Certain natural events – however seemingly insignificant – achieve so perfectly a higher symbolic meaning that it is hard not to see in them a divine message. Such is the case with the only equestrian statue erected to honour former German Chancellor Angela Merkel, which yesterday collapsed spontaneously under its own weight.
The eccentric tribute was unveiled on October 8th 2021 to commemorate Merkel’s chancellorship on the grounds of the Tempel Museum in Etsdorf, by “communications designer” and artist Wilhelm Koch.
Koch founded the Tempel Museum in 2010 in a defunct schoolbuilding as an exhibit space and a dubious monument to democracy and the ‘European idea’, whatever that is.
In a Spiegel interview from 2021, Koch characterised the monument both as “ironic” and as a “personal tribute” to the former chancellor. Its unveiling supplemented an exhibit on equestrian statues. The purpose was to provide oblique commentary on the fact that such representations have fallen out of favour in the liberal West, where they seem particularly unsuited to the doughy, dingy, bureaucratised politicians who plague us, and of whom Merkel is especially paradigmatic. He denied the sculpture a pedestal, because Merkel is too “modest” for such a thing. He also dispensed with a saddle and reins, explaining that Merkel “doesn’t need” such accoutrements to ride a horse and that he “didn’t want to construct a caricature”. He placed her on an American Quarter Horse, fantasising that it might have been “a gift from Donald Trump”.
The sculpture itself was constructed of recycled light concrete via an “innovative” 3D printing process:
The complex object demonstrates the great opportunity to free construction from its technical and geometric constraints through intelligent material printing processes. At the same time, this process protects the environment and resources, because art and buildings are produced without formwork and waste. (emphasis added)
It turns out that “free[ing]” sculpture from “technical and geometric constraints” (read: Koch’s total lack of sculpting ability and talent) while also “protect[ing] the environment and resources” has a downside. Unlike every other equestrian statue everywhere, Merkel and her horse couldn’t withstand the weather. Before long her right arm and the horse’s head had fallen off and had to be glued back on.
After the repairs, Koch decided to ditch the bronze and paint the whole thing a horrendous white instead, lending the ensemble an unsettling plastic aspect.
As of yesterday, the heavens have relieved the world of this monstrosity.
How fitting that these ruins now decorate the grounds of the sad Tempel Museum. Nothing could more perfectly represent the state of the European Union, the Federal Republic of Germany and Merkel’s legacy in 2023. The former Chancellor coasted on the successes of prior statesmen, waved in lunatic policy after lunatic policy merely to shore up her own political position, subjected Germans to some of the longest and hardest pandemic restrictions on the Continent, and then bowed out of office before facing the consequences of her mismanagement and incompetence. Divine forces have transformed Koch’s exercise in Merkel idolatry into a withering commentary on the state of things.
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Oi larfed, oh, how oi larfed!
Fantastic ! HA ! ✅✅✅
Hi Ho Silver and aw… Oh!
Brilliant!! 😂😂
Merkel’s WEF-tied rule of Germany poisoned the nation and the continent with the totalitarian stench of the Stasi and her backing for Jean-Claude Juncker ensured the British would leave the EU.
Her Napoleon statue’s collapse, based on the technology she and her ilk want to use to drive humans out of work and enslave us, says it all really!
Behold, Germany’s second worst chancellor after you-know-who.
Load their FL?
I think that Merkel has done more long term damage.
INSTANT KARMA!
Saved someone the bother of chucking it into the Rhine.
Made my day! Hoping for more karma like this.
Now that is one statue I don’t mind seeing totaled. That woman has one hell of a lot to be held accountable for, but what’s she up to now? Just another day in Germany here, after migrants being caught having sex with ponies, sneaking onto women’s wards and molesting them after having surgery, including one who had her leg amputated ( yes really ), random stabbings seem to be the new normal.
”In the German city of Soest, a Syrian migrant is accused of stabbing a snack bar employee in the neck inside the Penny supermarket chain, causing life-threatening injuries that nearly severed a vital artery.
Police say that the suspect had already been banned from the supermarket chain, and when he entered the premises at 5:15 p.m. on Tuesday, a 42-year-old employee attempted to stop him.
“Since the accused did not want to leave the snack bar, a scuffle broke out,” said police spokesman Marco Baffa-Scinelli, according to German newspaper Soester Anzeige.
The suspect, who lives in a nearby accommodation for migrants, pulled out a knife and stabbed the victim “abruptly in the neck,” according to the police report. The knife nearly hit the victim’s neck artery, creating a gaping wound that spouted blood across the supermarket.
The police, in their press release, did not publish the nationality or asylum status of the Syrian, instead simply stating that a Soester, which is the name given to local residents of the city, stabbed another local. Junge Freiheit newspaper accused the police of obscuring the attacker’s identity.”
https://rmx.news/austria/germany-after-syrian-migrant-arrested-for-nearly-killing-snack-bar-employee-police-are-accused-of-hiding-suspects-nationality/
Blame the engineers – there were engineers involved, right?
Isn’t this the same “Mr Whippy” concrete that many UK schools and public buildings are made of?
Understandable if this was a statue of Major, Blair, Cameron etc.
But for it to be used in Germany, that’s on the same level as the creation of the Church Commissioners, and their subsequent decimation of parish priests, churches, vicarages, etc, etc to fund diocesan bureaucracy.
In other words, IT. IS. A. CONSPIRACY.
Is there some suggestion that Merkel’s weight might of led to the horse collapsing?
I would never criticise her for her weight, although I do think she’s got a face that looks like a bulldog chewing a bag of wasps, or possibly a slapped arse.
Hideous, utterly hideous. Note, that was a “heavy” horse she was sitting on and it still collapsed! A thoroughbred wouldn’t have lasted 2 minutes.
Did Merkel approve this?