Dragon counter songs

The dragon counter songs were a street art project on the occasion of the Federal Garden Show 2005 in Munich . At various locations in Munich, 10 × 30 cm plaques were attached to the floor, on each of which a verse from the dragon counter songs could be read. In addition, each chapter and verse and the note art level, on 10 × 30cm, can be discussed and danced .

On the website of the project it was further explained: The art levels are license-free action sites that can be used by everyone, ie without obtaining permits, people can dance and / or perform facial expressions on them; An installation can also be set up at a maximum height of 3 meters without obtaining approval from the building department and the local building commission of the city of Munich.

The artists involved in the project formed the group of "dragon counters" (Robert Hofmann, Berkan Karpat , Philipp Kolb and Andreas Ohrenschall). The texts of the plaques come from Andreas Ohrenschall.

The condition of the badges is very different, depending mainly on how much they are exposed to traffic (parked cars, driveways, etc.). Some of the badges can no longer be found.

Locations of the plaques with texts, photographs and explanations

The table below lists the locations of the badges with texts and explanations.

image	verse	place	text	Explanation
Chapter I.
	I / 1	Orleansplatz / corner of Wörthstraße	“VIVE LA FRANCE!” Does not mean “tuez le dragon!” At the same time, but also counts the underworld plants to the roots of the boundless oak forests.	The names of some of the Haidhauser squares and streets referred to French cities that were the scene of German aggression in the Franco-German War of 1870/71. Baron von Eichthal (1813-1880) had the first socio-politically motivated drawing board settlements built here.
	I / 2	Bordeauxplatz / Pariser Straße (former Max Reger houses)	He went and heard more: nuances, large wings. Unrelated to the subject bitterly read a judgment from already yellowing papers, to throw it at him, who could weave dragon skins into thick sound.	In memory of Max Reger and his departure from Munich, insulted by a music critic whose perception seeped into “Wagner versus Brahms” templates. Reger lived from October 1902 to September 1903 at Wörthstraße 20 on Bordeauxplatz.
	I / 3	Preysingstrasse / near Kriechbaumhof	Wooden dragon disguised as a peasant shrine. Ruminating mummy - fresh geraniums well up from their mouths. Indigestible for invisible passers-by, as far as they lived nearby, their minds still growl with hunger for longing and roasted buttons.
	I / 4	Johannisplatz at the passage to Preysingstrasse	Princely hedges rustle in your memory. Domus Dei brick red. Looking for edification in the building, tears streaked with locked gates. Flooded as far as the tower, some drown praying in the necks of their most hated beasts, about whose faces they agree, but ignore their origins in the most ignorant way.	St. Johannes am Preysingplatz was the fourth Evangelical Lutheran church in Munich. It was completed in 1889. The Johannisplatz, formerly the palace and garden of the “Haidhauser Hofmark ” (1685-1812), then the so-called Metzgeranger, then after the incorporation of a sacred construction site with an accompanying legal dispute between the Archdiocese and the city of Munich, to whom the square now belongs the church is standing.
	I / 5	Max-Weber-Platz / Einsteinstrasse / Innere Wiener Strasse	“I barely walk and already think I'm far. - You see my son, time becomes space here “In Parsifal's soul orbit, the little physicist intuitively - but unfortunately badly warmed by maternal self-birth and tightly lined. Knowledge and truth lean against each other like two drinking brothers - one might think. And haven't beauty and gravity always posed similar puzzles?	From the libretto of Richard Wagner's opera Parsifal (1882): PARSIFAL I hardly step but I think I'm already far. GURNEMANZ You see my son time becomes space here. Albert Einstein examined the connection between gravity and spacetime in his work on general relativity .
	I / 6	At Kreppe / Sckellstrasse	Monopteros made of bones, infant pen for rat mothers. Metaphors of poverty shaken off slippery, reflective scales. Album flourishes for the local club.	The steady stream of rural populations to Munich over the past 400 years found accommodation in the so-called "chambers" or hostels. The strong increase in immigration in the middle of the 19th century exacerbated poverty and made already cramped living space even tighter and more expensive. The hygienic conditions caused diseases like cholera. In the 60s and 70s of the 19th century, centrally planned apartment buildings for the poorer population were built in Haidhausen. Inexpensive and therefore often inadequate.
	I / 7	Wiener Platz / Grütznerstrasse	"Cheeeese !!" Grinning can also numb the ear. He knew it. Countless, foggy faces with jug in hand. Oh ancestor of all insurance brochures - sober, family drenched with hysterical laughter. Yes, Grützner knew: this dragon is too big.	Location of the former villa of the painter Eduard Theodor von Grützner (1846-1925), academy professor and creator of popular pub scenes with monks blessed with wine.
	I / 8	Landtag curb bus parking lot	Surrounded, circumnavigated, this is how the place must be on this side, despite Elysian parcels, strollers pacified. Rebellion worn out inside. State dragon trainers rave about when adversity allows it.
	I / 9	Water management office at the weir house	If dragons spit in the river, it foams like the sea, no mortal will get sick from it. In earlier times people tried to drown them here and let them drift as far as the Danube. That was bad for the citizens. After all, they were exuberant doppelgangers that had been shamefully decided to drive out.
Chapter II
	II / 1	Holy Spirit Church / Prelate Miller Way (not found)	They chase the worm from all the towers. Like a proud citizen, he strolls among the rich and the poor. But they drive away fear by looking down from the crosses "in hoc signo vinces". Now he is lying down and his limbs adorn the soup bowls unnoticed.	1387 fishermen's houses in the "Fischergasse" named after them after the rerouting of the Roßschwemmbach water in the newly created Fischerbach. Heilig-Geist-Spital first documented in 1250 . Up to the 19th century also feeding the poor. Since 1833 "Heilig-Geist-Straße".
	II / 2	Rumfordstrasse / Buttermelcherstrasse	For the city was arranged humanity, the oasis and also discovered the warmth reason. Basilisk of Fame - engraved in the Count's chest, he wanted to be celebrated, not the work. The Prince Genius - magnificent plumage from overseas. If the bird takes pleasure in its own song, the dumb one usually resents it. Secret medals it was a flicker in the vault.	Sir Benjamin Thompson , Earl of Rumford (1753-1814) British-American physicist. From 1784 in Bavarian service. Introduction of efficient measures against poverty and misery (schools, poor houses, " Rumford soup " etc.). Arrange for the English garden to be built . Discovered that heat is not a substance ( frictional heat ) and caused the Munich council to kneel in front of the picture of the elector through the “thanksgiving affair”. The said acknowledgment was an address of thanks probably going back to Rumford to the elector Karl Theodor , bypassing the Munich council, which led to a journalistic dispute with various pamphlets, in which the elector finally intervened and in 1790 refused to "confirm" the newly elected council that Munich was without a city government. Only after the aforementioned gesture of submission could a new election take place according to guidelines changed by the elector.
	II / 2a	Reichenbachstrasse 10	FEAR EATING SOUL ON CORKU RUHU YER
	II / 3	Buttermelcherstraße 16 (delivery Rischart )	“Master baker as patron”, commedia per musica, recorded posthumously by the later Mannheim school daily, presented every day, even the strongest and most preserved of our dragons died a brocade death.
	II / 4	Kohlstrasse opposite the European Patent Office	Creation is mine! the scream freezes in the reception glass of the guards who know nothing, did not know anything, with solitaires at their backs lean in front of the ghosts, soon great gentlemen, provided with the permission to say: Mine! and no fury gnaws the livers of the avaricious of fire.	There was once a prison here.
	II / 5	Deutsches Museum / Boschbrücke on the Bismarck statue	The emperor hit the dragon egg. Stars brooded their nests - from the afterbirth of light. No weathercock, no eagle's nest, no magical village blue and white built in a well-designed city. Red sandstone, on the other hand, is curious, stripped of his sight as a chancellor on weeping willows.	Founding of the Deutsches Museum by Oskar von Miller in 1903. Completion in 1925 on the former " Coal Island ". Design of a “Bavarian ideal city” for the same location by the architect Theodor Fischer .
Chapter III
	III / 1	Regerstraße / Welfenstraße	Unhidden hoard, lackluster, intoxicating goods to be bought without a fight. At the foot, maliciously silver, of a barrel, stunned monsters roll around, have forgotten their own names - hear ailing how the potentate always baptizes fortress after fortress after a daughter - his lids hang over tired eyes.	In addition to the old Paulaner brewery warehouse , residential projects are being implemented by the Schörghuber Group .
	III / 2	End of Joseph-Holzer-Weg opposite the former women's prison	Disasters hidden from view, trickling through your fingers under pillows. Protocol for yourself and for the lizards of factual rhetoric. Your proximity, measures for fitness as a parable.
	III / 3	Lock at the ice works of the former Paulaner brewery (footbridge over Auer Mühlbach )	Close your eyes wanderer and the roar of the brook will give you touched a power to feel that belongs to Arcadia. Keep climbing - without greeting, the day brews into millions of brown bottles.
	III / 4	Nockherstrasse / Taubenstrasse / drinking fountain	At the fountain, ghosts of wriggling trout twitch around the legs with no sense for roses and clematis. What calm tugging at the bunch of keys!
	III / 5	Columbusplatz parking bay / playground	Dear dragon, evil dragon - both have a place in the hearts of children. Guarding colored pencils. Taken all day the marrow of becoming. Direction promoted. The richly felt micro-tropics, which thrive even in the saddest forehead, everything disintegrated, quod erat demonstrandum - flawless, no coke can rattles up to the ball, the facades would have liked to have played along.
	III / 6	Pilgersheimerstraße / Plattnerstraße	Sentences are not a roof and roofs are mute skies. They hold, hold still, when hope is tense. Has the hunt succeeded and empty residences wide open. We dragon counters are powerless against well-groomed trailblazers. Commercial space and no other life.
	III / 7	Pilgersheimerstraße / Untere Weidenstraße	Not far from the river, not far from the beds of sweet earth. Have I already told you? The lanes cross over me. Here a piece of Paris or Naples' ashes falls into our glass. The world of splinters makes the apple colorful. Out into the Shire, in rigidity with lizards. My thirst sets up traffic lights, which point to each other jumping until the birds blink mechanically - five five.
	III / 8	Sachsenstrasse entrance to the rose garden city ​​nursery	The breeder watches over his creation for a whole year. See how it grows, how it blooms and wilts. The cat lurking next to him. But one day the animal tears the rose and its master pours new blackbirds. A green crab with a goat's foot and a ram's horn hops between thorns and dry beaks. Oh idyll, the arbitrary, image-reinforced fairy kingdom!
Chapter IV
	IV / 1	Marienhof behind the town hall (Bauloch) (Ur Drachen Loch)	The dragon's proud limbs are pierced for the purpose of better guidance of the streams of his children, who rushing in parched veins, can never stand up again as rascals on the battlements, looking far over the land and its souls.
	IV / 2	Münzstrasse / Orlandostrasse	Null place - where di Lasso and others forged, quarreled, built - yes, polyphonically, knew how to remain silent. Monotrophically bundled, rough, the pretty remains now brass-plated and under innocent traveling felt.
	IV / 3	Passage Knöbelstraße to Altstadtring (not found)	Messages stacked in damp catacombs. Mushrooms crawl between rows of indignant, printing press nestled against dandelions. Reading warehouse for fat dragons, spoiled with high gloss: plump nuts could tumble onto the streets.	The editorial meetings of the first Munich city ​​newspaper "Blatt" initially took place in Gert Hortmeyer's apartment at 10 Knöbelstrasse.
	IV / 4	Mariannenplatz tram stop	(1919-1929). One lived not far. Quite normal and no one thought, not even a victim of his future, to undermine fate. For easy-going in normal dealings, awkward curses only seemed to grow out of normal grief, probably a whim. His entourage - all of them lived - later a little less sociable, but still quite everyday, very organized. The most regulated of all dragons, he lives so deeply, it would be too dark for cave tetras that no one can drive him away.	This refers to Adolf Hitler's apartment at Thierschstrasse 41, which he lived in from May 1, 1920 to October 5, 1929, according to a plaque installed by the Munich City Council in 1936.
Chapter V
	V / 1	Tassiloplatz in front of the former Bernbacher noodle factory (not found)	Swords to noodles, angel yolk in bags and shelves, tube cross-sections mentally networked - don't despise the formal gimmicks, because the dragon sleeps restlessly without shawms.	Location of the former (from 1937) armaments supplier Rohde und Schwarz (measurement technology). In front of it, a bakery building.
	V / 2	Auerfeldstrasse 21 (traffic light)	Training and teaching combined in this field, security, after all. All around, limp worms patrol while caterpillars spin new wishes inside.
	V / 3	Auerfeldstrasse, entrance to Bauverein Munich	Dreams - safe, come home: you prevent impending flaking. Infested with the expectation of happiness, catalog views become tangible, through one's own strength, heart wall as thick as doors and then sleep. Polished fleet, that came later.	Bauverein Haidhausen founded in 1923
	V / 4	Franziskanerstrasse / Giesebrechtstrasse	Blood and sun merged into orange. Even that will not save the knights from desolation from gray dreams and a fall from hell.
	V / 5	Freudenbergerweg, courtyard passage	Wake up, call out, get on the back of the dead monster, from which the soft maple and gray honeycomb castles have long outgrown. The dragon's empty stomach has taken refuge on a drawing board. The master builders drew the foliage of the crowns into the plan like brushes.
	V / 6	Hochstrasse 31 (primary school)	New rococo applied to the portal, rocailles welcome us. Notables are picking up the offspring today, escorted by the breath of earlier determination that echoes farther out and even further from the blows. Just no dent in the sedans.	Building of the former Münchner Kindl-Heim
	V / 7	On Wageck / Franz-Prüller-Straße	The mill dragon, endowed with cherubim pupils, looks through a thousand doublets and on the skins of the residents he discovers the shameful arabesque marks painted over by the slime of the bread.	Released Turkish litter-bearers were allowed to settle in the Au. They came from the group of Turkish prisoners of war brought to Munich by Elector Max Emanuel from Vienna. The Turkish consulate was also located here.
	V / 8	Quellenstrasse / Wilhelm-Herbert-Weg	On the path that protected us, the little trees to the left and right - I now have to discover such terrible things: I walk on a tongue, in an avenue of teeth and the sunset is only the glow of fire from its throat.
	V / 9	Quellenstrasse / near Paulanerplatz	The brook is free, we are free, three or four we walk and the beings of nature are so diverse that man does not dare to adjust God's forms. He prefers to look pensively out of rooms, carved into the strong rock of worry.
	V / 10	Lilienstraße 51 in front of the Wirtshaus in der Au (formerly Pop Club)	The Lindwurm's powerful singing - drowned out by the neighbors' gramophones, beaten down by the righteous dance of Vitus, and finally the pack of silence struck his throat.
	V / 11	Zenneck Bridge in the middle of the entrance to the Deutsches Museum	Draco ex machina machinarum. Taken from nature, grown out of reason, exposed to feelings.
Chapter VI
	VI / 1	Sendlinger-Tor-Platz / fountain in front of Matthäuskirche	Hygiene hero Lindwurm , Freiherr von and other human friends in addition to the clerical concern created this relationship between clean huts and obedience.
	VI / 2	Stephansplatz / Spitzwegbrunnen	The sky is forced to cover the smallest area, barely seeing the snake, leaving the voyeur alone, space and woman - just as tiny - but maintaining their size through the horizon and Mariae red and blue. Sinful personae are blocked by the brush in a delighted exterminator, peering bow.	About the leitmotifs and spatial treatment in the Carl Spitzweg factory , as well as its reception.
	VI / 3	Thalkirchnerstraße 54 at Koenig-Skulptur at the former employment office	Form placed in the open seems invulnerable, as if bathed in dragon's blood, because evil shatters in what is told.	1984 erected sculpture Flora VI of the sculptor Fritz Koenig , the plastic will be placed back on the WTC .
	VI / 4	Pestalozzistraße Südfriedhof, exit arcades	Forum morituri, undisturbed by monsters because they crown part of the past life with being drawn down. Transfiguration, on the other hand, shoots from the mouths of those who remain.
	VI / 5	Karl-Heinrich-Ulrichs-Platz	You dragons of pain have always distrusted love. So that your own may continue to be mistaken without being asked, you despise those who find them.	In memoriam of the lawyer Karl-Heinrich Ulrichs (1825-1895), the first pioneer of the lesbian and gay movement.
	VI / 6	Klenzestrasse / corner of Baumstrasse	The wise men ride quietly, wrap around the lizards' necks, do not need reins. Gliding over time, no longer an event horizon of seconds. Machines listen carefully - amazed at how they sound. You can afford it.
	VI / 7	Auenstraße 19 (former club house 1860 Munich)	Former and future club house of the dragon counter guild. Heated with ornamental random aggregates, metamorphic dragon mausoleums accessible 24 hours.
	VI / 8	Wittelsbacher Bridge at the statue	Dragons have never been able to span this current. Fled together with panicked citizens in the event of a conflagration or a broken bridge to the safest valley. Warmed freezing people with gentle flames, and relieved their own pain in the cold of the river. It was later claimed that they were demonstrably responsible for all the disasters. Nobody has been counted since then.	After the floods of 1892 and 1899, six new bridges were built. Financed by Prince Regent Luitpold and the City of Munich, planned by the architects Friedrich v. Thiersch and Theodor Fischer , built by the construction company Sager & Woerner .

Web links

Commons : Dragon Counter Song  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Texts and explanations of the dragon songs , see also archived version ( Memento from June 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
• Map of the positions on Google Maps

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.i-camp-muenchen.de/drachenzaehler/index.htm  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (unavailable)  
2. ↑ Street Art: The Dragon Counter Song
3. ↑ Due to the permanent installation in public space, the texts are not protected by copyright in Germany and other countries with freedom of panorama .
4. ↑ The explanations in italics are quotations from the project page ( Memento from June 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ). Minor errors were tacitly corrected. The explanatory texts also appear on the plaques in reduced font.
5. ^ Libretto by Parsifal
6. ↑ Michael Schattenhofer : The kneeling of the Munich council in front of the picture of Elector Karl Theodor. In: (ders.): From churches, electors & coffee makers etcetera. Süddeutscher Verlag, Munich 1974, ISBN 3-7991-5804-9 , pp. 211-251. Cf. Ralf Zerback : Munich and its urban bourgeoisie: a residential city as a civil parish 1780–1870. De Gruyter, 1997, ISBN 3-486-82988-2 , p. 65 f.