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Death, Destruction and Detroit or (DD+D) started with a photograph to which Robert Wilson was inexplicably attracted. He kept it on his desk in New York and unknowing of what it depicted. It was not until a studio visitor told him that the image featured Rudolf Hess in Berlin’s Spandau prison, with two other Nazi war criminals, half-heartedly and one-handedly raking leaves. This rare photograph was reimagined as the prologue to DD+D, starring the famous German actor Otto Sander (1941-2013). Other iconic scenes from DD+D include the actors Philippe Chemin and Heike Pfitzner, lounging in “Beach Chairs” (designed by Wilson) on a roof over New York City, while the city below is burning; and Hess (Sander) as Siegfried fighting two dinosaurs. Wilson later conceived and directed two sequels to this piece, DD+D II (Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, 1987) and The Days Before: DD+D III (Lincoln Center Festival, New York, New York, 1999 et al.). Quelle: http://www.robertwilson.com/death-destruction-and-detroit chh