Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 11 October 1929

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar

The space was divided in two parts by a cutout décor. On one side I was laying naked on a rotating metal table lighted by a stroboscope. From the other side the public could see the performance only through a few small holes in the décor. The stroboscope made it look like sometimes I was on the table and sometimes I wasn’t.
(26 January 1991)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1987

There are 3359 births, 3911 deaths, 1122 murders, 494 disasters and 2072 other events about 5713 people in 6416 places until today.

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Friday 11th of October 1929

95 years ago

Elisabeth Dörrier is beaten to death with a hammer by serial killer Peter Kürten aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf at the age of 22 in Torfbruch, Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.