Joseph Beuys’ idea of sculpture is based on listening and language, on an inner sculpture of thinking, which is inalienable for the upcoming social sculpture. At the end of modernity he develops a social concept of art, based on confidence in the creative nature of every individual human being. If the reformation of the social body, the social sculpture, should be successful everyone must participate. “Everyone is an artist” became his social formula and “sculpture a term for the future par excellence”. “Everything is sculpture” cried a photograph of a sculpture by Wilhelm Lehmbruck to the young Joseph Beuys. He saw a torch in that photo and heard: “Save the flame”. With this message by Wilhelm Lehmbruck Joseph Beuys wants to arm everyone, because then the resurrection, the healing of the wound, is possible: “Save the flame, because if you don’t save it, oh, before you realize, the wind blows out the light, which he sparked, then break, you pitiful heart, dumb of pain”.

The last speech of Joseph Beuys „Thanks to Lehmbruck“ that he gave eleven days before he died and parts of his lecture „speaking about Germany“ for the first time as original sound. For Beuys art start with listening and in language. Touching documents on the future of the sculpture. No doubt Beuys himself was a magician of the spoken word.