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Hidden rites, secret knowledge and the exclusive circle of members: secret societies have always been fascinated. An exhibition in Frankfurt, will amaze you.

What is the difference between James BondJames Bond and pretty much all the characters of Kafka? Lightly could say that was the watershed between U-and E-Culture.But that means little. For what is high and what is popular fiction at all remains a mystery.

And that is precisely the keyword: darkness. James Bond moves with sleepwalking into realms of which Kafka's K. dare not even dream of.Bond's MI6 secret service in membership due to the initiation into the hidden world of knowledge - he knows the real culprit behind the acts of which the average citizen has no clue. More than that: his amoral covert operations guarantee the just snooze until the unsuspecting civilization.

From Kafka's K. This in turn is broken. His world is thrown into disorder, but she's a riddle: No one pulls the veil off his secret Condemned One. This is of course equal length succumbed to RomanRoman enervating than between two martinis and kick back to him the villain's girlfriend. But there is so much closer to the truth - not so much the discovery as the essence of the mystery.

After all, the cultural scientist Jan Verwoert writes in the catalog for theexhibition "Secret Societies - Knowledge cars want silence "in Frankfurt's Schirn," as to the mystery, there is nothing to reveal. The secret is the veil itself, "There is nothing more than a code, the mark of belonging to an exclusive community.