The video Das künftige Geschlecht / The Generation to Come once again infuses a text by Alexander Simon, which has been slumbering in the archives since the mid 19th century, a performative dimension. Two periods far apart in time are brought together in space. The combination of documentary material and performance takes the aesthetic form of the new theatrical genre of the “keynote address”. The painterly and visionary words of Simon resound in a university lecture hall.