Rainer Langhan’s 85th birthday: “I’m just not a party type”

Mister Langhanshow was celebrated in the municipality of my birthday?
Not at all. It didn’t matter there. I personally never did that either. People always have to remind me that I have a birthday. I really forget it every year.

You received a difficult diagnosis some time ago. Do you celebrate more consciously today?
No, I’m just not a party type. I don’t even know how to do it. As an autistic, I have always had a hard time with the curiosity of this world. However, as far as the cancer diagnosis is concerned, it increases my love for life. She makes my life a better, more beautiful – but I don’t notice that on some special birthday.

This life also includes her heart ladies Gisela, Christa and Brigitte. Do the three put together for a gift?
I don’t know. I think that has never happened before. Or maybe I don’t remember now because I want to see it that way. (laughs)

At least coffee and cake must be in there, right?
No, why? Maybe they get together and surprise me, but I don’t think so.

How sad. Not even a nice marble cake?
So, if so, then it has to be a really great cake, we do it ourselves. But not on the occasion of a birthday.

What is your living situation in Munich? Sometimes there is talk of a one-room apartment, then of a flat share or even a harem.
We are not a shared apartment, and consciously. A shared apartment rather prevents love among people. This is much better if you have your own space and love it from a physical distance. At that time I experienced in municipality I that it is not possible when everyone lives together in a confined space. Therefore, our today’s community is not a shared apartment, but a love community, and that works very well.

Do you like to be alone?
Oh yes. My essentials in this world, I say that so provocative, is meditation.

Do you sometimes dream of the municipality I?
Not concrete, but I recently dreamed of something, which reminded me a lot of these times, the community experiences and this very specific connection. Surprisingly, I always dream of that.

Is there anything in today’s society that reminds you of the spirit of back then?
The internet. The California Techies invented it in this 68-spirit to enable all people to love this at that time. For me, the internet is a place of future, a place of greater love. Of course I know about all this bad that occurs in it, but in general this communicative reinforcement is the preform of an all -encompassing love. At some point it will have overcome all the teething troubles that have overcome hate. After all, in this way we are all friends, at least tend to be friends, even if it is only on Facebook. There has been no such thing in human history.

Do you really think that love can ultimately defeat hatred online?
Well, I consider communication to be a pre- or training form of love. This means that if we communicate with each other, we do not wage war. And that is very, very reinforced by the Internet. Make love was not.

Are you in discussions or just read?
I don’t post so much because of course I prefer the direct conversation. But of course, I also have connections that promote this direct internet communication from me. That already exists. I don’t just play table tennis.

A communicative highlight was your participation on Jungle camp 2011. What do you look back on?
That was an extremely positive experience that brought me on. Many people didn’t understand that and therefore chose me soon. I also got sick and tried even more to get out of the body than I would otherwise do anyway. The jungle camp was a good thing. The younger ones found it really great, but the older ones struggled with it – with the fact that I participate.

Would you do it again?
If you were invited to the legend camp, I would be there. I would do it again because, as I said, I thought it was beautiful at the time. I even have something of my fee today, I’m just very economical. I donated and gave the majority, about two thirds because I don’t need that much money, but this last third still helps me in my life today. I even have my shoes from the jungle camp.

They have had numerous interviews over the years, the decades. Did you feel that it is about you or rather the picture that people had from you?
I consciously represented this so -called image, this picture that people have from me. I have not separated publicly and privately. I always said: the private is political. That still dates from the time of the 68s. That’s why I always made my private things public because I think it is important and because I try to become as good as possible privately – so to revolutionize myself, no longer the world, because that fails us. I want to become a loving person, a real person. And I want to share that: share everything, communicate everything. That is the principle that I still pursue today, at that moment too.

Will there be a birthday card from Uschi Obermaier?
No, we have no more contact. Until recently, I had hated me. A film is to be made about you, we spoke to each other briefly. She said I was a macho. (laughs)

How does she get on it?
Ichen not what she says. You can see that. After our time together, I lived a completely different life than you. She didn’t understand that for a long time. In the meantime she may find it reasonably okay.

Do you have a bucketlist?
No. I see myself as a happy, dear child who is enthusiastic all the time that it can experience it all. As an autistic, I had great difficulties at first, but now I find my way around with all the strange things of my life. I wanted to kill me at the time of the 68s. If I am addressed on the street today, then mostly positive. The evil looks from back then have disappeared.