76. About the Photographs of the Construction

GA 246/1918-06-30/p005 ·1918-06-30 · English High

Record: listeners' notes. Written from listeners' notes, summaries, or memory rather than a shorthand transcript. The wording is the note-taker's as much as Steiner's: weigh a single striking phrase here far more cautiously than the same phrase in a stenographic volume, and do not rest an argument on one word. Evidence: «Nach zum Teil bruchstückhaften Mitschriften» (From transcripts that are in part fragmentary). The publisher's description of the volume, as mirrored on AnthroWiki (GA 246), which also speaks of "fragmentarischen Hörernotizen und Vortragszusammenfassungen". The translation is the maintainer's, not a published one.

The whole idea of the building was born out of this idea of creating a branch in Munich. Then it turned out that although we initially thought of all the ideas that were appropriate to our cause, we didn't [reckon with] the prejudice of the outside artistic community, and you know that building plans for such buildings have to be submitted to all kinds of authorities. We didn't even have to deal with the police or other authorities, we first had to deal with the authorities set up by the Munich artists, who - as you can understand - of course didn't particularly like our building idea. They didn't understand it, of course, and they found all kinds of objections at first. We would actually have had to wait an infinitely long time, three years, if we were to get to it. Well, I want to make a point. [...] It was impossible to find out what they actually wanted, we would have had to keep drawing up new plans, it was impossible to manage.

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