Cologne - Almost everyone knew it, the famous "ear" at the Hahn Street:
The guests of the adjacent Celebrity Pizzeria "Maca-Ronni" as well as the tourists, who photographed the sculpture as a photographic object, or children who used the work of art sometimes as a jungle gym.
But now the ear moves with his two feet on the dump ...
Reason: Last weekend of Pentecost Unknown destroyed the artwork, it broke from its moorings, threw it around, and so caused damage of around 30,000 euros.
It probably should have been a larger group of Vadalen at work: The 2.15 meters big ear which bears the name of "bugging", seemed indestructible because of his hundred-pound weight.
The owner of the Kunsthaus, Goyert, Angelika Herzogenrath, spoke of a "great loss for the city of Cologne. She filed charges and is to set up this year, a new sculpture by artist Michael Black.
After ten years, the street, we get a new rooster catcher. It would be desirable that this does not have to suffer the same fate as the ear ...
