Szenenfoto from "Freak Orlando" in the book by Ulrike Ottinger (Berlin 1981)
During occurred in the seventies, "Freaks" in this country possibly even in the form of the inevitable dwarf Auguste in large circuses in the show staging area in appearance, seemed they have practiced at this time a special fascination for artists and intellectuals to. Example of this may be the then emerging popularity of the photos by Diane Arbus, or the rediscovery of Tod Browning film "Freaks".
The standard still used today on the subject, "show freaks and monsters" appeared 1974th David Levi Strauss is the author herein before the famous "show freaks" of old and interesting statements leads to the concept and the "psychology" of the "Freaks" and defining the supposedly "normal" from "Ab-normal" on. At the end of the book refers to a page with an empty frame: The reader has to glue the possibility of his own likeness.
The pictures are from the artists and collectors Felix Adanos in the mid-70s with his "Panopticum 1900" an acclaimed exhibition on "Rrrrrraritäten, curios, limbs and Athletes" presented.
Many examples of artistic engagement with the issue always provided André Heller. Especially in the film industry were "freaks" very present, so with Ulrike Ottinger its really bulky film "Freak Orlando" in 1981.
enjoyed great popularity, however, the great films of Federico Fellini and of course the film version of "The Tin Drum" with the "freak" Oscar Matzerath as a main character.
prevailed in the '80s, the "Poltical Correctness," the "Freak" was primarily regarded as a disabled man whose "exceptional" or "specificity" to see as was aware. One example is the criticism of the involvement of "Little Helmut" at Circus Roncalli in 1983, which was not finally continued: "The little man is suffering severely from his expulsion, young Helmut is expelled from the Kingdom of the jester, where he was for many years King . No one from all the fashionable critical (...) intellectual, all questioning scene members asked him whether he has made his work much. " (Bernhard Paul Roncalli and his artists, Cologne 1991, p.135)
prevailed in the '80s, the "Poltical Correctness," the "Freak" was primarily regarded as a disabled man whose "exceptional" or "specificity" to see as was aware. One example is the criticism of the involvement of "Little Helmut" at Circus Roncalli in 1983, which was not finally continued: "The little man is suffering severely from his expulsion, young Helmut is expelled from the Kingdom of the jester, where he was for many years King . No one from all the fashionable critical (...) intellectual, all questioning scene members asked him whether he has made his work much. " (Bernhard Paul Roncalli and his artists, Cologne 1991, p.135)
present a new desire seems most bizarre, "abnormal" pay, then toured as the group "Tigers Lillies' success with their "freak show" by the country ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeuJoTs6MT8&feature=player_embedded ) and the actress and clown-wife Catherine Witerzens presented in her new solo program "show booth" and others as "dwarf princess Perla" and as "the ugliest woman in the world" ( http://www.theatersolo.de )
- perhaps indicative of the beginning of a new "Freaky Decade "...
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