Towel day (Handtuchtag)
Der Towel Day ist ein Gedenktag für den Autor Douglas Adams, der am 11. Mai 2001 verstarb. Der Towel Day findet jedes Jahr am 25. Mai statt. An diesem Tag tragen seine Fans den Tag über ein Handtuch mit sich herum. Dies ist eine Reminiszenz an das Buch ‘Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’ (‘Per Anhalter durch die Galaxis’) Zu diesem Anlass wird vom 11. – 25. Mai 2006 am Ufer des Badeschiffes von Arena Berlin, ein Handtuch als Flagge im Berliner Stadtbild wehen.
Die Beschreibung aus Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy: Towel Just about the most massively useful thing any interstellar Hitchhiker can carry. For one thing it has great practical value – you can wrap it around you for warmth on the cold moons of Jaglan Beta, sunbathe on it on the marble beaches of Santraginus Five, huddle beneath it for protection from the Arcturan Megagnats as you sleep beneath the stars of Kakrafoon, use it to sail a miniraft down the slpow heavy river Moth, wet it for use in hand to hand combat, wrap it round your head to avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal, and even dry yourself off with it if it still seems clean enough. More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: non-hitchhiker) discovers that a hitchhiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, face flannel, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitch hiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitchhiker might accidentally have “lost”. What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.
DON’T PANIC 2006 – Die Flagge in Berlin
Das Projekt über Douglas Adams im Jahre 2005 ‘The Physical HoT SpoT’
Die Fotogalerie der Beflaggung in Innsbruck 2005
