Der Soldat - Ein Übergangsritual

Whether in politics, business or war, the soldier has risen to become the social figure of the present, and military strategy the dominant logic. The question of the necessity and legitimacy of the use of force is omnipresent. Few have written as lucidly about violence in a fragmented world as Frantz Omar Fanon. A psychiatrist and Marxist from Martinique, he was convinced that the dehumanization caused by European colonialism could not be overcome through negotiation and compromise, but only through its destruction. Fanon's justification of anti-colonial violence was received by leftists worldwide, from the Black Panther Party to the RAF, and is still the subject of controversial debate today.

When and in what context is it necessary to organize violence or its defence? A body enters the stage and becomes a soldier. At the mercy of the physical drill of the percussion, it questions the historical situation and seeks its relationship to violence.