Adolf Grimme hopped on the Social Democratic Party train. Unfortunately for him, the Weimar Republic was chugging towards a financial disaster. You see, old Kaiser Wilhem II thought it was a good idea to borrow money to pay for WWI and pay it back *when* they won. Oooops… Of course they lost and things went from bad to wurst! Hyperinflation hit the Weimar Republic so hard that the price of a loaf of bread in 1922 was 160 Marks and by the end of 1923, a loaf of bread cost 200,000,000,000 Marks. (200 trillion) To put that number in perspective if they were to pay 1 Mark every second it would take 32,000 years to payback just 1 trillion Marks. - Talk about a pretzel-twisted situation!
After Grimme passed away, people started to forget who he was. He became like a ghost, or maybe even MC Hammer - who just stopped being relevant. Luckily someone decided to name an award after Adolf for the best TV shows. The Adolf Grimme Award is the German version of the Emmy Awards recognizing outstanding achievement in television programming. It is considered to be one of the most prestigious awards in the German television industry and is sought after by producers, directors, and actors. In 1973, they founded the Adolf Grimme Institute which has been giving out the Adolf Grimme Award since 1977. They even added a category for new media, because, technology moves faster than the speed of light, and no one watches TV anymore. In 2010, they made a grim decision and just called it the ‘Grimme Award’, which makes it sound like an award for grim Grimm fairytales. Today the Grimme award has become so famous that anyone that knows anythings about German television know about it, but hardly anyone knows who Adolf Grimm was. Thankfully Kai Burkhardt unearthed the lost history about the man Adolf Grimme and wrote a biography about him with the title “Adolf Grimme - A biography” - the title is almost as well known as the Adolf Grimme reward outside of Germany. So if you feel like buying me a book, then I would love to add this to my collection.
This one was a bit tricky so I went more abstract. A sonobe is a modular cube representing the the modular nature of the various different facets of Adolf Grimme's work, his contributions to radio, his writing and journalism, his advocacy for social justice, and his name associated with the Grimme Award. Each module of the sonobe could be decorated or labeled to represent a specific accomplishment or contribution, creating a kind of three-dimensional timeline of Grimme's life and legacy. It is also a great life lesson that BIG things are made up of many simple small things.
Here is a short video how to:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WasvUFXmACk&ab_channel=OrigamiInstructions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Grimme
https://www.grimme-institut.de/ueber-uns/adolf-grimme