And we wanted to help Helmut Kohl also. For one week he left the temple of theatre and hit the streets with street activism,art demonstrations, processions, etc. They could express themselves through open mikes and Schlingensief collected money for them in a huge Gala. And save the market economy. Money has a become a fetish, a latter-day taboo.
Rich people can only liberate themselves by giving away their money.
And only the poor can help them - by accepting that money. Modern management theories like Tom Peters' suggest that in this world only those companies can survive that take values like human dignity very seriously. Not selling the customers stuff, but serving the people is the new orientation in the market place. While in 1989 the Wall fell, we felt that in 1998 the 4th wall had to fall. While intellectuals in the tradition from Niklas Luhmann like Dirk Baecker show that we can never dissolve the differences between those opposites, Schlingensief proved in his work of theatre the opposite.