EDITOR'S PREFACE

The following text is taken from the edited typescript of a Digital Audio Recording (DAT) that was given to me by Hans Dieter Delmont.

The original conversation took place between Hans Dieter and his father on 30 March 2033, just a few days before the latter's death. Their exchange was prompted by Werner von Delmont's participation in the symposium ‘Das Verschwimmen von Öffentlichkeit’, or ‘The Public Blurring’ as it is here translated.

This symposium was organised in 1995 to mark the occasion of the opening of the new Leipzig Trade Fair complex by the Bund Deutscher Industrie (BDI).
Delmont was required to break off his lecture at that event, after Frau Dr. Ötker suffered an indisposition. He subsequently developed a preliminary thesis for a new, worldwide absolutism as his contribution to the catalogue accompanying the Trade Fair project. Unfortunately, this text failed to meet the high quality standard demanded by the BDI and it was refused.

As a result, Werner von Delmont used his leisure time to work further on aspects of the ‘Corporate Rococo’. These theories were to exert great influence in men's fashion during the first decade of the new millennium, although they had little or no effect on corporate strategies and counter strategies.

Following the death of Werner von Delmont, we can understand the publication of this work as a contribution to the history of the cultural bourgeoisie at the end of the twentieth century.

The original digital version is kept under lock and key in the BDI's central archive. A further volume of lyric poetry, entitled ‘Fresh Gardens, Frosty Nights’is in preparation. 1000 copies will be made available soon, to those few who love art and to those few who remain engaged in the battle for a juster social order.

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Biographical details:

Werner von Delmont, painter and member of the landed gentry, was born in Santiago de Chile in 1954. He studied philosophy in Munich (Heidegger and Derrida). Towards the end of his life, he divided his time between London, New York and his family home in Rodenkirchen near Cologne.

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