Recorded in Geneva, 1981
Place des Alpes
Archive / Sound / Berlin 1981
1981 · GBD 0022 Flex-Ton Musikverlag · Geneva, Berlin, and the small private theatre of bodies, audio fragments, and exalted recollections.
Peter-Robert Koenig · Lady Shiva / Irena Staub · Salomé
When we first flew to Berlin — erste Klasse, natürlich — Irena procured Habit Rouge de Guerlain for me at the duty-free shop with the solemnity of a countess arming her favourite footman.
Then she advanced through the crowd with an overflowing shopping cart and a décolletage of almost architectural authority, announcing, Passage, bitte! [Make way, please!]
As Salomé’s model, I posed for his Khomeini paintings — naturally, under the full-body veil, I was wearing nothing but high heels.