schiller and goethe: humbly saying hello from weimar
AKA THE GUYS FROM THE LAND OF THE
POETS & THE THINKERS
our major areas of creativity
WHAT?OH! OH YES...EXCUSE ME.SO SORRY.I WASN‘T -I DID NOTCLEARLY,I MEANT...
SE GUYS FROM SE LÄND OF SE POETS
AND SE SINKERS
Thinking Philosophy: Germans always tried (and keep on trying) to develop perfect system. That is: crystal clear terms - crystally clear defined, deduced and established - in perfect logical proportion build a closed
system that explains, well, everythingposters (c) geniscarreras.com
YEP, THERE WAS A REASON WHY KANT IS AN
AMAZON TOPSELLER, BUT HARDLY READ
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Writing poems, novels, dramas, everything, countless epochs and works - and... we all read
some of those
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DOES NOT SOUND SO UN-CREATIVE
double negative, another german specialty
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WE ARE NOT CREATIVE
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ASK US!
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WE‘LL SWEAR WE ARE NOT
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RELIABLE,DISCIPLINED...
THAT‘S US
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WE ARE
CREATIVEthat‘s how our car industry works.
N O T
HOWEVER
„EXPORTWELTMEISTER“
world champion in exporting goods: others seem to like german products
PAH. JUST BUSINESS...
3 OF THE 5 MOST SUCCESSFUL
ARTISTS WORLDWIDE ARE GERMAN
gerhard richter, georg baselitz & rosemarie trockel - according to number and importance of exhibitions
EVEN IN ADVERTISING... LAST TIME, WE WERE
TOP 5 IN CANNES
FROM INVENTIN MODERN
CALCULATIONadam riese
WAGNER‘S RING
what a story - of everything, remember the beginning?
MODERN ARCHITECTURE
bauhaus
IT‘S NOT THAT THERE IS NO
CREATIVITY, BUT...
CREATIVITY AND ZEE GERMANS IS
AN AWKWARD THING
GERMANS...
EVERYDAYCREATIVE
WE MANAGE AN ARMY OF 20M TINY DWARFS
DEMONSTRATING:THIS IS NOT JUST A
GARDEN. THIS IS THE GARDEN
GARDEN - FOR GERMANS, THAT‘S
CREATIVITIY (ALMOST) AT IT‘S BEST
YES, THERE‘S A DWARF AWARD
for particularly nice and tidy garden work
AND HOME IMPROVEMENT... GOSH, WHAT A
WONDERFUL WAY TO GET CREATIVE
THIS IS PROBABLY THE LYNCHPIN OF
GERMAN EVERYDAY CREATIVITY
FISCHER DÜBEL best friend of german home improvers - most proliferated dowel
EVEN BETTER THAN WORLD-CLASS
BEARDSalso a trophy, another world championship for the germans
ORGANIZEDCREATIVITY
OKTOBERFEST: BIGGEST
ORGANIZED DRINKING IN THE
WORLD
FANMEILE72.000 square meter fans watching and celebrating football, 300.000 saw the opening game 2006
CARNIVAL
not rio, but what else is there?
CREATIVEORGANIZATION
WASTE SEPARATION:INVENTOR & WORLD
CHAMPION
ENERGY SAVING
THE PEAK OF AWESOMENESS: SMOKING BAN IN BARS, OH YAAA
MAKING SURE EVERYBODY GETS WHAT HE NEEDS
WHEN HE NEEDS IT
AND ALWAYS THE VERY WELL-DESERVED PLACE
THIS SAUSAGE IS NOT ALLOWED TO HEAR THE MID DAY BELL
THIS DEMANDS 7 FULL MINUTES
TO TAP
THIS ONE CAN ONLY BE SERVED IN THIS TYPE OF GLASS -
EVERYTHING ELSE IS A PROPER SIN
SAME HERE
AND HERE
AND... WELL, YOU GET THE IDEA
GERMAN CREATIVITY IS ABOUT...
WE LOVE TO INTELLECTUALIZE,
THEORIZE AND TECHNOLOGIZE
PERFECT
RELIABLE ANDDISCIPLINED
WE‘RE NOT CREATIVE!!!
GODDAMNIT!
SERIOUSLY, BECAUSE...
BEING CREATIVE EQUALS TRICKERY
IT‘S SKIPPING THE QUEUE
RUSHING THE BEER
wrong glass, too
AVOIDING TAXES
NOT RELIABLE,NOT DISCIPLINED,
UNCONTROLLABLE
HALF-ASSED
THAT‘S CREATIVE
THAT‘S A B R I D G E
WE DON‘T WANT.WE DON‘T WANT TO BE CREATIVE
THERE‘S A BACKGROUND STORY TO THAT
IT ALL STARTS WITH GOOD OLD GOD
GOD‘S SPARK
to be precise
HITS THE GENIUS
THE GENIUS!
THE GENIUS!
GENIUS!
cannot indicate scientifically how it brings about its product, but rather gives the rule as nature. Hence, where
an author owes a product to his genius, he does not himself know how the ideas for it have entered into his head, nor has he it in his power to invent the like at pleasure, or methodically, and communicate the same to others in such
precepts as would put them in a position to produce similar productsIMMANUEL KANT, THE UNREAD PHILOSOPHY GIANT
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cannot indicate scientifically how it brings about its product, but rather gives the rule as nature. Hence, where
an author owes a product to his genius, he does not himself know how the ideas for it have entered into his head, nor has he it in his power to invent the like at pleasure, or methodically, and communicate the same to others in such
precepts as would put them in a position to produce similar productsIMMANUEL KANT, THE UNREAD PHILOSOPHY GIANT
„does not imitate, but completes what nature couldn‘t accomplish.
creates possible worlds, it becomes the creator and - sort of - god.his ideas are not only his ideas - god-given...
OK, NOT NECESSARILY SUNSHINE AND RAINBOW ALL THE TIME, BUT...