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- Herausgeber: Books on Demand
- Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
- Sprache: Englisch
- Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018
In the shadow of personality cults, barbarity, absurdity and madness, very often the human beings behind the influential leaders disappears. The science fiction writer and founding father of the Scientology Church, L. Ron Hubbard, and the late Beloved Leader of North Korea, Kim Jong Il, meet by accident in Venice in the fifties. Spontaneous sympathy soon turns into a very special, deep friendship. From petty juvenile jealousy over a bumpy lifetime with setbacks and frictions until their deaths, the uninhibited reader finds curiosity and banalities, mixed with serious world political decisions. Last but not least, the reading illuminates connections and facts which we now perceive as the legacies of these two men.
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About the Author:
Christian Maurer, born in Leoben, Austria, studied experimental design at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. In 1989, he left his studies and moved to Berlin where he experienced the Berlin Wall just weeks before it‘s fall. This event opened the flood gates of movement and creativity in Berlin, with installations to performance art to gallery installations, uninhibited by the emerging Art Market. In this rich environment, Maurer drew inspiration, unconstrained, creating unsellable and sellable works. His work is independent of outside influences. Starting a new project, there is no end goal in sight as it may change during the work process itself. He no longer employes the word “art” to describe his work.
A more detailed biography and an overview of his work can be found on the website http://www.christianmaurer-berlin.de
About the Book:
In the shadow of personality cults, barbarity, absurdity and madness, very often the human beings behind the worlds‘ influential leaders disappears. The science fiction writer and founding father of the so-called Scientology Church, L. Ron Hubbard, and the late “Beloved Leader” of North Korea, Kim Jong Il, met by accident in Venice in the 1950‘s.
Spontaneous sympathy soon turned into a very special, deep friendship. From petty juvenile jealousy over a bumpy lifetime with setbacks and frictions until their deaths, the uninhibited reader finds curiosity and banalities, mixed with serious world political decisions. Last but not least, the reading illuminates connections and facts which we now perceive as the legacies of these two men.
In a time of the inflationary use of the words Fake News and Alternative Facts, the author manages to tell the story right, wrong, and in any case understandably, parallel to academic historical research.
This project, which is now available in book form, was envisioned as a “traveling exhibition for public education” and was presented in full at the Freies Museum Berlin in 2011.
I am extremely thankful to Dirk Steglich, Christian Lenke, Veronika Heller and Roman Lüttmerding for their support.
Table of Contents
1950
1951-1958
1959-1961
1962-1964
1965-1971
1972-1979
1980-1994
1995-2000
2001-2010
2010
1950
L. Ron Hubbard
Kim Jong Il
Seventeen-year-old Kim Jong Il and the twenty-five-year-old L. Ron Hubbard meet during a visit in Venice where Kim Jong Il is selling self made paintings to passers-by.
As a mediocre painter but clever trader, he gives Potted Flowers on a Balcony in Calle Sinistra” for a small fee to the strolling around L. Ron Hubbard. The latter invites the charming young man to a meal at Da Ludovico. (The restaurant in Calle Vincente does not exist anymore.)
Immediately the two sympathize with one another.
A week after the first meeting Kim Jong Il gets a message that his aunt has died as a result of the Japanese occupation of Korea.
Calle Sinistra della Santa Croce (Venice 1958)
L. Ron Hubbard continues traveling to Marseille.
