80 years after World War II, the shame and damage caused by Hitler at the time still casts a shadow over the modern world. In a coffee shop in Vienna, a resourceful graphic designer named Andreas Joschka-Sutanto cuts up a letter-by-letter edition of Adolf Hitler’s “My Struggle” to make a cookbook.
What does the project consist of?
The young man wants to turn the “negative into a positive”, to “empty these poisonous words” of their meaning.
The graphic designer’s painstaking work on his project began when the copyright to the Austrian-born dictator’s political manifesto, which launched the Nazi ideology when it was printed in 1925, became public domain eight years ago.
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After nearly 900 hours of work, only 1/4 of the mammoth project is complete. He works on it several hours a week, and according to his calculations, at this rate, it will take him another 24 years to finish carving the letters from the nearly 800 pages, or 1.57 million vowels and consonants.
After cutting out the letters, the artist sorts and arranges them in an organizer. His cookbook project now includes about twenty recipes.
What will the new book look like?
The graphic designer will leave the black-and-white portrait of the dictator responsible for the genocide against the Jews on the cover of the issue to show that “bereft of his words” Hitler is reduced to “staring into space”.
Cafe manager Michael Westerkam, 33, applauded the designer’s unique project because it draws attention to a difficult subject for working-class suburbanites. However, not everyone is happy – Andreas Joschka-Sutanto, who has yet to find a publisher for his cookbook, has already apologized to people who do not approve of his idea.
Source: BTA
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