Das Kosmodrom

Schießerei am Dawsons Creek

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Zigeunerschnitzel

Spaceport Baikonur, 1964.

Four Russian spacemen in top secret mission board a special type of rocket (Iwanowo ZK 12) - any information about this spacecraft is top secret, too. Not even the Russian Secret Service does know anything about it. They will collect and investigate on suborbital stellar space nebula in the sign of the Ophiuchus in order to use it for hardening steel. This material will be needed in the production of Moskvitch cars’ left doors. - At that time, this has been a revolutionary thought, which would have made the Russian cars’ side impact bars a million times better than the ones used in their western competitors’ vehicles during the cold war - The four cosmonauts board the rocket. With deafening noise, the jet engines start to work. The spacecraft seems to be weightless when it starts to lift up and fly into the dark Ukraine night sky. It becomes smaller and smaller and then disappears into the outer space. There… suddenly, like out of nowhere, there is a flash of blazing light! Afterwards… silence… darkness... What has happened? A plywood panel at the inner wing’s lower [Flexbeuger] has come loose and has caused a time-space-anomaly. The Iwanowo ZK 12 has disappeared. 


Bleilochtalsperre dam, Thuringia, 1999. 

The artificial lake lies majestically in the last warm September day’s sunset glow. It seems as if nothing could spoil this idyll. There is a loud thunderous noise. The sky breaks open and a glowing fireball appears which then drops down into the lake with full force. A cloud of smoke covers the lake shore. Four silhouettes appear from the smoke and when they get nearer, dressed in precious white space suits, one can identify them doubtlessly as cosmonauts. The Kosmonauten are here! 1964 - 1999. Travellers through time and space. They have brought their era’s music with them: 1960s instrumental music, Beat, Twang, Twist, Surf, and music from Eastern Europe: Gypsies’ music and Russian music. A good quantity of rock ‘n’ roll ennobles this extraterrestrial music mix. Now, after more than a hundred concerts all over the country, the Kosmonauten have definitely conquered Germany’s dance halls. Wherever the Kosmonauten space capsule lands, a big party is guaranteed. 

alrik