No munch

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Andreas Joska working on Kein Mampf

No Mampf is an art project by the Viennese designer and graphic artist Andreas Joska .

After the copyrights for Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf expired in 2016 , Joska started his project “No Munch” on April 20 (Adolf Hitler's birthday) of the same year, using meticulous cutting to break down original pages into their smallest possible components - namely individual letters. The aim was to combine Adolf Hitler's manifesto of hatred into something new, something better. From the politically as well as humanly reprehensible original, something should emerge that can be put to direct enjoyable use without ever being able to be used again for similar agendas as originally intended: It should be redesigned into a cookbook . The duration of this time-consuming undertaking is planned for up to 15 years. The work takes place alongside the normal professional activity of the Viennese artist.

method

Every single one of the approximately 750,000 letters (from a total of around 1.57 million on the 782 double-printed pages of one of the printed copies) from "Mein Kampf" is removed by hand with the aid of a cutting scalpel, in the meantime arranged in a type case and finally found glued onto a pre-screened surface , its new place in one of the preselected recipes. The first recipes were suggested by friends of the artist, meanwhile recipe suggestions can be submitted by anyone who wants to take a stand against National Socialism.

Project philosophy

Although the project Kein Mampf could be perceived with a humorous note, the artist approaches the topic with great seriousness and with the awareness of the horrors that individual population groups had to experience under National Socialism . The ideological starting point for this can be found in “Mein Kampf”, among other places. The dismemberment and disintegration of the content and the " upcycling " to "something tasty" may well be seen as actionism , as a warning of current events and the globally recognizable political and ideological tendency - also in the middle of Europe - to return to the form of government of dictatorship . In this way it is important for the artist to point out the importance and achievements of peace, in which humor also plays a decisive socio-cultural role. So he does not disapprove of the possibly "funny" component of the project; he sees in it rather the potential to interest people in the importance of his message and thus to take a clear position on the ideological hatred.

Honourings and prices

In 2018, the Franzl Design Award in the category “Graphic Design - Design Series” was presented to “Kein Mampf” .

Exhibitions

"No Mampf - The transformation of" Mein Kampf "into a cookbook" - Special exhibition at DÖW May 8 to June 29, 2018

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Robert Glashüttner: No Mampf: Memory culture as a cookbook. In: FM4.at. Österreichischer Rundfunk, Foundation under Public Law, May 8, 2018, accessed on June 6, 2019 .
  2. ↑ VICE Staff: We spoke to the artist who turns 'Mein Kampf' into the cookbook 'Kein Mampf'. In: Vice. Benjamin Ruth, June 9, 2017, accessed June 6, 2019 (Austrian German).
  3. ↑ Oliver Maus: "No Mampf": Cooking with "Mein Kampf". In: The Gap. Comrades GmbH, May 8, 2018, accessed on June 6, 2019 (German).
  4. ↑ Thomas Trescher: Exhibition: How "Mein Kampf" becomes a cookbook. In: kurier.at. Telekurier Online Medien GmbH & Co KG, accessed on June 6, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Harald Dragan: Wiener turns Hitler's “Mein Kampf” cookbook. In: Kronen Zeitung. Krone Multimedia GmbH & Co KG, accessed on June 6, 2019 .
  6. ↑ The FRANZL Design Award winners - Designaward Franzl. In: FRANZL Design Award. druck.at Druck- und Handelsgesellschaft mbH, accessed on June 9, 2019 .
  7. ↑ FRANZL Award: The winners have been determined! In: Graphic Review. Austrian Federation of Trade Unions, Trade Union of Private Employees, Printing, Journalism, Paper (GPA-djp), April 16, 2018, accessed on June 6, 2019 (German).
  8. ↑ DÖW - dates - event archive - No Munch - the transformation of "Mein Kampf" into a cookbook. In: Documentation archive of the Austrian resistance. Retrieved June 6, 2019 .