Stefan Marinov’s Papers
Stefan Marinov’s Papers, curatorial intervention, Villa Perpetuum Mobile, photo: steirischer herbst / kunst-dokumentation.com
Stefan Marinov’s Papers, curatorial intervention, Villa Perpetuum Mobile, photo: steirischer herbst / kunst-dokumentation.com
Stefan Marinov’s Papers, curatorial intervention, Villa Perpetuum Mobile, photo: steirischer herbst / kunst-dokumentation.com
Stefan Marinov, 1994, archive of Herwig G. Höller
When Stefan Marinov committed suicide in 1997, he left behind an extensive body of work and a massive correspondence, part of which Herwig G. Höller, then a student of Slavic studies, retrieved and kept. As his papers show, Marinov’s dissent from post-Einsteinian physics began while he was still working in Bulgaria, where he was admitted to a psychiatric ward because of his experiments. A consummate writer of petitions and complaints, Marinov bombarded journals with contributions and wrote long responses to every rejection, eventually self-publishing books in the form of samizdat. In his enthusiasm for free energy, he became a key advocate for the spiritual community Methernitha and their Testatika machine, which he thought was a genuine perpetuum mobile. Some of Marinov’s supporters believed that his death was not a suicide, but an attempt to erase a legitimate source of free energy.