Adib Fricke

No. 390 - Computer generated headlines
Exhibition project, Berlin 1990

10-year-old boy
shoots sister!

11-year-old girl
kills aunt!

12-year-old schoolgirl
poisoned by taxi driver!

13 dead
at garden party!

13-year-old schoolboy
discovers pirate treasure!

14 dead
from slimming tablets!

15-year-old girl leaps from moving train
to escape rapist!

17 years of maths degree
end in lotto win!

20 years of law degree
end in pension application!

21-year-old marries
her rescuer!

23-year-old man
bashes his rescuer!

23-year-old woman
poisons best friend!

24 dead from
German beer!

3-year-old girl
tumbles down subway shaft!

Accident in Wash Street:
Pregnant woman loses baby!

Accruing debt
worse than working!

Actor plunges from skyscraper
during film shoot!

After assassination:
perpetrator eats bananas!

After winning lotto:
nun self-immolates!

AIDS: yet another
actor dead!

Air traffic controllers strike
in summer holidays!

Airport director
dies in sauna!

A-level student
buried alive in garden!

American journalist
sets fire to brothel!

Amsterdam: German tourists
committed to psychiatric hospital!

Anaesthetist
sets hospital on fire!

Apartment too small:
man sets block on fire!

Appendix operation
by open window!

Appetite suppressants
cause deaths!

Are rich set to
get richer?

Artist wants
museum visitors naked!

Astrologist bitten
by rattle snake!

B747 crashes over Pacific –
passenger opened aircraft door!

Baby born
in traffic jam!

Baby seal
tossed from aeroplane!

Baby speaks
at birth!

Babysitter shot
by burglars!

Bailiff
becomes lotto king!

Bananas
hot this season!

Bank manager
assassinated!

Bank robber armed
with cosmetic case!

Bank robber from Vienna
eaten by sharks!

Barbarism:
cat skinned alive!

Black-out in Munich –
thousands late for work!

Bomb attack on women’s refuge –
12 injured!

Both arms amputated –
followed by lotto win!

Burglar wears
diving suit!

Bus driver leaves
passengers standing in cold!

Butcher sells
dog meat as beef filet!

Cancer caused by
appetite suppressants!

Cemeteries desecrated by hooligans –
twelve graves disturbed!

Chemistry teacher botches experiment –
three children dead!

Chief surgeon masturbates
in morgue!

Children play with matches –
pencil factory razed to the ground!

CID intensifies search
for counterfeit 100 mark notes!

Clairvoyant
prophecies apocalypse!

Cleaning lady
forced to eat excrement!

Cockroaches in fridge –
housewife kills herself with hairdryer!

Coffee spills in car –
driver crashes into pharmacy!

Cold-hearted father sets disabled daughter
out at night in woods!

Cold-hearted mother lets
two sons starve!

Colleague struck dead
by beer mug!

Computer specialist from Dresden
stung to death by wasps!

Confessional sniper
released!

Cosmetic surgery secretly
filmed on video camera!

Courtroom drama:
Defendant shoots witness!

Cravat killer
strikes again!

Cruel revenge: brother
eats brother!

Cruelty: dog
tortured with cigarettes!

Cruelty: elephant
pelted with rocks!

Cruelty: two schoolgirls
found dead in woods!

Cucumbers may
be dangerous!

Deadly stab wounds –
housewife dies in supermarket!

Death by laughing gas –
nurse murdered by chief surgeon!

Death cries heard
from volcano!

Death
more expensive!

Dentist’s waste lying around
in children’s playground!

Department store shoot-out –
artist calls it performance!

Designer has
wrong leg amputated!

Disaster alert -
tankers race each other!

Doctor shoots himself
at son’s birth!

Double murder:
Newly-weds dead found dead in woods!

Double murder
at country boarding house!

Double suicide
in cemetery!

Drama flying high –
pilot sees extra-terrestrial!

Drunken policeman
shoots himself in mall!

Eggs in winter
bad for digestion!

Employee films
boss’s suicide!

Experimental robot runs into
police car!

Factory owner runs
naked through the streets!

Fainting fit
caused by skin cream!

Fallen stockbroker
eaten by flies!

False noses
more expensive!

Famous fashion designer
runs around in bathrobe!

Famous porn star
scalped by savages!

Farmer abuses
mother-in-law in woods!

Farmer bashes wife
to death in pig sty!

Fashion millionaire
bitten by bird-eating spider!

Fatal accidents while cleaning
on the rise!

Female teacher has
sex with horses!

Fireman lies fourteen days
dead in boatshed!

Fisherman
saves whale!

Flies in red wine –
husband shoots family!

Forest suicide – 12-year-old girl
dreamt of a better world!

Freed from own grave
after 62 hour ordeal!

Fumbling for sunglasses –
car crashes into group of disabled!

German journalist
kidnapped from bazaar!

German teacher
sold to Saudi Arabia!

German tourists
discover UFOs in Italy!

Germans eating
less sausage!

Germans
have it easier!

Germans
not putting in hours!

Girlfriend of the beast:
We wanted to get married!

Glass marbles
temporarily out of stock!

Going on holidays:
car rolls three times!

Going to church:
housewife sworn and spat at!

Grappa
too cold!

Gynaecologist takes
nude photos in surgery!

Hairdresser from Wuppertal
kidnapped in Naples!

Hamburg art critic
kisses 14 men to death!

Hawaiian pizza
came from pizzeria next door!

He never took a lunch break –
colleague shot dead in lift!

Heart attacks during lovemaking
on the increase!

Heart attacks in shower
decreasing!

Group sex drive
diminishing!

High as a kite judge drives car
through central park!

House burglary
on the increase!

Housewife from Nuremberg
poisons sick daughter!

Housewife of private eye
forced into porn!

Housing shortage
worse than expected!

Husband butchered by axe –
followed by deep-freeze suicide!

Immersion heater left on –
three people die in hotel fire!

Infant bathed
in boiling water!

Intoxicated apprentice
kills father!

Iron left on –
apartment block razed to the ground!

Jewel thief
on roller-skates!

Killer satellite
causes tidal wave!

Kindergarten
cannibalism!

Lawyer rapes
14-year-old daughter!

Lemons sold out –
housewife beats green grocer to death!

Lotto coupon lost –
man unlocks lion enclosure!

Lover driven to
life of crime!

Lovers found
dead in woods!

Lovesick night nurse
kills chief surgeon!

Lovesick polar bear
kills zookeeper!

Made his own wife
into brawn!

Madness in Coburg –
child baked in oven!

Mail van hold-up –
driver strangled with washing line!

Majority of men
incapable of love!

Marine biologist pulls dead
pilots from water!

Marriage fraud
shoots spouse!

Mass murderer amuses
himself at fair!

Mass murder
in hospital!

Mayor
assassinated!

Mayor’s son
steals 80 car radios!

Millionaire caught
breaking and entering!

Millionaire heiress
falls from balcony while watering pot plants!

Millionaire’s son
steals everything in sight!

Millions stolen –
thieves flee on bicycles!

Millions worth of damage
caused by thunderstorm!

Minister’s son
dealing drugs!

Miracle – rescued from the cold
after 79 hour ordeal!

Miscarriages
caused by toothpaste!

Miss Germany loses
contact lenses at beauty pageant!

Missing child found dead in woods –
17-year-old confesses to murder!

Model attacked by crocodiles
during photo shoot!

Most millionaires
lonely!

Motorways blocked
for holiday season!

Murderer flees
disguised as cleaning lady!

Murderess buys
chocolate for children!

Museum director
eaten by wolves!

Mushrooms in autumn –
just right!

Mussels in
demand!

Neighbour murdered with axe
for believing in God!

Neighbour strangled with stocking
for lying naked on balcony!

Night nurse
poisoned with sleeping tablets!

No ketchup for chips –
restaurant set on fire!

No money: nun
runs naked through the streets!

Nuclear physicist has
dead wife stuffed!

Office birthday party:
intern forced to undress!

Opera singer lies
dead in garage!

Pastor drowns in font
after funeral!

Pastor shoots himself
at wedding!

Pastry-cook from Kassel
trampled by elephants!

Pensioner (73)
eaten by rats!

Pensioner (79)
thrown from window!

Phoney doctor
struck dead by lightning!

Pickpocket rescues two
Berliners from car inferno!

Pig’s blood sold for
blood transfusions!

Pilot saves himself with
parachute before drowning!

Plane crash in
paddock – cow decapitated!

Poisoned food
at wedding reception!

Poisonous mushrooms
found in aeroplane!

Poisonous snake
found in supermarket!

Police arrest
naked woman in palace gardens!

Police warn of
pornographic works!

Politician kicks pregnant
secretary in stomach!

Pop star chokes to death
on fish bones!

Porter from Mannheim
becomes African chief!

Postman
drowns in wine barrel!

Professional slaughterer eats
sister’s brain!

Professor claims
spaceship caused earthquakes!

Professor demands
concentration camp for unemployed!

Psychiatrist hides tape recorder
under couch!

Psychiatrist performs
autopsies for fun!

Psychologist questions patients
about money!

Public prosecutor
prosecuted for pimping!

Public prosecutor
turns female!

Racetrack tragedy –
horses trample jockey to death!

Railway travel
more attractive!

Rapist
acquitted!

Red Lola attacked
by German Shepherd!

Rent increase – student
beats landlord to death!

Rescued girl disappears
without a thank-you!

Robots strike down dog
in research laboratory!

Round the bend –
secretary cuts off both ears!

Rump steak brought
by phoney waiter!

Sales assistant from Bornheim
drowns in champagne bath!

Scientist says: UFOs
responsible for bad weather!

Sculpture falls off plinth –
museum visitor loses both eyes!

Sex professor drowns
in bathtub!

Skull and crossbones
turn up on tram!

Smoking in bed –
baby burned to death!

Stabbing
at nudist beach!

Starving fish
leap from aquarium!

Stewardess (26)
laughs herself to death!

Storm over Leipzig –
umbrellas sold out!

Stormy weather – crocodile
kills little girl at zoo!

Suicide victim
dies in home-made coffin!

Surgeon in park by night –
nose bitten off!

Surgeon kills
prostitute in operating theatre!

Talking on the telephone -
consumers lose interest!

Tarot reader predicts
harsh punishments for sinners!

Tarzan to be
banned!

Tax debt:
businessman throws himself from skyscraper!

Tax office party – employees
to stand in the rain naked!

Taxi driver drives
murderer to police station!

Taxi driver stops pregnant
woman getting out!

Teacher sells pupils
for organ transplants!

Telephonist (23)
kidnapped by gypsies!

Three years of hiccups –
cured by thunderstorm!

Tomatoes in winter –
the ideal food!

TV short circuit –
25 dead in nursing home!

TV star lies ten days
dead in apartment!

Two schoolchildren
solve homicide case!

UFO attacks
aeroplanes!

Unemployed teacher
falls from tree: dead!

Used condoms
found in sausage factory!

Weather report
axed!

Widow frightened to death
by practical jokers!

Wife shoots
husband’s secretary!

Woman prays and her
shorter leg grows 1 cm!

Wrong medication prescribed –
woman suffers miscarriage!

Yet another oven explodes,
paper factory razed to the ground!

Yet another
murder in Oxford!