If one looks at the contemporary continental European art scene, blues, jazz, hip hop, drum & dass and dubstep, genres of music that one could label as 'black sound', are almost absent. To the contrary, forms of expression and languages of traditionally white musical scenes are unproblematically absorbed. One may think, e.g., of the female artists group Chicks on Speed, which situates itself within the Riot Girlz tradition, or of Daniel Richter's painterly punk attitudes, or of the 'Deutsche Welle' kitsch in the work of Jonathan Meese.

The currently favored image of the Weimar Republic is constructed as a liberal one that emphasizes the individual freedom to shape one’s life. Meanwhile, the collectivist face of the workers’ movement and the artists inspired by it were and are mostly ignored.

Buch Handlung Welt – in drei Worten − wurde von der Künstlerin Hilka Nordhausen 1976 im Hamburger Karolinenviertel eröffnet.