Die Eingeborenen von Trizonesien

In the organizer's words:

We are the natives of Trizonesia! Heidi-tschimmela-tschimmela-tschimmela-tschimmela-bumm!

Legislation is generally associated with dry paragraphs and coded clarity. But the paradox and ambiguity of language lurk in the very origins of the German Basic Law: for what reason is this law supposed to describe? And which is correct: the human being that is to be protected or the human being itself? And if human dignity were inviolable, then the state would not have to protect it ...

A carnival song in 1948 (shortly before the Basic Law was passed) describes the German people as natives of Trizonesia. This popular song was mistakenly sung by the Allies as the German national anthem on more than one occasion, so that the song remained at least an unofficial national anthem. In the song, Karl Berbuer sings about the three western sectors, which were united to form a single economic area: So German post-war unification is first preceded by the economy.

What kind of strange people are these natives who are still more than skeptical about the project when the German Basic Law is passed? As recently as the 1950s, the majority of the German population voted that they had experienced the greatest good under the German Empire and the Nazi regime. Even the abolition of the death penalty was met with suspicion by the German people. Oh, you strange natives!

"The task of art today is to bring chaos into order", said Theodor W. Adorno. With this in mind, Björn SC Deigner's new commissioned work aims to tell a German story that casts a wild spotlight on us with the means of linguistic playfulness and the absurd. But wait a minute! We are not man-eaters!

Even Goethe comes from Trizonesia! Heidi-tschimmela- tschimmela-tschimmela-tschimmela-bumm!