Rainer Ganahl is an artist, poet, film maker, writer and fashion designer born in Bludenz to a family of musicians, taylors, hoteliers who later turned to business. His family was marked by World War I and World War II in which his family actively participated with his father flying a Messerschmitt airplane. Later, his father played the first violine in various local orchestras with a classical repertoire and together with his grandfather who fabricated and manipuated even instruments they played for weddings and group festivities complementing income with Klezmer and Polka. Ganahl, profoundly annoyed with the authoritarianism of his environment, he studied against his fathers will the clarinette and entered later the Innsbruck concervatorium that exposed him to the basics in music theory and composition. From the University where he got degrees in Philosophy, History, Psychology, Paedagogy and Social Sciences. Half through Ganahl his studies of Romanistic (French and comparative literature) as well as Art History due to his desire to move on to Vienna's leading Art Academy. In Innsbruck, he participated in many extra curriculum activities that ranged from an internationally known Wittgenstein Reading circle to performances and readings of his own writings on the ORF, at the time the only national broad cast station. Even before he moved to Vienna, his artist, writer and music friends exposed him to famous artist performances that included happenings by Roman Signer from the late 1970s on and famous traveling writers and performers the local gallerists Krinzinger and others brought to where he was.

The artist, writer and art paedagoist of his home town, Bludenz, Ingo Springenschmid, read Ganahl's self written texts produced from the age of 16 on and collected them and introduced him to an international writer and artist scene known for Concrete Poetry. Ganahl's revolting brother Edgar Ganahl was forced to leave the Bludenz Gymnasium because he used Springenschmid's classes to paint his shoes and write on his coat the word Arschloch / Asshole. His suspension and expulsion from the best high school in Bludenz soon would cost his life as he was condemned to become a cook and then soon a bank employee which soon afforded him to ride a manipulated ZÜNDUPP to drive himself instead of going to the church into his own death, unable to stop a drunken super speeding red light ignoring post party Benz driver who grinded Edgar's brain into a yogourt. Ganahl, in possession of a driving licence has since opted to use mostly bicylces, and trains, subways or airplains but pennyless he hitchhiked mostly and was even ignored by his traveling insurrance brokers' father who did not approve his live as a poet flutplaying vagabond son with no money but books in his pocket who hated to work during vacation and prefered sleeping on the streets with homeless and hippies.

Most importantly, he was soon introduced to a writer who become cruxial for dealing with Austria's history of the Holocaust and not interested in self-agrandism and self-justification but rather took a sentiment of guilt and embarrasement and failure as a point of departure. Heimrad Bäcker became his first publisher of famous series NEUE TEXTE, LINZ fa mailstone in addressing the Austrias history of Concentration camps. 2019–2021, the mumok in Vienna und das NS-Dokumentationszentrum in Munich honored Heimrad Bäcker with a one person show entiteld "es kann sein, dass man uns nicht töten wird und uns erlauben wird, zu leben" - (it is possible, that they are not kiling us and we are allowed, to live". Heimrad Bäcker - internationally mostly unknown- become for Ganahl a mentor where his own past in regard to his life long committment to Denazifikation was not only finding a hero but a person who worked activly in the Mauthausen concentratoin camp and could testify as a boy what hapopened to forced labor.

Unlike so many of his contemporaries Bäcker was collecting between 1968 and 1985 written testimony of the "national socialist "Tötungsmaschinerie" (the machinery to kill). His motto was "it is sufficiant, to simply quote the language of the perpetrators and stay within his linguistic scope, preserved in documents. The overlapping of documents and horror, statistic and dread" „Es genügt, die Sprache der Täter und der Opfer zu zitieren. Es genügt, bei der Sprache zu bleiben, die in den Dokumenten aufbewahrt ist. Zusammenfall von Dokument und Entsetzen, Statistik und Grauen.“ (Heimrad Bäcker)

„nationalsozialistischen Tötungsmaschinerie“: „Es genügt, die Sprache der Täter und der Opfer zu zitieren. Es genügt, bei der Sprache zu bleiben, die in den Dokumenten aufbewahrt ist. Zusammenfall von Dokument und Entsetzen, Statistik und Grauen.“ (Heimrad Bäcker) or what was then known Concrete Poetry.

The MARXIST AND POET AND EMIGRANT GANAHL WHO LOVES TO USE THIS NAME EVEN WITHOUT H AND WITHOUT THE G-IRL INDICATOR ... THE WAY HE FEELS AND HE IDENTIFIES ACCROSS HIS CENTURY OF SURFIVING AT LEAST TWO SO FAR.... HE HAS SHUNNED AND DISPICED THE ASPECT OF FUNDING AND YET TO ESCAPE THE MYOPTICS OF THE STATE FUNDED MACHINERY OF PUSHING ARTISTS TO CLEAN UP THEIR PRECEDESSOR'S FASCISTIC MESS MOTIVATED THE FASHION DESIGNER IN HIM TO GO DIRTY UP STREETS AND LUCK FOR TRASH... AND TRASH IS what HE recylce with a ZERO SUM BUDGET.

currently, he has been seen in pointed royal palais and artistic houses reserved for royals and the scum of the revolution that closes their eyes again of the war machinese that ignores statitical numbers for a very questionable format that Napoleon distributed with hundred thousands of death cadavre ... the national state that become in its latest formations again nothing but an endless battlefield that apparently needs the defense of the world .... community formed to avoid wars.

Commedesmarxists is a devotional kneefall and a order of the loser battalions that always populated the margins of the state, the state seen as tumor, as a broken blood vessel that does nothing but what already the greeks new.. wars ignite wars and render historiography and archeology into weapons of mass distruction when territorial expensions take place on interstellar new landscapes. Hence, the fashion designer is not even consistent with his label formation but textiles are per fiat on the origin of his acting for a better wolrd and sustainability of the textile trade through analysis has made the ideological banner of his ordeal to be laughted at, to be kicked out of institution and reject any form of institutionalization except by those who know to undrestand the fluidity of borders, of states, of reglious and tribal and national identity and being a fundamental betryal to all classes of production since he considers every instance of material culture open for use and interpretation and alteration.

His book MANHATTAN MARXISM - is a quintessential introduction to his origins of what he called commedesmarxists, a term first introduced for his White Columns fashion show and before that on his way there with the help again of the HAK VIENNA --- A GRADUATE OF the then fashion teacher introduced him to Bernhard Willhelm and again his friend Manfred Schu

that were even played on like committed to justice administered for the people who like him are searching in vain since at least the 1970s when his local writing friends exposed him first to regular performances at airports by the Swiss artsit toto when he learned the trade from one of the most influential spin master of art and politics at the HAK, the Hochschule for Applied Arts in Vienna, renamed University of Applied Arts. PeterWeibel was the partner of Valley Export for many years and participated in some of the most radical actions wíth the original members of VIENNESE ACTIVISM. who used precisely staged and timed actions, to interact in a controlled or not so controlled environemnt provoking people. Peter Weibel, born in Odessa, in 1944 was able to flee with his family make it to a saver western zone called Austria - the Homeland of Ganahl, to escape the terror of the Soviet Union. Weibel is considered part of conceptual art, performance, experimental film, video art, and computer art. During his official stay between 1985- 1991, the HAK with its long history and tradition of famous artists and teachers, Ganahl learned the trade from his teachers in regard to conceptual art, performance, experimental film, video art, and computer art, Hans Hollein, (he had develloped a good relationship to his collector, friend and current director at the Met, Max Hollein who's wife also studied with Westwood and they all spent hollidays together due to Ganahl's ability to be the least important person and the poorest person in the room no matter of the facts because he always suffered from seclusion, exclusion, internationalism, and book and langauge induced isolation that ended him so far on many instances in correctional facilities of a multiple of states and most severely in a psychiatric institution that marked his long academic service as a professor also due to narrow interpretations of local law and adefacto political expulsions since his telling it all catered into a forced expulsion due to an insistence, that fascistic tendencies are not welcome in any teaching machine - hence he was declared unable to serve the community of learners and unable to stand even trail when indruders rampaged his apartment on various instances and cases massive theft are still in the court house ) bazon brook (a teacher of Ganahl who immediatly harrassed his then long time girl friend Irene Hochenbuechler on a long car drive from Vienna (HaK) to Kassel (documenta IX,1987) when he repeatadly pressed his hands in front of Ganahl between the laughing young artist in his car and did not even stop harrassing the couple even after Ganahl hit him seriously on his hands. The artist theorist, art critic, multi-media generalist and academic teacher still stayed friend with Ganahl and was the only artist professor who at least come to visit him in Harlem. He also introduced one of RAINER GANAHL'S exhibtions to an audience in Bremen, where he also presented works based on Newspaper articles - something Ganahl has never really stopped.

Bazon Brook who was like Weibel a massive violater when it comes to women rights, grew up in a climate before me too, when the abuse of power was the norm. But that road trip evoke in him only bizarre films and porn situtatons he was exposed by far too early ... Hence the politics of the dress code was something the designer and founder of COMMEDESMARXISTS was literally beaten into his blood. Ganahl is used to sexual harassment from his early childhood and dispices it. He is currently in Lower Manhattan supreme court of New York for an incident where an artist friend force kissed him, and attacked him in his own house trying to penetrate him through him with his male organe from behind after he was weekend and had a problem from an earlier attack. But it was a skate boarder who nearly killed him in the streets of his city of choice, his borough of necessity where he is considered by default a dirty jew and hence a kind of intruding foreign enity, that nearly cost him his life due to a scate boarder rapper street artists. Thansk to the low of real insanity, this attacker how kept harrassing Ganahl finally found his own destiny and jumped as a latino father of two, only leaving from the goodwill of his mother and his benefit as a long time residence in a so-called project to his death in 2024 when severe rainfalls hit his neighborhood filled with not always law obeyding individuals, many of them of a hard working immigrant background that during covid cleared their differences with lethal gang specific weapons, sometimes simply a bullet to settle differences outside the court house since young man are a group of voters the upcoming USA election has to win over: disenfrenchised youth has to vote and believe in the legal process yet they are the hardest working people but tend to settle differences outside the legal system since there is a traditon of neglect when it comes to education, to changes, to jobs that are high earning and when it comes in particular to deciding what is real and what is wild west justice.

Unfortunately, the current major contenters for high office in the adabted place of choice have been when it comes to the national level officially convicted criminals and when it comes to the city level under the spectre of corruption in which the former ottman regime playes a big rule. And hence, Ganahl, an advocate for the law obeying has himself found insitutionalized due to fundamental law breakers of all colors and all religions and in particular for his kind of art related journalism that commedesmarxists uses as a changing flag for peace - during time of anti-semitism and islamophobia and utter usa helplessness and extreme block thinking and drawing new borders with the power of rockets and satelites as if we live in the age of manga ... the lastest version commedesmarxists uses the nuclear, toxic sign in clearly demarkated areas but currently when even piece prices are given to anti-nuclear groups ganahl decorates him with the origin of the stars and stribes as if a Jingo istic p ballistic drone operater who still thinks that the nationstate has to be abondoned and no nationalism, no boderline, no religous bordre should be touched without everybodies permission, meaning the larger peace making institutions with only symbolic value and bloody histories of mass distructions - the nobel price peace winner - was the nicest and only positive surprise that inspires commedesmarxists on its current tour accros europes sites of big miscalculations and the origin of massive mass distructions based on gigantic failed ideas.

Commedesmarxists has so far at his origin the follwing background

• history studies
• Art theories
• art history
• Art critisim
• art philosophy
• fashion and costume design
• feminism
• architecture
• Multi-media and computer theories and practice
• economics
• the economics and the price of things´´
• the price of education
• the price to pay for elegance and beauty and last but not least
• famoius fashion desginer who started as punks or slaves

The famous British net work artist Roy Ascott, introduced Ganahl to network art that at least sent him rather early on a second world wide tour. Fluxus artists opened his eyes on that airplane bound world tour that explained him throught the eyes of literature written by some that textiles can drive people into all kind of modes including into combat his nakedness come to the table of latest

Valley Export (her daugther was his lover and a student of Westwood), in some of the best design and art school the world had to offer

Rainer Ganahl, an artist and fashion designer known for his work under the label Commedesmarxists, has dedicated over a quarter-century to using textiles as a medium to express societal anxieties and provoke profound reactions. His journey has been marked by personal and professional challenges, a lack of financial support, and his unwavering commitment to speak truth to power. Ganahl stands at the intersection of fashion and activism, using his work to address the pressing issues of our time and currently is focued on democracy, anti-Semitism, xenophobia, Neo-fascism, and Islamophobia.

A first-generation immigrant and resident of Harlem, Ganahl’s art draws on his deep knowledge of history, including a focus on fundamental atrocities such as the Holocaust. His work, shaped by his experiences and intellectual engagement with the legacy of Karl Marx, critiques capitalism’s consequences on labor, the environment, resources, and education. In his analysis, Marx is just one of many intellectual figures whose writings expose the conditions that lead to genocide, war, and systemic discrimination.

Ganahl is an outspoken advocate for sustainability and recycling, gaining international recognition for his innovative fashion shows that incorporate elements of fine art, literature, and absurdist objects. His work often reflects themes of nuclear annihilation, war, and the legal consequences of leadership transgressions. His latest runway series reflects his activism, using fashion as a platform to oppose current global conflicts and injustices.

Ganahl’s Commedesmarxists label is not just about clothing—it is an intellectual and artistic platform that brings together the most powerful minds of our time to challenge societal norms. His work blurs the lines between high art and low-brow culture, combining political theater with humor and tragedy to tackle serious global issues, from climate change to systemic racism and misogyny.

Ganahl’s contributions to the fashion industry extend beyond the runway. His projects have been featured in museums worldwide, including the Whitney Museum and the Pompidou, where his folding bicycles symbolize a shift toward sustainable practices and a break from fossil fuel dependency. Despite facing near-bankruptcy and personal struggles, Ganahl continues to create work and is preparing fashion shows in truely independent spaces that are self financed or art run.

His upcoming collections in New York City and Paris and Berlin are featuring nuclear-themed shirts and hybrid garments, challenges the very concept of fashion, pushing boundaries with political and theatrical performances that question our world’s most pressing issues. Ganahl’s vision for fashion is not just about aesthetics; it’s about advocating for democracy, challenging kleptocracy, and defending fundamental human rights.

The label is trademark protected in the USA.

JACCUSE prepares a series of more publications that substitute for the shortcomings of the labels main web site COMMEDESMARXISTS. A more detailed view of the designers activities can be found on the personal website of Rainer Ganahl who adores to play with evasive social profile as his activities have caused him serious run-in with institutions he usually loves to challenge. Ganahl is also a a writer, film maker, poet, performer and director of theater plays that experiment with musical formats as well as with dance. Many of CDM's shows can be found on video platforms.

The label is truly independent but occasionally gets serious outside assistance as it was the case in the capital of Italians fashion industry, around Florence - Museo Pecci - that or a one person show at Fashion Space, the design museum of the London School of Fashion. The designer is know for never really refusing an opportunity and has also organised a Covid Fashion show in Harlem at THE SCHLOSS. He ignores traditional fashion standards and works from the his experiences in the real world including from the darkest sides of his life.

The climate change activist and bicycist is indifferent of social status and generational devide, as well as how people look and how their standing is in the world. The designer tries to remain indifferent whether his interlocutors are famous, rich and successful or poor, desperate and lost in limbo and diseases. Usually his friend, flatmates, neighbours, passerby tourists or illegals,, girl friends, partners or strangers he usually tends to engage in conversations. His most famous fashion models prefer to be anonymous but represents some of the biggest fashion labels that dominate the industry. His most deprived model have been alcoholic and drug addict and his most dangerous models stole from him and lived of scamming and one tragic mental case neighbours tried to