Witnesses · The witness who does not speak
Jürgen Saupe
The German translator and publisher who, more than any single figure, made the system exist as a book and an organization.
Relationship to the founder
Saupe brought the system into print (the first edition the system came to call the Black Book), founded New Sun Services, organized the German-speaking network, and from 1992, by the German community’s history, held the rights to the Rave BodyGraph, which after his death in July 2002 passed to the Saupe family. He died on July 13, 2002, at sixty-two.
What they say
The man who did more than any other to make the system exist in the world left, so far as the public record shows, no recorded statement about the founder at all. The German community that honors him speaks of him rather than for him. Its obituary calls him a man with “a listening heart” and records its “respect and gratitude for your life’s work of paving the way for the Human Design System in Europe and the world.” (Nachruf, humandesignsystem.de, translated from the German.)
How the account is weighed
Interest: The witness who does not speak The silence is itself part of the record. The publisher, translator, and rights-holder on whom the early system depended is, in the testimony about the founder, a witness who does not speak, remembered warmly by others while his own view goes unrecorded. His documented roles, and the separate history of the BodyGraph rights, rest on the German community’s pages and are treated at length in the companion volume ZENO.
Sources
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