The Realm of the Real
von Milo Rau
Erschienen in: Die Enthüllung des Realen – Milo Rau und das International Institute of Political Murder (11/2013)
I created my production company IIPM on 2007 as a working title for one of my neo-futurist phantasies at that time: to reenact on the large campus of the Festspielhaus Hellerau in Dresden (a big festival-area constructed in the beginning of the last century as an anti-center to Bayreuth and after the second world war one of the general bases of the red army in Germany), a diptyche of the two most known attempted assassinations of Hitler, both bomb attacks:
The one in 1939 in the Bürgerbräukeller in Munich which Hitler survived because he finished his speech 13 minutes earlier than scheduled (the air was foggy and Hitler instead of flying back to Berlin as announced took the train).
The other one in 1944 in the Wolfsschanze, known as the „Stauffenberg-Attentat“ or the „Attentat of the 20th of july“ – failed, because Hitler in the moment of the explosion leaned over a thick oak table who saved him like an armour plate. Stauffenberg – and with him the whole group of conspirators – was shot or hanged.
Even if this diptyche-installation wasn’t realised, the planning of it was the birth of the IIPM. Half a year before, in automne 2006,...