... who is now in February already seems to be over. Once again, an important note: These are not official communications of the European literature Kapfenberg, but only the private views of Hans Bäck! The European literature
Kapfenberg me is his home page or blog the literature available, for which I am very grateful!
Somehow it itches me, and if it itches, it will scratch you. Even if it's monuments.
As in the last days of January were the Austrian newspapers full of memories on the occasion of the 100th Birthday of Bruno Kreisky. With all due respect and all due respect and recognition, but estimated by me "press" used in the general part of the issue seven large format pages and in the "Spectrum" (this is the weekend supplement of literature) to the Honourable Manasseh were again given almost two pages of this exploited also to leave even his two cents in memory .
And then came the February and with it the memory of the 80th Birthday of Thomas Bernhard - and lo and behold I am full of praise for the Austrian newspapers. I do not mean the cheese leaves, a Federal and a number of ministers hold as agents. I mean those leaves, it really is worth reading. So, the praise for those newspapers, who devoted themselves in carefully edited flashbacks, dedications, reminders, etc. to the great poet Thomas Bernhard. Solely on the quantity of pages, the two events were another reminder of nothing. And that's quite something, which as often maligned in the press to observe culture and value is to be held. And it was not just writers who wrote about Thomas Bernhard, which perhaps was also quite good, because who's always been immune to smaller or larger jealousies. A writer certainly not! I only repeat something I wrote once in the fall: "Austria can be proud to have had such a poet" Actually I wanted to quote from various newspapers for the pickings, and I have a whole pack kept in journals, but I will remain so, and invite my readers to go on the trip itself and browsed what was now in February all written to Thomas Bernhard , you will make great discoveries. That now, 22 years after his death, even those who joined in the chorus of praise, who saw his time dawning for example, the premiere of "Heroes' Square," the decline of the West, is a logical Austrian Development (Leave Th example) would. I am personally pleased that I witnessed the creation of this great man as an avid reader and contemporary was allowed and many of his books in my bookcase, and almost all have read. How were stale and often articles from today hyped writers against the Titans, Thomas Bernhard.
It is indeed here with these notes, as already mentioned in the title, a gleaning, I shall therefore give not too much to preview. Just this: the grater number 28 is already in production, the first reviews are already in the layout and by the revision, the timely appearance on 15 April in Kapfenberg and 28 April in Vienna is therefore no more obstacles. The authors represented in the grater is available in the coming days the agreement and invitation to the presentations from the Chairman Sepp Graßmugg.
A request to all authors who wish to submit for the grater 29: Keep to the guidelines laid down regarding the scope of the review! We will this time everything that goes on relentlessly back and if thereby the submission deadline is exceeded, the author has just been unlucky. We take for example not more than 10 poems by a writer (a writer) to! We will make no selection or the jury left, these submissions become really back to the sender. In our home the detailed submission guidelines are included, please hold you!
Now for the reference and looked up.
One can hardly believe, as an Austrian, but the products are increasing and therefore it is not to deny more than a few who were present at that time to push. What is it about?
Once again, the German-German History to 1989 (and yet also a bit beyond).
First, I say thank you to Dr. Jörg Bilke in Coburg, who provided me kindly with important information (and, I hope, will also continue to provide). For residents of the island of the blessed do in there to hear about. Depths that are so incredible, so unbelievable that they are almost in the category of absurd literature should, or like the legendary "Watschenmann" - the Sunday morning of the Austrian cabaret. Radio many years ago, said: "Such things can not invent, not even from our establishment,"
For example
Anna Seghers, whose real name is Nelly Radvanyi (1900 - 1983) was since 1928, convinced communist briefly arrested by the Gestapo and she managed to escape to Switzerland and then on to Paris. From there they could emigrate with the family in 1941 to Mexico (in 1942 there appeared to her most famous book "The Seventh Cross"), she returned to Germany in 1947, SED became a member in 1950 and moved to East Germany. Numerous awards followed the GDR and now it is an adventure for me: In Wikipädia is coyly noted that it had at the various disciplinary measures of GDR writers mostly silent, only the exclusion of Heiner Müller from the East German Writers' Union voted against it. But what was really going on? There was the workers' uprising in June 1953, which the author later in a letter as "two, three crazy days" dismissed the "would be a divergence to the peace hopes of mankind" and how she took over the party official name of "counter-revolutionary coup attempt" , the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 she described as "staged by Western agents" and the Wall, "we have prevented a war and to prevent it further." But it has also used time and again for writers, in the "disgrace" fallen, were imprisoned or exiled. If they do not help people in need personally, could they forwarded the matter to the higher positions, reaching again and again relief. Although she confessed
always and everywhere to their state, with East Germany and its ideology, it has been under surveillance since the Hungarian uprising of the Stasi. And informers, informants were not anyone but respectable people of the GDR's cultural scene: Klaus Gysi, head of the East German publishing house construction and later East German culture minister, fellow writer Hermann Kant and Günter Görlich, wife of poet Paul Vienna (who worked himself to Erich Mielke) and Gerhard Henninger, the secretary of the East German Writers' Association!
What a world!
And now in a different world:
Czernowitz And again and again!
In the former imperial city of books (Rose foreigners), there was a poetry festival: www.meridiancz.com - based on the name of Meridian, the Paul Celan was once his city.
poet from the Ukraine, Germany, Austria and Switzerland were reading from their works and inaugurated on 3 September, a Vienna street.
brought to life Igor Pomerantsev, himself of his time in Czernowitz went to school and studied, his first works there wrote, before the Soviet secret 1978 "released" to emigrate was: The poetry festival was also the buried cultural and historical legacy revive the city again. It's been yet so that all the great poets of this city at the time of the Soviet regime were not available. Pomerantsev writes that at that time probably read Thomas Mann, Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky and Faukner, but from a Paul Celan heard nothing and got to face.
Schopenhauer and Kafka were banned in the Soviet writer. And all post-communist countries are under serious problem: Just as in C and NC after 1945 there is a discontinuity in the historical and literary memory, a break in the collective memory. Everywhere the authorities tried to erase the past.
And this reminder again to dig up was the real aim of the festival.
have the other hand, let the myths of the town to the literary past to Paul Celan, Rose Ausländer and many others, this city a monument to solidify and paralyzed its development. Although the city had continued to live under the Soviet Union, Chernivtsi has the transition from the German language to Ukrainian, for the rule of the Nazis, communism survived and still not lost their appeal.
These details I gathered from an interview with Igor Pomerantsevs the Salzburger Nachrichten.
Yes, I will not hide anything: I was referring to one of my past future reference a "few slaps". In the blog they can be read as a comment. Christine Teichmann has been angry about my Pauschalverdächtigung and general good guy and said the diminutive 15 November 2010:
"Since I really have a say for the good guy in the balance. First, there is a long way from a humanistic or altruistic attitude to an ideology that is eating its children. Strictly speaking, the basic message of faith to practice so these do-gooders, tolerance in the sense that I share, not your opinion, but I would risk my life to make sure that you are allowed to express them. The last known even to the tolerance for the intolerant. Second, I have the good guy in A. .. rather than the realos or whatever you may call the "other party" in the face. Finally, they are the last in our - at least since the black and blue to the end-use rights - society, which hold a social consensus on sustainability, human rights do not be confused with citizenship rights. So rather well as blood (pure) or otherwise what nonsense. "
Christine law has of course, as always has someone right there also is one of the wrong. So I tried to justify myself and Christine then had a lengthy exchange of our thoughts by e-mail.
me, it was necessary to point out why I just got this group of people so very much in the wrong windpipe. There's one part even to me important point that not everything that is not links would automatically be classified as right. Other hand, I have personally what I am fighting every case, however, with the brown-blue hatching thrown into a pot to be, only because I, for various reasons simply can not be left and therefore as a committed and enthusiastic liberal-conservative citizens, a third variant of the political orientation studied. This is the one (and principles) to do so. And then there is another event that had me removed from the above-gooders: those were the demos on the Thursday after the swearing-in of black-blue government in Austria. I would go fight to demonstrate it and that these demos are still allowed, which, however, I could not accept in any way that the first three days could be chanted by the demonstrators freely: "Resistance, Resistance, Heider - dish on the wall! "That was too much for me to call lynching or, if you stand right for a democratic election in a majority government passed since that is and was not only disgusting, repulsive, distasteful, but also unforgivable. The more so, as indeed heard these calls after the third day, but there was as a result of any of the organizers of an apology or at least a distance.
Well, let's leave that, it's all here for future reference so that mainly the literature and so I still hang something literary to:
In this year it marks the 50th Time that Ivo Andric won the Nobel Prize for Literature. To mark the occasion. There is an exhibition in Kapfenberg, thanks to the relations of our Helmut Türk, "accademia europe study" in Gorizia gestaltet wurde.
Und das ist für mich der Anlass, wieder einmal auf diesen großartigen Dichter hinzuweisen. Wie ich schon früher schrieb, es ist selbstverständlich reizvoll die Texte Peter Handkes über seine Besuche in Serbien und Bosnien zu lesen und zu versuchen, sich daraus ein Bild dieses zerrissenen Landes zu machen. Wer jedoch den Balkan verstehen will, seine Probleme, seine Menschen, die Kultur und die Entwicklung, der sollte Andric lesen.
Ja, ein Buch möchte ich noch, nein, muss ich, erwähnen. Von Arno Geiger liegt „Der alte König in seinem Exil“ vor. Was ist wichtig, was macht unser Leben lebenswert? Arno Geiger erzählt von seinem Vater, aber auch von sich The itself is a reminder of the lost, the author get them back. And it is a book made about the father, his orientation dissolves slowly and at the same time, as the son, the author refers back and get his father re-learn. Incredibly, here with what love violinist with the dementia of his father deals and presents great literature. A reading adventure! Another memorial was
there in these days of February. As an admirer of Rilke I can not help on the 150th Birthday of Lou Andreas-Salome noted. "What we often call to love a man is nothing but his way of making us productive in the highest sense," she wrote in her novel "In the Battle for God. "And what she has in her admirers, lovers, confidants suggested everything from productivity! Alone with the younger by 14 years Rilke, a relationship developed in the artistic expressiveness, both after their separation still band together for many years. A woman who lived through their life outside of their time and Nietzsche wrote in a love letter: "Dear Lou, ..., you become who you are!"
Then, dear friends I have left is just some information ( in their own right): From 17 - 20 March 2011 will be held in Leipzig Book Fair. My book "speakers in the trees" (published by Culture Machine www.kulturmaschinen.com Berlin) there is also presented and I will keep two readings in Leipzig. Because I want of course, my "fan club" like to inform and ask you to many of you there! "Our stand is in Hall 5, Stand A 219th I am of course appear throughout the exhibition in Leipzig and also at the FDA will stand there and be present. I would be happy if I could take quite a lot of my friends in Leipzig!
The exact dates are read from about 17th February on the website of the Leipzig Book Fair, and "Leipzig Reads" to be found. But of course I will in time all my literary friends in Germany shortly before the start again personally invite!
Hans Bäck
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