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Robert Kudielka

Valedictory for Marwan
Waldfriedhof, Berlin-Zehlendorf, 8th November 2016

When I had to read out Marwan’s obituary last Saturday at the Academy of Arts – he is the most recent in a noteworthy line of octogenarians, such as Luc Bondy, Kurt Masur, Pierre Boulez, Imre Kertesz and Andrzej Wajda, to have died this year – it became clear to me that here, in this circle of his relatives and personal friends, I would have to speak differently about his legacy than I would to a society of artists. His career in the world of art is already sufficiently well known to those gathered here …