Browse Germany’s ‘Parthenon’ of Banned Books

In Kassel, Germany, at the very site where Nazis once burned over 2,000 books by Jewish and Marxist writers, one artist has built a colossal tribute to free speech. The “Parthenon of Books” is a giant temporary replica of the famous Greek temple in Athens. The installation is covered by more than 100,000 books that have been banned at various stages throughout history. Created by Argentine artist Marta Minujín, the exhibit is meant to spark debate over censorship in literature. Once the exhibition is over, these books will be handed out to allow the banned to enter literary circulation once more.

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[zeemishal]

Banning 1984 is the definition of irony.

[_paraluman]

Who else laughed when they saw twilight?

[casperrabbit]

Anyone else wanna find out which country banned Twilight?

[originalname]

0:31 twilight is banned and that's what really matters.

[RefiaPhenix]

I live near Kassel and I didn't know they had such a magnificient project.... Thanks for the Info guys 😂👌

[ricardballester]

A pantheon of banned books in a country that still bans some books, 10/10

[Tsubomi]

Loved it when we had the Parthenon at Friedrichsplatz. I was lucky to get the book I wanted at the first day of the distribution.

[deadfrg]

Don't burn books, it's bad for the environment.

Instead, use them as construction material.

[MsSmileuroncamera]

I hope you know that this artist one day will build a name for themselves, the books the general public will receive one day could be worth much more than the retail price because of the fact that this artist could possibly get a bigger recognition in the art world

[jaiyapapaya]

This is so cool. I looks like a nerds dream.

[neki]

You could make a replica of the entire universe with how many things germany bans

[palahcomel]

0:54 Which country banned Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner? Hmmm

[gandalfthegrey]

I wouldn't have used the Parthenon as the structure for it, but it is a lovely idea. Saw this in class and I thought I would look at it some more.

[lucindaa]

An amazing story. I'd love to visit it one day

[leopoldopetrieska]

"south american artist"... i bet that if it was a british, german or french artist they wouldn't say "european artist"

[s.k]

I wish they didnt make this pantheon in germany as germany has many banned books wich im sure wont be alllowed in the pantheon.

[brickstoryofficial]

Wow, you are very early :D It gets disassembled tomorrow.

[zpnmopf]

Thank you for uploading this! What a very interesting art exhibit.

[ftzftzftz]

The thing they didn't say is that you can bring books to add to the thing and you can also take books when it ends

[richardpogi]

When are they going to put this down? i want to get one, not the twilight book though.