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Wir Menschen neigen dazu, uns für die Herrscher auf diesem kleinen Planeten im großen Universum zu halten. Doch hin und wieder tauchte in unserer Geschichte ein mikroskopisch kleines Wesen auf, das uns daran erinnerte, dass dem nicht so ist. Genau das erleben wir in diesen Tagen und Wochen als Menschen auf der ganzen Welt. Eine Krise wie wir sie bisher nicht kannten. Und doch liegt in ihr, wie in allen Krisen, auch eine Chance.

OUBEYs life took an abrupt and brutal ending 15 years ago on 2 August 2004. He was sitting unsuspectingly in his smart car by the side of the road when a 40 tonne truck came up behind and without breaking smashed into him at 90 km/h. OUBEY did not survive the impact.
The man with whom I’d spent 21 wonderful exciting years, with whom I’d shared so many thoughts and feelings, that man I was so close to and with whom I lived in such harmony was no longer there from one moment to the next. And his dream of exhibiting his pictures again, after 12 years of withdrawal and seclusion, looked irretrievably lost.
Was everything now over?

Last year when Stan Lee died – the founder of the Marvel empire, creator of superheros like Spider Man and, together with Walt Disney, the most influential figure in the global comic market - his obituary was published in many of the world’s leading magazines. They praised him and the importance of his work in shaping cultural developments over the past decades. Did this represent a radical change of mind or was it just acknowledgment of his overwhelming commercial success?