Questions to Harald Schendera
- You can do without …?
- Johannes Rau
- Sabine Christiansen
Sunners
in the sea © Photo: Cyan Worlds, Inc.
What is your highest hope?
The Social Plastic.
And your secret passion?
To sing.
What pleases you?
To reflect on something while holding a pen in my hand.
What makes you laugh?
Bullet list prose in Powerpoint presentations.
What saddens you?
The silence of Beuys.
What is embarrassing for you?
To sing along.
What leads you into temptation?
A pearl necklace.
What things do exasperate you?
My wife.
How would you describe yourself?
Thinker type.
What do your enemies say about you?
No decency.
Which of your good attributes are misjudged?
Not a single one.
Which politician do you trust?
Criticism must be bitter. Otherwise it has no effect. Roman Herzog
I trusted Roman Herzog.
- Who reigns the country in ten years?
- The individual traffic
- Bureaucrats
What would you implement first?
We already have the federal electoral law, which is hypertrophic, but the federal referendum law is completely missing. A law where the sovereign could decide or raise objections. Such a federal referendum law in transition would be important to the highest extent. And furthermore, it would be very important that everyone stands behind initiatives, which are already there and which come and go again and again. Joseph Beuys: Reden über das eigene Land: Deutschland (Talking about the own country: Germany)
The federal referendum law.
- Who influences you in your work?
- Edward Tufte
- Alan Cooper
- Bruce Chatwin
- The material which speaks your language?
- Helium
- Diamond dust
Form follows …?
Nowhere.
Your color?
- The most beautiful names for blue:
- Cobalt Blue
- Illusion Blue
- Lapislazuli Blue
- Kitz Blue
- Steel Blue
- Gentian Blue
Midnight Blue.
- Your motto?
- Kneedeep in the credit facility
- More than this
Your signature song?
Dweller on the Threshold, Van Morrison.
For which painter's images would you spend a lot of money?
For a Morris Louis.
Your place in a painting?
Max
Schmitt im Einer Thomas Eakins
Max Schmitt im Einer (Max Schmitt in a Single Scull), Thomas Eakins.
Your favorite book?
Platform, Michel Houellebecq.
Your favorite song?
Beyond Love, The The.
Your favorite movie?
Blade Runner, Ridley Scott.
Your favorite actor?
Kenneth Branagh.
Your favorite toy?
The Alinghi SUI100.
What do you collect?
Color names.
Where would you like to have your secondary residence?
In Vancouver.
- Which dream do you want to fulfill for yourself?
- Gliding
- Kitesurfing
- Matter transmission over interplanetary distances without loss of time
Your preferred unit of measurement?
Cubic lightyears.
Your favorite figure in history?
William Adams.
With whom would you like to change parts for one month?
With Scott McCloud.
What does hold the world together in its inside?
A spreadsheet.
- Where do you want to be buried?
- In a pet cemetery
- In Riven
Who should write the funeral eulogy?
Two Sunners.
What sentence do you expect to be included in it?
… NMPF … NMPF