death would rather b e a c e l e b r i t y ANNIE KURZ D E AT H W O U L D R AT H E R B E A C E L E B R I T Y Death has had enough. Enough of the blaming and accusing him of everything that is bad in the world! Enough of the ugly words to describe ‘him’! Horrible, painful, sad, horrific... Do you know any other terrible words to describe Death? Exactly! That’s why Death has decided to change this. He wants to be adored instead, appreciated, and admired. Dreaming about becoming like Superman or Superwoman, like a movie star... a real celebrity. Determined to change his job to find what he hopes for, Death leaves his scythe behind, stops doing what he normally would be doing. Excited and ready for change, he sets out into the world to try out new careers. First he
becomes an artist, later a rockstar, a doctor and a judge. He tries his talents as a chef, a football player and even explores being a magician. However, every time, with every new job there is just one big problem – Death does not seem to be made for these tasks and fails miserably at all his experiments. As an artist he would not know what to paint, as a chef his culinary creations are awful... After several attempts Death realizes that people might never love or admire him but it becomes obvious that humans and all living beings really need him to continue his job. Emotionally touched, Death finally goes back to work doing what he normally would do... One day however, he might have enough again ...
A N N I E K U R Z is a Hungaro-German interdisciplinary artist and de-
signer currently living in a small town near Stuttgart, Germany. She was born in 1980 in Satu Mare, Romania, and holds a degree in Textile and Fashion Design and an MA in Design, Fine Art Conception from Reutlingen University. There she also has been accepting lecturerpositions in different Design fields since 2017. Parallel to her MA , she also studied Art History and Philosophy in 2011 at the Eberhardt Karls University Tübingen. After over ten years of working abroad in London in 2006 and later in New York, Annie Kurz currently is a PhD candidate at the University of Art and Design Offenbach am Main, Frankfurt. Her research aims to contribute to inquiries into human-technology relations as defined within the philosophy of technology. In 2021, she founded a small Art and English school for kids in Süßen, Germany. Motivated through this experience with children as well as her own two kids, she started re-visiting her notes and illustration sketches of her collection of ideas for children’s stories. Death would rather be a celebrity – in German: Vom Tod in Rosarot – was developed and written during her studies in 2005 and re-designed in 2022 for the Picture This! competition.
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