[HAND-PRINTED ARTIST BOOK COMMEMORATING RATTAY - BERLIN SQUATTER SCENE] Berlin 22.9. 81. Scheiben klirren und ihr schreit - Menschen sterben und ihr schweigt [Windows clink and you scream - people die and you stay silent]

Very rare hand-press print made in an edition of only 200 copies in memory of squatter Klaus-Jürgen Rattay, who died during a police eviction. The elaborate designed and printed volume gathers short lines of text dealing politically with the death of the squatter. After the evacuation of eight squatted houses as part of a large-scale police operation on September 22, 1981, Senator Heinrich Lummer gave a press conference in a previously vacated house. Demonstrators gradually gathered in front of the building to protest against Lummer. The group was dispersed by a police operation. While running across the street, 18-year-old Klaus-Jürgen Rattay was hit by a bus and dragged to death under the left front wheel.

An anusually elaborately produced document and art object about the Berlin squatter scene. Dieter Wagner, a printer, developed his hand press from the old lead types that had become obsolete. The materials from the old printing techniques were stored in the factory yards so that they could be picked up by scrap dealers or the garbage collectors. Wagner used the principle of reuse consistently and printed on paper remnants and waste sheets that could also be found from the printers' yards. In this way, each print from Wagner's press is individual and also contingent in its design. An important point of reference for Wagner was Victor Otto Stomps, who had been working with printing waste and unusual materials for a very long time. Also influential for him were Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman and Franz Mon. In 1985, the city of Mainz awarded him the prestigious Victor Otto Stomps Prize. His prints are in the Klingspor Museum in Offenbach am Main, the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris, and the Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry in Miami Beach.

Spindler 134.10

As of January 2024, not found in KVK, OCLC. Very rare hand-press print made in an edition of only 200 copies in memory of squatter Klaus-Jürgen Rattay, who died during a police eviction. The elaborate designed and printed volume gathers short lines of text dealing politically with the death of the squatter. After the evacuation of eight squatted houses as part of a large-scale police operation on September 22, 1981, Senator Heinrich Lummer gave a press conference in a previously vacated house. Demonstrators gradually gathered in front of the building to protest against Lummer. The group was dispersed by a police operation. While running across the street, 18-year-old Klaus-Jürgen Rattay was hit by a bus and dragged to death under the left front wheel.

An anusually elaborately produced document and art object about the Berlin squatter scene. Dieter Wagner, a printer, developed his hand press from the old lead types that had become obsolete. The materials from the old printing techniques were stored in the factory yards so that they could be picked up by scrap dealers or the garbage collectors. Wagner used the principle of reuse consistently and printed on paper remnants and waste sheets that could also be found from the printers' yards. In this way, each print from Wagner's press is individual and also contingent in its design. An important point of reference for Wagner was Victor Otto Stomps, who had been working with printing waste and unusual materials for a very long time. Also influential for him were Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman and Franz Mon. In 1985, the city of Mainz awarded him the prestigious Victor Otto Stomps Prize. His prints are in the Klingspor Museum in Offenbach am Main, the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris, and the Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry in Miami Beach.

Spindler 134.10

As of January 2024, not found in KVK, OCLC.