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Gerda Hübsch: First episode
Created
by Ingrid Dörnte with a little help by Barbara Benedix, Kirsten
Schmitt, Axel Schmitt |
It was a rainy uncomfortable saturday morning in Kassel . Gerda Huebsch has just prepared her breakfast. Now she hurried to the letter-box to pick up the morning post. As it became a habit with her she put away the letters and bills and took her favourite magazine "Publik". While looking through the magazine Gerda's eyes felt on an article with the following headline:
Sensational art-find on Achill-Island
Excitedly she started to read:
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Achill
Island, in September 2000 During an excursion a group of art and
literature students of faculties 2 and 23 of the university of Kassel
got in contact with a sensational art-find on Achill Island, which
is well-known on account of Heinrich Boell's "Irish Diary". Nearly
three years ago the owner of a pub found some old paintings that
had been in a back room for years. The owner of the art gallery
on Achill Island were asked to have a look at the paintings. The
situation now is that all the paintings can be identified as produced
by Brian O'Donnell, a famous Irish painter and with increasing frequency
guest of the art-exhibition "documenta" [www.documenta.de] . The
estimated value, proofed by a representative of Christies of London,
is no less than 2.5 million Irish Pounds. Furthermore it can be
assumed that the paintings were produced on Achill Island between
the years of 1940 and 1959. At the moment the paintings were exhibited
at the art gallery of Sean Cannon, who calls upon O'Donnell's relatives
and friends to get in touch with him. His main challenge now is
to find out whether O'Donnell is still alive and to find out where
he lives. One cannot rule out the possibility that those suspected
of the appeal lives at the moment in Kassel. For continued informations
please get in contact with the editorial department of "Publik".
(ed.)
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Incredulously Gerda stared at the article. She couldn't believe, what she was reading just now. Lost in thought she opened the letters and started to read the first. It was a letter from Ireland sent by a good old friend. After a detailed description of what has happened in Achill Island he begged her for calling on him soon in Ireland because he would like to discuss the ‚affair Brian O'Donnell' with her in detail. Gerda got more and more jittery. After thinking about these lot of news for a long time she lost herself in her memories of the common time spent with the Irish painter. The following morning she packed her suitcase, grabbed a book from her bedside table automatically, casted a lost glance at her flat and got on the tram to the ICE-station.