Ruairì O'Brien, the architect and lighting designer, opened the
Traveling Micromusem Exhibition dedicated to the famous German writer Erich
Kaestner in Washington with a short talk at the German Embassy last tuesday night.
The exhibition system designed by O'Brien who is also Honorary President of the Erich Kaestner Museum in Dresden will travel to other cities in the USA over the next 6 months.
O'Briens concept is to present Erich Kaestner, who is famous for his children's books such as Emil and the Detective and film scripts such as Disney's "The parent trap" in the context of the four great cities in which he lived, Dresden, Leipzig, Berlin and Munich.
"The urban city life he portrays in his books such as “Emil and the detective” for children and “Fabian” for adults, both set in the Berlin of the 1930's, makes inspiring reading for architects and city planners, they are like blue prints of cities gone. Another example would be his autobiography "When I was a little boy" which describes the city of Dresden before the massive bombing and destruction that took place on 13 February 1945. When you have read this book, you realize that some things about a city are just not replaceable or are just impossible to reconstruct once gone. It is a reminder that war destroys forever full stop!"
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The exhibition system designed by O'Brien who is also Honorary President of the Erich Kaestner Museum in Dresden will travel to other cities in the USA over the next 6 months.
O'Briens concept is to present Erich Kaestner, who is famous for his children's books such as Emil and the Detective and film scripts such as Disney's "The parent trap" in the context of the four great cities in which he lived, Dresden, Leipzig, Berlin and Munich.
"The urban city life he portrays in his books such as “Emil and the detective” for children and “Fabian” for adults, both set in the Berlin of the 1930's, makes inspiring reading for architects and city planners, they are like blue prints of cities gone. Another example would be his autobiography "When I was a little boy" which describes the city of Dresden before the massive bombing and destruction that took place on 13 February 1945. When you have read this book, you realize that some things about a city are just not replaceable or are just impossible to reconstruct once gone. It is a reminder that war destroys forever full stop!"
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