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Petrolchemisches Kombinat Schwedt / Don't mess around in the control center!

P: 5 people are sitting around in the control center with a coffee cup in front of flashing lights, and it looks like they've been taking a break for hours. But if they would really take a break and the decisive light would come on, then we would have the salad. Lights have to be observed, there is no way and no eye to get around it. So drinking coffee is not a break. It looks like a break, but it's the complete opposite.

F: Or so ne other break are the east garages with the age-old lease contracts, which have at that time all their building projects spoiled. An eternally long contract and there the people could build nothing. That was also a break for the contractors. They couldn't believe that they were taking a break in the garages rather than getting paid off. Getting paid is not a break, neither is drinking coffee. So anything that looks like a break isn't. But there were garages everywhere in the East like pressed pause buttons. Maybe there was a break once.

P: We once played a piece here called Garage. By a Russian. The piece was simply a gathering of people who have garages like that. They were on stage all the time and talked. And we always set it up, it was just made of pipes, because it was set in a boiler room or something. Just pipes, so made of cardboard, you couldn't let any liquid - anything run in or through, through the pipes. They were made of cardboard and we always had to build them up. You participated in that, didn't you? He sat there the whole time and had to pretend to be asleep.

M: Schwedt, June 1968. Benno Besson, Heiner Müller, Gerhard Winterlich and the other gentlemen who took part in this adventure had commissioned me to write down the whole story in connection with A Midsummer Night's Dream, with all the details and not to conceal anything but the setting of the events, and that too only because there were still treasures to be found there. So I take the pen in the year 2022 and wander in the spirit back to the time when my father was still a working actor in Schwedt. As it was called at that time. At that time I was barely 7, today I am a mature man. But to this day I haven't forgotten the day when...

P: But you already said Schwedt. You said that there were other treasures to be found and that you would keep quiet about the location of the island. But you already said Schwedt!

M: I'm talking about the situationists, about your cousin! It's so boring, the arrogance of the situationists. They talk about the tragedy of technological alienation, (blah blah blah). For my sake, fine... But a society that became a refrigerator or a heating thermostat, in a way, that's exactly our thing as cyberneticists, self-regulating systems. Interstitial freedom is reduced to zero, your cousin says. And I say the same thing: everyday life is a series of situations that belong to a greatly reduced register. Is it possible to expand this register, to find new situations? The situationists say we need to create new and different situations so that a different revolutionary thinking can emerge. And I think we have to look for new situations on the axis of technology. The situationists are authentic weenies because they don't smell opportunity. Their claim to total art actually comes from the fact that their artistic imagination is so poor. A Midsummer Night's Dream based on science and technology in the PCK Schwedt, self-regulating systems against an overheated individualism, that would be something. That would finally be really anti-capitalist art on the basis of cybernetics and not just dog-eared notes. The biologically conceivable fabrication of beings with twice two breasts is without doubt a possible proposal of biology to tradition. The invention of 1, 2, 3, x-different sexes beside the two conventional ones proposes a sexual combination system which makes a fast hugely increasing number of love situations conceivable. This can be simply calculated by machines, and I call that radical.