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Peter Michalzik on the seed vault in Spitsbergen
With support from the UN, Norway has constructed an underground vault on the island of Spitsbergen, near the North Pole, where seeds from plants will be preserved in the permanent frost. This prompts Peter Michalzik to ask how such a project envisions catastrophe. "Someone who builds an ark believes in the destruction of the world. There is no ark without a deluge. ... There are waves of apocalyptic thinking in our culture, which says more about the mythical dimensions, the dark side of our culture and our conscious or subconscious fears - and less about technological possibilities. After all, it makes no sense to plan for the possibility of global catastrophe. It is pointless to sow seeds when no one is there to harvest the fruit. It is as ridiculous as building a bunker for a government when there is no one left to govern."
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Ulrich Mühe: an all-German actor
"He was an actor who could portray mental processes and make them visible", writes Peter Michalzik of German actor Ulrich Mühe, who died on July 22 aged 54. Mühe, who was born and brought up in the GDR, portrayed Stasi captain Gerd Wiesner in the film 'The Lives of Others'. "And he was an actor whose appearance could change along with his surroundings. He could look like the typical, rather grey Eastern German but later on he could look like the typical dynamic Western German. This must have been the result of a physical porosity towards the past and his environment which is among the greatest gifts an actor can aspire to - without him probably having to do much to accomplish it. Mühe was the type of actor who is like a blank piece of paper on which he can draw his character. Not only as far as his film roles were concerned was he extremely versatile, he could also change within the course of history: he wasn't a type but a time."
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