MAYOR Madam Zachanassian: you forget, this is Europe. You forget, we are not savages. In the name of all citizens of Guellen, I reject your offer; and I reject it in the name of humanity. We would rather have poverty than blood on our hands.
(Huge applause.)
CLAIRE ZACHANASSIAN I’ll wait.
Extract taken from The Visit by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, 1956
2015, animation, 36 sec.
Grüezi! Bienvenue! Welcome! – Artists See Switzerland21.5. – 21.8.2016 Exhibitions
2015: Kunstmuseum Olten
Collections2016: Kunstmuseum Olten