelical City Mission, where K. collaborates for six to seven years, it has now anyway enough material for their next short story. Had she been worked their youthful memories as prose and rhymes written, it can now tell how you feel when you have to wait as alleged Kunstschänderin at police headquarters on his cross-examination.

to survive all this, while you have helped her Rhenish serenity, she is convinced – and lays a card with the “Kölschen basic law” on the table: “it et as et, et kütt as et kütt. Et’d still jot jejange. “This is perhaps also the recipe of her long life, says in casual summer pants and pink T-shirt-clad, slim retiree. “Sometimes when you do not feel so good, you do not always have equal rumknatschen.”

Physically she keeps fit with regular exercises and massage. Until the age of 80 she had practiced in a Nuremberg dance school tap dance. Once a week she meets with friends for Canasta and read daily newspaper. “You have to think positive and learn anywhere -. Which keeps you fit”

In the New Museum you see the incident from mid-July now left relatively – set and would like to see would be the investigation into the 90-year-old , Since the end of July the restored Köpcke painting again hangs in the exhibition. The restoration costs were moving in a “low three-digit range”, it says on the website of the museum. Meanwhile, also museum boss Eva Kraus has sought in a meeting with Hannelore K. at reconciliation.

As for the argument by Hannelore K., Fluxus was a kind of participatory art, the museum’s management insists, however, continue on their Position. Museum spokeswoman Eva Martin: “In Fluxus audiences will actually prompted mitzutun in creating the artwork. . But eventually ending the campaign “Be finished the performance, then should not be supplemented with Fluxus artworks – as with all other art works in the house. “In our house rules is clear that art must not be damaged.”