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(birds chirping)
(cat meowing)
- You hungry?
I give you something.
I give you some fish or some cheese.
(cat meowing)
No?
(cat meowing)
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
(match striking)
You know, you cannot see the aliens, but you can smell them.
They're smelling sulfur, sulfur, you know.
Gas. You smell it quick.
(metallic banging)
(soft music)
This was my idea to make a castle,
not to rule Earth in political details.
The castle is just for cosmic reign.
All the foundation is done.
So even if I die, somebody can finish it with my plans.
See?
My painting.
- [Interviewer] How long have you been working on that?
- Two days.
Here, look at this.
Thermo Nuclear.
RRS PSS plutonium starships.
Here is to become a new tower.
I have drawings of that,
and I will put some drawings in my book to get the money.
Without money, it's difficult, you know.
Money is welcome.
Dollars welcome, Euro, whatever, Yen.
All kind of currency is welcome.
Come on.
(chuckling)
Here you can see the,
the atomic explosions over the castle.
Here's a spaceship that's going,
but it was no noise.
They're coming in a fireball.
Here's the sun injections.
This is not normal.
Here's a project when the castle is finished, you know?
I call that heavenly body opener.
You can open, you can open a small planet.
Classical UFO.
The pressure of the gas makes the UFO fly.
It's easy.
One UFO crashed in Roswell.
UFO people.
This is a video, it moves, goes.
It moves, this one.
Rocket airplane, go, and (imitates vehicle zooming)
and you go down.
10 minutes you are in Tokyo.
- [Interviewer] 10 minutes?
- In 10 minutes you are in Tokyo with that, you know.
- It's subject to interpretation.
If the Rolf show if it's just an act or not.
Sometimes I don't know.
But most of the times I think it's an act,
although he would dispute that.
- Here, you cannot talk to Dominicans
about the mother cosmos and radiant hovering entities.
They say, "What?"
They're running to the Pope, you know.
The Pope?
(chuckling)
The Pope don't know nothing about this.
People are surprised.
When I had visitors, they took photos of the banners,
they took photos and they are, they are very silent.
Taking the photos, and when I start to talk, they,
(grunting)
took the photos and thank you, sir,
and they're running away.
Something, something secret, you know?
- I don't think this is the ultimate performance art piece
that's lasted 25 years, and that he's snickering about
and he's gonna come out in an art show in Berlin
and say like, "This was my piece,
it lasted 20 years in Dominican Republic."
He believes he's seen them or at least smelled them.
(Josephina speaking in foreign language)
(Vincente speaking in foreign language)
(Josephina speaking in foreign language)
- When I asked him, "Why do you do that?"
And he would like smirk and say,
"Yeah, because people like."
- What he thinks about is spaceships,
and maybe he was taken by aliens.
(soft music)
(sighing)
He likes publicity, but maybe it's true, I don't know.
Nobody know.
I also think we are not alone in space.
- This was my first idea when I saw here
the extraterrestrial atomic space ships,
and they have been always here.
One model, the rocket model,
and the rocket modern seems very modern.
Carbine. Revolver carbine.
And I put that on the roof.
And normally after that, one month later, the sky was full
with extraterrestrial spaceships, curious people.
The space rocket, the form of this space rocket
is still actual.
It can go very, very, very fast.
And it goes push for push, push by push.
One, the next, revolver, turning round.
It's the greatest invention, this system.
And the aliens, they know it.
They know it well.
For this, they came always here.
(laughing)
My name is Rolf Schulz.
I was born during the Second World War in Poland.
I studied civil engineering in Hamburg,
and when I was 40 years old,
I started to be around artists and engineers.
Music, paintings, sculptures, technics, all this.
And now, I try to be the greatest engineer
for atomic spaceships.
(chuckling)
Sounds a little bit crazy.
(soft guitar music)
My father was a realist,
and my mother was a little bit more a dreamer.
I can put both powers together
and I can do something in realism
and something in dreaming.
- He was always artistically interested.
But his father was a civil engineer,
and that basically led to his career,
so his father told him "You have to study civil engineering,
or I don't know, you won't be my son anymore."
First, he became a bricklayer,
and then he studied at the university civil engineering,
then he build supermarkets and streets,
and after 10 years of employment, he had his own company.
He explained to me how he made his first million.
He said to me how you have to be blunt,
you have to be straightforward, you have to be driven.
That was really his thing at that time,
he wanted to be a big, successful businessman,
and he was always quite a daring businessman,
and sometimes a little bit arrogant.
The guy was like "Fuck you, bank, fuck you, establishment."
Very much goal driven, but that somehow came to an end
I think when he realized that his profession
had a boring side as well, or a dire side.
- I thought I had to change my life,
I had to do something more important
than to build houses.
- He just didn't care anymore.
- This was about the time that Rolf Schulz
I think wanted to do something different with his life.
My name is Joachim Spruch
and I was the assistant from Rolf Schulz,
way back 30 years ago in Hamburg.
The canvas existed that he had to come up
with some ideas to do something with his life, I believe.
He saw himself in his nice house now, with a beautiful wife.
- He had a steady job, he had a steady income.
- And I think he was probably saying,
"What am I going to do now?"
He decided he wanted to be an artist.
- I want to put all my heart, my money,
everything into a piece of art for myself
and for people to share.
I hereby leave all my belongings behind,
and I become like a monk for the art.
- And that's how it all started.
(upbeat rock music)
He got his own art gallery, in the center of Hamburg,
right smack in the park with no ceiling.
He started buying large canvasses.
Huge paintings.
- He also purchased large amounts of phosphor.
When you mix phosphor into paint and you apply blacklight,
you have glowing picture.
It's supposed to be like a volcanic lava
coming through the picture.
(thunder booming)
- Boom!
(imitating explosion)
Boom!
Without end.
It was noisy.
(soft music)
- I did many in Germany.
Like 24 different happenings.
It was going through Berlin.
I wounded the tree in the city of Berlin,
and putting blood color, you know?
And all the streets of Berlin were closed by police.
(imitating cars whooshing)
Hundred police cars.
- Nothing short of being almost a Rolling Stones show,
I mean, this was enormous.
- Going to the Checkpoint Charlie,
I stop, I make some preach, like a spell, you know.
Theater performances.
Light shows, fire, sounds, music.
On rivers, in the forest.
In the industrial halls, you know.
24 different happenings.
(man screaming)
I made a record with Joachim Spruch.
(upbeat rock music)
(man screaming)
I used many, many sounds.
- We had some musicians playing.
- Rock echo guitars.
- Some electric funky guitars.
- Synthesizer sounds.
- Some Van Halen played backwards.
- There was some voices of whales.
- Again, he never cheaped out on music.
This was done in one of the old bunkers we had.
- I gave him a half bottle of whiskey and the microphone.
- You know, it's part of thus whole performance art.
- And he took the drink and started to scream.
(screaming)
- Really like, forest dying.
And he accomplished that.
(drum beating)
(man screaming)
- In Hamburg, really, really, really great.
With paintings and sounds, and in the middle of the city,
a big sculpture you can go in with sounds and pictures.
(soft music)
Great.
Great person, great thinkings, great brain,
but not as a father.
- I remember the evenings, they were scary.
They were always active, they were these gang of guys.
My mother was fighting against that, she was angry with them
and they would come with their beers, clunking of the beers.
- Oh yeah, they never stopped.
- He didn't care for his children,
or he didn't know how to show it, I don't know what.
My daddy was not there.
I don't know what to say about it,
but it's no good feeling for a four years old boy.
- The major casualty of Rolf's artistic life
is that the relationship with his son
who he loves very much broke down completely.
His father can be very complex and complicated.
It's a unique view on the person that's like a mirror.
For my brother, it's very difficult.
They haven't seen each other for 14 years.
And I hope that they can reconnect
before my dad ever passes away
to alien space or wherever he goes.
- He was in his 50s, and maybe, I don't know,
what you call a midlife crisis.
(laughing)
His art project kind of made some headlines
and kind of were regarded as interesting
but he never found a home as an artist in Germany.
He was probably just thinking or thought,
now that I don't have a responsibility for anybody anymore,
I do my own thing.
(bright music)
He has a very big hatred for the authorities.
That's also why he ended up in German prison.
My father went to jail for three things.
He sold a jazz record collection
by his best friend without his permission.
That was one part.
And I think at the end of his company
had half a million dollars debt
which he couldn't pay, obviously.
That was a bit bad.
And the last thing was that he called a civil servant
with whom he had a big hatred a Nazi,
various times in writing and it was unproven,
so it was kind of embarrassing.
I was like shell shocked, my dad is in prison,
it's like, ah, my dad is not a criminal,
he's just nuts, but that's okay.
I think my dad was in jail for three months.
He told me that story as well, how he was in jail,
and then suddenly a guy knocked on his door
and said "We have an amnesty for you, just sign it."
And then the next day or two days later he was gone.
- This is a very sad part of the story.
(intense music)
- In Germany, I was really in the end.
- This is November 27, 2001.
So what he did is he bought a container,
and then stored the container itself
on somebody's property here.
Well, somebody took over this property
and didn't know what to do with this.
So this guy took actually all the art out and cut it
and broke it up and threw it in the garbage.
So there is your answer of where the art is now.
The people took all my properties,
they destroyed a lot of art in Germany.
It was my pieces.
- So he must, at some point started off from scratch again,
and then again, I don't know where this bridge is
that got him thinking into the aliens,
into that whole bit he's into now.
- Just lost, and you go, go to Dominican Republic.
Yeah.
(waves crashing)
(soft music)
(dogs barking)
(upbeat music)
(match striking)
This exhibition, come here.
This painting, and this painting.
This, this, and this.
Here, this, this, and what else,
and this, and this,
and this.
Look.
This painting.
This, this, and this.
I was doing after the visit of the aliens,
I did it after, you know?
When I sleep, I'm most peaceful,
and when I dream, I awake, I try to recognize my dreams
and make a small analysis of the dreams, you know.
Sometimes I see some construction,
sacred buildings high in the mountains,
that of gold with rays around and really nice forms,
and I'm running around, I see that,
and I say, "Who did that?"
You know?
Then in the morning I take my pencil,
and sometimes I make some drawings of my dreams.
- Mundo King Castle's a fortress for his soul, really.
Think it's a monument for himself,
and at the moment it protects him
and guides him through life and gives him a lot of pleasure.
He's been so happy, never seen him happier
than this, these last four or five years.
I remember that it wasn't a castle, it was just a house.
It's not that he had a huge budget at first,
it was always like step by step.
He basically started with two floors
and then he built the floors up
and now it has seven stories.
- The verticality of it as you approach it,
it's just massive.
And when you think about it,
in the North coast of Dominican Republic,
everything's horizontal, I mean the ocean,
the fact that it's on top of the hill
and you're coming from beneath,
kind of coming up to Hearst Castle or something.
(soft music)
First time I went to Mundo King,
I was taken there by a friend of mine
who thought I'd be interested in something
kind of out of the ordinary, off the beaten path,
and something that is completely different
than in Dominican Republic or anywhere else for that matter.
- Probably 1000 artwork.
Sculptures out of stone, out of mahogany, paintings.
- It's eclectic, I mean, there's stuff that is pure pop art,
you see like references to twisted sister or CNN.
- Three thrones, two catacombs.
A big fire pit out of iron.
- [Norm] Massive multi ton sculptures.
- You know that the door is always open,
that's his thing.
This big door, even at night, it's never locked,
so anybody could always come in.
The first time when people see the castle,
they're obviously like, "I don't believe this",
there's this kind of disbelief.
Some people are scared,
and other people just want to have the aesthetic pleasure.
And then he comes out, with hand and a cigarette
and the people say "You did this?"
And he's "Ah, yah, yah, yah, yah."
(chuckling)
And then they are like "Wow!"
- The meta of the castle
makes the invisible content more believable.
This is a good trick to get the people by artworks.
Heavy, good, nice to look.
The content after this is the spirit.
It gives you inspiration.
- It is by far people's most memorable experience
in the Dominican Republic.
- The castle can stand for a long time
if I can fix it with all good materials,
and we have a lot to do up there, you know,
and I'm working here now,
and I make the thing in concrete so it can stand long time.
And nothing is forever.
Maybe you can stand if it's good, good in concrete
and things like this can stand for a long time,
like a memory monument too.
Historic memory, I want to do.
I can reach that
- [Mirja] I think Rolf left Germany
in search of the paradise,
like in, I don't know, the heart of darkness.
He just wanted to be in a country or in a place in the world
where you had the more possibilities
that you don't really do in a first world country.
He was really searching for his own paradise
where he could be the king.
- I have no light here, you know,
I didn't like electricity.
I can read my books only when the sunshine comes.
So I wake up early in the morning, six o'clock,
and I buy some material for the workers.
- He's realized that material possessions
are not vital to his survival.
It has toilets, but obviously, they cannot be really used
because he hasn't got running water,
he has a well at the bottom of the castle.
The major thing is he doesn't have electricity,
so it's a castle without electricity.
- The cat always comes.
I'm not against technical things
like a camera or a TV or computer,
but this is not the main point in the life, you know.
Some people are thinking when I get my TV and my car
and my nice, nice luxury apartment, I'm satisfied.
This is King Rolf rules plentiful,
lord of time and space, some abstract scripts.
The reign of the mighty beyond.
What do we think?
Sounds good.
(chuckling)
- The name, I think I told you how it came about.
(upbeat music)
Down at the beach, there's a hut
that is called Mofongo King,
you know, the Porto Rican dish, mofongo,
that's like in a wooden kind of a pan.
My dad walked past it for the first time
and he realized, oh, that's a cool name,
I'm gonna steal that, I'm gonna call it Mundo King.
- I've been there a couple of times and I think
that what he's doing there is extremely interesting,
and I think that his beliefs are extremely interesting.
Although I have to say, I don't agree with them.
(Jose speaking in foreign language)
(Apolinar speaking in foreign language)
(Josephina speaking in foreign language)
Sort of like a scary, scary experience
with my friends and stuff,
maybe like sneak in at night or something,
and so yeah, once he told us this story about
how he saw the aliens or whatever.
(speaking in foreign language)
His castle's like a center for the...
(speaking in foreign language)
For the aliens or something.
(speaking in foreign language)
(Rolf speaking in foreign language)
- [Rolf] This is the sun, and around the sun are spaceships.
Many, many.
You can see the gas propulsion, the tail.
- I take some picture, and I help.
I take a picture
from the castle - From the UFO.
- and I help.
- He's UFO photographer.
- He's my friend for a long time.
- With this, he do it.
- Like family.
- They have a very nice love for him in Sosua.
It's really sweet the way they treat him.
He used to be dirt poor for a while after the prison,
and they always helped him.
He was never hungry, he was always looked after.
So people accept him and love him.
He's been lucky, he's been lucky.
(Nico speaking in foreign language)
- The community accepts you and loves you the way you are,
and that's obviously your home, you know,
that that's the first time I think in his life
that he felt that way.
(engine chugging)
- Explosion over US space rocket, I notice here.
It's an old oxygen system
to get the power by oxygen and fuel,
and not atomic power.
But all the space is going in atomic power.
(Tutti Frutti speaking in foreign language)
(Rolf speaking in foreign language)
He's the builder of the castle.
This is Tutti Frutti.
Tutti Frutti is famous, famous man in Sosua.
(Tutti Frutti speaking in foreign language)
(chuckling)
(upbeat music)
(Rolf speaking in foreign language)
(speaking in foreign language)
- He built his castle with a huge workforce.
He loves the Haitian guys and he loves having them around.
He finds them very pleasant,
and he really thinks he won the lottery.
Probably the most consistent human relationship
my dad had in the last two decades
in terms of faithfulness and loyalty and stuff like that.
(men speaking in foreign language)
(soft music)
(Vincente speaking in foreign language)
(Rolf speaking in foreign language)
(Vincente speaking in foreign language)
- Only Vincente and I sleep here.
The other are friends, visitors, and workers.
We are just a team together.
I'm not a teacher like in a religious wisdom
or something, you know.
If you do this, you have followers,
and you cannot get any more concentrate
in the artwork you know, or on the technology.
(Rolf speaking in foreign language)
(Vincente speaking in foreign language)
He can do it, I can do it not anymore.
(laughing)
I have demons in my body.
Like a music demon, like a painter demon,
like an architecture demon or like a technical demon.
They never let me peace.
They never let me in peace.
- Not only a house, it's a castle.
It's Mundo King.
There's sculptures too, I like that,
it's really great.
Great, great, great.
And the big, the big heads, stone heads, really great.
I saw the first one, maybe 24 years ago.
First time, 24 years ago, I saw the first head.
Really good stories but it's not, not, no,
never, never, ever fathering me.
Barbados was great.
Just nothing fathering me, I can remember.
New York with Joe was cool,
there's nothing I can remember fathering me.
It didn't cooperate.
He said "No, no, it's my way.
Kids, okay, I have to go my way."
For some time, the other people likes it,
but the product of it at the end.
- [Interviewer] Did you move to the Dominican by yourself?
- By myself, alone, no family.
And I'm just alone, I can reach more when I'm alone,
no partners, big discussions, no debts with money.
- I think he's somebody who doesn't open up
his inner feelings or can open up so easily,
but can do it via the castle.
- The alien space fleets are always coming
when there is something new,
but they will not come for small things.
When there are coming thirty spaceships from far away,
they will not come for two or three figures, you know.
They want to see some architecture, some steelwork,
some new models of spaceships,
and monsters too.
So I don't know what they like more,
the monsters, the spaceship, or the architecture,
but I think it goes all together like a big total artwork,
you know, total artwork altogether.
(soft music)
So sometimes I'm selling a little bit art here,
but I have no big income.
I can only work slowly, you know?
And I can do much more.
- The spaceships are, I would call it like a band,
I think he's like looking at himself like a musician
who puts out certain things that are unique
and they're like his band, and he's like the front man.
And they're like, they help him having an identity.
That's I think what the spaceships are,
they reinforce his identity,
that he's not like this crazy German,
he's crazy German with his band, the spaceships,
Rolf and the crazy rockets, you know?
That's like, I think that's how he sees himself.
Well, how I think he sees his act as being more successful.
(electronic music)
- I feel when they are there.
Last time was sometime ago.
More than one year ago.
And they're doing something.
They're making tornadoes.
When I wanted a tornado, the tornado was coming.
Our sun is besieged by alien space fleets every day.
Every day they are around.
Every day, and you can take it by camera.
People treated me so bad.
They tried to kill me, destroyed all my art in Hamburg,
put me in jail, so I sent a tornado.
But this is not enough for the sins of that city,
so they will have more storms, heavy tornadoes.
I'm sorry for this.
I can show you original videos from the alien movement.
You will be astonished, you will not believe it.
The pilots are crazy, crazy, crazy.
(spaceship whooshing)
Look, him, the blue pilot, the blue pilot, my friend.
The alien who does it I have on the photo now.
Three here of this arm,
and this is a new one, taking flesh.
It comes some blood.
Not much blood.
They're cloning people.
They take your dreams out.
And I think you can find this all in the cosmic radiancy.
This came from space.
This is not from here.
And you see it's burned here.
There's something inside.
You wanna be a radiancy soul? A subatomic guy?
You wanna be a subatomic guy
and going around together with billions of others.
- Some people blog, he's doing something
a little more involved than just blogging.
The other people, in a sense they're more full of shit
because, you know, they do that
and then they go to the mall
and they go to their job or whatever,
it's like, at least he's living his conviction.
- You know, when the person is crazy and gets famous,
they put that person in stone.
- [Interviewer] Yeah.
- Maybe he can be a bad man or a good man.
He has to be crazy.
Everybody is a dreamer.
Everybody dreams.
Even the animal dreams.
But you can fulfill your dreams by works.
You can do it, you can try it.
(waves crashing)
(speaking in foreign language)
(soft music)
(broom sweeping)
(thunder booming)
- Is already getting drunk!
(laughing)
(speaking in foreign language)
(woman speaking in foreign language)
Oh, that is so sweet.
I'm gonna miss this crazy son of a bitch.
It was really weird, I didn't think much of it,
but when I said goodbye,
I thought it's the last time I see him.
But then I didn't think that that would be the case,
but it was my feelings, so...
(speaking in foreign language)
- So, we miss Rolf.
He was a really good friend, you know.
The last eating, it was by me, you know.
Yeah.
But it was two week ago, but we never know he was so sick.
So at the last one, we notice,
we decide to go to hospital, it was too late.
But he was a super guy in life.
Super guy, man.
(storm booming)
- Yes, what what to do with it?
It's not only half.
And it was not only a father.
It wasn't a father.
But yeah, everybody's interested,
everybody is interested, what will happen to the house?
Everybody.
And I cannot answer it, it's not possible.
- You have to sign, sign that for you.
- [Suzie] All right.
- You have some documents, those are for...
- He would like it if we played "Saxamania" here.
But he would most like it if we have
a big PA or you call it on the rooftop
so the whole of Sosua can hear it, the king died.
(chuckling)
That, Rolf would like, I think.
It's only rain or someone is crying.
(chuckling)
(speaking in foreign language)
(people speaking in foreign language)
We try to keep it for you all.
Have to see it if it's possible.
- He didn't leave a note as to what he wants done,
or what do you think?
- Don't want to talk about it.
- Okay.
(chuckling)
What do you think he would want done?
- He would want me to stay here?
- Really?
- I think so.
- That's big, big demand.
- But everyone is interested in what will happen
in the future with the castle.
- Of course.
- They are interested in, you are interested in,
Sosua is interested in, maybe the whole northern coast
of the Dominican Republic is interested in.
What to do?
Go my way, go your way, go her way?
Need the way in between.
To the street.
(chuckling)
(speaking in foreign language)
(people applauding)
- He wants to live in like, Sosua,
he was like an inspiration for me, man.
I was done.
- You make arts too, now.
- He was always passing by, walking,
he was inspirational for us.
- Careful of the ramp.
Come in and feel free.
It's funny.
Tourists, no more tourists come in here.
See that happening, don't know what's happened.
Only taking a look.
It's not.
Painters, actors.
They feel about Rolf like they know him.
Have you seen the one thing on the roof
where sign immortal Rolf?
I told you yesterday, he's living everywhere,
in your heart, my heart, his heart.
People, you let her touch your heart.
(sighing)
(speaking in foreign language)
(soft violin music)
What did they say?
At six o'clock, it's the next happening or whatever?
(people applauding)
(people cheering)
- [Man] Yeah, baby!
- This was a fire, it's the right time for "Saxamania"
The right time for "Saxamania" now.
- Rolf, I think is in a good place,
very happy, wherever he is.
- Really nice to see that.
He had so much friend.
He's here.
Right here or everywhere, he's everywhere.
He's in the building, in our hearts, in the fire.
In the wind, in the rain.
(metallic banging)
(soft music)
- It's more or less one concept.
The concept was that I tried to attract foreign cultures,
with open terraces, with spaceships on the roof,
with monsters, biological monster sculptures outside.
I don't know who is God,
but I tried to attract God too, you know?
A little bit.
'Cause for me, God is an artist.
For sure he's an artist.
The only evidence we have from him, he's an artist.