Closing sentence/Schlussatz: “Der Film begleitet ruhig den rasanten Aufstieg und Fall einer etwas wahnsinnigen Idee, die am Ende des Films gar nicht mehr so wahnsinnig scheint und vielleicht doch noch nicht am Ende ist.”

The documentary Frauke Finsterwalder and her team shot in 2007/2008 when we introduced the project for the first time, has premiered in the competition section of the Saarbrücken Max-Ophüls-Preis film festival last Thursday. It was a good event for several reasons. Firstly, it turned out great. Not everybody was entirely sure what the result would be and it took long hard work to finish the movie – but in the end it became a fascinating record of those busy and exhausting one and a half years, that also does not …

German news agency dpa ran a story about the Great Pyramid earlier this week, here in German or there in English. The headline and intro spectacularizes the potential size again, but still the piece is factually correct. Since a couple of people seemed unsure of potential legal impediments, we were particularly glad to see this bit published:

“The German Association of Undertakers in Dusseldorf believes the idea is feasible. ‘It is a community burial ground like any other. If local authorities … ‘

When Sweden´s leading free daily METRO published a piece about the Great Pyramid in March, they asked their online readers to vote whether they would consider the Pyramid for themselves. We found the outcome quite impressive and made the screenshot above.

The Pyramid got a 52% Yes-response from Sweden. Sure, technically this is not a representative survey and the site didn´t say anything about the sample size, but since we …

The Great Pyramid made it into the BBC World Service TV news. With due hesitation the BBC notes the fact that nothing is being built yet but luckily avoided the „German pyramid“ punch unlike in last September´s radio coverage. We´re making some headway it seems..