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Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar

Inside, the space was lit by 100 burning candles. Through the window you could see the tied up bodies of me and Frank De Busscher, a pointed wooden stick placed between their bodies and the door. It took four hours, until all the candles were burned up. Johan Desmet made music with tapes and found footage sounds.
(28 December 1979)

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Galluzzo, Firenze, Toscana, Italy.

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Friday 9th of September 1983 (-) — Victim of Il Mostro di Firenze Wilhelm Meyer is shot dead by Il Mostro di Firenze aka .
Both seniors at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Osnabrück, traveling in Italy to celebrate an important scholarship Meyer had just won. Rüsch's long blond hair and his small build could have deceived the killer into thinking he was a female.