Blau

The world we live in is bathed in a deep blue in many places: Our home is the blue planet with its azure sky. We lose ourselves in Yves Klein's monochrome blue paintings, listen to Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, give ourselves over to the romantic longing for the blue flower with Novalis and enjoy the blue hour. Rare and valuable is the blue Mauritius, everyday the blue jeans. The depth and power of that colour comes from the meanings we attribute to it: wild, sensual and fascinating; like in a chamber of curiosities, that sunken museum that gathered the most diverse found objects next to each other to teach amazement, the masterly narrator Jürgen Goldstein gathers different facets of the richness of blue, he weaves chains of meaning, elaborate and associative, well-balanced and at the same time erratic - genre boundaries, C.