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term='satire'/><category term='poet'/><category term='Tom Lehrer'/><category term='money'/><title type='text'>plantagenet</title><subtitle type='html'>These are thoughts of the day, maybe about books or poems, maybe some quotes.....</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ginster-plantagenet.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/633044462221600284/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ginster-plantagenet.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/633044462221600284/posts/default?start-index=101&amp;max-results=100'/><author><name>plantagenet</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03692658044077590559</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image 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our world&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It takes a girl&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/YwEhKu3T51Q?fs=1" width="480"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/633044462221600284-6477608812206680892?l=ginster-plantagenet.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ginster-plantagenet.blogspot.com/feeds/6477608812206680892/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=633044462221600284&amp;postID=6477608812206680892' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/633044462221600284/posts/default/6477608812206680892'/><link rel='self' 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scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Maria'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='church'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Weihnachten'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='money'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mythos'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pregnant'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Joseph'/><title type='text'>Mary Christmas and the aftermath</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qhpyIbsHmNI/Tu84cwmr7dI/AAAAAAAAHTM/UfQs58svNSc/s1600/money+grabbers.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;how it all started:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-dpbLRyiXfxs/Tu81b_Djp3I/AAAAAAAAHSU/k-r6gRKVsl0/s1600/rman2800l.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-dpbLRyiXfxs/Tu81b_Djp3I/AAAAAAAAHSU/k-r6gRKVsl0/s320/rman2800l.jpg" width="318" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;and then:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-f6hRwt7_qP4/Tu8tCWWmBSI/AAAAAAAAHQ0/1eQXYK2tYO8/s1600/maria+schwanger.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-f6hRwt7_qP4/Tu8tCWWmBSI/AAAAAAAAHQ0/1eQXYK2tYO8/s1600/maria+schwanger.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;and then for the 24th of December&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jju7QqN-ico/Tu8s5gtpVxI/AAAAAAAAHQs/8NFV5z7gsqc/s1600/IMGP8363.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jju7QqN-ico/Tu8s5gtpVxI/AAAAAAAAHQs/8NFV5z7gsqc/s320/IMGP8363.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;it could have gone this way:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZsiMsC2f9bg/Tu82XwbfO9I/AAAAAAAAHSc/YjHTa2aaZxk/s1600/sdan127l.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="228" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZsiMsC2f9bg/Tu82XwbfO9I/AAAAAAAAHSc/YjHTa2aaZxk/s320/sdan127l.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;and then it all turned out differently&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-AIGlR_BI0aY/Tu8tZSjMZ9I/AAAAAAAAHQ8/g0oFvENrTnM/s1600/girl.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-AIGlR_BI0aY/Tu8tZSjMZ9I/AAAAAAAAHQ8/g0oFvENrTnM/s1600/girl.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;'it's a girl'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;and then there was a certain discontent:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZsiMsC2f9bg/Tu82XwbfO9I/AAAAAAAAHSc/YjHTa2aaZxk/s1600/sdan127l.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9lPuR0nW0jk/Tu82oblt74I/AAAAAAAAHSk/MhYrCpGSA1Q/s1600/rmcn368l.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9lPuR0nW0jk/Tu82oblt74I/AAAAAAAAHSk/MhYrCpGSA1Q/s320/rmcn368l.jpg" width="268" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;especially when those guys turned up:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZQ8JJgmCag4/Tu8256jXAAI/AAAAAAAAHSs/KHS9cuv8LzY/s1600/ake0037l.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="287" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZQ8JJgmCag4/Tu8256jXAAI/AAAAAAAAHSs/KHS9cuv8LzY/s320/ake0037l.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;But then the child had some special abilities:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-JASX8DHUU0k/Tu83OHUHs-I/AAAAAAAAHS0/bmXQv-ls_oQ/s1600/weihnachtsfreude-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="232" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-JASX8DHUU0k/Tu83OHUHs-I/AAAAAAAAHS0/bmXQv-ls_oQ/s320/weihnachtsfreude-1.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;but it turned out to be a stupid date for birthdays:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DIxuOWs4HLs/Tu83vorXqvI/AAAAAAAAHS8/UGveJGoWrJ8/s1600/wda1333l.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DIxuOWs4HLs/Tu83vorXqvI/AAAAAAAAHS8/UGveJGoWrJ8/s320/wda1333l.jpg" width="310" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;a certain club decided to take all this in their own hands:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-juyf8YbTzfg/Tu84PIjNbcI/AAAAAAAAHTE/dpmmQBRG-fk/s1600/image-234823-galleryV9-xpzh.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-juyf8YbTzfg/Tu84PIjNbcI/AAAAAAAAHTE/dpmmQBRG-fk/s320/image-234823-galleryV9-xpzh.jpg" width="317" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;as their seemed to be some kind of good business related:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qhpyIbsHmNI/Tu84cwmr7dI/AAAAAAAAHTM/UfQs58svNSc/s1600/money+grabbers.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qhpyIbsHmNI/Tu84cwmr7dI/AAAAAAAAHTM/UfQs58svNSc/s1600/money+grabbers.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;after all these experiences Mary decided to take it in her own hands: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-D2njb3T0Hjk/Tu84j3PIY3I/AAAAAAAAHTU/UncJqEu4EKw/s1600/tmen27l.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-D2njb3T0Hjk/Tu84j3PIY3I/AAAAAAAAHTU/UncJqEu4EKw/s320/tmen27l.jpg" width="316" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Now she does it herself and everyone seems happy.&amp;nbsp; Just remember:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-z07LPQxe0L4/Tu847xocYUI/AAAAAAAAHTc/LCeu9gXYrnI/s1600/168793_187598994601568_100000544066037_633448_5645816_s.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" 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scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='New Year 2012'/><title type='text'>Thougts for the festive season and a happy new year to you all!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;It only takes a girl&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="284" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/YwEhKu3T51Q" width="500"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Wish you all a very happy New Year 2012 blessed with girls, daughters, Mothers, Grandmothers, granddaughters and all the girls you know and want them to thrive.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Take care&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/633044462221600284-6549430155905928183?l=ginster-plantagenet.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' 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term='Baudelaire'/><title type='text'>Schweig still, mein Schmerz! und ruh verhalten</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img alt="Ingrid Hummel-Schmidt" src="http://www.kinderschutzbund-aalen.de/images/hummelschmidt.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;The loss of my good friend Tini with whom I shared many important years of my life saddens my day.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;We all shall miss her.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;May she rest in peace.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Ingrid Hummel-Schmidt &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Am 04. November 2011 starb meine gute alte Freundin&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;. Tini haben wir sie genannt und sie war mir mit ihrer Freundlichkeit eine gute langjaehrige Freundin.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Wir sind alle traurig, dass wir sie verloren haben.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="http://rihagan.piranho.de/images/samhain.jpg" src="http://rihagan.piranho.de/images/samhain.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Sammlung&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Schweig still, mein Schmerz! und ruhe noch verhalten,&lt;br /&gt;der so ersehnte Abend sinkt, und, nicht mehr weit, &lt;br /&gt;umkleidet er die Stadt mit ersten dunklen Falten,&lt;br /&gt;den einen Frieden bringend und den andern Leid.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Indes der Menschenwoge ehrlose Gestalten&lt;br /&gt;von ihrem Henker - Lust - gepeitscht, der nichts verzeiht,&lt;br /&gt;aus ihrem geilen Feste einzig reu' behalten, &lt;br /&gt;reich mir die Hand, mein Schmerz, wir zieh'n zu zweit&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;weit fort. Sieh', wie in altertuemlichem Talare&lt;br /&gt;sich himmelnieder neigen die geschied'nen Jahre,&lt;br /&gt;und aus dem Wasser, laechelnd, sich Bedauern hebt,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;wie dort im Fluss die Sonne, todesnah, entgleitet, &lt;br /&gt;und einem Leichentuche gleich im Osten schwebt&lt;br /&gt;die Nacht; &lt;br /&gt;hoer' nur, mein Schmerz, wie leis', wie leis' sie schreitet..&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Charles-Pierre Baudelaire (9. April 1821 in Paris – 31. August 1867, Paris)&lt;br /&gt;(Aus der Sammlung Die Blumen des Bösen)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img align="left" alt=" " class="autpic" hspace="25" src="http://ngiyaw-ebooks.org/ngiyaw/author/portraits/baudelaire.gif" vspace="10" width="200" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://fleursdumal.org/poem/321"&gt;Recueillement&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sois sage, ô ma Douleur, et tiens-toi plus tranquille.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; Tu réclamais le Soir; il descend; le voici:&lt;br /&gt;Une atmosphère obscure enveloppe la ville,&lt;br /&gt;Aux uns portant la paix, aux autres le souci.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; Pendant que des mortels la multitude vile,&lt;br /&gt;Sous le fouet du Plaisir, ce bourreau sans merci,&lt;br /&gt;Va cueillir des remords dans la fête servile,&lt;br /&gt;Ma Douleur, donne-moi la main; viens par ici,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; Loin d'eux. Vois se pencher les défuntes Années,&lt;br /&gt;Sur les balcons du ciel, en robes surannées;&lt;br /&gt;Surgir du fond des eaux le Regret souriant;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; Le soleil moribond s'endormir sous une arche,&lt;br /&gt;Et, comme un long linceul traînant à l'Orient,&lt;br /&gt;Entends, ma chère, entends la douce Nuit qui marche. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;— &lt;a href="http://ngiyaw-ebooks.org/ngiyaw/baudelaire/blumen/blumen.htm"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Charles Baudelaire&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="http://my.myblog.de/poemsofblood/img/i289029347_56671_5.jpg" id="thumbnail"&gt;&lt;img alt="Vollbild anzeigen" height="241" src="http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRxg8NKax8t_62FZsUIgVgE3dLoHu9P04HSKBcHGWlD8h_mJZlVkmNMxQ" style="border: 1px solid; float: left; margin: 10px 10px 0pt;" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://fleursdumal.org/1868-table-of-contents"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Meditation&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; Be quiet and more discreet, O my Grief. &lt;br /&gt;You cried out for the Evening; even now it falls: &lt;br /&gt;A gloomy atmosphere envelops the city, &lt;br /&gt;Bringing peace to some, anxiety to others.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; While the vulgar herd of mortals, under the scourge&lt;br /&gt;Of Pleasure, that merciless torturer,&lt;br /&gt;Goes to gather remorse in the servile festival,&lt;br /&gt;My Grief, give me your hand; come this way&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; Far from them. See the dead years in old-fashioned gowns &lt;br /&gt;Lean over the balconies of heaven; &lt;br /&gt;Smiling Regret rise from the depths of the waters;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; The dying Sun fall asleep beneath an arch, and &lt;br /&gt;Listen, darling, to the soft footfalls of the Night &lt;br /&gt;That traits off to the East like a long winding-sheet.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;   — &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;William Aggeler, &lt;i&gt;The Flowers of Evil&lt;/i&gt; (Fresno, CA: Academy Library Guild, 1954)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="CENTER"&gt;&lt;img alt="Charles Baudelaire" class="sub-cat-img" src="http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/images/charles-baudelaire-1.jpg" title="Charles Baudelaire" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Charles-Pierre Baudelaire war ein französischer Schriftsteller. Er gilt heute als einer der größten französischen Lyriker überhaupt und als einer der wichtigsten Wegbereiter der europäischen literarischen Moderne.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;One of the greatest French poets of the 19th century, often called  "the father of modern criticism," who shocked his contemporaries with  his visions of lust and decay. In his own time Baudelaire was largely  ignored. With Stéphane Mallarmé and Paul Verlaine  he formed the so-called Decadents. Baudelaire argued in LE PEINTRE DE  LA VIE MODERNE (1863, The Painter of Modern Life) in favor of  artificiality, stating that vice is natural in that it is selfish, while  virtue is artificial because we must &lt;i&gt;restrain&lt;/i&gt; our natural  impulses in order to be good. The snobbish aesthete, the dandy, was for  Baudelaire the ultimate hero and the best proof of an absolutely  purposeless existence: he is a gentleman who never becomes vulgar and  always preserves the cool smile of the stoic. &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;"There can be no progress (real, that is, moral) except in the individual and by the individual himself." &lt;/b&gt;(in &lt;i&gt;Mon Coeur Mis À Nu,&lt;/i&gt; 1897) &lt;/span&gt;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/633044462221600284-3211243085067708031?l=ginster-plantagenet.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ginster-plantagenet.blogspot.com/feeds/3211243085067708031/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=633044462221600284&amp;postID=3211243085067708031' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/633044462221600284/posts/default/3211243085067708031'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/633044462221600284/posts/default/3211243085067708031'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ginster-plantagenet.blogspot.com/2011/11/schweig-still-mein-schmerz-und-ruh.html' title='Schweig still, mein Schmerz! und ruh verhalten'/><author><name>plantagenet</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03692658044077590559</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='20' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TOkcNtlYpyI/AAAAAAAAGo8/uuqc08POng4/S220/meeting%2Bpessoa%2Bin%2Blisbon.JPG'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-633044462221600284.post-8607633292404368337</id><published>2011-10-10T04:23:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2011-10-10T04:25:43.905-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Wislawa Szymborska'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Polen'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='politics'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='poet'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gedichte'/><title type='text'>Wislawa Szymborska - Polish poetry with ironic precision - Poesie mit ironischer Praezision</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="image"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Poland has voted for the old new president yesterday.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="image"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;A clear voting for the friendship between Germany and Poland.What a relieve for all dedicated Europeans.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;img alt="http://www.ostpreussen.de/typo3temp/pics/Oderbruecke_SW_Richtung_O_f371059195.jpg" src="http://www.ostpreussen.de/typo3temp/pics/Oderbruecke_SW_Richtung_O_f371059195.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="image"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="image"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;One engaged poet and one of my favorites is Wislawa Szymborska, who taught me to think about the heritage of the German-Polish&amp;nbsp; historic relationship.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="image"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img alt="Wisława Szymborska" class="" src="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/uploads/authors/wisaawa-szymborska/448x/wisaawa-szymborska.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="image"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="image"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="image"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="image"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Well-known in her native Poland,&lt;a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/wisaawa-szymborska"&gt; Wisława Szymborska&lt;/a&gt; received  international recognition when she won the Nobel Prize for Literature in  1996. In awarding the prize, the Academy praised her “poetry that with  ironic precision allows the historical and biological context to come to  light in fragments of human reality.” Collections of her poems that  have been translated into English include &lt;i&gt;People on a Bridge&lt;/i&gt; (1990), &lt;i&gt;View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems&lt;/i&gt; (1995), and &lt;i&gt;Monologue of a Dog&lt;/i&gt; (2005).&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Today I want to post 2 poems which I especially see as ' poetry with ironic precision' and move me every time I read them. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="top" width="80%"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span class="TITLE"&gt;Children of Our Era &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span class="TITLE"&gt;b&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;y &lt;a href="http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/340"&gt;Wislawa Szymborska&lt;/a&gt;                                  &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" colspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" valign="top"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan="3"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.de/imgres?imgurl=http://www.spiegel.de/img/0,1020,112480,00.jpg&amp;amp;imgrefurl=http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,139123,00.html&amp;amp;usg=__kVJMlHO5EqJXQ_FJD2VLLmY6fIo=&amp;amp;h=126&amp;amp;w=180&amp;amp;sz=10&amp;amp;hl=de&amp;amp;start=15&amp;amp;sig2=1ck2OJbmyq3tNJdcHRAljg&amp;amp;zoom=1&amp;amp;tbnid=rnX2_F5D7vLpOM:&amp;amp;tbnh=71&amp;amp;tbnw=101&amp;amp;ei=KbWSTu-rNsaKswbo5fXlDw&amp;amp;prev=/search%3Fq%3Dverlorene%2Bkindheit%2Bfoto%26hl%3Dde%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26sa%3DN%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:de:official%26tbm%3Disch%26prmd%3Dimvns&amp;amp;itbs=1"&gt;&lt;img height="224" src="http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSpo5TGL-jRuZ0Giw6kLZyODNxMhGYgK07IRBbPA6BXBO-rGsPRmNw4kAU" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;    &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan="3"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;    &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" valign="top"&gt;&lt;pre style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;We are children of our era; &lt;br /&gt;our era is political. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All affairs, day and night, &lt;br /&gt;yours, ours, theirs, &lt;br /&gt;are political affairs. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Like it or not, &lt;br /&gt;your genes have a political past, &lt;br /&gt;your skin a political cast, &lt;br /&gt;your eyes a political aspect.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;What you say has a resonance; &lt;br /&gt;what you are silent about is telling. &lt;br /&gt;Either way, it's political.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;pre style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.de/imgres?imgurl=http://img.radio.cz/pictures/lidi/i/baby_shoppingx.jpg&amp;amp;imgrefurl=http://www.radio.cz/de/rubrik/tagesecho/rent-a-babycz-internet-kuenstlerin-sorgt-fuer-aufregung&amp;amp;usg=__C7h63RMbMVZpdrhFCIkPfMpDlqo=&amp;amp;h=113&amp;amp;w=180&amp;amp;sz=10&amp;amp;hl=de&amp;amp;start=3&amp;amp;sig2=cgj4uYbsM2zNm2MBUcb82Q&amp;amp;zoom=1&amp;amp;tbnid=WjlxtHAjYKc6CM:&amp;amp;tbnh=63&amp;amp;tbnw=101&amp;amp;ei=c7eSTs35CcXysgb-mY0V&amp;amp;prev=/search%3Fq%3Dkind%2Bkritisch%2Bkunst%2Bfoto%26hl%3Dde%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26sa%3DN%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:de:official%26tbm%3Disch%26prmd%3Dimvns&amp;amp;itbs=1"&gt;&lt;img height="199" src="http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSn6RXSfqrr9_9V1ezKTJo0-pT9o_C_lMNg2Taxsl_7KVIppaDByVOE6E4" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Even when you head for the hills &lt;br /&gt;you're taking political steps &lt;br /&gt;on political ground. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Even apolitical poems are political, &lt;br /&gt;and above us shines the moon, &lt;br /&gt;by now no longer lunar. &lt;br /&gt;To be or not to be, that is the question. &lt;br /&gt;Question? What question? Dear, here's a suggestion: &lt;br /&gt;a political question.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;pre style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.de/imgres?imgurl=http://www.komm-museum.de/uploads/tx_userangebot/LMO_Modersohn_Becker_Knieendes_Kind_konv.jpg&amp;amp;imgrefurl=http://www.komm-museum.de/index.php%3Fid%3D287%26such_name%3DLandesmuseum%2Bf%25C3%25BCr%2BKunst%2Bund%2BKulturgeschichte&amp;amp;usg=__TRyqzFiV46wSJFATV9XbedsoND8=&amp;amp;h=500&amp;amp;w=423&amp;amp;sz=73&amp;amp;hl=de&amp;amp;start=11&amp;amp;sig2=LoUxm1t-VwPYuBuzt2rQ7w&amp;amp;zoom=1&amp;amp;tbnid=ogv-0UOZv4GhwM:&amp;amp;tbnh=130&amp;amp;tbnw=110&amp;amp;ei=3raSTpvGJdHMswafhuT1Dw&amp;amp;prev=/search%3Fq%3Dkind%2Bheute%2Bkunst%2Bfoto%26hl%3Dde%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26sa%3DN%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:de:official%26tbm%3Disch%26prmd%3Dimvns&amp;amp;itbs=1"&gt;&lt;img height="320" src="http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR97-fr1ayw_rY3Yi2jzumRhqxejfEMexhGLls2T7ZcYifG-3nPQr2SHyk" width="270" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You don't even have to be a human being &lt;br /&gt;to gain political significance. &lt;br /&gt;Crude oil will do, &lt;br /&gt;or concentrated feed, or any raw material. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Or even a conference table whose shape &lt;br /&gt;was disputed for months: &lt;br /&gt;should we negotiate life and death &lt;br /&gt;at a round table or a square one? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Meanwhile people were dying, &lt;br /&gt;animals perishing, &lt;br /&gt;houses burning, &lt;br /&gt;and fields growing wild,&lt;br /&gt;just as in times most remote &lt;br /&gt;and less political.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.de/imgres?imgurl=http://www.abendblatt.de/multimedia/archive/00122/Kind_Internet2_HA_H_122276c.jpg&amp;amp;imgrefurl=http://www.abendblatt.de/ratgeber/multimedia/article1158117/Wie-Kids-sicher-surfen-chatten.html&amp;amp;usg=__kMHXKoWabg5AuvIs4P_NmfVCkic=&amp;amp;h=306&amp;amp;w=459&amp;amp;sz=13&amp;amp;hl=de&amp;amp;start=18&amp;amp;sig2=-plR-yurLzXi9DUO07nXKA&amp;amp;zoom=1&amp;amp;tbnid=2LyUHqJncQaewM:&amp;amp;tbnh=85&amp;amp;tbnw=128&amp;amp;ei=pbWSTsG2OM7Ksgbxl9HjDw&amp;amp;prev=/search%3Fq%3Dkinder%2Bheute%2Bfoto%26hl%3Dde%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26sa%3DN%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:de:official%26tbm%3Disch%26prmd%3Dimvns&amp;amp;itbs=1"&gt;&lt;img height="212" src="http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRljcmV-a3r5_KNyGu2xGtDMhThTRpQSc7clwh_1Va8RhJ69VGnamlxs1E" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;From &lt;i&gt;Miracle Fair&lt;/i&gt; by Wislawa Szymborska, translated by Joanna  Trzeciak.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="tab-content active" id="poem-top"&gt;&lt;h1&gt;The End and the Beginning&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="author"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="poem"&gt;&lt;div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"&gt;&lt;img alt="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b4/Fotothek_df_ps_0000847_Kriege_%5E_Kriegsfolgen_%5E_Zerst%C3%B6rungen_-_Tr%C3%BCmmer_-_Ruinen_%5E.jpg" height="219" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b4/Fotothek_df_ps_0000847_Kriege_%5E_Kriegsfolgen_%5E_Zerst%C3%B6rungen_-_Tr%C3%BCmmer_-_Ruinen_%5E.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;After every war&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;someone has to clean up.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Things won’t&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;straighten themselves up, after all.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Someone has to push the rubble&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;to the side of the road,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;so the corpse-filled wagons&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;can pass.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Someone has to get mired&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;in scum and ashes,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;sofa springs,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;splintered glass,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;and bloody rags.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Someone has to drag in a girder&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;to prop up a wall.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Someone has to glaze a window,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;rehang a door.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Photogenic it’s not,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;and takes years.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;All the cameras have left&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;for another war.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;We’ll need the bridges back,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;and new railway stations.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Sleeves will go ragged&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;from rolling them up.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.de/imgres?imgurl=http://sowieso.de/portal/sites/default/files/IMG/jpg/740px-Exploding_landmine__16958280_.jpg&amp;amp;imgrefurl=http://sowieso.de/portal/lexikon/165/165/L&amp;amp;usg=__5Poh-TDnq5gxFbZZ2o3-ucQBGbU=&amp;amp;h=599&amp;amp;w=740&amp;amp;sz=71&amp;amp;hl=de&amp;amp;start=14&amp;amp;sig2=lVFpyrTdVpEUtO50qMZjtQ&amp;amp;zoom=1&amp;amp;tbnid=gHoCdPYHKJhdkM:&amp;amp;tbnh=114&amp;amp;tbnw=141&amp;amp;ei=BbiSTrPmC4P6sgaY__zpDw&amp;amp;prev=/search%3Fq%3Dlandminen%2Bfoto%26hl%3Dde%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26sa%3DN%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:de:official%26tbm%3Disch%26prmd%3Dimvns&amp;amp;itbs=1"&gt;&lt;img height="258" src="http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTg6qI28RoCTgPGsnSlDl9y5pRkLZqeKocpRpHEO_BbmR9crmyZRMr_Mx4" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Someone, broom in hand, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;still recalls the way it was.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Someone else listens&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;and nods with unsevered head.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;But already there are those nearby&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;starting to mill about&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;who will find it dull.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;From out of the bushes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;sometimes someone still unearths&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;rusted-out arguments&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;and carries them to the garbage pile.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Those who knew&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;what was going on here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;must make way for&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;those who know little.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;And less than little.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;And finally as little as nothing.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;In the grass that has overgrown&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;causes and effects,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;someone must be stretched out&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;blade of grass in his mouth&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;gazing at the clouds.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="http://www.freunde-der-kunsthalle.de/ufile/1_141_1.jpg" src="http://www.freunde-der-kunsthalle.de/ufile/1_141_1.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="translated"&gt;&lt;span class="author"&gt;By &lt;a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/wisaawa-szymborska"&gt; Wisława  Szymborska &lt;/a&gt;Translated By &lt;a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/joanna-trzeciak"&gt;Joanna  Trzeciak&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;       &lt;/div&gt;from &lt;i&gt;Miracle Fair&lt;/i&gt;, translated by Joanna Trzeciak. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Bisher hatte ich Gedichte von &lt;b&gt;Wislawa Szymborska &lt;/b&gt;nur in Englisch und nehme mir heute die Zeit deutsche Gedichte zu finden:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Mir ist die Lächerlichkeit, Gedichte zu schreiben, lieber als die Lächerlichkeit, keine zu schreiben.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;(Wislawa Szymborska)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id="spIntroTeaser"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;b&gt;Wislawa Szymborskas Gedicht&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div id="spIntroTeaser"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;b&gt; "&lt;a href="http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-68425699.html"&gt;Fotografie vom 11. September&lt;/a&gt;" setzt Worte gegen Bilder:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="http://www.geschichteinchronologie.ch/USA/betrug/betrug-d/WTC-sprung4.jpg" src="http://www.geschichteinchronologie.ch/USA/betrug/betrug-d/WTC-sprung4.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div id="spIntroTeaser"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;             &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Sie sprangen aus brennenden Stockwerken hinab -&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; einer, zwei, noch ein paar&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;höher, tiefer.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Die Fotografie hielt sie an im Leben,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;und nun bewahrt sie sie auf &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;über der Erde gen Erde.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; Jeder ist noch ganz&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;mit eigenem Gesicht&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; und gut verstecktem Blut.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Es ist genügend Zeit, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;dass die Haare wehen&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;und aus den Taschen Schlüssel,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;kleine Münzen fallen. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Sie sind immer noch im Bereich der Luft, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;im  Umkreis jener Stellen,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;die sich soeben geöffnet haben.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Nur zwei  Dinge kann ich für sie tun -&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;diesen Flug beschreiben&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;und den letzten  Satz nicht hinzufügen.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="rez"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.literaturkritik.de/public/rezension.php?rez_id=9160"&gt;Die deutschsprachigen Leserinnen &lt;/a&gt;und Leser dürfen sich  glücklich schätzen, dass ein Teil von Szymborskas allerneuesten  Gedichten bereits seit letztem Sommer in Übersetzung mit polnischem  Paralleltext vorliegt. Karl Dedecius, der langjährige und verdiente  Vermittler polnischer Literatur, hat im feinen Band "Der Augenblick /  Chwila" in der Bibliothek Suhrkamp nicht nur den vorletzten Band der  Dichterin fast gänzlich auf Deutsch zugänglich gemacht, er hat überdies  Szymborskas aktuellste Gedichtsammlung schon vor ihrem Erscheinen in  Polen zumindest zur Hälfte bereits in den durch ihn betreuten Band  aufnehmen können.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="rez"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Die Themenvielfalt dieser Gedichte ist breit, ihr Ton oft  ironisch und augenzwinkernd, philosophisch und nachdenklich, wie man  ihn vom früheren Werk her bereits kennt. Manches Gedicht polemisiert  ganz offen mit älteren.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="rez"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Nicht zu übersehen ist indessen, dass die  Vergänglichkeit des menschlichen Daseins, auch des eigenen, nun mehr  Raum einnimmt. Gleichwohl begegnet man aber auch hier immer noch dem  fast jugendlich anmutenden Staunen des lyrischen Ich über das Wunder der  Existenz, welches Szymborska so meisterlich festzuhalten versteht.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="rez"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Ob  sie nun angesichts der Vielfalt der Schöpfung über ihren eigenen  einmaligen Platz darin reflektiert ("Im Gewimmel") oder mit ihren Blumen  einen einseitigen Dialog aufnimmt ("Das Schweigen der Pflanzen"):&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="rez"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Immer  wieder nimmt die Dichterin die bewusst naive, arglose Position einer  scheinbar nichts ahnenden Beobachterin ein, wie ein Kind, das etwas zum  ersten Mal sieht oder erlebt. Dabei gelingen ihr überraschend neue  Einsichten und Diagnosen über sich selbst und die Dinge, Pflanzen, Tiere  und Menschen um sie herum.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="rez"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;In solchen Gedichten kann man wohl die  eigentliche künstlerische Meisterschaft Wislawa Szymborskas erblicken.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="rez"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="rez"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Dabei habe ich einen wunderbaren &lt;a href="http://www.usakowska-wolff.com/wislawa1.htm"&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt; entdeckt, der auch dieses Gedicht postet &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;Das Schweigen der Pflanzen&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.de/imgres?imgurl=http://www.toeller.de/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/monokultur.jpg&amp;amp;imgrefurl=http://www.toeller.de/2011/01/16/grundsaetze-biologischer-gartenbau/&amp;amp;usg=__wxe10jNsGXNh85gvz3svY-M3kU4=&amp;amp;h=232&amp;amp;w=294&amp;amp;sz=78&amp;amp;hl=de&amp;amp;start=7&amp;amp;sig2=6iVrejLMesFQbo_kLNr4lQ&amp;amp;zoom=1&amp;amp;tbnid=64C9HxTTuBj7VM:&amp;amp;tbnh=91&amp;amp;tbnw=115&amp;amp;ei=xbSSTpCDA8_0sgaUy8DtDw&amp;amp;prev=/search%3Fq%3Dmonokultur%2Bpflanzen%2Bfoto%26hl%3Dde%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26sa%3DN%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:de:official%26tbm%3Disch%26prmd%3Dimvns&amp;amp;itbs=1"&gt;&lt;img height="253" src="http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSE5Q7Gc9t9eNkNjnE2zfGi9bYvx54SU-UX1rdykvueW146wMYQBRyWYw" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Die einseitige Bekanntschaft zwischen mir und euch&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br style="color: black;" /&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt; entwickelt sich nicht zum Schlechtesten.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="color: black;" /&gt;&lt;br style="color: black;" /&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt; Ich weiß was das ist: ein Blatt, eine Blüte, eine Ähre, ein Zapfen, ein Stengel&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="color: black;" /&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt; und was mit euch geschieht im April und was im Dezember.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="color: black;" /&gt;&lt;br style="color: black;" /&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt; Obwohl ihr meine Neugierde nicht teilt,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="color: black;" /&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt; neige ich mich über manche absichtlich&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="color: black;" /&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt; und zu manchen von euch recke ich den Kopf.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="color: black;" /&gt;&lt;br style="color: black;" /&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt; Ihr habt bei mir Namen:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;Ahorn, Klette, Leberblümchen,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="color: black;" /&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt; Heidekraut, Wacholder, Mistel, Vergissmeinnicht,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="color: black;" /&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt; und ich bei euch keinen.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="color: black;" /&gt;&lt;br style="color: black;" /&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt; Wir reisen gemeinsam.&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;Auf gemeinsamen Reisen spricht man bekanntlich,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="color: black;" /&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt; tauscht Bemerkungen aus zumindest über das Wetter&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="color: black;" /&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt; oder über Stationen, an denen man geschwind vorüberzieht.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="color: black;" /&gt;&lt;br style="color: black;" /&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt; Es fehlte nicht an Themen, denn es verbindet uns viel.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="color: black;" /&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt; Derselbe Stern hält uns in Reichweite.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="color: black;" /&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt; Wir werfen Schatten aus demselben Recht.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="color: black;" /&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt; Wir mühen uns etwas zu wissen, jedes auf seine Weise,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="color: black;" /&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt; und das, was wir nicht wissen, gleicht sich ebenfalls.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="color: black;" /&gt;&lt;br style="color: black;" /&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt; Ich erkläre, wie ich kann, nur fragt:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="color: black;" /&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt; was kann ich betrachten mit den Augen,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="color: black;" /&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt; wofür schlägt mein Herz&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="color: black;" /&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt; und warum treibt mein Körper keine Wurzeln.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="color: black;" /&gt;&lt;br style="color: black;" /&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt; Aber wie soll man antworten auf nicht gestellte Fragen,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="color: black;" /&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt; ist man zu allem Überfluss jemand&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="color: black;" /&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt; so sehr für euch ein Niemand.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="color: black;" /&gt;&lt;br style="color: black;" /&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt; Büsche, Haine, Wiesen und Sumpfgräser -&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="color: black;" /&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt; alles, was ich euch sage, ist ein Monolog,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt; und ihr hört ihm nicht zu.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="color: black;" /&gt;&lt;br style="color: black;" /&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt; Das Gespräch mit euch ist unerlässlich und unmöglich.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="color: black;" /&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt; Dringend im hastigen Leben&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="color: black;" /&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt; und verschoben auf nie.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.de/imgres?imgurl=http://u-styles.com/assets/images/weltkugel_Deutschland.jpg&amp;amp;imgrefurl=http://u-styles.com/index.html&amp;amp;usg=__KxUWb0C52qmZZFxjE1k4R0vJT6A=&amp;amp;h=385&amp;amp;w=385&amp;amp;sz=110&amp;amp;hl=de&amp;amp;start=6&amp;amp;sig2=jFS1D3qVtmJ056eSAD3cWA&amp;amp;zoom=1&amp;amp;tbnid=wSqMVpEr7O0xuM:&amp;amp;tbnh=123&amp;amp;tbnw=123&amp;amp;ei=triSTp6bFYiTswa-iI0T&amp;amp;prev=/search%3Fq%3Dweltkugel%26hl%3Dde%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26sa%3DN%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:de:official%26tbm%3Disch%26prmd%3Dimvns&amp;amp;itbs=1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img height="320" src="http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSVVoh610Uuv51LZ9LRMbnTyuTXOHEy4nJlRimim1-nk6-yl__0-wf4tPE" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dradio.de/dkultur/sendungen/kritik/405364/"&gt;In ihren neuesten Gedichten&lt;/a&gt; setzt sie die bereits erprobte Engführung  der großen Themen mit dem ganz Alltäglichen fort. Sie sind Reflexionen  über das vermeintlich Selbstverständliche: wie es Tag wird oder wie die  Wolken ziehen, Meditationen angesichts von Pfützen, Pflanzen oder  Hunden, Konversationen eines lyrischen Ichs mit der Menschheit als  sprödem Gegenüber. Das Gedicht "Verzeichnis" zum Beispiel listet Fragen auf, "deren  Beantwortung ich nicht mehr erleben werde": Fragen nach Leben und Tod.  Sie kommen daher im Gewand beinahe schlichter Überlegungen: Welcher  Ringfinger trägt jetzt wohl einen gestohlenen Ring oder "Was wollte M.  mir sagen/als sie nicht mehr sprechen konnte".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Diese ganze mit  verblüffender Beiläufigkeit gesammelte, aber mit exakt gesetzten  Akzenten inszenierte Liste von Fragen endet mit der Andeutung einer  mysteriösen Antwort, die vielleicht, vielleicht im Fragmentarischen und  Unverständlichen liegen könnte.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Aber: "Auch das ist eine Frage/die mich  irgendwann verlässt."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="http://bi.gazeta.pl/im/8/7450/z7450568X,Wislawa-Szymborska.jpg" height="555" src="http://bi.gazeta.pl/im/8/7450/z7450568X,Wislawa-Szymborska.jpg" style="cursor: -moz-zoom-in;" width="370" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Wislawa Szymborskas Meisterschaft liegt in  der gewollten Missachtung der Nuancen sprachlicher Hierarchie. Durch das  Einfügen eines Wortes an einer unerwarteten Stelle, wodurch jede  Gewissheit zu Fall kommt und die Sprache das unendliche Nichtwissen  bereits eingesteht, während das lyrische Ich vordergründig um Antwort  bemüht ist. Es wird jedoch immer eine Nicht-Antwort sein, mit der  Szymborska ihre Leser entlässt. 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Nobel peace price 2011 for 3 strong women</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Are we lucky or blessed? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img height="180" src="http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/55902000/jpg/_55902536_noble_win_464.jpg" width="320" /&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;'We want to show the world that women can do everything.” -Tawakul Karman&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Those women had led the non-violent struggle for women's political rights, said the committee. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Finally  some brave women have received the peace Nobel price for their fearless  engagement in their countries, for fighting for human rights, for women  rights.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fotostrecke-73741-9.html" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="http://www.spiegel.de/images/image-269231-galleryV9-ovts.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Prize  motivation: "for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and  for women’s rights to full participation in peace-building work" :&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Johnson_Sirleaf"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Ellen Johnson&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; - President of Liberia &lt;br /&gt;first democratically elected female African head of state&lt;br /&gt;seen as a reformer and peacemaker after Liberia's civil war&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2011/johnson_sirleaf_postcard.jpg"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2011/johnson_sirleaf_postcard.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Ellen Johnson Sirleaf &lt;br /&gt;Born:&lt;/b&gt; 29 October 1938&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Residence at the time of the award:&lt;/b&gt; Liberia &lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Role:&lt;/b&gt; President of Liberia &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leymah_Gbowee"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Leymah Gbowee&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/a&gt;- Liberian peace activist &lt;br /&gt;mobilised female opposition to Liberia's civil war&lt;br /&gt;encouraged women to participate in political process&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="Leymah Gbowee" border="0" height="396" src="http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2011/gbowee_postcard.jpg" width="280" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://womenpeacesecurity.org/programs-events/peacebuilders/leymah_roberta_gbowee/"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Leymah Gbowee &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Residence at the time of the award&lt;/b&gt;: Liberia&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id="slot" style="float: right; width: 100%;"&gt;   &lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wipsen-africa.org/wipsen/News/page_5/"&gt;Biography of Leymah Roberta Gbowee&lt;/a&gt;, Executive Director, Women, Peace and Security Network - Africa, Ghana&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Leymah Roberta Gbowee is the Executive Director of the Women, Peace  and Security Network - Africa (WIPSEN-Africa). She was formerly the  Coordinator for Women in Peacebuilding Network/ West African Network for  Peacebuilding (WIPNET/WANEP) and has served as the  Commissioner-designate for the Liberia Truth and Reconciliation  Commission. Leymah has developed and facilitated workshops on Trauma  Counseling, Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding and demonstrates a  lifelong commitment to social justice and sustainable development for  community transformation.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;As a Coordinator for WIPNET/WANEP, Leymah has provided leadership and  direction to a network of women peacebuilders in nine of Liberia’s  fifteen counties to promote collaborative conflict prevention and  peacebuilding initiatives among community based women’s groups and  organizations. She recently served as a presenter for UNIFEM’s “Women  and the DDRR (disarmament, demobilization, reintegration and  repatriation) Process” at the United Nations. Leymah also served as a  resource person for the Liberian Women and DDRR Centre for Conflict  Resolution in Cape Town, South Africa.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Leymah has a wide range of certified training in conflict prevention  and peace building. The programs through which she has been trained and  certified include: the Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding Training at  the United Nations Institute for Training, the Healing Victims of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;War  Trauma Center in Cameroon, and Non-Violent Peace Education in Liberia.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wipsen-africa.org/wipsen/News/page_5/"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Leymah Gbowee &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;mobilized and organized a group of Christian and Muslim women  across Liberia that pressured warring factions in Liberia to end the  civil war that ravaged the country for over a decade.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div id="slot" style="float: right; width: 100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"&gt;&lt;b&gt;She fearlessly led  women from across the country to defy war-lords and&lt;/b&gt; &lt;b&gt;push men to sign  the Accra Comprehensive Peace Agreement in 2003.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div id="slot" style="float: right; width: 100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"&gt;The group is most  remembered for its long peace protests on a football field and  government buildings in Monrovia.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"&gt;Dressed  in their white- T-shirts they would pray and sing songs of hope in the  hot sun and the heavy rain. Armed with nothing but their sisterhood  these women pressured the then President, Charles Taylor to agree to  hold peace talks with other warring factions to the Liberian conflict.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wisemuslimwomen.org/muslimwomen/bio/tawakul_karman/"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Tawakul Karman&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; - Yemeni pro-democracy activist &lt;br /&gt;journalist and key leader of protests against President Ali Abdullah Saleh&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="Tawakkul Karman" border="0" height="396" src="http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2011/karman_postcard.jpg" width="280" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;first Arab woman to be awarded the peace prize&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;"We cannot achieve democracy and lasting peace in the world unless  women achieve the same opportunities as men to influence developments at  all levels of society," said Nobel Committee chairman Thorbjorn Jagland  in Oslo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;         &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Reading from &lt;a href="http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2011/press.html"&gt;the prize citation,&lt;/a&gt;  he said the committee hoped the prize would "help to bring an end to  the suppression of women that still occurs in many countries, and to  realise the great potential for democracy and peace that women can  represent".&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/isobel-coleman/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-ye_b_811946.html"&gt;In 2010&lt;/a&gt;, Tawakul &lt;a href="http://www.yementimes.com/defaultdet.aspx?SUB_ID=34255" target="_hplink"&gt;was nominated&lt;/a&gt;  for a U.S. State Department Woman of Courage Award, but didn't win. "I  didn't deserve to win. There were other women on the list who had done  more courageous things than I. Not until I help bring down this  government do I deserve any recognition." During Hillary Clinton's  recent visit to Yemen, Tawakul had her photo taken with the Secretary of  State and posted it online. "People now chide me that I'm the Ahmed  Chalabi of Yemen -- an American puppet," she jokes, seeming to take some  pleasure in being the center of a political conspiracy theory. Unlike  other Arab activists, who were harshly critical of the United States'  lackluster response to the protests in Tunisia, she lauds President  Obama for his support. "He clearly sided with the dignity and unity of  Tunisians. We will show him that Yemenis are even more determined, and  more civilized."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;"This is a victory for women rights everywhere in the world. What could be better then three women winning the prize? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;         &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;"This is the recognition that we hear you, we see you, we acknowledge you." &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;         &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;The women will share the $1.5m (£1m) prize money.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;"&lt;a href="http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,790472,00.html"&gt;Es kann auf der Welt &lt;/a&gt;keine Demokratie und keinen dauerhaften Frieden  geben, solange Frauen nicht dieselben Chancen wie Männer haben, auf  Entwicklungen in allen Bereichen der Gesellschaft einzuwirken", sagte  Jagland als Begründung für die Preisvergabe.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" height="120" src="http://www.spiegel.de/images/image-269169-thumbbiga-xhlg.jpg" title="" width="160" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="inside"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Die 72 Jahre alte &lt;a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Johnson-Sirleaf"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/a&gt;ist die erste  gewählte Präsidentin eines afrikanischen Staats und stellt sich kommende  Woche zur Wiederwahl. Sie regiert das westafrikanische Land seit 2006.  Zum Zeitpunkt ihres Amtsantritts galt sie als Reformerin und  Friedensstifterin, steht nun jedoch in der Kritik der Opposition.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="inside"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="inside"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="inside"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" height="120" src="http://www.spiegel.de/images/image-269185-thumbbiga-hifr.jpg" title="" width="160" /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="inside_image"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leymah_Roberta_Gbowee"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Leymah Roberta Gbowee&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;,  39 Jahre alt, ist Chefin einer Organisation, welche die Rolle von  Frauen in der Konfliktlösung in Afrika betonen will. In Liberia  organisierte sie Frauen über religiöse Grenzen hinweg und gründete eine  Organisation, die sich gegen die Kriegsherren im liberianischen  Bürgerkrieg richtete. Gbowee wird damit ein maßgeblicher Anteil an der  Beendigung des blutigen Bürgerkriegs zugewiesen.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nzz.ch/nachrichten/politik/international/liberias_lysistrata_1.12883734.html"&gt;Sexentzug war freilich&lt;/a&gt; nicht das einzige taktische Instrument der von  Gbowee organisierten Frauenbewegung Women of Liberia Mass Action for  Peace.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Weiss gekleidet, hielten die Frauen Sit-ins ab, führten  öffentliche Friedensgebete durch und überzeugten Marktfrauen dazu, ihren  privilegierten Zugang zu Informationen nicht mehr zugunsten der  Warlords, sondern zur Sabotage der Kriegsanstrengungen zu verwenden.  Auch während der Friedensverhandlungen in Accra markierten Gbowees  Frauen Präsenz.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Zeitweise blockierten sie dort das Versammlungslokal, um  die Kriegsfürsten dazu zu zwingen, bis zu einer Einigung  weiterzuverhandeln. &lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Für den Fall, dass sie mit Gewalt weggeschafft  würden, drohten sie mit einem Massenstriptease&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="inside_image"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="inside_image"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="inside_image"&gt;&lt;div class="inside"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.spiegel.de/images/image-269174-thumbbiga-dnbr.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" height="120" src="http://www.spiegel.de/images/image-269174-thumbbiga-dnbr.jpg" title="" width="160" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="inside"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="inside"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="inside"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="inside"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="inside"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="inside"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="inside"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Die Jemenitin &lt;a href="http://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2011-10/tawakkol-karman-interview"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Tawakkul Karman&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; ist Vorsitzende des Vereins  "Journalistinnen ohne Ketten". In einer ersten Stellungnahme sagt die  32-Jährige: "Ich bin sehr, sehr glücklich über diesen Preis." Der Kampf  für einen "demokratischen, modernen" Jemen ginge so lange weiter, bis  alle Rechte erreicht seien, sagte sie.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="inside"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Zur Rolle Karmans sagte Komiteechef Jagland: "Sie ist schon aufgestanden  und hat Mut gezeigt, als der arabische Frühling noch in weiter Ferne  lag." Zu den Preisträgerinnen aus Liberia verwies Jagland auf die  besondere Unterdrückung von Frauen und Kindern in Kriegen wie dem in  Liberia, unter anderem durch systematische Vergewaltigungen. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;       Erstmals in der Geschichte des Friedensnobelpreises seit 1901 ging der  Preis an drei Frauen zugleich. Insgesamt wurden bislang erst 15 Frauen  ausgezeichnet. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://lefthandofeminism.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/egypt-protest-007.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1811" src="http://lefthandofeminism.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/egypt-protest-007.jpg?w=460&amp;amp;h=276" title="Egypt-protest-007" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://lefthandofeminism.wordpress.com/tag/tawakul-karman/"&gt;The face &lt;/a&gt;of the Yemeni uprising belongs to &amp;nbsp;a 32-year old mother of three. &amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://lefthandofeminism.wordpress.com/2011/01/23/tawakul-karman-brave-muslim-feminist-arrested-in-yemen/"&gt;Tawakul Karman&lt;/a&gt; (also spelled Tawakkol: her name in Arabic,&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;توكل&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;,&amp;nbsp;means “trust”) has been cheered by students and others calling for the end to President&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Abdullah_Saleh"&gt;Ali Abdullah Saleh&lt;/a&gt;‘s autocratic regime. &amp;nbsp; The activist and chairwoman of &lt;a href="http://womenpress.org/index.php?lng=english"&gt;Women Journalists Without Chains&lt;/a&gt;  has been leading sit-ins and demonstrations calling for greater civil  rights, education and economic opportunities. &amp;nbsp;Ms. Karman, who belongs  to the main opposition party, &amp;nbsp;Al-Islah, has also spoken out against the  rise of religious fundamentalism and violence in her country.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id="main-content-picture"&gt;&lt;img alt="Tawakul Karman, the Yemeni human rights activist" src="http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2011/3/25/1301077449757/Tawakul-Karman-the-Yemeni-007.jpg" /&gt;           &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="caption"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Tawakul Karman, the Yemeni human rights  activist , has received death threats after refusing a government  position. Photograph: Yahya Arhab/EPA&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/25/tawakul-karman-yemeni-activist-saleh"&gt;"This revolution&lt;/a&gt; is inevitable, the people have endured dictatorship,  corruption, poverty and unemployment for years and now the whole thing  is exploding," she says.A journalist by profession, Karman in 2005 founded a group called "Women Journalists without Chains".A journalist by profession, Karman in 2005 founded a group called "Women Journalists without Chains".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: transparent; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thestarphoenix.com/news/Tawakkul+Karman+First+Arab+woman+Nobel+Peace/5518410/story.html"&gt;"You can't imagine&lt;/a&gt; the respect people give me when I'm outside," she  says. "All the people respect me, even tribes and soldiers. They stop  and salute me. I faced many obstacles but I overcame them," she says.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;"I discovered that wearing the veil is not suitable for a woman who wants to work in activism and the public domain," she says.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;"People  need to see you, to associate and relate to you. It is not stated in my  religion to wear the veil; it is a traditional practice so I took it  off."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Still I cannot really think it is only fortunate, that those brave great women have to share the price. Is it because one woman doesn't deserve to get ONE price? Is it because there are too many women to be honored with the price so they'd rather share?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Irgendwie beschleicht mich Unbehagen bei der Tatsache, dass diese 3 Frauen einen Preis teilen. Ist das so, weil eine Frau nicht einen ganzen Preis verdienen wuerde? Ist es, weil es zu viele Frauen gibt, die man ehren muesste/sollte und man daher sozusagen fast kollektiv ehrt?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;span style="color: #989898; font-weight: normal;"&gt;Nobelpreis Frieden ging an die nachfolgenden &lt;a href="http://www.meinhard.privat.t-online.de/frauen/nobel.html"&gt;Frauen&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;span style="color: #989898; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 650px;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="top" width="490"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/633044462221600284-5122635437392650792?l=ginster-plantagenet.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ginster-plantagenet.blogspot.com/feeds/5122635437392650792/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=633044462221600284&amp;postID=5122635437392650792' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/633044462221600284/posts/default/5122635437392650792'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/633044462221600284/posts/default/5122635437392650792'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ginster-plantagenet.blogspot.com/2011/10/are-we-lucky-or-blessed-nobel-peace.html' title='Are we lucky or blessed? 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But it drove me insane."</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LNpwKe3RZFE/Tk5jOIcdfeI/AAAAAAAAHMg/ebcnFDHJlxY/s1600/IMGP7734.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LNpwKe3RZFE/Tk5jOIcdfeI/AAAAAAAAHMg/ebcnFDHJlxY/s320/IMGP7734.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{&amp;quot;type&amp;quot;:1}" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;span class="messageBody" data-ft="{&amp;quot;type&amp;quot;:3}"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{&amp;quot;type&amp;quot;:1}" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;span class="messageBody" data-ft="{&amp;quot;type&amp;quot;:3}"&gt;This is my little Puck, it escaped from Midsummernightsdream into my garden.... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/633044462221600284-9183479374775189249?l=ginster-plantagenet.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ginster-plantagenet.blogspot.com/feeds/9183479374775189249/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=633044462221600284&amp;postID=9183479374775189249' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/633044462221600284/posts/default/9183479374775189249'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/633044462221600284/posts/default/9183479374775189249'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ginster-plantagenet.blogspot.com/2011/08/i-used-to-be-normal-but-it-drove-me.html' title='&quot;I used to be normal. 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Gespräche mit Ursula Feist, Sessi Jakobovits, Ellen  Joachim,  Jack und Elke Perlstein, Ruth Perlstein, Judy Rosenberg, Leo   Rosshaendler.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Mit einem Vorwort von &lt;a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verena_Stefan"&gt;Verena Stefan&lt;/a&gt; und einem Nachwort von   Chaim Vogt-Moykopf.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h1 style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Die Autorin wurde eine Ikone der deutschen Frauenbewegung&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; und hat&amp;nbsp; mit &lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1 style="font-weight: normal; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;'Häutungen' &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FYdV4eC6y90/TWaUJZ8HKaI/AAAAAAAAAJM/y_keCrDuTHc/s1600/1271441804705.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img alt="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FYdV4eC6y90/TWaUJZ8HKaI/AAAAAAAAAJM/y_keCrDuTHc/s1600/1271441804705.jpg" border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FYdV4eC6y90/TWaUJZ8HKaI/AAAAAAAAAJM/y_keCrDuTHc/s320/1271441804705.jpg" width="198" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h1 style="font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;den "meist   gelesenen Text der deutschen Frauenbewegung" geschrieben.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Die persönlich   formulierte Schrift entstand vor dem Hintergrund eines kollektiven   Aufschreis gegen Sexismus und partriarchale Unterdrückung.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Eines ihrer beruehmtesten Zitate: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h1 style="font-weight: normal; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;"Die soziologische Pyramide besteht fort: Die Spitze ist weiß,&amp;nbsp;heterosexuell und männlich. Alles andere ist weniger wert."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1 style="font-weight: normal; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;traf Frauen mitten ins Herz. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;2007 erschien   ihr Roman "Fremdschläfer".&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;In diesem poetischen Werk schreibt sie über   ihre Migrationserfahrung, ihre Liebe zu einer Kanadierin und darüber  wie  es ist, wenn „ein Fremdkörper im eigenen Leib entdeckt wird“.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3 class="booktitle" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div class="tiny gray"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;"Liebe zwischen Frauen heilt."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="tiny gray"&gt;&lt;h3 class="booktitle" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.perlentaucher.de/autoren/21244/Verena_Stefan.html"&gt;Verena Stefan - &lt;/a&gt;Fremdschläfer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"&gt;"Wie heißt die Gegend, in die es dich jetzt verschlagen hat?&lt;br /&gt;Niemals würdest du Postkarten abschicken aus diesem Land. Ein Land ohne Briefkästen, ohne Tauben.&lt;br /&gt;Die Flüsse fließen vom Meer weg."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3 class="booktitle" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div class="smaller"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/images/3250601152/ref=dp_image_0?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;n=299956&amp;amp;s=books" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="AmazonHelp"&gt;&lt;img alt="Fremdschläfer" border="0" height="300" id="prodImage" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41-w0oLO-hL._SL500_AA300_.jpg" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"&gt;Alles ist verkehrt, die Sprache wird zum Gefängnis.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"&gt;Was bedeutet Ankommen, was Dazugehören?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dieser Roman erkundet die Fremde mit empfindlicher Neugier.&lt;br /&gt;Die Autorin und das Land haben zwei Namen: Es heißt Kanada, und es heißt Krebs.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lyrikwelt.de/gedichte/stefanverenag1.htm"&gt;Leseprobe hier &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="tiny gray"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"&gt;"Jeder besitzt zwei Staatsbürgerschaften, eine im Reich der Gesunden und eine im Reich der Kranken", zitiert sie die Autorin &lt;a href="http://www.lyrikwelt.de/autoren/sontag.htm"&gt;Susan Sontag&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"&gt;Bei der Arbeit, in Quebec heimisch zu werden, entdeckt die Immigrantin einen Fremdkörper in ihrer Brust. Einweisung in die Klinik, Ausweisung aus dem Reich der Gesunden.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"&gt;Wer bin ich, woher komme ich?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Verena Stefan, 60, in Bern aufgewachsen, ist Tochter eines deutschen &lt;i&gt;Fremdschläfers&lt;/i&gt;, der jahrzehntelang von Ausweisung bedroht war, und einer Schweizer Mutter, die bei der Heirat ihre Staatsbürgerschaft verlor.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"&gt;Als 28-jährige hat sie mit ihrem Buch &lt;i&gt;Häutungen&lt;/i&gt; einen Blitz geschleudert, der einer Generation von Frauen erhellte, dass sie in der Fremde leben.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"&gt;Sie war es, die das Wort "man" in "mann" und "frau" übersetzte. Man lache nicht.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"&gt;Der erste Satz des poetischen Manifests lautete:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"&gt;"Beim schreiben dieses buches bin ich wort um wort und begriff um begriff an der vorhandenen sprache angeeckt."&lt;br /&gt;Dieser kluge, anrührende Roman zeigt, dass Verena Stefan eine erfahrene Fremde ist, die weiß, dass Anderssein mit der Sprache beginnt.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Der Roman "Fremdschläfer" der heute in Kanada  lebenden Verena Stefan macht Eindruck. Das aus  der Schweizer Amtssprache stammende Wort "Fremdschläfer" - es bezeichnet  dort einen nicht an seinem angegebenen Schlafplatz nächtigenden  Asylbewerber - &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;hat eigentlich eine   spezielle Bedeutung im Schweizer Asylrecht &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;wird auf die Erzählerin gemünzt, die im  fremden Kanada ihr Leben zu meistern sucht.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Als bei ihr Krebs diagnostiziert wurde, begann sie, ihre Erfahrungen mit der Krankheit in dem autobiografisch unterlegten Roman &lt;i&gt;Fremdschläfer&lt;/i&gt;  zu verarbeiten, der d&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;ie&amp;nbsp;  Krebserkrankung, die Wahrnehmung des Fremdseins  bis in den eigenen  Körper hinein verfolgt. Es ist beeindruckend wie Stefan sowohl mit der Sprache wie mit dem Inhalt ihres   Romans Neuland betritt.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_730875374"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="tiny gray"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="tiny gray"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="tiny gray"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;1972 gehörte sie zu den Mitbegründerinnen der feministischen  Gruppierung „Brot und Rosen“.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;1975 veröffentlichte sie im Münchner  Verlag &lt;a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frauenoffensive" title="Frauenoffensive"&gt;Frauenoffensive&lt;/a&gt; ihr erstes Buch, &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A4utungen" title="Häutungen"&gt;Häutungen&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, das sich in den folgenden Jahren zu einem &lt;a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bestseller" title="Bestseller"&gt;Bestseller&lt;/a&gt; und &lt;a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kultbuch" title="Kultbuch"&gt;Kultbuch&lt;/a&gt; der &lt;a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frauenbewegung" title="Frauenbewegung"&gt;Frauenbewegung&lt;/a&gt;  entwickelte und Auslöser für den Aufschwung feministischer Literatur in  den etablierten Verlagen war.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Das Buch wurde in acht europäische  Sprachen übersetzt.&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-0"&gt;&lt;a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verena_Stefan#cite_note-0"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Stefan vertritt in diesem autobiografisch geprägten Werk einen  radikalen Feminismus.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Ihre Ziele waren weibliche Selbstfindung, ein  neues weibliches Körperbewusstsein sowie eine neue weibliche Ästhetik, die sich in einer eigenständigen Sprache äußert.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;1975 zog Stefan aufs Land, wo sie im Kreise von Gleichgesinnten ihre private Philosophie, eine Mischung aus Feminismus, Ökologie und Esoterik,  praktizierte, die auch Thema weiterer Veröffentlichungen war.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Die  Autorin leitete Schreibkurse in Deutschland, der Schweiz und Kanada.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Seit 2000  lebt sie als freie Autorin in Montreal und schreibt auch in englischer Sprache.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Das &lt;a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schweizerisches_Literaturarchiv" title="Schweizerisches Literaturarchiv"&gt;Schweizerische Literaturarchiv&lt;/a&gt; der &lt;a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schweizerische_Nationalbibliothek" title="Schweizerische Nationalbibliothek"&gt;Schweizerischen Nationalbibliothek&lt;/a&gt;  hat im Frühjahr 2007 das Archiv von Verena Stefan erworben. Es umfasst  Notizen und Materialien zu den Werken, Typoskripte der Werke,  Traumnotizen und Tagebücher sowie Briefe, Lebensdokumente, Fotografien,  Audio- und Videokassetten und eine Sammlung von Rezensionen.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h1 style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.de/imgres?imgurl=http://triviavoices.net/current/images/stefan.jpg&amp;amp;imgrefurl=http://triviavoices.net/current/stefan.php&amp;amp;usg=__Hfp23hncQ3lXRVgY9mUO8bbvw4s=&amp;amp;h=188&amp;amp;w=250&amp;amp;sz=13&amp;amp;hl=de&amp;amp;start=9&amp;amp;sig2=MC4h9Q_JhdZEKNMGpnVz3A&amp;amp;zoom=1&amp;amp;itbs=1&amp;amp;tbnid=ZkQjTFk20_XOyM:&amp;amp;tbnh=83&amp;amp;tbnw=111&amp;amp;prev=/search%3Fq%3Dverena%2Bstefan%2Bfoto%26hl%3Dde%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26sa%3DX%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:de:official%26biw%3D1054%26bih%3D523%26tbm%3Disch%26prmd%3Divnso&amp;amp;ei=TlvlTffCBovJsgahtPD6BQ&amp;amp;biw=1054&amp;amp;bih=523" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img height="83" id="ZkQjTFk20_XOyM:" src="http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQBukgN9O-SjP6hk1-h5SdE8zGPyAOMQUgog-i0JiSkiYpouaTT8HiBHQ" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 1px; vertical-align: bottom;" width="111" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;span class="mw-headline" id="Originalausgaben"&gt;Originalausgaben&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="editsection"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;i&gt;Häutungen. Autobiographische Aufzeichnungen, Gedichte, Träume, Analysen&lt;/i&gt;. Frauenoffensive, München 1975&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;i&gt;Mit Füßen, mit Flügeln. Gedichte und Zeichnungen&lt;/i&gt;. Frauenoffensive, München 1980&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;i&gt;Wortgetreu ich träume. Geschichten &amp;amp; Geschichte&lt;/i&gt;. Arche, Zürich 1987&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div class="booktitle"&gt;&lt;h1 class="fn"&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;span class="subtitle"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img alt="Frontcover" border="1" id="summary-frontcover" src="http://bks4.books.google.com/books?id=xLc2AAAAIAAJ&amp;amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;amp;img=1&amp;amp;zoom=1" title="Frontcover" width="128" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;i&gt;Es ist reich gewesen. Bericht vom Sterben meiner Mutter&lt;/i&gt;. Fischer Taschenbuch (FI 11678), Frankfurt am Main 1993&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/photo/2978283-es-ist-reich-gewesen" itemprop="image" rel="nofollow" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img alt="Es ist reich gewesen: Bericht vom Sterben meiner Mutter (Die Frau in der Gesellschaft)" id="coverImage" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/411AVK9QJ6L._SL500_.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;i&gt;Rauh, wild &amp;amp; frei. Mädchengestalten in der Literatur&lt;/i&gt;. Fischer Taschenbuch (FI 13116), Frankfurt am Main 1997&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;i&gt;Fremdschläfer. Roman&lt;/i&gt;. Ammann (Meridiane 115), Zürich 2007, ISBN 978-3-250-60115-9&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.de/imgres?imgurl=http://bilder.buecher.de/produkte/21/21124/21124704n.jpg&amp;amp;imgrefurl=http://www.buecher.de/shop/englisch/shedding-and-literally-dreaming/stefan-verena/products_products/detail/prod_id/21124704/&amp;amp;usg=__1Pf1WuCWIiRASA3wJXc5siY9Izg=&amp;amp;h=180&amp;amp;w=116&amp;amp;sz=7&amp;amp;hl=de&amp;amp;start=19&amp;amp;sig2=ZYke3RBVc9Itnl95AmsdwQ&amp;amp;zoom=1&amp;amp;itbs=1&amp;amp;tbnid=UfsDCgZE_syreM:&amp;amp;tbnh=101&amp;amp;tbnw=65&amp;amp;prev=/search%3Fq%3Dverena%2Bstefan%2Bfoto%26hl%3Dde%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26sa%3DX%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:de:official%26biw%3D1054%26bih%3D523%26tbm%3Disch%26prmd%3Divnso&amp;amp;ei=TlvlTffCBovJsgahtPD6BQ&amp;amp;biw=1054&amp;amp;bih=523" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt; &lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.perlentaucher.de/grafik/cover/9/28319.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img alt="Cover: Fremdschläfer" border="0" class="cover" src="http://www.perlentaucher.de/grafik/cover/9/28319.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div class="sisterproject" style="margin: 0.1em 0 0 0;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="15" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Wikiquote-logo.svg/13px-Wikiquote-logo.svg.png" width="13" /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a class="extiw" href="http://de.wikiquote.org/wiki/Verena_Stefan" title="q:Verena Stefan"&gt;Wikiquote: Verena Stefan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;– Zitate&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a class="external text" href="http://www.helveticarchives.ch/detail.aspx?ID=203201" rel="nofollow"&gt;Archiv Verena Stefan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; height: 16px; width: 16px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;in der Archivdatenbank HelveticArchives der &lt;a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schweizerische_Nationalbibliothek" title="Schweizerische Nationalbibliothek"&gt;Schweizerischen Nationalbibliothek&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a class="external text" href="http://libraries.admin.ch/cgi-bin/gw/chameleon?skin=helveticat&amp;amp;lng=de&amp;amp;inst=consortium&amp;amp;conf=.%2fchameleon.conf&amp;amp;host=biblio.admin.ch%2b3601%2bDEFAULT&amp;amp;search=KEYWORD&amp;amp;function=INITREQ&amp;amp;SourceScreen=VIEWHISTORY&amp;amp;elementcount=1&amp;amp;t1=verena%20stefan&amp;amp;u1=1035&amp;amp;op1=0&amp;amp;pos=1&amp;amp;rootsearch=KEYWORD" rel="nofollow"&gt;Publikationen von und über Verena Stefan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; height: 16px; width: 16px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;im Katalog Helveticat der Schweizerischen Nationalbibliothek&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a class="external text" href="https://portal.d-nb.de/opac.htm?query=Woe%3D118617036&amp;amp;method=simpleSearch" rel="nofollow"&gt;Literatur von und über Verena Stefan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; height: 16px; width: 16px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;im Katalog der &lt;a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Nationalbibliothek" title="Deutsche Nationalbibliothek"&gt;Deutschen Nationalbibliothek&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a class="external text" href="http://lexikon.a-d-s.ch/edit/detail_a.php?id_autor=1735" rel="nofollow"&gt;Eintrag über Verena Stefan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; height: 16px; width: 16px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;im Lexikon des Vereins &lt;a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autorinnen_und_Autoren_der_Schweiz" title="Autorinnen und Autoren der Schweiz"&gt;Autorinnen und Autoren der Schweiz&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a class="external text" href="http://www.taz.de/1/leben/buch/artikel/1/ich-bin-keine-frau-punkt/?src=AR&amp;amp;cHash=60b6f2c7f0&amp;amp;type=98" rel="nofollow"&gt;Ich bin keine Frau. Punkt.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; height: 16px; width: 16px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Interview mit Verena Stefan, &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_tageszeitung" title="Die tageszeitung"&gt;taz&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; vom 10. Mai 2008&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.de/imgres?imgurl=http://www.ohlbaum.de/fotos/vorschau/b9455.jpg&amp;amp;imgrefurl=http://www.ohlbaum.de/archiv/suche.php%3Fkeywords%3DStefan%2BVerena%26letter%3DST&amp;amp;usg=__qneFrgANK0ILQxqONNqX_4Ki9_E=&amp;amp;h=96&amp;amp;w=144&amp;amp;sz=5&amp;amp;hl=de&amp;amp;start=17&amp;amp;sig2=o-1OcLYKZFc6oPOuXzh04g&amp;amp;zoom=0&amp;amp;itbs=1&amp;amp;tbnid=jgaypGeslvXM-M:&amp;amp;tbnh=63&amp;amp;tbnw=94&amp;amp;prev=/search%3Fq%3Dverena%2Bstefan%2Bfoto%26hl%3Dde%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26sa%3DX%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:de:official%26biw%3D1054%26bih%3D523%26tbm%3Disch%26prmd%3Divnso&amp;amp;ei=TlvlTffCBovJsgahtPD6BQ&amp;amp;biw=1054&amp;amp;bih=523" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img height="133" id="jgaypGeslvXM-M:" src="http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ-gN_jIDDOLaAJcb2-Lk4-12-qUMgbLhHAcf6T-BViJODV7nK7" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 1px; vertical-align: bottom;" width="200" /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h1 style="font-weight: normal; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Shedding and Literally Dreaming &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;by&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/453075.Verena_Stefan"&gt;Verena Stefan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.de/imgres?imgurl=http://www.videoportal.sf.tv/cvis/segment/thumbnail/31bff4ee-4f0d-460c-a807-2b75f8d5d5a9%3Fwidth%3D179&amp;amp;imgrefurl=http://www.sendungen.sf.tv/aeschbacher/Sendungen/Aeschbacher/Archiv/Sendung-vom-08.11.2007&amp;amp;usg=__b85nBCUlPpmbJrxacnrZC_lgu4g=&amp;amp;h=129&amp;amp;w=179&amp;amp;sz=6&amp;amp;hl=de&amp;amp;start=13&amp;amp;sig2=QDeJ5KrrefmFUT3rq2v_-Q&amp;amp;zoom=1&amp;amp;itbs=1&amp;amp;tbnid=N6GywI9UjtqF7M:&amp;amp;tbnh=73&amp;amp;tbnw=101&amp;amp;prev=/search%3Fq%3Dverena%2Bstefan%2Bfoto%26hl%3Dde%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26sa%3DX%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:de:official%26biw%3D1054%26bih%3D523%26tbm%3Disch%26prmd%3Divnso&amp;amp;ei=TlvlTffCBovJsgahtPD6BQ&amp;amp;biw=1054&amp;amp;bih=523" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img height="144" id="N6GywI9UjtqF7M:" src="http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQHdEbJJ_zusW2xJmbHfOK2RTha1fNp8ZDyFP13U9gSC3b4qTjwmag230Y" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 1px; vertical-align: bottom;" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h1 style="font-weight: normal; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/453075.Verena_Stefan"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.de/imgres?imgurl=http://bilder.buecher.de/produkte/21/21124/21124704n.jpg&amp;amp;imgrefurl=http://www.buecher.de/shop/englisch/shedding-and-literally-dreaming/stefan-verena/products_products/detail/prod_id/21124704/&amp;amp;usg=__1Pf1WuCWIiRASA3wJXc5siY9Izg=&amp;amp;h=180&amp;amp;w=116&amp;amp;sz=7&amp;amp;hl=de&amp;amp;start=19&amp;amp;sig2=ZYke3RBVc9Itnl95AmsdwQ&amp;amp;zoom=1&amp;amp;itbs=1&amp;amp;tbnid=UfsDCgZE_syreM:&amp;amp;tbnh=101&amp;amp;tbnw=65&amp;amp;prev=/search%3Fq%3Dverena%2Bstefan%2Bfoto%26hl%3Dde%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26sa%3DX%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:de:official%26biw%3D1054%26bih%3D523%26tbm%3Disch%26prmd%3Divnso&amp;amp;ei=TlvlTffCBovJsgahtPD6BQ&amp;amp;biw=1054&amp;amp;bih=523" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.triviavoices.net/archives/issue4/stefan.html"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Verena Stefan&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is a Swissgerman writer. She left  Switzerland in 1968 to live in West-Berlin and elsewhere in Germany for  about thirty years before coming to Montreal. Her books include&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Häutungen / Shedding/ Mues&lt;/i&gt;, which was translated into eight European languages,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.de/imgres?imgurl=http://bilder.buecher.de/produkte/21/21124/21124704n.jpg&amp;amp;imgrefurl=http://www.buecher.de/shop/englisch/shedding-and-literally-dreaming/stefan-verena/products_products/detail/prod_id/21124704/&amp;amp;usg=__1Pf1WuCWIiRASA3wJXc5siY9Izg=&amp;amp;h=180&amp;amp;w=116&amp;amp;sz=7&amp;amp;hl=de&amp;amp;start=19&amp;amp;sig2=ZYke3RBVc9Itnl95AmsdwQ&amp;amp;zoom=1&amp;amp;itbs=1&amp;amp;tbnid=UfsDCgZE_syreM:&amp;amp;tbnh=101&amp;amp;tbnw=65&amp;amp;prev=/search%3Fq%3Dverena%2Bstefan%2Bfoto%26hl%3Dde%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26sa%3DX%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:de:official%26biw%3D1054%26bih%3D523%26tbm%3Disch%26prmd%3Divnso&amp;amp;ei=TlvlTffCBovJsgahtPD6BQ&amp;amp;biw=1054&amp;amp;bih=523" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img height="320" id="UfsDCgZE_syreM:" src="http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ_1KHNay1fI2JLKfD21yAJcylaJaLPcielbTgVcaS3LcSG0lBjiySQS30" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 1px; vertical-align: bottom;" width="205" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;and &lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Rau, wild &amp;amp; frei&lt;/i&gt;  (Rough, Wild &amp;amp; Free), a collection of comparative essays on the  figure of the girl in literature. She was a cotranslator of &lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Dream of a Common Language&lt;/i&gt; by Adrienne Rich and &lt;i&gt;Lesbian Peoples.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;A Dictionary&lt;/i&gt; by Monique Wittig and Sande Zeig.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Her most recent publication is an essay&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;"Here's Your Chance 'n enjoy the show," published in &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://store.tcpress.com/0807739987.shtml"&gt;Language Crossings:&lt;/a&gt; Negotiating the Self in a Multicultural World&lt;/i&gt;. Ed. Karen Ogulnick (Teacher's Press, NY, 2000)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img hspace="3" src="http://store.tcpress.com/media/0807739987.gif" vspace="3" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dalkeyarchive.com/info/?fa=text164"&gt;Do you see &lt;/a&gt;your work  as fitting into the traditions of European fiction--or indeed any national  or regional tradition?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: small;"&gt;Allow me to answer this question  first with Virginia Woolf's statement: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;As  a woman I have no country. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: small;"&gt;As   a woman, my country is the world. Hélène Cixous found that writing  is  an act that leads to unfamiliar sources in a foreign country. From   1968 to 1998 I lived in Berlin and elsewhere in Germany and became  involved  in the emerging feminist and lesbian movements. Women as  foreigners,  exiles, colonized people within patriarchy became one of  the major political  tenets of the time. We intentionally situated  ourselves outside the  mainstream and dominant cultural traditions. When  I published my first  book &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Häutungen&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: small;"&gt; (1975, translated as &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Shedding&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: small;"&gt;)  with the small and unknown German  feminist press Frauenoffensive in  Munich, its amazing sales brought  the book to the nation’s attention.  It was met with both acclaim and  derision. I found myself in a strange  situation, simultaneously inside  and outside the literary canon. I have  since added geographical dislocation  to that already ambiguous status  when I moved to Montreal in 1998. The  German language, though, is my  true home territory, and the connection  with my maternal Bern dialect  runs deep. I even used it in my last novel,  as well as some English and  French.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Are there  any exciting  trends, movement, or schools in contemporary Swiss  fiction? Who do you  feel are the overlooked contemporary authors  writing in Switzerland  who should be more widely read and translated?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: small;"&gt;Since 2006, there  has been  a Swiss Literary Institute in Biel/Bienne, a German/French  bilingual  town that offers a BA and a Master’s in Creative Writing, an  absolute  novelty. You see, in German-speaking countries there has been a  strong  resistance—and still is, by many literary scientists, critics  and  by many writers as well—to assume that you can actually learn the   craft of writing, like the visual arts or music. In germanophone culture   we take it for granted that each individual writer has to discover on   his/her own how to write a text, to brood over it, to despair and to   suffer . . . If you don’t invent everything from scratch as if you  were  the first one to write a book, you are looked at with great suspicion   by a large part of the literary establishment. I myself endorse the   idea of creative writing courses, but I object profoundly to the uniform   North American trend of how suspense, characters, dialogues, plots and   so on are created.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: small;"&gt;Although the fact  that the  business demands of the literary market to come up with a  product that  will sell well is as harsh as anywhere else, Swiss  regional art councils  continue to welcome experimental literature. The  emphasis is still more  on language and a unique approach than on plot.  Slowness in writing  and publishing is accepted, even seen as a value  and an innate part  of the writing process. There is also an established  and very exciting  spoken-word scene in German, French and local  dialects in the German-speaking  part of Switzerland. Regional  literature in all four Swiss languages  is highly valued and promoted.  Regional art councils have their own  funds for literary grants and  prizes. There are now some emerging writers  from the Swiss Literary  Institute, but I am not as well-read in their  work.  On my yearly trips  to Europe I pick and choose books according  to my writing and reading  needs. Among the Swiss writers I like are  Erica Pedretti, Klaus Merz,  Hugo Loetscher, Laure Wyss, Friederike Kretzen  and the francophone  Alice Rivaz.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Who are the contemporary  European writers from other countries that are writing compelling fiction?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: small;"&gt;Since my  immigration to Montreal  in 1998, my focus has been on the French  literature of Quebec and the  English literatures of Canada and the US. I  do have a strong penchant  for East European literature, though, and  especially love Ágota Kristóf,  Péter Nádas, László Darvasi, Imre  Kertész, Zsuzsa Bánk, the late  Zygmunt Haupt, who lived in the States,  and most of all Sasha Sokolow’s &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;A School for Fools&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: small;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: small;"&gt;Other European  writers I  am interested in are the French writer Monique Wittig who  died all too  soon in 2003, the German writers Reinhard Jirgl and  Sibylle Lewitscharoff,  the essays of Ulrike Draesner and the poetry and  extraordinary performance  art of Nora Gomringer.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Are there  enough  publishing outlets in Switzerland for contemporary fiction? Is  there  a market for literary fiction in Switzerland?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: small;"&gt;Yes. There are  some small  presses that are interested and still passionate about  publishing literary  texts that will reach only a small readership.  Those small publishers,  however, are in great financial difficulty.  Even Ammann Verlag, a well-known  and well-established press with whom I  published my last novel, decided  to close its doors in July 2010.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Do you want your  work to be translated? Why or why not?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: small;"&gt;I certainly like  to be translated.  Living outside the countries of my mother tongue,  translations are the  only way to reach readers in my adoptive country.  Moreover, translations  get me invited to discuss my work in university  classes. I do get invited  into German-language departments occasionally  since my first book is  on reading lists in German and in English but I  don’t get invitations  for my other untranslated works.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Given a choice, would  you prefer a faithful, literal translation of your work or an interpretive  re-imagining of it? Why?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: small;"&gt;Any translation  is unavoidably  an interpretation. I would always advocate for a  combination of a literal  translation and a re-imagining of the text by  the translator. This requires  a close collaboration between writer and  translator which I love best,  translation being the most exciting  language of all.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.triviavoices.net/current/stefan.php"&gt;We live as two Lesbians&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;b&gt;Verena Stefan&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="http://www.triviavoices.net/current/images/stefan1.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 0 20px;" /&gt;  I remember how the word LESBIAN entered my life, and stayed. It was  in a dream and the word took the English language as carrier. My mother  tongue is German. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;February 11, 1981, I am in a huge building where many women have  gathered for a meeting. It has the atmosphere of a feminist conference  as was the case in many of my dreams during the 70s and the 80s. A black  naked woman is walking down the hallway before me. She has cropped  blonde dyed hair. I move up beside her and ask, in English: How do you  live? &lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;We live as two lesbians, she replies turning her head briefly  towards me while continuing on her way and entering a bathroom. I remain  in the door looking at her as she brushes herself, her back turned to  me. Light is pouring in through a large window. She now has white skin  and my body shape. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Darkness and night share the capacity for creating the world from  inside out. Messengers appear who leave us with messages or an image  that will then claim its place in daily reality. &lt;a href="http://www.triviavoices.net/current/stefan.php"&gt;read more here:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.triviavoices.net/archives/issue4/stefan.html"&gt;Doe a Deer &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;b&gt;      Verena Stefan &lt;/b&gt;translated by Lise Weil&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;i&gt;Until Lions have their own historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;African saying&lt;/blockquote&gt;When you pass the runover deer in the car, crows start up. The  deer lies up high on a snowbank, all four legs sticking up in the air at  the edge of the road, right at the spot where I come out of the woods  on my snowshoes. A doe. I trudge up to her and turn her on her side. One  side is already torn up, an eye is missing. Tracks of coyote and fox  lead up to and away from the animal in all directions. &lt;br /&gt;In the woods I'm illiterate. The cold preserves a script of paws,  hooves, claws, of bellyfur, of tailhair which has brushed the surface  layer of snow — stories of encounters, trysts, of the hunt and the chase  — which I could read word for word, if I only knew how to decipher the  signs. For this I need a book about animal tracks and a bookstore, &lt;i&gt;Paragraphe&lt;/i&gt;, perhaps, or &lt;i&gt;Renaud-Bray&lt;/i&gt;, and the good luck to find a parking place in the snowy waste of Montreal. And then for the book &lt;i&gt;Traces d'animaux&lt;/i&gt;  I also need French-German and German-English dictionaries, so I can  study the signs of red fox, raccoon, skunk, porcupine and compare their  names in the three languages. &lt;br /&gt;Here is the spread wing of a partridge; there are raccoon  footprints in the snow. I learned these tracks from the raccoons  themselves; one afternoon they ran by the window, one after the other,  three or four of them. I went out to study their prints, the toes sharp  and filigree, the paws dainty. &lt;a href="http://www.triviavoices.net/archives/issue4/stefan.html"&gt;Read more here &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2 style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;(working notes by the author:&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;This piece first appeared in a small Swiss quarterly in December 2005 (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;Reformatio., &lt;/i&gt;&lt;i style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;Zeitschrift für Kultur, Politik, Religion&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;).  Initially it was part of a book-length manuscript dealing with  (im)migration, dislocation and connection to place and space viewed from  inside the body, its visceral and cultural codes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"&gt;The manuscript went through major changes when I decided to include my story of breast&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt; cancer, yet another experience of dislocation in which one has to  emigrate temporarily to the country of illness. Several outtakes  resulted, this piece among them.)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;b&gt;Reviews and seminars about Stefan's writings&lt;/b&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id="articletext"&gt;The publication of Verena Stefan’s first book, &lt;i&gt;&lt;span lang="de"&gt;Häutungen&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt; [&lt;i&gt;Shedding&lt;/i&gt;] by the Munich feminist press Frauenoffensive in 1975 was a galvanizing event for the German feminist movement. Thousands of women who read it recognized their own struggles to define themselves and their sexuality without reference to rigid gender roles. The book became a runaway best seller. It was translated into English (&lt;i&gt;Shedding,&lt;/i&gt; 1978) and seven other European languages. &lt;b&gt;Thirty-five years later&lt;/b&gt;, with a half-dozen book publications and several literary prizes to her credit, the author still finds that readers think of her first and foremost as the radical feminist author of &lt;i&gt;&lt;span lang="de"&gt;Häutungen&lt;/span&gt;...(&lt;/i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1168886731"&gt;Jeanette Clausen&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://jeanette%20clausen%20%28university%20of%20arkansas,%20little%20rock%29/"&gt; (University of Arkansas, Little Rock)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Silver white winters that melt into springs: the recent writings of Verena Stefan&lt;/b&gt; &lt;br /&gt;by&lt;a href="http://asymptotejournal.com/article.php?cat=Special_Feature&amp;amp;id=25&amp;amp;curr_index=33&amp;amp;curPage=contributors"&gt; Florian Duijsens&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In "Doe a Deer", translated by Lise Weil and collected in &lt;i&gt;Best European Fiction 2011&lt;/i&gt;  (Dalkey, 2010), the Swiss-German author Verena Stefan does not tell a  traditional story: there are no other characters aside from a narrator  that seems indistinguishable from the author. There is no dialogue, no  plot. Instead we read about languages, the Babylonian confusions  inherent to living in a language other than the one you first learnt;  about the patois and script of nature, the landscape traces animals and  seasons leave behind; and about the pervasive, invasive discourse of the  news. &lt;br /&gt;Framed by a walk in snow-locked Quebec, the story starts  and ends with a death. The first is that of the titular deer, the last  of an anonymous woman in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. The narrator comes  across the first body by accident, walking through the woods, later  tracing the decomposition of its corpse as winter solidifies, then  melts. She takes these walks to escape the world of words, the scripted  horrors of the news, the plotting of revenge directly after 9/11. The  narrator is new to Canada, still settling in. Hearing and reading the  news in either French or English instead of her native German introduces  a kind of filter—Stefan describes it as similar to the mesh screens  that keep flies outdoors in summer. The more pernicious phrases are thus  kept out for a while, barred until further research reveals just what  'collateral damage' or '&lt;a class="tooltip" href="http://asymptotejournal.com/article.php?cat=Special_Feature&amp;amp;id=25&amp;amp;curr_index=33&amp;amp;curPage=contributors#" title="human shields"&gt;boucliers vivants&lt;/a&gt;'  really mean, what their human equivalent is. Stefan here pinpoints the  confusions that marked the months after that September —the insecurities  about what was just, what true— and how they were exacerbated by  linguistic contortions. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://asymptotejournal.com/article.php?cat=Special_Feature&amp;amp;id=25&amp;amp;curr_index=33&amp;amp;curPage=contributors"&gt;read more here &lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/633044462221600284-2606110226508484042?l=ginster-plantagenet.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://ginster-plantagenet.blogspot.com/p/verena-stefan.html' title='Verena Stefan - poet, author  from another planet? - &quot;Schreiben ist immer eine Arbeit an der Sprache.&quot;'/><link rel='enclosure' type='' href='http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verena_Stefan' length='0'/><link rel='enclosure' type='' href='http://lexikon.a-d-s.ch/edit/detail_a.php?id_autor=1735' length='0'/><link rel='enclosure' type='' href='http://www.freitag.de/2008/19/08191602.php' length='0'/><link rel='enclosure' type='' href='http://www.triviavoices.net/current/stefan.php' length='0'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ginster-plantagenet.blogspot.com/feeds/2606110226508484042/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=633044462221600284&amp;postID=2606110226508484042' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/633044462221600284/posts/default/2606110226508484042'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/633044462221600284/posts/default/2606110226508484042'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ginster-plantagenet.blogspot.com/2011/07/verena-stefan-poet-author-from-another.html' title='Verena Stefan - poet, author  from another planet? - &quot;Schreiben ist immer eine Arbeit an der Sprache.&quot;'/><author><name>plantagenet</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03692658044077590559</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='20' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TOkcNtlYpyI/AAAAAAAAGo8/uuqc08POng4/S220/meeting%2Bpessoa%2Bin%2Blisbon.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FYdV4eC6y90/TWaUJZ8HKaI/AAAAAAAAAJM/y_keCrDuTHc/s72-c/1271441804705.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-633044462221600284.post-1226375440220238573</id><published>2011-06-01T00:46:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2011-07-27T03:12:09.889-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Audre Lorde'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Adrienne Rich'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='poems'/><title type='text'>When I dare to be powerful - A Woman Speaks by Audre Lorde - Eine Frau spricht</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.google.de/imgres?imgurl=http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/graphics/lorde.gif&amp;amp;imgrefurl=http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/lorde.html&amp;amp;usg=__oJXfKvw1uM7FECE8meeBfDo6hNA=&amp;amp;h=356&amp;amp;w=243&amp;amp;sz=74&amp;amp;hl=de&amp;amp;start=1&amp;amp;sig2=QbYzzFbXqW5FmS6g4kMJiA&amp;amp;zoom=1&amp;amp;itbs=1&amp;amp;tbnid=d7jV3oXQkyy1mM:&amp;amp;tbnh=121&amp;amp;tbnw=83&amp;amp;prev=/search%3Fq%3Daudre%2Blorde%26hl%3Dde%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26hs%3Dr5V%26sa%3DX%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:de:official%26biw%3D1150%26bih%3D571%26tbm%3Disch%26prmd%3Divnsbo&amp;amp;ei=60nlTbf-DYqg-Aby9ZSKBw&amp;amp;biw=1054&amp;amp;bih=523" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="tab-content active" id="poem-top" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;“When I dare to be powerful – to use my strength in the service of my  vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://stabyourselfintheface.com/www.stabyourselfintheface.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/audre_poster.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img alt="http://stabyourselfintheface.com/www.stabyourselfintheface.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/audre_poster.jpg" border="0" src="http://stabyourselfintheface.com/www.stabyourselfintheface.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/audre_poster.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;A Woman Speaks&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; by &lt;a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/audre-lorde"&gt; Audre  Lorde&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.de/imgres?imgurl=http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HhO3TrkMu0o/Tb8-3C_QicI/AAAAAAAAABE/zzhp410zuaA/s1600/AudreLorde.jpg&amp;amp;imgrefurl=http://ceh1494.blogspot.com/p/audre-lorde.html&amp;amp;usg=__w61eE2O2IlYNENQBqGfr5VAVoxs=&amp;amp;h=320&amp;amp;w=280&amp;amp;sz=17&amp;amp;hl=de&amp;amp;start=3&amp;amp;sig2=O2cxsdXPMZ9M-zHduz8zfg&amp;amp;zoom=1&amp;amp;itbs=1&amp;amp;tbnid=1_G1PQsCoGbIqM:&amp;amp;tbnh=118&amp;amp;tbnw=103&amp;amp;prev=/search%3Fq%3Daudre%2Blorde%26hl%3Dde%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26hs%3Dr5V%26sa%3DX%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:de:official%26biw%3D1150%26bih%3D571%26tbm%3Disch%26prmd%3Divnsbo&amp;amp;ei=60nlTbf-DYqg-Aby9ZSKBw&amp;amp;biw=1054&amp;amp;bih=523" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img height="320" id="1_G1PQsCoGbIqM:" src="http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRarHw3Ggrl2119F9PxM3AvAt4y3zfpWXenx67bCJ-YKBp_UnxifZYf4g" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 1px; vertical-align: bottom;" width="279" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="author"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;                             &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="poem"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-left: 1em; text-align: center; text-indent: -1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Moon marked and touched by sun&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-left: 1em; text-align: center; text-indent: -1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;my magic is unwritten &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-left: 1em; text-align: center; text-indent: -1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;but when the sea turns back &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-left: 1em; text-align: center; text-indent: -1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;it will leave my shape behind.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-left: 1em; text-align: center; text-indent: -1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;I seek no favor &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-left: 1em; text-align: center; text-indent: -1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;untouched by blood &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-left: 1em; text-align: center; text-indent: -1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;unrelenting as the curse of love&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-left: 1em; text-align: center; text-indent: -1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;permanent as my errors &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-left: 1em; text-align: center; text-indent: -1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;or my pride &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-left: 1em; text-align: center; text-indent: -1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;I do not mix &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-left: 1em; text-align: center; text-indent: -1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;love with pity &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-left: 1em; text-align: center; text-indent: -1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;nor hate with scorn &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-left: 1em; text-align: center; text-indent: -1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;and if you would know me &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-left: 1em; text-align: center; text-indent: -1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;look into the entrails of Uranus&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-left: 1em; text-align: center; text-indent: -1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;where the restless oceans pound. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-left: 1em; text-align: center; text-indent: -1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;I do not dwell &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-left: 1em; text-align: center; text-indent: -1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;within my birth nor my divinities&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-left: 1em; text-align: center; text-indent: -1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;who am ageless and half-grown&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-left: 1em; text-align: center; text-indent: -1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;and still seeking &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-left: 1em; text-align: center; text-indent: -1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;my sisters &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-left: 1em; text-align: center; text-indent: -1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;witches in Dahomey &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-left: 1em; text-align: center; text-indent: -1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;wear me inside their coiled cloths&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-left: 1em; text-align: center; text-indent: -1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;as our mother did &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-left: 1em; text-align: center; text-indent: -1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;mourning. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-left: 1em; text-align: center; text-indent: -1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;I have been woman &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-left: 1em; text-align: center; text-indent: -1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;for a long time &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-left: 1em; text-align: center; text-indent: -1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;beware my smile &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-left: 1em; text-align: center; text-indent: -1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;I am treacherous with old magic&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-left: 1em; text-align: center; text-indent: -1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;and the noon's new fury &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-left: 1em; text-align: center; text-indent: -1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;with all your wide futures&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-left: 1em; text-align: center; text-indent: -1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;promised &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-left: 1em; text-align: center; text-indent: -1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;I am &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-left: 1em; text-align: center; text-indent: -1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;woman &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-left: 1em; text-align: center; text-indent: -1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;and not white.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-left: 1em; text-align: center; text-indent: -1em;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-left: 1em; text-align: center; text-indent: -1em;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nortonpoets.com./"&gt;Audre Lorde,&lt;/a&gt; (“A Woman Speaks” from &lt;i&gt;The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde&lt;/i&gt;.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.de/imgres?imgurl=http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/graphics/lorde.gif&amp;amp;imgrefurl=http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/lorde.html&amp;amp;usg=__oJXfKvw1uM7FECE8meeBfDo6hNA=&amp;amp;h=356&amp;amp;w=243&amp;amp;sz=74&amp;amp;hl=de&amp;amp;start=1&amp;amp;sig2=QbYzzFbXqW5FmS6g4kMJiA&amp;amp;zoom=1&amp;amp;itbs=1&amp;amp;tbnid=d7jV3oXQkyy1mM:&amp;amp;tbnh=121&amp;amp;tbnw=83&amp;amp;prev=/search%3Fq%3Daudre%2Blorde%26hl%3Dde%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26hs%3Dr5V%26sa%3DX%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:de:official%26biw%3D1150%26bih%3D571%26tbm%3Disch%26prmd%3Divnsbo&amp;amp;ei=60nlTbf-DYqg-Aby9ZSKBw&amp;amp;biw=1054&amp;amp;bih=523" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img height="200" id="d7jV3oXQkyy1mM:" src="http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTh9BugaMqhBSpNz0lM8Zx1NPV72nGELJryicuR7axVnL3HGJAGGqjJzcc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 1px; vertical-align: bottom;" width="136" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/306"&gt;Lordes&lt;/a&gt; first volume of poems, &lt;i&gt;The First Cities&lt;/i&gt;, was published in  1968. In 1968 she also became the writer-in-residence at Tougaloo  College in Mississippi, where she discovered a love of teaching. In  Tougaloo she also met her long-term partner, Frances Clayton. &lt;i&gt;The First Cities&lt;/i&gt; was quickly followed with &lt;i&gt;Cables to Rage&lt;/i&gt; (1970) and &lt;i&gt;From a Land Where Other People Live&lt;/i&gt; (1972), which was nominated for a National Book Award. In 1974 she published &lt;i&gt;New York Head Shot and Museum&lt;/i&gt;. Whereas much of her earlier work focused on the transience of love, this book marked her most political work to date.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"&gt;In 1976, W.W. Norton released her collection &lt;i&gt;Coal&lt;/i&gt; and shortly thereafter published &lt;i&gt;The Black Unicorn&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a class="image" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Audre_Lorde,_Meridel_Lesueur,_Adrienne_Rich_1980.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="thumbimage" height="165" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Audre_Lorde%2C_Meridel_Lesueur%2C_Adrienne_Rich_1980.jpg/220px-Audre_Lorde%2C_Meridel_Lesueur%2C_Adrienne_Rich_1980.jpg" width="220" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="thumb tright"&gt;&lt;div class="thumbinner" style="width: 222px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="thumbcaption"&gt;&lt;div class="magnify"&gt;&lt;a class="internal" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Audre_Lorde,_Meridel_Lesueur,_Adrienne_Rich_1980.jpg" title="Enlarge"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="11" src="http://bits.wikimedia.org/skins-1.17/common/images/magnify-clip.png" width="15" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Audre Lorde with writers&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meridel_Le_Sueur"&gt;Meridel Le Sueur&lt;/a&gt; (middle) and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrienne_Rich"&gt;Adrienne Rich&lt;/a&gt; (right) at a writing workshop in Austin, Texas, 1980&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Poet &lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=633044462221600284&amp;amp;postID=1605607461700268473"&gt;Adrienne Rich&lt;/a&gt; said of &lt;i&gt;The Black Unicorn&lt;/i&gt;  that "Lorde writes as a Black woman, a mother, a daughter, a Lesbian, a  feminist, a visionary; poems of elemental wildness and healing,  nightmare and lucidity." Her other volumes include &lt;i&gt;Chosen Poems Old and New&lt;/i&gt; (1982) and &lt;i&gt;Our Dead Behind Us&lt;/i&gt;  (1986). Poet Sandra M. Gilbert noted not only Lorde's ability to  express outrage, but also that she was capable of "of rare and,  paradoxically, loving jeremiads." Although her work gained wide acclaim,  she was also sharply criticized. In an interview in the journal &lt;i&gt;Callaloo&lt;/i&gt;,  Lorde responded to her critics: "My sexuality is part and parcel of who  I am, and my poetry comes from the intersection of me and my worlds. . .  . Jesse Helms's objection to my work is not about obscenity . . .or  even about sex. It is about revolution and change. . . . Helms knows  that my writing is aimed at his destruction, and the destruction of  every single thing he stands for."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;“I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important  to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having  it bruised or misunderstood.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="thumb tright"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a class="image" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Audre_Lorde.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="thumbimage" height="330" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/Audre_Lorde.jpg/220px-Audre_Lorde.jpg" width="220" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="thumbinner" style="width: 222px;"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="thumbcaption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div class="magnify"&gt;&lt;a class="internal" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Audre_Lorde.jpg" title="Enlarge"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="11" src="http://bits.wikimedia.org/skins-1.17/common/images/magnify-clip.png" width="15" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Audre Lorde, Austin, Texas, 1980&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;'Wenn ich es wage, kraftvoll zu sein - meine Stärke im Dienst meiner  Vision einzusetzen, dann wird es immer weniger wichtig, ob ich Angst  habe.'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fembio.org/biographie.php/frau/biographie/audre-lorde/"&gt;Audre Lorde,&lt;/a&gt; geboren am 18. Februar 1934 in New York, New Yorkgestorben am 17. November 1992 in Christiansted, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands,US-amerikanische Dichterin und Aktivistin&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="http://www.buffalo.edu/ubreporter/archives/vol35/vol35n40/images/LordeBook.jpg" src="http://www.buffalo.edu/ubreporter/archives/vol35/vol35n40/images/LordeBook.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="1" src="http://vg06.met.vgwort.de/na/9b7317996a0a4005869316e017049656" width="1" /&gt;&lt;i&gt;“Ich  bin schwarz, lesbisch, Feministin, Kriegerin, Dichterin, Mutter.”&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;So  beschrieb Audre Lorde die vielfältige Identität, aus der ihr Leben und  Schreiben Kraft und Richtung bezog. Durch ihre das Leben genau  beobachtenden und befragenden Gedichte und Essays wurde Lorde zu einer  der wichtigsten Theoretikerinnen der Frauenbewegung der 70er und 80er  Jahre. Eine Kultfigur für junge Feministinnen jeglicher Hautfarbe,  lehrte sie uns damals neue Denkweisen, die uns heute als  selbstverständlich gelten. Vor allem wies sie uns auf die Notwendigkeit  hin, über unsere Unterschiede nachzudenken und zu sprechen, damit sie  nicht trennende Kluft bleiben, sondern eine Quelle der Kraft und  tieferen Verbindung werden.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h1 class="bold" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/images/3929823160/ref=dp_image_0?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;n=299956&amp;amp;s=books" target="AmazonHelp"&gt;&lt;img alt="Die Quelle unserer Macht: Gedichte" border="0" height="300" id="prodImage" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51LMBVdymzL._SL500_AA300_.jpg" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Audrey Geraldine Lorde war die Tochter von ImmigrantInnen aus  Grenada, die sich in Harlem niederließen. Die katholischen Schulen, die  sie besuchte, waren eine Erziehung im Anders-Sein, brachten Audre (wie  sie sich selbst nannte) neue Erfahrungen als Schwarze im weißen Amerika.  Um ihre Gefühle auszudrücken, schrieb sie Gedichte.&lt;br /&gt;Lorde studierte 1954–59 am Hunter College und lernte in Greenwich  Village die Kultur der schwulen Bars kennen, die sie in ihrem  “mythobiographischen” Buch &lt;i&gt;Zami&lt;/i&gt; (1980) beschreibt. Während der  60er Jahre arbeitete sie als Blibliothekarin, heiratete und bekam zwei  Kinder. Die Ehe wurde geschieden, und Lorde lebte bis an ihr Lebensende  mit Frauen. Sie veröffentlichte Gedichte und engagierte sich in der  BürgerInnenrechts-, Antikriegs- und Frauenbewegung.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;1968 ging Lorde als “poet in residence” ans Tougaloo College,  Mississippi. Diese Erfahrung bestärkte sie in ihrer Überzeugung, daß  Dichtung kein überflüssiger Luxus sei, sondern notwendig zum Überleben.  Mit anderen Aktivistinnen engagierte sich Audre Lorde für Frauen in  Südafrika und gründete einen Verlag von und für farbige Frauen (Kitchen  Table: Women of Color Press). Sie lehrte am Hunter College der City  University of New York, wo sie 1987 den Thomas–Hunter–Lehrstuhl  innehatte. 1991 bis 1993 war sie Poet Laureate des Bundesstaates New  York. Durch Workshops und Seminare, die sie in Berlin abhielt, spielte  Lorde beim Beginn der afrodeutschen Frauenbewegung auch eine Rolle. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;1977 bis 1979 schrieb sie – als eine der ersten aus der Perspektive  einer afroamerikanischen Lesbe – über ihre Erfahrung mit Brustkrebs (&lt;i&gt;The Cancer Journals&lt;/i&gt;, 1980; &lt;i&gt;Krebstagebuch &lt;/i&gt;1994). Sie wollte Kraft und Wissen aus ihrem Leiden schöpfen und weitergeben, wie sie auch in dem 1988 erschienenen &lt;i&gt;A Burst of Light&lt;/i&gt; (&lt;i&gt;Lichtflut&lt;/i&gt;) über den Sinn des Leberkrebses nachdachte, der ihr schließlich das Leben nahm.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.de/imgres?imgurl=http://www.northernsun.com/images/imagelarge/Silence-Audre-Lorde-Button-%280348%29.jpg&amp;amp;imgrefurl=http://www.northernsun.com/n/s/Silence-Audre-Lorde-Button-%280348%29.html&amp;amp;usg=__65KNOcdIjfzNCGc2NJdnScR9f5g=&amp;amp;h=290&amp;amp;w=291&amp;amp;sz=24&amp;amp;hl=de&amp;amp;start=62&amp;amp;sig2=d9-PPJInOS7MO5YuccurFg&amp;amp;zoom=1&amp;amp;itbs=1&amp;amp;tbnid=Sml7BbSP-bt9WM:&amp;amp;tbnh=115&amp;amp;tbnw=115&amp;amp;prev=/search%3Fq%3Daudre%2Blorde%26start%3D60%26hl%3Dde%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26sa%3DN%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:de:official%26biw%3D1150%26bih%3D571%26ndsp%3D20%26tbm%3Disch%26prmd%3Divnsbo&amp;amp;ei=wFHlTbKmF4mY-wbU_YWEBw&amp;amp;biw=1054&amp;amp;bih=523" style="clear: left; 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But she became enthralled by surrealism as an art student and  befriended many of the great artists of the 20th century, including  Ernst, with whom she lived in France, Picasso, Dalí, Duchamp, Miró and  Man Ray. She attended the wedding of Diego Rivera and &lt;a href="http://ginster-plantagenet.blogspot.com/search/label/Frida%20Kahlo"&gt;Frida Kahlo&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;During  the second world war, when Ernst was interned by the Vichy regime,  Carrington fled to Madrid, where she had a nervous breakdown and was  briefly confined to an asylum, before being rescued by a Mexican  diplomat, Renato Leduc, whom she married in Lisbon and with whom she  moved to Mexico City. She subsequently married the Hungarian  photographer Chiki Weisz, with whom she had two sons.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;In 1943, her  work was chosen for an exhibition of significant women artists in New  York, by Peggy Guggenheim, Ernst's new partner. Long considered a  significant artist in Mexico, her work with its fantastic imaginary  birds and animals and its strange hooded figures, was exhibited in  London in 1991 and Chichester last year. One of her paintings, The  Giantess, was sold at Christie's for $1.5m two years ago. She was  awarded an OBE in 2000. Carrington's death was announced by the national  council for culture and the arts in Mexico. She had been admitted to  hospital suffering from pneumonia.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id="main-content-picture"&gt;&lt;img alt="Leonora Carrington" height="276" src="http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/About/General/2011/5/27/1306451146896/Leonora-Carrington-007.jpg" width="460" /&gt;           &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="caption"&gt;Leonora Carrington's work, with its imaginary animals and hooded figures, has gained recognition in the US and UK. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="caption" style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="caption" style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="imgleft"&gt;&lt;img align="bottom" border="0" src="http://www.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_296w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2011/05/26/Style/Images/AP090522032789.jpg?uuid=t3UL6ofIEeCxnX7pF-wLVQ" width="228" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="blog_caption"&gt;A  detail from "Chiki Ton Pays" by English born and Mexican based artist  Leonora Carrington, during a preview of Latin American Art at Sotheby's  in New York, Friday, May 22, 2009. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h1 class="ArticleHeadlineH1"&gt;&lt;span class="ArticleSubject"&gt;Leonora Carrington gestorben&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fr-online.de/kultur/die-letzte-surrealistin/-/1472786/8496610/-/index.html"&gt;Die letzte Surrealistin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;div class="article_text"&gt;&lt;div class="teasertext" style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Durch ihre Liaison mit dem deutschen &lt;span class="plista_intext_highlight" id="plista_intext_hidden_1"&gt;Maler Max Ernst&lt;/span&gt; kam sie in Berührung mit dem Surrealismus, Leonora Carrington mit 94 Jahren gestorben&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="ContentImage Left Small" id="ContentImage8496608"&gt;&lt;img alt="        Leonora Carrington (1917–2011).      " src="http://www.fr-online.de/image/view/2011/4/27/-/8496608/lowRes/5636258/-/Leonora+Carrington+%25281917%25E2%2580%25932011%2529..jpg" /&gt;              &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="imgSubline"&gt;Leonora Carrington (1917–2011).       &lt;br /&gt;Foto: dpa&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="District"&gt;Mexiko-Stadt –&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Die surrealistische Malerin und Bildhauerin Leonora Carrington  ist mit 94 Jahren in Mexiko gestorben. Die Künstlerin britischer  Abstammung war in der Nacht zum Donnerstag wegen einer Lungenentzündung  in ein Krankenhaus in &lt;span class="plista_intext_highlight" id="plista_intext_hidden_2"&gt;Mexiko-Stadt&lt;/span&gt; gebracht worden, sagte ihr Vertrauter Isaac Masri. Sie wurde in Mexiko als die letzte Überlebende des Surrealismus betrachtet.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Carrington,  die 1917 in der britischen Grafschaft Lancashire geboren wurde, lebte  seit den 40er Jahren in Mexiko. In früheren Jahren war sie eine Zeit  lang die Geliebte des deutschen Malers &lt;span class="plista_intext_highlight" id="plista_intext_hidden_3"&gt;Max Ernst&lt;/span&gt;,  der sie mit dem Surrealismus in Berührung brachte. Mit ihm reiste sie  nach Paris, wo sie unter anderem Dalí, André Breton und Picasso  kennenlernte. 1939, nach dem Ausbruch des 2. Weltkriegs, ging die  Beziehung mit Ernst auseinander. Carrington emigrierte über Spanien und  Portugal, wo sie den mexikanischen Schriftsteller Renato Leduc  heiratete, nach Amerika.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Die Künstlerin schuf  zahlreiche Skulpturen und Zeichnungen, die in Mexiko und auch in den  großen Museen zahlreicher anderer Länder zu sehen sind. In Mexiko widmet  sich ein neues Museum in &lt;span class="plista_intext_highlight" id="plista_intext_hidden_4"&gt;Baja California&lt;/span&gt;  dem Lebenswerk Carringtons. «Ich bin keine Politikerin. Aber es ist  eine Tatsache, dass man mit den Kriegen nicht einverstanden sein kann»,  sagte sie einmal über die Bedeutung der Kunst für ihr Leben. «Die Kunst  ist nach meiner Kenntnis die einzige Art, mit der man das ausdrücken  kann.»&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;In Mexiko war Carrington mit dem ungarischen  Fotografen Imre Weisz verheiratet. Mit ihm hat sie zwei Kinder. Sie war  zudem befreundet mit &lt;span class="plista_intext_highlight" id="plista_intext_hidden_5"&gt;Octavio Paz&lt;/span&gt;  und anderen Größen der mexikanischen kulturellen Elite. Zuletzt  engagierte sie sich auch politisch, als sie 2006 den Kandidaten der  Linken, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, im Kampf um die Präsidentschaft in  Mexiko unterstützte.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/633044462221600284-8272881382466040993?l=ginster-plantagenet.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://ginster-plantagenet.blogspot.com/2011/05/leonora-carrington-last-female.html' title='Leonora Carrington the last female surrealist  dead - die letzte Surrealistin gestorben'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ginster-plantagenet.blogspot.com/feeds/8272881382466040993/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=633044462221600284&amp;postID=8272881382466040993' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/633044462221600284/posts/default/8272881382466040993'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/633044462221600284/posts/default/8272881382466040993'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ginster-plantagenet.blogspot.com/2011/05/leonora-carrington-last-female.html' title='Leonora Carrington the last female surrealist  dead - die letzte Surrealistin gestorben'/><author><name>plantagenet</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03692658044077590559</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='20' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TOkcNtlYpyI/AAAAAAAAGo8/uuqc08POng4/S220/meeting%2Bpessoa%2Bin%2Blisbon.JPG'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-633044462221600284.post-6953238660122034008</id><published>2011-04-20T10:03:00.007-05:00</published><updated>2011-09-20T16:00:42.392-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Frida Kahlo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Windsbraut'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Leonor Fini'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Leonora Carringrton'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Max Ernst'/><title type='text'>Leonora Carrington -  Bride of the Wind - die Windsbraut</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Leonora Carrington&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-UiqbyyWMT1A/Ta7tc-Ln-OI/AAAAAAAAG2s/aPtQf3ac_JU/s1600/leocarr.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="212" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-UiqbyyWMT1A/Ta7tc-Ln-OI/AAAAAAAAG2s/aPtQf3ac_JU/s320/leocarr.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;is the last surrealist alive. She was the wild muse for many artists...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Yt8_KW4qfKs/Ta7txwEFtUI/AAAAAAAAG24/-YSg5YE1_T0/s1600/labyrintcarrington.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Yt8_KW4qfKs/Ta7txwEFtUI/AAAAAAAAG24/-YSg5YE1_T0/s320/labyrintcarrington.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;and one of my favorite painters and writers.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.leninimports.com/l_carrington_bio.html"&gt;     &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="quoteText"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="quoteText"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;"Reason must know the heart's reasons and every other reason"      &lt;br /&gt;—        &lt;a class="authorName" href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/26359.Leonora_Carrington"&gt;Leonora Carrington&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.leninimports.com/l_carrington_bio.html"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.leninimports.com/l_carrington_bio.html"&gt;Leonora Carrington &lt;/a&gt;(b. 1917) &lt;/b&gt;was born in&lt;i&gt; Lancashire&lt;/i&gt;, northern&lt;i&gt; England &lt;/i&gt;in 1917. She was the 2nd child, the only daughter. Her parents were both very strict Catholics. Family was eldest&lt;b&gt; Pat&lt;/b&gt;, then&lt;b&gt; Leonora&lt;/b&gt;,&lt;b&gt; Gerald &lt;/b&gt;and finally&lt;b&gt; Arthur&lt;/b&gt;. Her parents changed houses often throughout the early years. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Carrington &lt;/b&gt; came into contact with &lt;b&gt;Surrealism&lt;/b&gt; through her lover, the &lt;b&gt; Surrealist &lt;/b&gt; painter&amp;nbsp;Max Ernst (1891 - 1976).&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2VZq6rr8GLw/Ta7tVBsTi3I/AAAAAAAAG2o/MLRLaRdvfHs/s1600/carrington.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="267" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2VZq6rr8GLw/Ta7tVBsTi3I/AAAAAAAAG2o/MLRLaRdvfHs/s320/carrington.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;She met him after being invited to a dinner party hosted by Ursula &lt;b&gt;Goldfinger&lt;/b&gt;, wife of the &lt;i&gt; Hungarian &lt;/i&gt;revolutionary architect&amp;nbsp;Erno Goldfinger. &lt;b&gt;Ursula &lt;/b&gt; who was a member of the&lt;b&gt; Blackwell &lt;/b&gt;family, of &lt;i&gt; Cross and Blackwell &lt;/i&gt; fame. &lt;b&gt;Ernst&lt;/b&gt;  had an exhibition at a London gallery at the time just after the great &lt;b&gt; Surrealist &lt;/b&gt; exhibition (around the mid 1930s).   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;img align="left" alt="leonora carrington" border="1" height="315" hspace="2" src="http://www.leninimports.com/carrington-leonora.jpg" vspace="1" width="320" /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Ernst &lt;/b&gt; left his wife for&lt;b&gt; Carrington&lt;/b&gt;,  his &lt;i&gt; Bride of the Wind&lt;/i&gt;. The couple lived together until the outbreak of the Second World War. She was with &lt;b&gt; Ernst &lt;/b&gt; &amp;amp; the &lt;b&gt; Surrealists &lt;/b&gt; in &lt;i&gt;Paris&lt;/i&gt; when she was still in her early 20s, and would attend their famous meetings at the cafe in&lt;i&gt; St. Germain-des-Pres&lt;/i&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;As this was the period just preceding the 2nd World War &lt;b&gt;Hitler&lt;/b&gt;'s threat on the freedom of the whole of &lt;i&gt;Europe&lt;/i&gt; was the main talking point. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; When war was declared  between&lt;i&gt; France &lt;/i&gt;and&lt;i&gt; Germany&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;b&gt; Max Ernst&lt;/b&gt; was put in a concentration camp.  As a&lt;i&gt; German &lt;/i&gt;citizen he was held by the&lt;i&gt; French&lt;/i&gt;. He was released then taken back in custody along with all the&lt;i&gt; German &lt;/i&gt;citizens in the&lt;i&gt; Marseilles &lt;/i&gt;area. &lt;b&gt;Carrington &lt;/b&gt;&lt;i&gt; Germans &lt;/i&gt;were getting closer so&lt;b&gt; Michel Lukacs&lt;/b&gt;, his girlfriend&lt;b&gt; Catherine &lt;/b&gt;and &lt;b&gt;Carrington &lt;/b&gt;  decided to escape. The only way out was through the south. They went to &lt;i&gt; Perpnian &lt;/i&gt;and then to&lt;i&gt; Andorra &lt;/i&gt;where &lt;b&gt;Carrington&lt;/b&gt;'s father  shipped them to a mysterious Jesuit who got us through to&lt;i&gt; Spain&lt;/i&gt;. &lt;b&gt;Carrington&lt;/b&gt;'s  father wanted her back in &lt;i&gt; England&lt;/i&gt;, but she did not go because she wanted to free &lt;b&gt;Ernst&lt;/b&gt;.  &lt;/span&gt; was allowed to see him once, but only for two minutes. The&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;img align="right" alt="leonora carrington" border="1" height="200" hspace="2" src="http://www.leninimports.com/339967706.jpg" vspace="2" width="169" /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Catherine &lt;/b&gt;and &lt;b&gt; Leonora &lt;/b&gt; continued with the Jesuit who took them to&lt;i&gt; Seo de Urgel &lt;/i&gt; in the city&lt;i&gt; Cataluna&lt;/i&gt;, from there they went by car to&lt;i&gt; Barcelona&lt;/i&gt;. She met up with &lt;b&gt;Renato Leduc&lt;/b&gt; (a friend from Paris) in&lt;i&gt; Madrid&lt;/i&gt;. He was a friend of &lt;b&gt;Picasso&lt;/b&gt;'s.  &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;During this time she had several mental breakdowns. On one  occasion she was institutionalized (by the intervention of her family in&lt;i&gt; England&lt;/i&gt;)  and given cardiazol, a powerful shock inducing drug. This drug was  administered to many female patients from what doctors diagnosed or  rather coined the term "hysteria".   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;After one breakdown , and whilst in &lt;i&gt;Santader&lt;/i&gt; and in hospital, &lt;b&gt;Carrington &lt;/b&gt;  escaped, went to the &lt;i&gt; Mexican Embassy&lt;/i&gt; and married &lt;b&gt;Leduc&lt;/b&gt;, a &lt;i&gt;Mexican &lt;/i&gt; diplomat. (&lt;b&gt;Carrington &lt;/b&gt; has repeatedly stated over the years that though she like &lt;b&gt; Renato &lt;/b&gt; this was a marriage of convenience).  They then embarked by ship to the &lt;i&gt;U.S.&lt;/i&gt;.   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Meanwhile, &lt;b&gt;Ernst&lt;/b&gt; was with &lt;b&gt;Peggy Guggenheim&lt;/b&gt; in &lt;i&gt;Portugal&lt;/i&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; She was to remain in &lt;i&gt; Mexico &lt;/i&gt;i from 1942 until 1985 when she moved to the &lt;i&gt; United States&lt;/i&gt;. Among others there who she knew and was in close contact with were &lt;b&gt;Andre Breton&lt;/b&gt;, &lt;b&gt;Luis Bunuel&lt;/b&gt;, &lt;b&gt;Andre Masson&lt;/b&gt;, &lt;b&gt;Marc Chagall&lt;/b&gt;, &lt;b&gt;Ozenfant&lt;/b&gt; and &lt;b&gt;Marcel Duchamp&lt;/b&gt;.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; Her circle also included  &lt;b&gt;Pierre Mabille&lt;/b&gt;, who encouraged her to write &lt;i&gt;Down Below&lt;/i&gt;,    &lt;b&gt;Octavio Paz&lt;/b&gt;, &lt;b&gt;Diego Rivera&lt;/b&gt;, and to a lesser extent, &lt;b&gt;Frida Kahlo&lt;/b&gt;.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;In the early period of her life in &lt;i&gt; Mexico&lt;/i&gt;   &lt;b&gt; Carrington &lt;/b&gt; met the &lt;i&gt; Hungarian &lt;/i&gt;immigrant &lt;b&gt; Chiqui Weisz&lt;/b&gt;, a photographer,  and married him in 1946. Their son, the artist &lt;b&gt;Pablo Weisz Carrington&lt;/b&gt; was born in 1947, and was an illustrator of perhaps her best known book of fiction, &lt;i&gt;The Hearing Trumpet&lt;/i&gt;.   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;img align="left" alt="leonora carrington" border="1" height="320" hspace="4" src="http://www.leninimports.com/lcarrfoto.jpg" vspace="2" width="271" /&gt;During this long period of residence she, like &lt;b&gt;Remedios Varo&lt;/b&gt; (1913 - 1963) (who became a great friend &amp;amp; was the partner of &lt;b&gt;Benjamin Peret&lt;/b&gt;)  was regarded as an integral part of the &lt;i&gt; Mexican &lt;/i&gt; art scene. Also like &lt;b&gt; Varo&lt;/b&gt;, &lt;b&gt; Carrington &lt;/b&gt;  had a passionate interest in the occult; many allusions to anostic  doctrines appear in her work, as do references to techniques of  divanation and prognostication and to ancient celtic mythology. She was,  for example,  greatly impressed by &lt;b&gt; Robert Graves&lt;/b&gt;'s book &lt;i&gt;The White Goddess&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt; Mexican &lt;/i&gt;  myths and legends are entirely absent but for one totally  uncharacteristic exception: the mural she was commissioned to do for the  &lt;i&gt; Museum of Anthropology &lt;/i&gt; in &lt;i&gt; Mexico City &lt;/i&gt; in the room dedicated to the state of Chiapas.    when this was first published in 1949.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0Sr0TgyKSjg/Ta7wt9b8OQI/AAAAAAAAG3M/geJtu4_lyYc/s1600/0leonoracarrington1938.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0Sr0TgyKSjg/Ta7wt9b8OQI/AAAAAAAAG3M/geJtu4_lyYc/s320/0leonoracarrington1938.jpg" width="236" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Her great patron was &lt;b&gt;Edward James&lt;/b&gt; who arranged her a show for &lt;b&gt; Carrington &lt;/b&gt; in&lt;i&gt; Pierre Matisse's  &lt;/i&gt;gallery in &lt;i&gt; New York&lt;/i&gt; in 1947. Her first exhibition in &lt;i&gt;Mexico &lt;/i&gt; was at a furniture shop!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;img align="left" alt="leonora carrington" border="1" height="320" hspace="4" src="http://www.leninimports.com/177245992.jpg" vspace="2" width="190" /&gt;As well as painting, &lt;b&gt; Carrington &lt;/b&gt; has been a profilic writer and storyteller. As mentioned her most famous piece was &lt;i&gt;The Hearing Trumpet&lt;/i&gt;. It was  set in the 1950s when she was around forty and was typed by herself on a &lt;i&gt;Remington&lt;/i&gt;. A friend of mine, &lt;b&gt;Albert Lewin&lt;/b&gt;, a film director, intended on publishing it in&lt;i&gt; New York&lt;/i&gt;, but no one was interested in the theme. Finally, &lt;b&gt; Henri Parisot &lt;/b&gt;wrote to her from &lt;i&gt; Paris &lt;/i&gt;to ask about it and took over publishing the project.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-g-EUsJXflXc/Ta7t7EuYF5I/AAAAAAAAG3A/DDTT3QPgBQE/s1600/Leonora+Carrington+Sue%25C3%25B1o+de+Sirenas+%2528triptych%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="311" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-g-EUsJXflXc/Ta7t7EuYF5I/AAAAAAAAG3A/DDTT3QPgBQE/s320/Leonora+Carrington+Sue%25C3%25B1o+de+Sirenas+%2528triptych%2529.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; Now residing in the &lt;i&gt;U.S.&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;b&gt; Leonora Carrington &lt;/b&gt; continues  to work even though she is now well into her 80s. She has written a  myriad of articles, novels, essays, and poems. She has produced  thousands of paintings, sculptures, collages, and a number of  tapestries.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZQjUjQygk6U/Ta7uCL7xa1I/AAAAAAAAG3I/JalQLriVEq4/s1600/leocarring.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZQjUjQygk6U/Ta7uCL7xa1I/AAAAAAAAG3I/JalQLriVEq4/s320/leocarring.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; Her work, especially in painting, will be remembered as some of the most  important in female art of the 20th century. Her reputation is assured  alongside female artist icons like &lt;b&gt;Frida Kahlo&lt;/b&gt; and    &lt;b&gt;Leonor Fini&lt;/b&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ZBfMJtnqRRk/Ta7t3klhGCI/AAAAAAAAG28/c2fQ1KeVrSk/s1600/Leonora+Carrington+The+Giantess.+1947.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ZBfMJtnqRRk/Ta7t3klhGCI/AAAAAAAAG28/c2fQ1KeVrSk/s320/Leonora+Carrington+The+Giantess.+1947.jpg" width="184" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;books of Leonora Carrington still available:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;The Hearing Trumpet&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h1 style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.tagesspiegel.de/zeitung/die-wilde-muse/1109522.html"&gt;Die wilde Muse&lt;/a&gt; -&amp;nbsp;&lt;b style="font-weight: normal;"&gt; ganz Paris lag ihr  zu Füßen, die sie gern mal mit Senf beschmierte. Max Ernst liebte sie.  Leonora Carrington ist die letzte lebende Surrealistin. In Mexiko-City  macht sie noch immer Kunst.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.artknowledgenews.com/Leonora_Carrington.html"&gt;&lt;img align="middle" alt="artwork: Leonora Carrington - Queria ser pajaro - Oil on canvas - 1960 46 ¾ x 35 ½ inches - at Frey Norris Gallery, SF" border="0" hspace="20" src="http://img.artknowledgenews.com/files2008/LeonoraCarringtonQueriaSerP.jpg" title="artwork: Leonora Carrington - Queria ser pajaro - Oil on canvas - 1960 46 ¾ x 35 ½ inches - at Frey Norris Gallery, SF" vspace="10" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Zu ihrem 90. Geburtstag in diesem Jahr gab es keine Retrospektive,  stattdessen öffnete in Mexiko-City eine Skulpturenausstellung mit neuen  Arbeiten. Rückblicke sind nicht ihre Art. Es drängt sie noch immer  vorwärts.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Und als eine Antreibende kommt sie auch in einem aktuellen  Buch vor, in Monika Marons neuem Roman „Ach Glück“:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Darin macht sich die  Hauptfigur Johanna auf die Suche nach Carrington, wofür sie ihre falsch  gewordene Ehe aufgibt und ihr ganzes Berliner Leben. Bei Carrington  kommt Johanna jedoch nie an.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-S3tPOPCl4II/Ta7t-JilrgI/AAAAAAAAG3E/DBHf8MP2Uwo/s1600/Leonora+Carrington+El+juglar%252C1917.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-S3tPOPCl4II/Ta7t-JilrgI/AAAAAAAAG3E/DBHf8MP2Uwo/s320/Leonora+Carrington+El+juglar%252C1917.jpg" width="318" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Sonst hätte sie das Haus gesehen, das  gegenüber einer der letzten Erdbebenruinen von 1985 steht, in dem noch  eine alte Frau mit ihren Katzen lebt. Die alten Frauen sind Freundinnen.  Ganz in der Nähe geschah Tragisches:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Da spielte der Beat-Autor William  Borroughs im Mezcal-Rausch die berühmte Wilhelm- Tell-Szene nach und  schoss dabei seine Frau tot.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-r1TzhERmcO0/Ta7tiedWDDI/AAAAAAAAG2w/9E7MknOxUsw/s1600/Bird-Bath+Carrington.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-r1TzhERmcO0/Ta7tiedWDDI/AAAAAAAAG2w/9E7MknOxUsw/s320/Bird-Bath+Carrington.jpg" width="246" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;„Was wissen wir schon über den Tod?“,  sagt Carrington beim Abschied an der Haustür. „Nichts. Die Geburt  verstehen wir mehr oder weniger, aber der Tod ist immer noch ein  Rätsel.“&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-lSSZP4YFlW8/Ta7yWhmQy7I/AAAAAAAAG3Q/APQzyoF4rOI/s1600/Leonora+Carrington.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="222" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-lSSZP4YFlW8/Ta7yWhmQy7I/AAAAAAAAG3Q/APQzyoF4rOI/s320/Leonora+Carrington.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Das Buch &lt;a href="http://www.perlentaucher.de/buch/33739.html"&gt;Die Windsbraut &lt;/a&gt;ist bei Edition Nautilus erschienen.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Herausgegeben, aus dem Französischen, Englischen und Spanischen  übersetzt und mit einem Nachwort versehen von Heribert Becker. Dieser  Band ist der letzten lebenden Surrealistin gewidmet. In "Bizarren  Geschichten" aus den dreißiger bis achtziger Jahren - kein anderes Buch  der Künstlerin versammelt Werke aus einer solchen Zeitspanne - erzählt  Leonora Carrington traumhafte, eindringliche, wundersame Begebenheiten.  Die meisten Erzählungen liegen hier zum ersten Mal in deutscher  Übersetzung vor. Ausgewählte Gemälde der Künstlerin illustrieren ihr  Schreiben.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Lieferbare Buecher auf Deutsch: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.perlentaucher.de/buch/33739.html"&gt;Carrington, Leonora: Die Windsbraut. Bizarre Geschichten&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div class="smaller"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img alt="Cover: Die Windsbraut" class="cover" height="320" src="http://www.perlentaucher.de/grafik/cover/9/33739.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div class="photo photo_none"&gt;&lt;div class="photo_img"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.perlentaucher.de/buch/29386.html"&gt;Carrington, Leonora: Das Hörrohr. 4 CDs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.perlentaucher.de/buch/29628.html"&gt;Carrington, Leonora: Das Haus der Angst.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div class="quoteText"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"&gt;"One has to be careful what one takes when one goes away forever."      —        &lt;a class="authorName" href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/26359.Leonora_Carrington"&gt;Leonora Carrington&lt;/a&gt;          (&lt;a href="http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/2246210"&gt;The Hearing Trumpet&lt;/a&gt;)   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/633044462221600284-6953238660122034008?l=ginster-plantagenet.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://ginster-plantagenet.blogspot.com/2011/04/leonora-carrington-bride-of-wind-die.html' title='Leonora Carrington -  Bride of the Wind - die Windsbraut'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ginster-plantagenet.blogspot.com/feeds/6953238660122034008/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=633044462221600284&amp;postID=6953238660122034008' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/633044462221600284/posts/default/6953238660122034008'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/633044462221600284/posts/default/6953238660122034008'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ginster-plantagenet.blogspot.com/2011/04/leonora-carrington-bride-of-wind-die.html' title='Leonora Carrington -  Bride of the Wind - die Windsbraut'/><author><name>plantagenet</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03692658044077590559</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='20' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TOkcNtlYpyI/AAAAAAAAGo8/uuqc08POng4/S220/meeting%2Bpessoa%2Bin%2Blisbon.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-UiqbyyWMT1A/Ta7tc-Ln-OI/AAAAAAAAG2s/aPtQf3ac_JU/s72-c/leocarr.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-633044462221600284.post-3751503273972715988</id><published>2011-04-19T10:19:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2011-07-27T03:13:23.218-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='weary'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Hilde Domin'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='April'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='muede'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='poems'/><title type='text'>Hilde Domin - April April  - Do not grow weary - Nicht müde werden</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-large;"&gt;April &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-large;"&gt;April&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-plqx28BAO68/Ta2jpEoU0WI/AAAAAAAAG2M/39k9LWncV-s/s1600/april.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-plqx28BAO68/Ta2jpEoU0WI/AAAAAAAAG2M/39k9LWncV-s/s320/april.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"&gt;by&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://hildedomin.megtaylor.co.uk/index.php/biography-of-hilde-domin"&gt;Hilde Domin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-rXOyCjaKKVQ/Ta2jOWOlBhI/AAAAAAAAG14/_JUudlp9TLQ/s1600/hilded.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="184" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-rXOyCjaKKVQ/Ta2jOWOlBhI/AAAAAAAAG14/_JUudlp9TLQ/s320/hilded.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;The      world smell sweetly&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;of      yesterday.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;     Scents are lasting.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Open      the window.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;All      springs &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;enter      with this one.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;A      spring that is more&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;than      green leaves.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;One      kiss holds all kisses.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;     Always this smoothly glazed&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;sky      over the city&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;into      which the streets flow.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;You      know winter&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;and      pain&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;are      not killers.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;The      air today smells sweetly&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;of      yesterday – &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;which      smelled sweetly of today.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-nUyO4reFovM/Ta2jejeUeuI/AAAAAAAAG2E/n0wGk-FGs_g/s1600/aprilblume.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="241" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-nUyO4reFovM/Ta2jejeUeuI/AAAAAAAAG2E/n0wGk-FGs_g/s320/aprilblume.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="DE" style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"&gt;     &lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"&gt;April&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; von Hilde Domin&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-AL5P0ZU7kN0/Ta2jxZ6jl0I/AAAAAAAAG2Q/6IvHmdJzXag/s1600/tulpen.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-AL5P0ZU7kN0/Ta2jxZ6jl0I/AAAAAAAAG2Q/6IvHmdJzXag/s320/tulpen.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #002121;"&gt;     &lt;span lang="DE" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"&gt;Die Welt      riecht süß&lt;br /&gt;nach Gestern.&lt;br /&gt;Düfte sind dauerhaft.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Du öffnest das Fenster.&lt;br /&gt;Alle Frühlinge&lt;br /&gt;kommen herein mit diesem.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Frühling der mehr ist&lt;br /&gt;als grüne Blätter.&lt;br /&gt;Ein Kuß birgt alle Küsse.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Immer dieser glänzend glatte&lt;br /&gt;Himmel über der Stadt,&lt;br /&gt;in den die Straßen fließen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Du weißt, der Winter&lt;br /&gt;und der Schmerz&lt;br /&gt;sind nichts, was umbringt.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Die Luft riecht heute süß&lt;br /&gt;nach Gestern –&lt;br /&gt;das süß nach Heute roch.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #002121;"&gt;&lt;span lang="DE" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_wRmqYH48qc/Ta2jZ9mqj4I/AAAAAAAAG18/fNERM5WDi-s/s1600/hildedomin.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;t&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_wRmqYH48qc/Ta2jZ9mqj4I/AAAAAAAAG18/fNERM5WDi-s/s320/hildedomin.jpg" width="220" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;I was lucky to discover this &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://hildedomin.megtaylor.co.uk/index.php/biography-of-hilde-domin" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;selection&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt; of 56 English translations of poems by the German writer Hilde Domin (1909 - 2006) is the product of an extended collaborative effort by Meg Taylor (English) and Elke Heckel (German).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Also this very good description of Hilde Domin's poetry:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;Only a rose -&amp;nbsp; Ben Hutchinson&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="TxBrp4" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 15px;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #003300; font-family: Garamond;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.arlindo-correia.com/161005.html"&gt;The poetry&lt;/a&gt; of Hilde  Domin, who died on 22 February 2006 at the age of ninety-six, occupies a curious position  in modern German literature. Never a purely “literary” poet, she has enjoyed a  popularity with the common reader that induces suspicion among academies. The  very virtues of her poetry, its clarity and affecting simplicity, are for some  observers its principal vices. Despite much critical acclaim and many prizes in  her long career, and despite the inevitable accolades which accompanied her  death, her future reception remains uncertain.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="TxBrp6" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 15px;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #003300; font-family: Garamond;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Certainly her life  story has become emblematic of the twentieth-century German-Jewish intellectual.  Born Hilde Löwenstein in 1909, she studied in Heidelberg and Berlin before  emigrating, initially lo Italy, in 1932. With the advent of war, Domin and her  husband, the philologist Erwin Walter Palm, fled to England, where they only  stayed long enough to be offered the sleeping draught Veronal by English  doctors, in case they should need to avoid being captured alive by invading  Nazis. In 1940 they shipped out to the Dominican Republic, where they would  spend the next fourteen years teaching at the university in Santo Domingo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="TxBrp6" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 15px;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #003300; font-family: Garamond;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;It was the 1950s,  however, that shaped Domin’s career as a poet. In 1951 her mother died,  triggering what Domin called “a second birth”, her first attempts at poetry. In  1954 she and her husband finally returned to Germany from their Caribbean exile,  and in 1957 she duly published her acclaimed first collection, &lt;i&gt;Nur eine Rose  als Stütze&lt;/i&gt; (“Only a rose for support”) — under the pseudonym Domin, in  honour of her country of exile.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="TxBrp6" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 15px;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #003300; font-family: Garamond;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Yet what is striking  about Domin’s work is that she is emphatically not a poet of exile, unlike so  many of the leading German writers of her generation. She is rather, in  Hans-Georg Gadamer’ s famous phrase, the exemplary “poet of homecoming”, whose  search for a “second paradise” (the title of her only novel, &lt;i&gt;Das zweite  Paradies&lt;/i&gt;) became representative of postwar German experience. Indeed it is  her insist­ence on a “Jasagen trotzdem” (“acceptance nevertheless”) that is the  key lo her work. “In mir ist immer / Glaube”, she wrote, “als sei das goldene  Seil / wer es auch auswirft / dem Notrufer / heilig / geschuldet” (“In me is  always / belief, / as though the golden rope / whoever throws it out / were  solemnly indebted / to the cry for help”). Her unshakeable optimism, her  affirmation of common human values in a time of cataclysmic suffering, can be  seen as a lifelong question: “Wozu Dichter in dürftiger Zeit?” (“What are poets  for in destitute times?’). In this respect her much anthologized poem “Abel steh  auf’, from the collection &lt;i&gt;Ich will dich&lt;/i&gt; (1970), can be read as emblematic  of her poetics of hope: “Abel steh auf / damit es anders anfãngt / zwischen uns  allen” (“Abel ‘stand up / so that things may start afresh / between us”).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="TxBrp8" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 15px;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #003300; font-family: Garamond;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Ilka Scheidgen’s  biography attempts to capture something of this indefatigable optimism. Domin’s  life and work are so inextricably intertwined that a scholarly biography is  certainly long overdue. Unfortunately, this book is little more than an  introduction. Its shortcomings stem ultimately from a lack of objective  distance: that the author was for many years a friend of the poet and could base  her biography on countless discussions and interviews is in itself no bad thing,  yet this also leads to a gushing tone and absence of critical balance. Again and  again, Domin’s poems are breathlessly described as “wonderful” and “beautiful”,  or well-known figures such as Camus are unnecessarily introduced as “the Nobel  Prizewinner Albert Camus”; when combined with the absence of footnotes or  corroborating critical material the style is at times nearer to women’s magazine  than literary biography. This is, regrettably, the kind of thing that supports  those who would see Domin as a poet of banalities. read more&lt;a href="http://www.arlindo-correia.com/161005.html"&gt; here:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VgG2rzPhS0s/Ta2nurRSxfI/AAAAAAAAG2U/LTxAV8jlEr8/s1600/muede.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VgG2rzPhS0s/Ta2nurRSxfI/AAAAAAAAG2U/LTxAV8jlEr8/s320/muede.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Do not grow weary&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;     &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond;"&gt;Do      not grow weary&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond;"&gt;but      gently&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond;"&gt;to      the wonder&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond;"&gt;as if      a bird should light&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond;"&gt;hold      out your hand.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ObbzDmP-lt4/Ta2n4FSdk3I/AAAAAAAAG2c/mQeVgHpmG-s/s1600/vogel.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="224" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ObbzDmP-lt4/Ta2n4FSdk3I/AAAAAAAAG2c/mQeVgHpmG-s/s320/vogel.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Nicht müde werden&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="color: blue; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;     &lt;span lang="DE" style="font-family: Garamond; font-weight: normal;"&gt;Nicht      müde werden&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span lang="DE" style="font-family: Garamond;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;     &lt;span lang="DE" style="font-family: Garamond; font-weight: normal;"&gt;sondern      dem Wunder&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span lang="DE" style="font-family: Garamond;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;     &lt;span lang="DE" style="font-family: Garamond; font-weight: normal;"&gt;leise&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span lang="DE" style="font-family: Garamond;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;     &lt;span lang="DE" style="font-family: Garamond; font-weight: normal;"&gt;wie einem      Vogel&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span lang="DE" style="font-family: Garamond;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;     &lt;span lang="DE" style="font-family: Garamond; font-weight: normal;"&gt;die Hand      hinhalten.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;    &lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="color: #002121;"&gt;&lt;span lang="DE" style="font-size: 12pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;                         &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/633044462221600284-3751503273972715988?l=ginster-plantagenet.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.arlindo-correia.com/161005.html' title='Hilde Domin - April April  - Do not grow weary - Nicht müde werden'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ginster-plantagenet.blogspot.com/feeds/3751503273972715988/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=633044462221600284&amp;postID=3751503273972715988' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/633044462221600284/posts/default/3751503273972715988'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/633044462221600284/posts/default/3751503273972715988'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ginster-plantagenet.blogspot.com/2011/04/hilde-domin-april-april-do-not-grow.html' title='Hilde Domin - April April  - Do not grow weary - Nicht müde werden'/><author><name>plantagenet</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03692658044077590559</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='20' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TOkcNtlYpyI/AAAAAAAAGo8/uuqc08POng4/S220/meeting%2Bpessoa%2Bin%2Blisbon.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-plqx28BAO68/Ta2jpEoU0WI/AAAAAAAAG2M/39k9LWncV-s/s72-c/april.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-633044462221600284.post-8231743845852433936</id><published>2011-04-11T03:41:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2011-07-27T03:13:43.742-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Anna Akhmatova'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='the guest'/><title type='text'>Anna Akhmatova - The Guest</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Once more a poem of Anna has intrigued me and I have tried but could not find the German translation online... anyway, here is the Guest from the future&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="container" id="page-title-wrapper"&gt;&lt;div class="column span-24" id="page-title"&gt;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;The Guest (from the future) by &lt;a href="http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/1973/mar/22/the-guest/"&gt;Anna Akhmatova&lt;/a&gt;,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;h2 style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;translated by Stanley Kunitz and Max Hayward&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://images.fembio.net/ach_4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img alt="Anna Achmatowa" border="0" height="270" src="http://images.fembio.net/ach_4.jpg" style="border: 0px none; padding: 0px;" title="Anna Achmatowa" width="420" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;       &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Nothing is changed:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;against the dining-room windows&lt;br /&gt;hard grains of whirling snow still beat.&lt;br /&gt;I am what I was,&lt;br /&gt;but a man came to me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;”What do you want?” I asked.&lt;br /&gt;“To be with you in hell,” he said.&lt;br /&gt;I laughed. “It’s plain you mean&lt;br /&gt;to have us both destroyed.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He lifted his thin hand&lt;br /&gt;and lightly stroked the flowers:&lt;br /&gt;“Tell me how men kiss you,&lt;br /&gt;tell me how you kiss.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;His torpid eyes were fixed&lt;br /&gt;unblinking on my ring.&lt;br /&gt;Not a single muscle stirred&lt;br /&gt;in his clear, sardonic face.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh, I see: his game is that he knows&lt;br /&gt;intimately, ardently,&lt;br /&gt;there’s nothing from me he wants,&lt;br /&gt;I have nothing to refuse.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;in 2 earlier posts I have some biographical notes of as well as more English poems by&amp;nbsp; Anna. see:&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://ginster-plantagenet.blogspot.com/search/label/Anna%20Akhmatova"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;All her&lt;a href="http://www.poetryloverspage.com/poets/akhmatova/akhmatova_ind.html"&gt; poems &lt;/a&gt;in English are available online.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="thumb tright"&gt;&lt;div class="thumbinner" style="width: 146px;"&gt;&lt;a class="image" href="http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/File:Olga_kardovskaya_portret_ahmatovoy_1914_szh_16.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="thumbimage" height="320" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Olga_kardovskaya_portret_ahmatovoy_1914_szh_16.jpg/144px-Olga_kardovskaya_portret_ahmatovoy_1914_szh_16.jpg" width="303" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="thumbcaption"&gt;&lt;div class="magnify"&gt;&lt;a class="internal" href="http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/File:Olga_kardovskaya_portret_ahmatovoy_1914_szh_16.jpg" title="Enlarge"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="11" src="http://bits.wikimedia.org/skins-1.5/common/images/magnify-clip.png" width="15" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;I go forth to seek -&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;to seek and claim the lovely magic garden&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Where grasses softly sigh and Muses speak.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Here some more details about this poet:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Anna Akhmatova &lt;a href="http://www.biography.com/articles/Anna-Akhmatova-9178232"&gt;Biography&lt;/a&gt;-pseudonym of Anna Andreyevna Gorenko ( 1889 – 1966 ) &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;After 1958 a number of editions of her works, including   some of her  brilliant essays on Pushkin, were published in the Soviet Union (1961,  1965, two in 1976, 1977); none of these,   however, contains the  complete corpus of her literary productivity. Akhmatova's longest work  and perhaps her masterpiece,      &lt;i&gt;Poema bez geroya&lt;/i&gt; (“Poem Without  a Hero”), on which she worked from 1940 to 1962, was not published in  the Soviet Union until 1976. This difficult   and complex work, in which  the life of St. Petersburg bohemia in pre-World War I years is  “double-exposed” onto the tragedies   and suffering of the post-1917  decades, is a powerful lyric summation of Akhmatova's philosophy and her  own definitive statement   on the meaning of her life and poetic  achievement.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Akhmatova executed a number of superb translations of the works of other poets, including    &lt;a href="http://www.biography.com/search/article.do?id=9346557"&gt;Victor Hugo&lt;/a&gt;,    &lt;a href="http://www.biography.com/search/article.do?id=9501212"&gt;Rabindranath Tagore&lt;/a&gt;,  Giacomo Leopardi, and various Armenian and Korean poets. She also wrote  sensitive personal memoirs on Symbolist writer Aleksandr   Blok, the  artist Amedeo Modigliani, and fellow Acmeist Mandelshtam.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="Writing Poetry" src="http://www.poetryloverspage.com/poets/akhmatova/gif/woman_writing.gif" /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.poetryloverspage.com/gif/scroll1.gif" /&gt; &lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3 style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://home.arcor.de/berick/illeguan/achmat1.htm"&gt;Anna Andreevna Achmatova &lt;/a&gt;- Анна Антреевна Ахматова&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;geboren am 23. Juni 1889 in Bol'šoj Fontan, heute Ukraine&lt;br /&gt;gestorben am 5. März 1966 in Domodedovo bei Moskau&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img align="right" alt="" border="0" height="130" src="http://home.arcor.de/berick/illeguan/images/achmat1.jpg" width="100" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; Gilt als die bedeutendste russische Lyrikerin, die neben Arbeiten über Puškin auch bedeutende Erinnerungen an ihre Zeitgenossen (u.a. Blok, Gumilev, Modigliani) verfasste.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Im Zentrum ihrer Lyrik steht die für Russland sehr charakteristische Bekenntnisdichtung, mit zunehmender Reife kamen aber auch staatsbürgerliche Themen zum Tragen. Besonders hervorzuheben ist ihr passiver Widerstand gegen den sowjetischen Unrechtsstaat, der sie dafür mit Publikationsverboten belegte und in der staatlichen Literaturkritik als »heilige Hure« denunzierte.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aus ihren Langgedichten (Poemen) stechen besonders das »Requiem« und das »Poem ohne Held« hervor. Ersteres thematisiert das Leiden der Verwandten von Inhaftierten und konnte erst 1989 erstmals in Russland erscheinen. Das »Poem ohne Held« stellt eine komplexe Verbindung zwischen den Vorkriegszeiten der beiden Weltkriege her und entzieht sich bewusst einer eindeutigen Interpretation.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Durch das lange Leben, das ihr entgegen aller Wahrscheinlichkeit beschieden war, konnte sie auch als Mentorin von jungen Dichtern wie Iosif Brodskij den Geist des silbernen Zeitalters weitergeben, den sie selbst noch in ihrer Jugend mitbestimmt hatte. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; &lt;i&gt;Eric Boerner&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fembio.org/biographie.php/frau/biographie/anna-achmatowa/"&gt;Zitate&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;: »Ich kenne überhaupt kein Land, in dem man Gedichte mehr lieben würde  als in unserem und wo man sie mehr brauchen würde als bei uns. Als ich  im Krankenhaus lag, bat mich… eine einfache Putzfrau: ›Es heißt,  Bürgerin, Sie schreiben Gedichte… Könnten Sie mir nicht so ein kleines  Gedicht aufschreiben, ich schicke sie ins Dorf…‹ Und es stellte sich  heraus, daß sie jeden ihrer Briefe mit einem Gedicht beendete …« &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Anna Achmatowa &lt;/h2&gt;&lt;img align="left" alt="Anna Achmatowa" hspace="10" src="http://russische-frauen.russian-women.net/images/Anna_Akhmatova.gif" valign="top" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Echte Zärtlichkeit ist unverwechselbar&lt;br /&gt;Und sie ist leise. Vergeblich &lt;br /&gt;Umhüllst du mir sorgsam&lt;br /&gt;Schultern und Brust mit Pelzen,&lt;br /&gt;Vergeblich sprichst du gefällige Worte&lt;br /&gt;Von der ersten Liebe.&lt;br /&gt;Wie kenne ich diese beharrlichen,&lt;br /&gt;Unersättlichen Blicke von dir.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dezember 1913 - Carskoe Selo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/633044462221600284-8231743845852433936?l=ginster-plantagenet.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://ginster-plantagenet.blogspot.com/search/label/Anna%20Akhmatova' title='Anna Akhmatova - The Guest'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ginster-plantagenet.blogspot.com/feeds/8231743845852433936/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=633044462221600284&amp;postID=8231743845852433936' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/633044462221600284/posts/default/8231743845852433936'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/633044462221600284/posts/default/8231743845852433936'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ginster-plantagenet.blogspot.com/2011/04/anna-akhmatova-guest.html' title='Anna Akhmatova - The Guest'/><author><name>plantagenet</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03692658044077590559</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='20' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TOkcNtlYpyI/AAAAAAAAGo8/uuqc08POng4/S220/meeting%2Bpessoa%2Bin%2Blisbon.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-633044462221600284.post-6583040730782578695</id><published>2011-04-05T13:39:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2011-04-05T13:39:54.894-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='moral'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='kirche religion'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Anna Jameson'/><title type='text'>In morals - in religion - Meet Anna Jameson</title><content type='html'>&lt;h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{&amp;quot;type&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;msg&amp;quot;}" style="color: blue; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span class="messageBody"&gt;“In morals what begins in fear usually ends         in wickedness;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{&amp;quot;type&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;msg&amp;quot;}" style="color: blue; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span class="messageBody"&gt;in religion what begins in fear usually ends in         fanaticism.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{&amp;quot;type&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;msg&amp;quot;}" style="color: blue; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span class="messageBody"&gt;Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the         beginning of all evil.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{&amp;quot;type&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;msg&amp;quot;}" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span class="messageBody"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a class="image" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Anna_Brownell_Jameson_1844.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="thumbimage" height="404" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Anna_Brownell_Jameson_1844.jpg/300px-Anna_Brownell_Jameson_1844.jpg" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/h6&gt;&lt;div class="magnify"&gt;&lt;a class="internal" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Anna_Brownell_Jameson_1844.jpg" title="Enlarge"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="11" src="http://bits.wikimedia.org/skins-1.17/common/images/magnify-clip.png" width="15" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span class="messageBody"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span class="messageBody"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{&amp;quot;type&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;msg&amp;quot;}" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Brownell_Jameson"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span class="messageBody"&gt;Anna Jameson,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; first work which displayed her powers of original thought was her &lt;i&gt;Characteristics of Women&lt;/i&gt; (1832). These analyses of William Shakespeare's  heroines are remarkable for their delicacy of critical insight and  fineness of literary touch. They are the result of a penetrating but  essentially feminine mind, applied to the study of individuals of its  own sex, detecting characteristics and defining differences not  perceived by the ordinary critic and entirely overlooked by the general  reader.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span class="messageBody"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Jameson"&gt;Anna Jameson&lt;/a&gt;, empfing durch ihren Vater, den  Miniaturmaler Murphy, früh schon künstlerische Anregung und wurde als  Schriftstellerin zuerst durch ihr auf einer italienischen Reise  geschriebenes Tagebuch &lt;i&gt;Diary of an ennuyée&lt;/i&gt; (1826, 3. Aufl. 1838) bekannt.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Sie war eine langjährige Freundin der &lt;a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottilie_von_Goethe"&gt;Ottilie von Goethe&lt;/a&gt; (1796-1872), der Schwiegertochter Goethes, die sie während ihrer Reisen an den Rhein, nach Weimar und Italien oft besuchte.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{&amp;quot;type&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;msg&amp;quot;}" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span class="messageBody"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/633044462221600284-6583040730782578695?l=ginster-plantagenet.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ginster-plantagenet.blogspot.com/feeds/6583040730782578695/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=633044462221600284&amp;postID=6583040730782578695' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/633044462221600284/posts/default/6583040730782578695'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/633044462221600284/posts/default/6583040730782578695'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ginster-plantagenet.blogspot.com/2011/04/in-morals-in-religion-meet-anna-jameson.html' title='In morals - in religion - Meet Anna Jameson'/><author><name>plantagenet</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03692658044077590559</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='20' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TOkcNtlYpyI/AAAAAAAAGo8/uuqc08POng4/S220/meeting%2Bpessoa%2Bin%2Blisbon.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-633044462221600284.post-3506370156768258109</id><published>2011-04-01T17:57:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2011-07-27T03:14:29.662-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Hilaire Belloc'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='catastrophe'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='nuclear energy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='toys boys'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Japan'/><title type='text'>Catastrophe - He Who played with a Dangerous Toy, and suffered a Catastrophe of considerable Dimensions</title><content type='html'>&lt;h2 style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;a href="file:///C:/Users/Ginster/AppData/Local/Temp/moz-screenshot-23.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h2&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;The moral is that little boys &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Should not be given dangerous toys.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Fascinated by the daily news and desasters the word catastrophy comes up and I realize the word exists in many&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a class="a_img" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=633044462221600284&amp;amp;postID=3506370156768258109"&gt;&lt;img alt="Cartoon: Japon catastrophe nucleaire (medium) by No tagged fukushima,nucleaire,catastrophe,nuclear,japon,japan" id="mainImage" src="http://de.toonpool.com/user/11598/files/japon_catastrophe_nucleaire_1192685.jpg" title="Japon catastrophe nucleaire (medium)" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;languages meaning the same.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h2 style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"&gt;George, Who played with a Dangerous Toy,&lt;br /&gt;and suffered a Catastrophe of considerable Dimensions&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;h2 style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"&gt;by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilaire_Belloc"&gt;Hilaire Belloc&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;a class="image" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Belloc_side.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="200" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Belloc_side.jpg/200px-Belloc_side.jpg" width="133" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When George’s Grandmamma was told &lt;br /&gt;That George had been as good as gold, &lt;br /&gt;She promised in the afternoon &lt;br /&gt;To buy him an Immense BALLOON. &lt;br /&gt;And so she did; but when it came, &lt;br /&gt;It got into the candle flame, &lt;br /&gt;And being of a dangerous sort &lt;br /&gt;Exploded with a loud report! &lt;br /&gt;The lights went out! The windows broke! &lt;br /&gt;The room was filled with reeking smoke. &lt;br /&gt;And in the darkness, shrieks and yells &lt;br /&gt;Were mingled with electric bells, &lt;br /&gt;And falling masonry and groans, &lt;br /&gt;And crunching, as of broken bones, &lt;br /&gt;And dreadful shrieks, when, worst of all, &lt;br /&gt;The house itself began to fall! &lt;br /&gt;It tottered, shuddering to and fro, &lt;br /&gt;Then crashed into the street below - &lt;br /&gt;Which happened to be Savile Row. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When help arrived, among the dead &lt;br /&gt;Were Cousin Mary, Little Fred, &lt;br /&gt;The Footmen (both of them), the Groom, &lt;br /&gt;The man that cleaned the Billiard-Room, &lt;br /&gt;The Chaplain, and the Still-Room Maid. &lt;br /&gt;And I am dreadfully afraid &lt;br /&gt;That Monsieur Champignon, the Chef, &lt;br /&gt;Will now be permanently deaf - &lt;br /&gt;And both his aides are much the same; &lt;br /&gt;While George, who was in part to blame, &lt;br /&gt;Received, you will regret to hear, &lt;br /&gt;A nasty lump behind the ear. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Moral:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The moral is that little boys &lt;br /&gt;Should not be given dangerous toys.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Note: Before the Hindenburg disaster, toy balloons were often filled with hydrogen.&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img alt="http://www.cartoonstock.com/newscartoons/cartoonists/ake/lowres/aken271l.jpg" height="300" src="http://www.cartoonstock.com/newscartoons/cartoonists/ake/lowres/aken271l.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Catastrophy Theory: The word "&lt;a href="http://www.answers.com/topic/catastrophe-theory#ixzz1IJQ0oiW0"&gt;catastrophe,&lt;/a&gt;" with its suggestion that the outcome is always undesirable, may have been an unhappy choice to describe this process. While this is certainly the case in the explosive onset of many epidemics, the same mathematical process operates in reverse when an epidemic or epidemic disease virtually disappears quite suddenly from a population. This happens when the balance of susceptible and immune individuals shifts from the proportion required to sustain an epidemic to a marginally smaller proportion where the probability of transmission of an infectious agent to a susceptible host falls below the critical level required to sustain the epidemic.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Catastrophe theory should not be confused with chaos theory, although both may operate together in some circumstances.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Reading the interesting article&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;The Poetry of Catastrophe by &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/author/sam-tanenhaus/" style="color: black;"&gt;SAM TANENHAUS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;I realize&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;(by the way it is also worth reading the many commentaries to this article)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;“Catastrophe is indeed already the condition of language, the  condition of the ruins of time,” Harold Bloom, perhaps the foremost  living scholar of lyric poetry, wrote in his book “Agon” (1982). Poems,  he argued, are “gnostic catastrophe creations” — the term gnostic  derived from the ancient religious doctrine, or heresy, that creation is  itself a form of catastrophe, a string of disasters generated by a  flawed creator.....&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Its preeminent master is Shakespeare. Lear on the heath, his world  destroyed, dares the unseen demons of nature to afflict him with yet  greater punishments:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!&lt;br /&gt;You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout&lt;br /&gt;Till you have drench’d our steeples, drown’d the cocks!&lt;br /&gt;You sulph’rous and thought-executing fires,&lt;br /&gt;Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts,&lt;br /&gt;Singe my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder,&lt;br /&gt;Strike flat the thick rotundity o’ th’ world,&lt;br /&gt;Crack Nature’s moulds . . .&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;In the 20th century, too, catastrophe has inspired memorable verse. In &lt;a href="http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15527"&gt;“The Second Coming,”&lt;/a&gt; W. B. Yeats distilled the loss of coherent order caused by World War I and the rise of Bolshevism:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;&lt;br /&gt;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,&lt;br /&gt;The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere&lt;br /&gt;The ceremony of innocence is drowned;&lt;br /&gt;The best lack all conviction, while the worst&lt;br /&gt;Are full of passionate intensity.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;All this prompted Yeats to declare, or hope, “Surely some revelation is at hand.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;In the 1950s, a decade shadowed by fears of nuclear extinction, many  quoted T. S. Eliot’s poem “The Hollow Men,” written in 1925. Its  taunting, nursery-rhyme conclusion seems to predict the technological  apocalypses of a later time, including our own:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;This is the way the world ends&lt;br /&gt;This is the way the world ends&lt;br /&gt;This is the way the world ends&lt;br /&gt;Not with a bang but a whimper.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;This is only a sampler. Other, more learned poetry readers, no doubt,  can furnish additional verses. Please send them along. To name the  catastrophic demon won’t slay it. But it can help chase our fears out of  the shadows and into the sunlight.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;If you believe in a creator, in creation by a Being....&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;I  am not sure if our planet needs someone/thing like that, looking at  what we constantly create imagining the creator and we being his  beings.....&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;how cynical this is looking at Japan.... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h2 style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;... and we are moving between concrete and diffuse fears which makes me think of all the conspiracy theories being all too cynical regarding what's happening in Japan right now...&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: transparent; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: transparent; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h2 style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/633044462221600284-3506370156768258109?l=ginster-plantagenet.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://holyjoe.org/poetry/belloc3.htm' title='Catastrophe - He Who played with a Dangerous Toy, and suffered a Catastrophe of considerable Dimensions'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ginster-plantagenet.blogspot.com/feeds/3506370156768258109/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=633044462221600284&amp;postID=3506370156768258109' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/633044462221600284/posts/default/3506370156768258109'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/633044462221600284/posts/default/3506370156768258109'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ginster-plantagenet.blogspot.com/2011/04/catastrophy-he-who-played-with.html' title='Catastrophe - He Who played with a Dangerous Toy, and suffered a Catastrophe of considerable Dimensions'/><author><name>plantagenet</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03692658044077590559</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='20' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TOkcNtlYpyI/AAAAAAAAGo8/uuqc08POng4/S220/meeting%2Bpessoa%2Bin%2Blisbon.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-633044462221600284.post-6239970573150131417</id><published>2011-03-22T12:55:00.006-05:00</published><updated>2011-07-27T03:15:31.636-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dante Alighieri'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='goettliche Komoedie'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Divine Comedy'/><title type='text'>Remember tonight, for it is the beginning of always — Dante Alighieri  - goettliche Komoedie - Divine Comedy</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-N6zPS1SGzYY/TYjZ06jM95I/AAAAAAAAGzg/OUUWKFe0DfM/s1600/dante.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-5eVJGu-LzWg/TYjiO-jqpkI/AAAAAAAAG0E/uib-HjfPw_s/s1600/hoelle.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="quoteText"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;"They yearn for what they fear for."   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;—        &lt;a class="authorName" href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/11519.Dante_Alighieri"&gt;Dante Alighieri&lt;/a&gt;          (&lt;a href="http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/809248"&gt;The Divine Comedy&lt;/a&gt;)&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-5eVJGu-LzWg/TYjiO-jqpkI/AAAAAAAAG0E/uib-HjfPw_s/s1600/hoelle.jpg" imageanchor="1"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-5eVJGu-LzWg/TYjiO-jqpkI/AAAAAAAAG0E/uib-HjfPw_s/s320/hoelle.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://de.toonpool.com/cartoons/h%C3%B6lle_4911"&gt;http://de.toonpool.com/cartoons/h%C3%B6lle_4911&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;dl&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"&gt;Die gegenwaertige Situation ruft in mir staendig Dante's Verse aus der goettlichen Komoedie in mir wach und nun zitiere ich sie hier in Gedenken an die Menschen in Japan und gegen die weitere Nutzung der Atomenergie.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-mrBHPxlInJI/TYjdEWeymjI/AAAAAAAAGz8/9HmTma-BRDA/s1600/feuer.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-mrBHPxlInJI/TYjdEWeymjI/AAAAAAAAGz8/9HmTma-BRDA/s320/feuer.jpg" width="289" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: blue; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: blue; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;In the current situation constantly verses of Dante's Divine Comedy come to my mind and so I quote some in memory of the people in Japan and against the use of nuclear energy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-N6zPS1SGzYY/TYjZ06jM95I/AAAAAAAAGzg/OUUWKFe0DfM/s1600/dante.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-N6zPS1SGzYY/TYjZ06jM95I/AAAAAAAAGzg/OUUWKFe0DfM/s1600/dante.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-N6zPS1SGzYY/TYjZ06jM95I/AAAAAAAAGzg/OUUWKFe0DfM/s1600/dante.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-N6zPS1SGzYY/TYjZ06jM95I/AAAAAAAAGzg/OUUWKFe0DfM/s1600/dante.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-N6zPS1SGzYY/TYjZ06jM95I/AAAAAAAAGzg/OUUWKFe0DfM/s1600/dante.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/dl&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-N6zPS1SGzYY/TYjZ06jM95I/AAAAAAAAGzg/OUUWKFe0DfM/s1600/dante.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-N6zPS1SGzYY/TYjZ06jM95I/AAAAAAAAGzg/OUUWKFe0DfM/s1600/dante.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;dl&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-N6zPS1SGzYY/TYjZ06jM95I/AAAAAAAAGzg/OUUWKFe0DfM/s1600/dante.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Profile portrait of Dante, by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandro_Botticelli"&gt;Sandro Botticelli&lt;/a&gt; (1444–1510)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/dl&gt;&lt;dl&gt;&lt;dt class="quote"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;O human race born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou fall. &lt;a href="http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Dante_Alighieri/"&gt;Dante Alighieri&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;/dl&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-QWMdBDSCuWI/TYjZ17ZZ_MI/AAAAAAAAGzk/TQD9V3FVRxg/s1600/120px-Dante_exile.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="250" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-QWMdBDSCuWI/TYjZ17ZZ_MI/AAAAAAAAGzk/TQD9V3FVRxg/s320/120px-Dante_exile.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Dante in exile, painting by anonymous author.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-quTnvwABHh8/TYjZ_iJOjhI/AAAAAAAAGz4/iaPIQCvO5Do/s1600/gallery05.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"&gt;"Here sighs and cries and shrieks of lamentation  &lt;br /&gt;echoed throughout the starless air of Hell; &lt;br /&gt;at first these sounds resounding made me weep: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;tongues confused, a language strained in anguish &lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;with cadences of anger, shrill outcries &lt;br /&gt;and raucous groans that joined with sounds of hands,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;raising a whirling storm that turns itself &lt;br /&gt;forever through that air of endless black, &lt;br /&gt;like grains of sand swirling when a whirlwind blows. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And I, in the midst of all this circling horror, &lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;began, "Teacher, what are these sounds I hear? &lt;br /&gt;What souls are these so overwhelmed by grief?" &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And he to me: "This wretched state of being &lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;is the fate of those sad souls who lived a life &lt;br /&gt;but lived it with no blame and with no praise.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They are mixed with that repulsive choir of angels &lt;br /&gt;neither faithful nor unfaithful to their God, &lt;br /&gt;who undecided stood but for themselves.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-quTnvwABHh8/TYjZ_iJOjhI/AAAAAAAAGz4/iaPIQCvO5Do/s1600/gallery05.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="239" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-quTnvwABHh8/TYjZ_iJOjhI/AAAAAAAAGz4/iaPIQCvO5Do/s320/gallery05.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://meisterwerke-online.de/"&gt;Dante &lt;/a&gt;und Vergil in der &lt;b&gt;Hölle&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"&gt;Heaven, to keep its beauty, cast them out, &lt;br /&gt;but even Hell itself would not receive them, &lt;br /&gt;for fear the damned might glory over them." &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And I.  "Master, what torments do they suffer &lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;that force them to lament so bitterly?" &lt;br /&gt;He answered: "I will tell you in few words:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;these wretches have no hope of truly dying,  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="color: blue;" /&gt;   &lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;and this blind life they lead is so abject &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="color: blue;" /&gt;   &lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;it makes them envy every other fate. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nationalgalleries.org/media_collection/6/NGL%20059.46.jpg" id="thumbnail" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img alt="Vollbild anzeigen" height="294" src="http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSiON48atjRuZRG3ViKonBMLZf6EM4kgjvzkso2oNT-qs2g8Fhx" style="border: 1px solid; float: left; margin: 10px 10px 0pt;" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h4&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nationalgalleries.org/collection/online_search/4:324/11008/" title="Titian (Tiziano Vecellio)"&gt;Titian (Tiziano Vecellio)&lt;/a&gt;Diana and Callisto&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;span class="workTitle"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"&gt;The world will not record their having been there; &lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Heaven's mercy and its justice turn from them. &lt;br /&gt;Let's not discuss them; look and pass them by..."   &lt;br /&gt;—        &lt;a class="authorName" href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/11519.Dante_Alighieri"&gt;Dante Alighieri&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-8eyDmZUMM3Q/TYjZ6Wclz5I/AAAAAAAAGzo/m5mdhzL0QTo/s1600/dante+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-8eyDmZUMM3Q/TYjZ6Wclz5I/AAAAAAAAGzo/m5mdhzL0QTo/s1600/dante+1.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Dante Alighieri, painted by pupils of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giotto_di_Bondone" title="Giotto di Bondone"&gt;Giotto&lt;/a&gt; in the chapel of the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bargello"&gt;Bargello&lt;/a&gt;  palace in Florence. The oldest picture of Dante, but not a truly  authentic portrait: was painted fifteen years after his death, and has  since been heavily restored.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="bigGreyBoxBody"&gt;&lt;div class="bigGreyBoxContent"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span id="freeTextContainer14632015360507357219"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span id="freeText14632015360507357219" style="display: none;"&gt;Love, Politics, Aristotle, Cicero, Virgil, Ovid, Boethius, Averroes, Thomas Aquinas&lt;a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/11519.Dante_Alighieri#"&gt;(less)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br class="clear" /&gt;&lt;span id="freeTextauthor11519"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dante_Alighieri"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Dante  Alighieri&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, or simply Dante (May 14/June 13 1265 – September 13/14,  1321), is one of the greatest poets in the Italian language; with the  comic story-teller Boccaccio and the poet Petrarch, he forms the classic  trio of Italian authors. Dante Alighieri was born in the city-state  Florence in 1265. He first saw the woman, or rather the child, who was  to become the poetic love of his life when he was almost nine years old  and she was some months younger. In fact, Beatrice married another man,  Simone di' Bardi, and died when Dante was 25, so their relationship  existed almost entirely in Dante's imagination, but she nonetheless  plays an extremely important role in his poetry. Dante attributed all  the heavenly virtues to her soul and imagined, in his masterpiece The  Divine Comedy, that she was his guardian angel who alternately berated  and encouraged him on his search for salvation. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-KSq-nu5cer4/TYjZ-XSUEoI/AAAAAAAAGz0/TVEnBBHwZAE/s1600/220px-DANTEGH.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-KSq-nu5cer4/TYjZ-XSUEoI/AAAAAAAAGz0/TVEnBBHwZAE/s1600/220px-DANTEGH.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;    &lt;span id="freeTextContainerauthor11519" style="display: none;"&gt;Dante  Alighieri, or simply Dante (May 14/June 13 1265 – September 13/14,  1321), is one of the greatest poets in the Italian language; with the  comic story-teller Boccaccio and the poet Petrarch, he forms the classic  trio of Italian authors. Dante Alighieri was born in the city-state  Florence in 1265. He first saw the woman, or rather the child, who was  to become the poetic love of his life when he was almost nine years old  and she was some months younger. In fact, Beatrice married another man,  Simone di' Bardi, and died when Dante was 25, so their relationship  existed almost entirely in Dante's imagination, but she nonetheless  plays an extremely important role in his poetry. Dante attributed all  the heavenly virtues to her soul and imagined&lt;a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/11519.Dante_Alighieri#"&gt;...more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;(Casa di Dante in Florenz&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span id="freeTextauthor11519"&gt;Politics as well as love deeply influenced Dante's literary and  emotional life. Renaissance Florence was a thriving, but not a peaceful  city: different opposing factions continually struggled for dominance  there. The Guelfs and the Ghibellines were the two major factions, and  in fact that division was important in all of Italy and other countries  as well. The Pope and the Holy Roman Emperor were political rivals for  much of this time period, and in general the Guelfs were in favor of the  Pope, while the Ghibellines supported Imperial power. By 1289 in the  battle of Campaldino the Ghibellines largely disappeared from Florence.  Peace, however, did not insue. Instead, the Guelf party divided between  the Whites and the Blacks (Dante was a White Guelf). The Whites were  more opposed to Papal power than the Blacks, and tended to favor the  emperor, so in fact the preoccupations of the White Guelfs were much  like those of the defeated Ghibellines. In this divisive atmosphere  Dante rose to a position of leadership. in 1302, while he was in Rome on  a diplomatic mission to the Pope, the Blacks in Florence seized power  with the help of the French (and pro-Pope) Charles of Valois. The Blacks  exiled Dante, confiscating his goods and condemning him to be burned if  he should return to Florence. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dante never returned to Florence. He wandered from city to city,  depending on noble patrons there. Between 1302 and 1304 some attempts  were made by the exiled Whites to retrieve their position in Florence,  but none of these succeeded and Dante contented himself with hoping for  the appearance of a new powerful Holy Roman Emperor who would unite the  country and banish strife. Henry VII was elected Emperor in 1308, and  indeed laid seige to Florence in 1312, but was defeated, and he died a  year later, destroying Dante's hopes. Dante passed from court to court,  writing passionate political and moral epistles and finishing his Divine  Comedy, which contains the Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. He  finally died in Ravenna in 1321&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;   &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Dante Alighieri&lt;/b&gt; ['dante aligi'ɛri] (* Mai oder Juni 1265 in Florenz; † 14. September 1321 in Ravenna) war ein Dichter und Philosoph italienischer Sprache. Er überwand mit der &lt;a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6ttliche_Kom%C3%B6die" title="Göttliche Komödie"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Göttlichen Komödie&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt; das bis dahin dominierende Latein und führte das Italienische zu einer Literatursprache.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="thumb tright"&gt;&lt;div class="thumbinner" style="width: 222px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a class="image" href="http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Datei:DanteFresco.jpg&amp;amp;filetimestamp=20041212230852"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="thumbimage" height="340" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/DanteFresco.jpg/220px-DanteFresco.jpg" width="220" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="thumbcaption"&gt;&lt;div class="magnify"&gt;&lt;a class="internal" href="http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Datei:DanteFresco.jpg&amp;amp;filetimestamp=20041212230852" title="vergrößern"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="11" src="http://bits.wikimedia.org/skins-1.17/common/images/magnify-clip.png" width="15" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Dante in einer Freskenserie von &lt;a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_del_Castagno"&gt;Andrea del Castagno&lt;/a&gt;, ca. 1450 (&lt;a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uffizien" title="Uffizien"&gt;Galleria degli Uffizi&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="thumb tright"&gt;&lt;div class="thumbinner" style="width: 222px;"&gt;&lt;a class="image" href="http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Datei:Dante_Alighieri_Santa_Croce.jpg&amp;amp;filetimestamp=20060915193450"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="thumbimage" height="304" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Dante_Alighieri_Santa_Croce.jpg/220px-Dante_Alighieri_Santa_Croce.jpg" width="220" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="thumbcaption"&gt;&lt;div class="magnify"&gt;&lt;a class="internal" href="http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Datei:Dante_Alighieri_Santa_Croce.jpg&amp;amp;filetimestamp=20060915193450" title="vergrößern"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="11" src="http://bits.wikimedia.org/skins-1.17/common/images/magnify-clip.png" width="15" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Dantestatue vor Santa Croce, Florenz&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dante_Alighieri"&gt;Dante&lt;/a&gt; ist der bekannteste Dichter des Italienischen und gilt als einer der bedeutendsten Dichter des europäischen Mittelalters. Sein Werk schöpft souverän aus der Theologie, der Philosophie und den übrigen Wissenschaften (Artes liberales)  seiner Zeit. Es bezieht sich kunstvoll auf Vorbilder in der  italienischen, provenzalischen, altfranzösischen und lateinischen  Dichtung. Dante verbindet dabei Gelehrsamkeit und literarische Bildung  mit einem hohen Maß an Eigenständigkeit in der gedanklichen Aneignung  und im sprachlichen und poetischen Ausdruck.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-H0fhOr_wMws/TYjZz-nvT5I/AAAAAAAAGzc/-nokDpbUmkw/s1600/220px-Dante_B%25C3%25BCste.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-H0fhOr_wMws/TYjZz-nvT5I/AAAAAAAAGzc/-nokDpbUmkw/s320/220px-Dante_B%25C3%25BCste.jpg" width="219" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Büste Dantes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;"Love, which quickly arrests the gentle heart, &lt;br /&gt;Seized him with my beautiful form &lt;br /&gt;That was taken from me, in a manner which still grieves me. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Love, which pardons no beloved from loving, &lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;took me so strongly with delight in him &lt;br /&gt;That, as you see, it still abandons me not..."   &lt;br /&gt;—        &lt;a class="authorName" href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/11519.Dante_Alighieri"&gt;Dante Alighieri&lt;/a&gt;          (&lt;a href="http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/2377563"&gt;Inferno&lt;/a&gt;)&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/buch/5060/1"&gt;Die Göttliche Komödie&lt;/a&gt; - Kapitel 2 - Erster Gesang&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;(auszug)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id="gutenb"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Denn jener, der dort oben herrscht, läßt keinen&lt;br /&gt;Eingehn, von mir geführt, in seine Stadt,&lt;br /&gt;Weil ich mich nicht verbunden mit den Seinen.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Er herrscht im All, dort ist die Herrscherstatt,&lt;br /&gt;Sein Thron und seine Burg in jener Höhe.&lt;br /&gt;Heil dem, den er erwählt dort oben hat&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;"O Dichter," Sprach ich jetzt zu ihm, "ich flehe&lt;br /&gt;Bei jenem Gotte, den du nicht erkannt,&lt;br /&gt;Daß diesem Leid und schlimmerm ich entgehe,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Bring’ an die Orte mich, die du genannt,&lt;br /&gt;So, daß ich Petri Tor erschauen möge&lt;br /&gt;Und jene, wie du sprachst, zur Qual verbannt."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Da schritt er fort, ich folgte seinem Wege.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-fsSOXBOJ5c0/TYjdHYgrhBI/AAAAAAAAG0A/aYGp4h9-Bj8/s1600/inferno.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="241" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-fsSOXBOJ5c0/TYjdHYgrhBI/AAAAAAAAG0A/aYGp4h9-Bj8/s320/inferno.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/633044462221600284-6239970573150131417?l=ginster-plantagenet.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/11519.Dante_Alighieri' title='Remember tonight, for it is the beginning of always — Dante Alighieri  - goettliche Komoedie - Divine Comedy'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ginster-plantagenet.blogspot.com/feeds/6239970573150131417/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=633044462221600284&amp;postID=6239970573150131417' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/633044462221600284/posts/default/6239970573150131417'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/633044462221600284/posts/default/6239970573150131417'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ginster-plantagenet.blogspot.com/2011/03/remember-tonight-for-it-is-beginning-of.html' title='Remember tonight, for it is the beginning of always — Dante Alighieri  - goettliche Komoedie - Divine Comedy'/><author><name>plantagenet</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03692658044077590559</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='20' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TOkcNtlYpyI/AAAAAAAAGo8/uuqc08POng4/S220/meeting%2Bpessoa%2Bin%2Blisbon.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-5eVJGu-LzWg/TYjiO-jqpkI/AAAAAAAAG0E/uib-HjfPw_s/s72-c/hoelle.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-633044462221600284.post-53440286079801031</id><published>2011-03-18T17:14:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2011-07-27T03:16:00.432-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tsunami'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Kazuko Shiraishi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fukushima'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Japan'/><title type='text'>Japan on my mind</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Japan is on my mind, the Japanese people stay on my mind....&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Japan ist in meinem Herzen, ich denke an die japanische Bevoelkerung&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-NaUbEpZt2HE/TYPWlljYweI/AAAAAAAAGzE/WvIhnaz8k8g/s1600/fuji.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="241" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-NaUbEpZt2HE/TYPWlljYweI/AAAAAAAAGzE/WvIhnaz8k8g/s320/fuji.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-UF42PI5i8qw/TYPWcI_K8aI/AAAAAAAAGy8/Gf5yWS9TpNo/s1600/schrift.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;How to live on the fault line with earth quakes as a part of your daily live?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Wie lebt es sich auf einer Erdfalte mit Erdbeben im Alltag?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-TPjmg6u4o78/TYPWpIsmmMI/AAAAAAAAGzI/VSaIuHDF7Iw/s1600/japan.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-TPjmg6u4o78/TYPWpIsmmMI/AAAAAAAAGzI/VSaIuHDF7Iw/s320/japan.jpg" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Looking at Japanese poetry I realize how present it is in Japanese consciousness&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Auf der Suche nach japanischen Gedichten wird deutlich wie gegenwaertig diese Tatsache im japanischen Bewusstsein ist.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-UF42PI5i8qw/TYPWcI_K8aI/AAAAAAAAGy8/Gf5yWS9TpNo/s1600/schrift.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-UF42PI5i8qw/TYPWcI_K8aI/AAAAAAAAGy8/Gf5yWS9TpNo/s1600/schrift.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-NaUbEpZt2HE/TYPWlljYweI/AAAAAAAAGzE/WvIhnaz8k8g/s1600/fuji.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Kazuko Shiraishi is the poet who struck me with her vision and I found her poems in German and English:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-5950abU3r7M/TYPTgepI3TI/AAAAAAAAGy0/3Gr75P4eq3w/s1600/kazuko_shiraishi.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-5950abU3r7M/TYPTgepI3TI/AAAAAAAAGy0/3Gr75P4eq3w/s1600/kazuko_shiraishi.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jehat.com/Jehaat/en/Poets/Kazuko-Shiraishi.htm"&gt;LITTLE PLANET&lt;/a&gt; by Kazuko Shiraishi (Japón)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;translated by : Allen Ginsberg&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;This little planet begins to have a headache&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Since humans occupied it and took it out of God's hand&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Green blood dries, earth's veins wither&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;The Whale gets harpooned before he sends singing Telepathy of Love&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Big jet-flies circle the planet's head and turn the occident into a skull&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Planets break their necks all thru 21'st century&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Meanwhile killers get high on the God of Science&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;amp; cheer the big Arms race on&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Kicking the globe in the head and puncturing its skin&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Earth looks like it won't recover, too many humans busy watching T.V.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;And no one says anything about saving the planet&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Will anyone witness our little Noah's Ark planet drown in the Universe?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Only if they're able to dig up a Time Capsule named the Future&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ReNF3MqNv8Q/TYPWraoeBaI/AAAAAAAAGzM/G5nQOII5mYk/s1600/japan364_v-mittel16x9.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ReNF3MqNv8Q/TYPWraoeBaI/AAAAAAAAGzM/G5nQOII5mYk/s1600/japan364_v-mittel16x9.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://lyrikline.org/index.php?id=163&amp;amp;L=1&amp;amp;author=ks00&amp;amp;poemId=179&amp;amp;cHash=b5a44d7711"&gt;Kleiner Planet&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Unser     kleiner Planet hat&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;neuerdings     Kopfschmerzen&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;grünes Blut     vertrocknet und versiegt&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;seit Menschen über den Planeten herrschen&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;statt Gottes Hand  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Pottwale werden umgebracht     auf hoher See    &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;noch bevor sie singend     Signale ihrer Liebe senden&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;wenn Schmeißfliegen     Jets genannt     den Planetenkopf &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;umkreisen     geht bei jeder Runde     Sauerstoff verloren &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;und der Planet     trägt neue Todesmale &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;er  nähert sich     dem 21. Jahrhundert  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;wie ausgepeitscht     mit hängendem Kopf &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;während  bestellte Killer     berauscht vom Gott der Wissenschaft &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;den Wettlauf um die Produktion der Mordwerkzeuge bejubeln &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;dem geschlagenen     und aufgerissenen&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Kopf des Planeten   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;verpaßt man eine Spritze &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;zwar scheint er schon     unheilbar krank &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;doch keiner     sagt etwas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;denn alle     sind im Bann des Fernsehens &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;hat jemand zugeschaut&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;wie dieser kleine Planet mit Namen Noah &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;nach und nach im All     versinkt?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;wenn Du     vielleicht     die Zeitkapsel „Zukunft“&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;in die Hand bekämst&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-yxYwRoV4ryo/TYPX-Sx94SI/AAAAAAAAGzY/gDiJZaAlkJc/s1600/listen100_v-grossgalerie16x9.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="179" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-yxYwRoV4ryo/TYPX-Sx94SI/AAAAAAAAGzY/gDiJZaAlkJc/s320/listen100_v-grossgalerie16x9.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: blue; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-GFUMHr2VPPw/TYPTjsdLIqI/AAAAAAAAGy4/0c3mWCahjUk/s1600/ks00_big.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?s=8588c33fe7fda9cd261f05f3c298dbe6&amp;amp;t=2123"&gt;The cuckoo sings&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;The green laughs - the light dances - the water spurts up&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;That is love - is an alarm&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;The woods have had their beards shaved off&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;The world lifts the skirt of the earth&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Tears the green off every nook and cranny - and vomits&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Into the oceans - what's more&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Pokes holes in the sky - these are the little traitors&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Freon gas - the little guerilla - soars up into the sky&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Into the sky&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Prepare moment by moment for the final hour of the earth!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Those who receive the kiss of the sun in the South Seas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Without knowing it - receive one grain - of death's stain&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;The five senses of the four seasons gradually lose their rhythm&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Snow falls in the summer - sunstroke happens in winter&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Nevertheless - whether it does not know it - or does know it&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;A single voice with a beautiful melody - of premonition&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Perching on one second of a hundred million years - the cuckoo sings &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-y6MQMbYzpIA/TYPXeIPLzvI/AAAAAAAAGzQ/TJK056dgk3c/s1600/erdbebenjapan134_v-grossgalerie16x9.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="179" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-y6MQMbYzpIA/TYPXeIPLzvI/AAAAAAAAGzQ/TJK056dgk3c/s320/erdbebenjapan134_v-grossgalerie16x9.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Der Kuckuck ruft&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Der Kuckuck ruft&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;es lacht das Laub tanzt das Licht quillt das Wasser&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;das heißt Liebe heißt Warnung&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;In einer Zeit da die Wälder fallen abrasiert&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;da alle Welt der Erde unter den Rocksaum grapscht&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;ihr das letzte Grün zu entwinden&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;da alle Welt in die Meere kotzt –&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;jetzt noch: Löcher in den Himmel fetzend&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;diese kleinen Rebellen die Fluor-Gase&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;kleine Guerilla die in den Himmel&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;unaufhaltsam in den Himmel steigt&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Seid stündlich bereit&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;auf das letzte Stündlein der Erde!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Wen immer in Südgewässern der Kuß der Sonne trifft&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;er empfängt den Keim des Todes ahnungslos&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Bald schon geraten die Sinne der Jahreszeiten aus dem Rhythmus&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;schneit es im Sommer kommt es zu Hitzschlägen im Wasser&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Und dennoch&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;vielleicht weil er es weiß oder obwohl er es weiß:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;mit der schönen Melodie seiner Stimme der prophetischen&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;innehaltend in diesem einen Augenblick aus Jahrmillionen&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;ruft der Kuckuck&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-Skd34UJ_7mY/TYPX9NPc7WI/AAAAAAAAGzU/5amPhaJXq3Y/s1600/kuckuck.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="310" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-Skd34UJ_7mY/TYPX9NPc7WI/AAAAAAAAGzU/5amPhaJXq3Y/s320/kuckuck.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: small;"&gt;Born in Vancouver in 1931, &lt;b&gt;Kazuko Shiraishi&lt;/b&gt; has  published more than twenty books of poetry and numerous volumes of  essays, and has received all of Japan’s major literary awards including  the Mugen Poetry Award for &lt;i&gt;A Conoe Returns to the Future &lt;/i&gt;(1978), the Rekitei Award for &lt;i&gt;Sand Families&lt;/i&gt; (1982), the Takami Jun Award, the Yomiuri Literature Award, and the Purple Ribbon Medal from the Emperor of Japan for &lt;i&gt;Let Those Who Appear&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;  (1996). In the 60s, she was a pioneer in the call for freedom of  expression and for uninhibited spiritual and sexual liberation. She  began a jazz-poetry revolution in Japan, reading to the accompaniment of  jazz music. Following such poets as Kenneth Rexroth and Allen Ginsberg,  she advanced the jazz-poetry performance to an art form in Japan, in  response to the avant garde movement of such musicians as John Coltrane,  Miles Davis, and others. She last appeared at Japan Society in Spring  2002.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-yxYwRoV4ryo/TYPX-Sx94SI/AAAAAAAAGzY/gDiJZaAlkJc/s1600/listen100_v-grossgalerie16x9.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-GFUMHr2VPPw/TYPTjsdLIqI/AAAAAAAAGy4/0c3mWCahjUk/s1600/ks00_big.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-GFUMHr2VPPw/TYPTjsdLIqI/AAAAAAAAGy4/0c3mWCahjUk/s1600/ks00_big.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Kazuko Shiraishi&lt;/b&gt; wird am 27. Februar 1931 in Vancouver in Kanada geboren. 1937 geht sie mit den Eltern nach Japan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bereits  mit siebzehn Jahren wird ihr literarisches Talent von Katsue Kitazano,  einem Freund Ezra Pounds, entdeckt, so daß Kazuko Shiraishi 1948  Mitglied in dessen Künstlergruppe &lt;i&gt;VOU&lt;/i&gt; wird. &lt;br /&gt;Ihren ersten Lyrik-Band „Tamago No Furumachi“ veröffentlicht Kazuko  Shiraishi mit zwanzig Jahren. Sie studiert Literatur und Kunst und macht  1952 ihren Abschluß an der Waseda Universität. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Seit Beginn der sechziger Jahre liest sie ihre Gedichte - gemeinsam mit  Jazz-Musikern und Tänzern - in Performances, die zum Teil auch verfilmt  wurden. 1976 nimmt sie eine Schallplatte zur Musik des Jazzers John  Coltrane auf.&lt;br /&gt;Außerdem publiziert sie Essays über Poesie, Jazz, Soul-Musik und Kunst,  unter anderem in der Avantgarde-Zeitschrift „Vou“. Kazuko Shiraishi  schreibt zudem zahlreiche Kinderbücher. Viele ihrer Gedichtbände sind in  zahlreiche Sprachen übersetzt. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kazuko Shiraishi performt unter anderem mehrmals auf dem „Rotterdam  International Poetry-Festival“ (zuerst 1975), auf dem „Valmiki World  Poetry Festival“ in Delhi und Bhopal (1985), auf dem „Manila  International Poetry Festival“ (1975), auf dem „International Poetry  Festival - parole per musica“ in Genf (1980), auf dem „UNESCO  International Poetry Festival - Guerre a la Guerre“ in Paris (1982), auf  dem „Asian Poetry Festival“ in Taiwan (1995), auf dem „First African  Poetry Festival“ in Durban (1997) und auf dem Strindberg-Festival in  Stockholm (1998). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kazuko Shiraishi wird unter anderem 1998 mit dem renomierten japanischen  „Yomiuri Literary Prize“ bedacht und erhält im gleichen Jahr eine  Auszeichnung durch den japanischen Kaiser. Kazuko Shiraishi lebt heute  in Tokyo. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/633044462221600284-53440286079801031?l=ginster-plantagenet.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://lyrikline.org/index.php?id=162&amp;L=1&amp;author=ks00&amp;show=Bio&amp;cHash=935306470f' title='Japan on my mind'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ginster-plantagenet.blogspot.com/feeds/53440286079801031/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=633044462221600284&amp;postID=53440286079801031' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/633044462221600284/posts/default/53440286079801031'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/633044462221600284/posts/default/53440286079801031'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ginster-plantagenet.blogspot.com/2011/03/japan-on-my-mind.html' title='Japan on my mind'/><author><name>plantagenet</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03692658044077590559</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='20' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TOkcNtlYpyI/AAAAAAAAGo8/uuqc08POng4/S220/meeting%2Bpessoa%2Bin%2Blisbon.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-NaUbEpZt2HE/TYPWlljYweI/AAAAAAAAGzE/WvIhnaz8k8g/s72-c/fuji.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-633044462221600284.post-30002790783207772</id><published>2011-02-16T09:18:00.006-06:00</published><updated>2011-07-27T03:16:29.037-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='artists'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Lynn Hershman'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Marlene Dumas'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Feminist'/><title type='text'>Do women have to be naked to get into the museum? Muessen Frauen nackt sein, wenn sie ins Museum wollen?</title><content type='html'>&lt;h2 class="filmDatenTitel" style="color: blue; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;h2 class="filmDatenTitel" style="color: blue; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"&gt;Artists have a hard time, but female artist have hardly any opportunity to get into Galleries or museum.&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;h2 class="filmDatenTitel" style="color: blue; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"&gt;Women artists&amp;nbsp; raised this question in the 70s because Women appeared as (naked) subjects in paintings but their work was hardly ever shown. Now the following collection of women artists works and actions is shown at the Berlinale 2011: &lt;/h2&gt;&lt;h2 class="filmDatenTitel" style="color: blue; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;!Women Art Revolution - A Secret History&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2 class="filmDatenTitel" style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;h2 class="filmDatenSubTitel" style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;div class="rightDivNoBottomMargin"&gt;&lt;div style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="182" src="http://www.berlinale.de/external/appendix_aktuell/20111068_1.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;USA, 2010, 83 min,Englisch      &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="category"&gt;Regie: &lt;/span&gt;         Lynn Hershman Leeson      &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="category"&gt;Darsteller: &lt;/span&gt;         Yvonne Rainer,  Judy Chicago,  Guerilla Girls,  B. Ruby Rich,  Carolee Schneeman      &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="category"&gt;Sektion: &lt;/span&gt;         Panorama Dokumente      &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"&gt;Sculpture artist Lynn Hershman presents her new film about the historical struggle of women&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id="gallery"&gt;&lt;div class="main"&gt;&lt;img id="ctl00_ctl00_body_body_imgMain" src="http://www.dazeddigital.com/ImageStore/598633.jpg" /&gt;             &lt;/div&gt;&lt;h1 style="color: blue; font-weight: normal;"&gt;a film by &lt;a href="http://www.womenartrevolution.com/"&gt;Lynn Hershman Leeson&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1 style="color: blue; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Through intimate interviews, art, and rarely seen archival film and video   footage, &lt;i&gt;!Women Art Revolution&lt;/i&gt; reveals how the Feminist Art Movement fused   free speech and politics into an art that radically transformed the art and   culture of our times.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;aside&gt;&lt;/aside&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="image"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dazeddigital.com/ImageStore/598618.jpg" id="ctl00_ctl00_body_body_ucArticleGallery_lnkOriginal"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id="ctl00_ctl00_body_body_ucArticleGallery_ucMainImage_imageControl"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dazeddigital.com/ImageStore/598618.jpg" id="ctl00_ctl00_body_body_ucArticleGallery_lnkOriginal"&gt;&lt;img id="ctl00_ctl00_body_body_ucArticleGallery_ucMainImage_ArticleImage" src="http://www.dazeddigital.com/ImageStore/598623.jpg" style="border-width: 0px;" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div id="social-links"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a class="newsletter" href="http://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/gallery/22/8739/1/women-art-revolution#"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a class="facebook" href="http://www.facebook.com/DazedandConfusedMagazine" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;    &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="mailing-list"&gt;&lt;fieldset class="mailist-list-fieldset"&gt;&lt;/fieldset&gt;&lt;fieldset class="mailist-list-fieldset"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/fieldset&gt;&lt;div class="image"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dazeddigital.com/ImageStore/598636.jpg" id="ctl00_ctl00_body_body_ucArticleGallery_lnkOriginal"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id="ctl00_ctl00_body_body_ucArticleGallery_ucMainImage_imageControl"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dazeddigital.com/ImageStore/598636.jpg" id="ctl00_ctl00_body_body_ucArticleGallery_lnkOriginal"&gt;&lt;img id="ctl00_ctl00_body_body_ucArticleGallery_ucMainImage_ArticleImage" src="http://www.dazeddigital.com/ImageStore/598641.jpg" style="border-width: 0px;" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Berkeley, 1972. The artist Lynn Hershman had just graduated with an  MFA from San Francisco State University and was exhibiting wax figures  in a museum. To go with the sculptures, she’d made a mixtape of  breathing and speaking sounds. The museum wouldn’t hear it, literally  wouldn’t hear it. Audio had no place there. They were wrong, but that’s  not the point. When you hear this story you understand everything about  Hershman at once. She was a woman artist trying to make herself heard;  she was shut up. She has spent the rest of her career making noise. Not  only she, but&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Judy Chicago,&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wPjWhkYRN8g/TVvscmmXm_I/AAAAAAAAGxM/SJuaXRkSFz4/s1600/chicago.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="212" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wPjWhkYRN8g/TVvscmmXm_I/AAAAAAAAGxM/SJuaXRkSFz4/s320/chicago.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Ana Mendieta,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wsEwFoeQ9jw/TVvtkhCHEGI/AAAAAAAAGxY/v0mXowHYzkY/s1600/ana.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wsEwFoeQ9jw/TVvtkhCHEGI/AAAAAAAAGxY/v0mXowHYzkY/s320/ana.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Hannah Wilke&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5dwH73JLij0/TVvt5jPm8wI/AAAAAAAAGxc/7DzpK_KJJyo/s1600/hanna.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="230" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5dwH73JLij0/TVvt5jPm8wI/AAAAAAAAGxc/7DzpK_KJJyo/s320/hanna.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;— all the unsung  feminist heroes and female artists who star in her just-premiered,  forty-years-in-the-making film,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.womenartrevolution.com/"&gt;!Women Art Revolution: A Secret History&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Hershman’s documentary breaks the silence of the museums. It’s  rousing and rattling, scrapped together from 400 hours of mostly  handheld footage and scored by Sleater-Kinney’s Carrie Brownstein. After  debuting at the Toronto International Film Festival last month, it’s  going on to the Sundance, the Berlinale,&amp;nbsp; and in March 2011, the MoMA in  New York.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;That’ll be a sweet irony. And then she will begin filming  part three of her dormant sci-fi trilogy, a movie called &lt;i&gt;Killer App&lt;/i&gt;—because  that is literally what it’s about. It will star none other than Tilda  Swinton. Also, Marilyn Manson. The more baffled you look by this news,  the more Hershman—a robust, curious-eyed woman with heaps of henna-red  hair and crinkled Issey Miyake—laughs, and laughs, and laughs. Four  decades in and she still gets off on screwing convention. In a proper  sit-down with Dazed, this weirdly wonderful artist talks about the  making of her documentary, the making of female art history, and the  history yet to be made.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Dazed Digital: When you began filming the female art scene, did you know you were making a movie?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;Lynn Hershman:&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;I  was just documenting that time. I wasn’t a filmmaker, I didn’t know  anything about it, but I wanted to get a record of what was happening&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;DD: Did you have a sense that you were going to effect change?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Lynn Hershman:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;No,  because the movement didn’t have a name at all. We were just figuring  out a way to do our work and to survive. You know, it was during the  time of the free speech movement, and people were trying to get outside  of the system in order to change things.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;DD: What do the artists who are portrayed in the film think of it?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;Lynn Hershman:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;Nobody’s  seen it. The first time anybody saw it was at the premiere [at TIFF],  when the Guerrilla Girls [who are in the film saw it]. The other people  who have seen it are the historians, because I wanted to make sure it  was accurate. Not the artists yet. I showed some rough cuts to friends  and everybody had their own kind of prejudice. Somebody said I had to  shoot a conference in Belgium. Somebody said I had to go somewhere else.  Everybody had their own thing they wanted to stress. Now we’re doing a  site called RAW WAR [a web repository for information about feminist art  history, to be launched early 2011] so anything that’s missing, they  can put it up there.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;DD: Imagine a documentary called !Men Art Revolution, how  funny that would be—so funny it’s sad. The history of womens’ art, not  the making of it, but the showing of it, is so brief. Do you object to  the idea of quote-unquote womens’ art?&amp;nbsp; The same way we have womens’  studies?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Lynn Hershman:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;A lot of people in  the 60s and 70s did think there was a particular kind of art that was  womens’ art. And we did need that kind of politicization in order to  effect change. I would be really happy if we dropped that term. If we  were really equal, we would all just be artists.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;DD: It’s the same with actresses and actors. We’re all just actors.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;Lynn Hershman:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;Exactly&lt;b&gt;.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;DD: What about the argument that came up in the film, that  50% of an exhibition should be women artists? True, but only if women  make up 50% of working artists. You don’t want women artists to be in a  show just because they’re women. Then again, sometimes you have to force  open the door. It comes down to whether you&amp;nbsp; believe in affirmative  action, or not.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;Lynn Hershman:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;I think in  the early days it was really important to force it. People should be  conscious and aware that they really need to look at the constraints.  For example, here at TIFF, to put on a retrospective of 100 essential  films [a list voted on by last year’s festival-goers]. They have one  woman [director] out of a hundred—that’s really shocking. There are so  many good artists in Canada, and so many good women artists. They exist.  It just takes research, and not even that much research. They’re here.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;DD: Who are your favourite artists working today?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt; Lynn Hershman:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;I  like Janine Antoni’s work.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ojyUtQ16kFE/TVvubr48QdI/AAAAAAAAGxg/I_VE9NLxrF8/s1600/antoni.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ojyUtQ16kFE/TVvubr48QdI/AAAAAAAAGxg/I_VE9NLxrF8/s320/antoni.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; I like [filmmaker] Kathryn Bigelow.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;There’s a  South African artist who recently had a show at the MoMa, &lt;b&gt;Marlene  Dumas&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9rys-7N2JpA/TVvuvKAj6CI/AAAAAAAAGxk/9db5HRVg7c8/s1600/dumas.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9rys-7N2JpA/TVvuvKAj6CI/AAAAAAAAGxk/9db5HRVg7c8/s320/dumas.jpg" width="270" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;and her work is good.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-DAQOTfvcWeA/TVvvOXw-XtI/AAAAAAAAGxo/5BRlPnfeqM0/s1600/marlene.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="215" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-DAQOTfvcWeA/TVvvOXw-XtI/AAAAAAAAGxo/5BRlPnfeqM0/s320/marlene.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;DD: Where do you hope &lt;i&gt;!Women Art Revolution &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;will be seen: festivals? Public access television? Movie theatres?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;Lynn Hershman:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;[I  want it to be] in theatres. I don’t want to happen to this film what  happened to women artists. You know, this sales agent told me there were  no famous people in it. But that is the point—these women should have  been famous and they were not. That’s what this film is about.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;She published the following &lt;a href="http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520239715"&gt;book: &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-frluoqIloZE/TVkTD752WzI/AAAAAAAAGv4/m1NWVRINg6U/s1600/10096.110.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-frluoqIloZE/TVkTD752WzI/AAAAAAAAGv4/m1NWVRINg6U/s1600/10096.110.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="titleinfo"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Art and Films of Lynn Hershman Leeson, Secret Agents, Private I&lt;br /&gt;edited by Meredith Tromble vailable worldwide ISBN: 9780520239715&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/rVQz4ziUBWk" title="YouTube video player" width="480"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div id="social-links"&gt;&lt;div class="rightDiv" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;div style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="mailing-list"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;http://lynnhershman.com/livingblog/2010/08/05/women-art-revolution-is-now-closer-&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;is also on facebook. Become a fan:&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;http://www.facebook.com/WomenArtRevolution?v=wall&amp;amp;ref=search&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;This website offers a whole range of films by women artists:/http://rawwar.org/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.berlinale.de/external/appendix_aktuell/20111068_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Die amerikanische Künstlerin und Filmemacherin &lt;a href="http://www.art-in-berlin.de/incbmeld.php?id=1930&amp;amp;-lynn-hershman-leeson"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Lynn Hershman Leeson&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  gewinnt den mit 20.000 € dotierten d.velop digital art award [ddaa]  2010. Mit dem Preisgeld ist außerdem eine Retrospektive in der  Kunsthalle Bremen sowie ein Katalog verbunden.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="mailing-list"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="mailing-list"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="mailing-list"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-2632" height="300" src="http://lynnhershman.com/livingblog/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/GGpic21-241x300.jpg" title="GGpic2" width="241" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Der d.velop digital art award [ddaa] wird alle zwei Jahre vom Digital  Art Museum [DAM], Berlin, an einen Künstler aus dem Bereich digitaler  Medien vergeben.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Neben der Künstlerin Lynn Hershman Leeson waren außerdem Lillian  Schwartz, USA, Roy Ascott, Großbritannien, Roman Verostko, USA, Hiroshi  Kawano, Japan nomminiert.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="mailing-list"&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Jury: Prof. Dr. Wulf Herzogenrath (Direktor der Kunsthalle Bremen), Dr.  Norbert Nobis (Stellvertretender Direktor des Sprengel Museums,  Hannover), Kelli Dipple (Kuratorin für Intermedia Art, Tate Modern,  London), Stephen Kovats (Künstlerischer Leiter der Transmediale, Berlin)  sowie Wolf Lieser (Direktor des Digital Art Museums [DAM], Berlin). &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.womenartrevolution.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img alt="Photo Credit: Peter Bregg" class="size-full wp-image-2667 " height="317" src="http://lynnhershman.com/livingblog/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Women+Art+Revolution+Secret+History+Premiere+8tB3rwLAzAJl.jpg" title="Women+Art+Revolution+Secret+History+Premiere+8tB3rwLAzAJl" width="475" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Bisherige Preisträger waren: Vera Molnar, Manfred Mohrund Norman White.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="mailing-list"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="mailing-list"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="mailing-list"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.berlinale.de/external/appendix_aktuell/20111068_2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" height="212" src="http://www.berlinale.de/external/appendix_aktuell/20111068_2.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="mailing-list" style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Seit den 70er Jahren beschäftigt sich die amerikanische Künstlerin Lynn  Hershman Leeson mit Medienkunst. Jetzt hat sie viele hundert Stunden  Interviews und Gesprächsaufzeichnungen mit Kollegen, Freunden,  Kunsthistorikern, Kuratoren und Kritikern gesichtet und zu einem  einzigartigen Dokumentarfilm verdichtet. Der Film beschreibt die  Geschichte des Feminist Art Movement. Dafür standen der Regisseurin  Filmdokumente aus 42 Jahren zur Verfügung, die einen faszinierenden  Eindruck von der Vielfalt und Kraft der feministischen Kunst vermitteln.  Dabei gelingt es der Filmemacherin, ihren subjektiven Zugang zu  bewahren, ohne die Komplexität und Widersprüchlichkeit, die gerade den  Reichtum dieser Bewegung und ihrer Protagonistinnen ausmachen, zu  unterschlagen. Die Interviews mit jungen Künstlerinnen eröffnen einen  generationsübergreifenden Dialog. Die Beschreibung der unterschiedlichen  und sich wandelnden Perspektiven der Befragten verdeutlicht sowohl die  Errungenschaften als auch die Irrtümer der Künstlerbewegung. Die  Hartnäckigkeit und der Mut der im Film vorgestellten Künstlerinnen und  ihrer Werke verdeutlicht, wovon immer mehr Kunsthistoriker überzeugt  sind: Die „Feminist Art Movement“ gehört zu den prägenden  Kunstbewegungen des 20. Jahrhunderts.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-23mvyS2BYsU/TVvsxmrmFaI/AAAAAAAAGxU/k40044NO0wk/s1600/plate.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-23mvyS2BYsU/TVvsxmrmFaI/AAAAAAAAGxU/k40044NO0wk/s320/plate.jpg" width="245" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6nJG9neZtuQ/TVvswUoqW8I/AAAAAAAAGxQ/HrvAnMnuLlA/s1600/2983304915_774300a6c9.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6nJG9neZtuQ/TVvswUoqW8I/AAAAAAAAGxQ/HrvAnMnuLlA/s320/2983304915_774300a6c9.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/633044462221600284-30002790783207772?l=ginster-plantagenet.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://lynnhershman.com/livingblog/2010/08/05/women-art-revolution-is-now-closer-to-home/' title='Do women have to be naked to get into the museum? 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Muessen Frauen nackt sein, wenn sie ins Museum wollen?'/><author><name>plantagenet</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03692658044077590559</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='20' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TOkcNtlYpyI/AAAAAAAAGo8/uuqc08POng4/S220/meeting%2Bpessoa%2Bin%2Blisbon.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wPjWhkYRN8g/TVvscmmXm_I/AAAAAAAAGxM/SJuaXRkSFz4/s72-c/chicago.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-633044462221600284.post-8878162423043440058</id><published>2011-02-14T07:06:00.005-06:00</published><updated>2011-07-27T03:16:50.715-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Valentines'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='kitsch'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Juno Februata'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Lupercalia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Valentine&apos;s day'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='love'/><title type='text'>Valentine's Day = Juno Februata - The history behind Valentine's day and Lupercalia</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: georgia,bookman old style,palatino linotype,book antiqua,palatino,trebuchet ms,helvetica,garamond,sans-serif,arial,verdana,avante garde,century gothic,comic sans ms,times,times new roman,serif; font-size: large;"&gt;Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: georgia,bookman old style,palatino linotype,book antiqua,palatino,trebuchet ms,helvetica,garamond,sans-serif,arial,verdana,avante garde,century gothic,comic sans ms,times,times new roman,serif; font-size: large;"&gt;~&lt;a href="http://www.quotegarden.com/valentine.html"&gt;Antoine de Saint-Exupéry&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;i&gt;Wind, Sand, and Stars&lt;/i&gt;, 1939&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-L_yjdmORMZI/TVkmH4wOQXI/AAAAAAAAGxA/yoHRNsASNNY/s1600/article_1156_ZUM.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"&gt;As the Valentines Day stuff begins to percolate out, with the usual kitsch, I just noted a very nice Wikipedia piece on &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juno_Februa"&gt;Juno Februata&lt;/a&gt;, an epithet I've &lt;a href="http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism/2004/02/14.html#a1775"&gt;long wondered about.&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-L_yjdmORMZI/TVkmH4wOQXI/AAAAAAAAGxA/yoHRNsASNNY/s1600/article_1156_ZUM.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-L_yjdmORMZI/TVkmH4wOQXI/AAAAAAAAGxA/yoHRNsASNNY/s1600/article_1156_ZUM.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-L_yjdmORMZI/TVkmH4wOQXI/AAAAAAAAGxA/yoHRNsASNNY/s1600/article_1156_ZUM.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="177" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-L_yjdmORMZI/TVkmH4wOQXI/AAAAAAAAGxA/yoHRNsASNNY/s320/article_1156_ZUM.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-L_yjdmORMZI/TVkmH4wOQXI/AAAAAAAAGxA/yoHRNsASNNY/s1600/article_1156_ZUM.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-L_yjdmORMZI/TVkmH4wOQXI/AAAAAAAAGxA/yoHRNsASNNY/s1600/article_1156_ZUM.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Z0PJJ_subBY/TVkf9klDsmI/AAAAAAAAGwU/2aaKkEFbrPM/s1600/angel.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Z0PJJ_subBY/TVkf9klDsmI/AAAAAAAAGwU/2aaKkEFbrPM/s1600/angel.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Still no evidence as far as&lt;a href="http://thehobgoblin.blogspot.com/"&gt; I can see&lt;/a&gt; for a festival for said epitheted  divinity, but an interesting account of how the word seems to have  entered the popular culture ... &lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Despite the controversy surrounding the origin of the day, lovers will celebrate today.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iDWP-wC_3sI/TVkgTeEa9MI/AAAAAAAAGws/g9DziMxo0gg/s1600/luper.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iDWP-wC_3sI/TVkgTeEa9MI/AAAAAAAAGws/g9DziMxo0gg/s1600/luper.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Saint Valentine's feast is one of the most popular catholic (?) feasts and starts to be celebrated even in Germany now.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Did it all start with St Valentine?&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp; :&amp;nbsp; No - it began about eight hundred years before St Valentine was born.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Valentine's day history has its roots in  &lt;a href="http://www.explore-italian-culture.com/ancient-roman-culture.html"&gt;ancient Roman culture&lt;/a&gt;   when Juno Februtis, god of purification and fertility, was worshipped on 15 February. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Nyqr4LLyRr8/TVkgBrAmiRI/AAAAAAAAGwc/BBhEl6KrmXg/s1600/Romulus+and+Remus.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Nyqr4LLyRr8/TVkgBrAmiRI/AAAAAAAAGwc/BBhEl6KrmXg/s1600/Romulus+and+Remus.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;On February 15th, the second day of &lt;i&gt;Lupercal&lt;/i&gt; and the third day of &lt;i&gt;Parentalia&lt;/i&gt; dedicated to Juno Februata (Juno the Fructifier),  the Romans played out a rite of Romantic Roulette.  The &lt;i&gt;Luperci&lt;/i&gt; drew the names of young women from a box.  Thus paired by the gods,  the couples remained paired until the following &lt;i&gt;Lupercalia&lt;/i&gt;.  Our modern Valentines' rituals don't hold a candle to these rites!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BJ7c73V0vnk/TVkfLkvhAII/AAAAAAAAGwE/O_EMsFCGXbM/s1600/luperclia.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BJ7c73V0vnk/TVkfLkvhAII/AAAAAAAAGwE/O_EMsFCGXbM/s1600/luperclia.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"&gt;In 496 A.D. Pope Gelasius ended this Lupercalian &lt;b&gt;Lover's Lottery&lt;/b&gt;.  In an attempt to move away from the pagan celebration of  fertility, he selected Valentine as the new patron saint of lovers and set his feast day on the fourteenth of February.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-N5qlQ9xkZLk/TVkf6f4rQNI/AAAAAAAAGwM/dOhNvRC_IIw/s1600/kore.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-N5qlQ9xkZLk/TVkf6f4rQNI/AAAAAAAAGwM/dOhNvRC_IIw/s1600/kore.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.explore-italian-culture.com/valentines-day-history.html"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Who exactly was Saint Valentine?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is a question raised many times her is a try to explain: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Valentine's story starts in Rome under the rule of Claudius, also known as “&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-style: italic;"&gt;Claudius Gothicus”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;,  who was involved in many unpopular and bloody campaigns. The emperor  had to maintain a strong army, but was having difficulty recruiting  soldiers to his military forces. Claudius believed that Roman men were  unwilling to join the army because of their strong attachment to their  wives and families.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;To solve this problem, Claudius banned all marriages  and engagements in Rome. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://thehobgoblin.blogspot.com/search/label/Valentine" style="color: blue;"&gt;Valentine&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;, realising the injustice of the  decree, defied Claudius and continued to perform marriages for young  lovers in secret.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;This  is simply because most hearts unite around love(?).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-JuCfMEXXu9Y/TVkf5CAb9pI/AAAAAAAAGwI/g-DFjKcLkSE/s1600/astarte+februa.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-JuCfMEXXu9Y/TVkf5CAb9pI/AAAAAAAAGwI/g-DFjKcLkSE/s320/astarte+februa.jpg" width="162" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;The feast has over the years lost its  religious verve to take on a pagan connotation.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;People hardly think  about the love of God. What most people consider is love between people  of the opposite(?) &lt;b&gt;sex.&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;There is therefore a big gap between the motives of  celebrating and the significance of the day. But how did people start  commemorating the day? This can be seen in history.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="Valentines day history." height="200" src="http://www.explore-italian-culture.com/images/st-valentine-3.jpg" width="143" /&gt;( one of the early Valentine cards)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Those looking for the origins of Valentine's Day inevitably encounter the ancient Roman festival of &lt;a href="http://lupercalia./"&gt;Lupercalia.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;The Feast of Lupercalia&lt;/span&gt; was an ancient purification festival thought to be of pre-Roman origin, subsuming the earlier &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Februa&lt;/span&gt;,  a cleansing ritual held around the same date each spring, from which  the name of the month of February is derived. A pagan fertility festival  celebrated on 15th February, in which the names of young women were  placed in a box and then drawn by men, &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Lupercalia&lt;/span&gt; is thought to have been the precursor of&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://thehobgoblin.blogspot.com/2010/02/feast-of-saint-valentine.html"&gt;St Valentines Day&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://thehobgoblin.blogspot.com/2010/02/feast-of-saint-valentine.html"&gt;.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;The sacrificial &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lupercalia"&gt;feast &lt;/a&gt;followed, after which the Luperci cut thongs from the skins of the victims, which were called Februa,  dressed themselves in the skins of the sacrificed goats, in imitation  of Lupercus, and ran round the walls of the old Palatine city, the line  of which was marked with stones, with the thongs in their hands in two  bands, striking the people who crowded near. Girls and young women would  line up on their route to receive lashes from these whips. This was  supposed to ensure fertility, prevent sterility in women and ease the  pains of childbirth. This tradition itself may survive (Christianised,  and shifted to Spring) in certain ritual &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_Monday" title="Easter Monday"&gt;Easter Monday&lt;/a&gt; whippings.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8qnZSbfpz4c/TVkgJYTtC5I/AAAAAAAAGwk/Ql59BPFJqyk/s1600/nuit.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8qnZSbfpz4c/TVkgJYTtC5I/AAAAAAAAGwk/Ql59BPFJqyk/s320/nuit.jpg" width="192" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;A festival said to be of Juno Februata or Juno Februa, though it does not appear in &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovid" title="Ovid"&gt;Ovid&lt;/a&gt;'s &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasti" title="Fasti"&gt;Fasti&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; was described by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alban_Butler" title="Alban Butler"&gt;Alban Butler&lt;/a&gt;, famous as the author of &lt;i&gt;Butler's Lives of Saints&lt;/i&gt;, who presented an aspect of the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Rome" title="Ancient Rome"&gt;Roman&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lupercalia" title="Lupercalia"&gt;Lupercalia&lt;/a&gt; as a festival of a "Juno Februata", under the heading of February 14:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;dl style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;dd&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;"To abolish the heathens lewd superstitious custom of boys drawing  the names of girls, in honour of their goddess Februata Juno, on the  fifteenth of this month, several zealous pastors substituted the names  of saints in billets, given on this day."&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-0"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juno_Februata#cite_note-0"&gt;[1]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8XeAbm0zLWw/TVkgNqrom2I/AAAAAAAAGwo/qK0r4iFEqgI/s1600/pan.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8XeAbm0zLWw/TVkgNqrom2I/AAAAAAAAGwo/qK0r4iFEqgI/s1600/pan.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;dd&gt;&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;/dl&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare"&gt;William Shakespeare&lt;/a&gt;'s play &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Caesar_%28play%29" title="Julius Caesar (play)"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Julius Caesar&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt; begins during the Lupercalia, with the tradition described above.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Februata Juno would seem to be related to Juno    &lt;a href="http://www.thaliatook.com/OGOD/lucina.html"&gt;Lucina&lt;/a&gt; as a childbirth Goddess. February was the month    of purification to the Romans because in their early calendar it was the last    month of the year, and so considered an appropriate time to get rid of the bad,    stale, or unclean in preparation for the new year. The references to Juno Februtis    are few, however, and much of the information about Her would seem to be of    more recent derivation.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;All that said, Juno Februtis would seem to be an aspect of Juno    connected with the purificatory rites of February, and the fertility and creativity    that can be had when the old is cleared out to make way for the new.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-L_yjdmORMZI/TVkmH4wOQXI/AAAAAAAAGxA/yoHRNsASNNY/s1600/article_1156_ZUM.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div id="drop_cap"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div id="drop_cap"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BJgrFsizNw8/TVkmuB8H3RI/AAAAAAAAGxI/gp2lR_K6ApM/s1600/lucina.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BJgrFsizNw8/TVkmuB8H3RI/AAAAAAAAGxI/gp2lR_K6ApM/s320/lucina.jpg" width="184" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Lupercalien&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;: &lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Die &lt;a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lupercalien"&gt;Feier&lt;/a&gt; begann mit einem Bocksopfer im Lupercal, auf das ein  Opfermahl folgte. Während der Opferzeremonie wurden zwei vornehme junge  Männer herbeigeführt und von den Opferern mit dem blutigen Messer an der  Stirn berührt, worauf andere das Blut mit in Milch getränkter Wolle  wieder abwischten, die jungen Männer selbst aber mussten lachen&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-0"&gt;&lt;a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lupercalien#cite_note-0"&gt;[1]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; – möglicherweise ist dies ein &lt;a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbol" title="Symbol"&gt;Symbol&lt;/a&gt; der Sühne oder eine Erinnerung an ältere &lt;a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menschenopfer" title="Menschenopfer"&gt;Menschenopfer&lt;/a&gt;. Nach dem Mahl banden sich die ansonsten nackten &lt;a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priester" title="Priester"&gt;Priester&lt;/a&gt;, die &lt;i&gt;Luperci&lt;/i&gt;,  die Felle der geopferten Böcke um die Hüften, zerschnitten andere Felle  in Riemen und liefen so durch die Stadt. Verheiratete Frauen stellten  sich ihnen gern in den Weg und ließen sich von ihnen mit den Riemen in  die Hand schlagen, weil sie sich davon Ehesegen erhofften.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Die Priestergemeinschaft der &lt;i&gt;luperci&lt;/i&gt; teilte sich ursprünglich in die &lt;i&gt;luperci Quinctiales&lt;/i&gt; und die &lt;i&gt;luperci Fabiani&lt;/i&gt;, zu denen 44 v. Chr. zu Ehren &lt;a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaius_Iulius_Caesar" title="Gaius Iulius Caesar"&gt;Gaius Iulius Caesars&lt;/a&gt; noch &lt;i&gt;luperci Iuliani&lt;/i&gt;&lt;a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Antonius" title="Marcus Antonius"&gt; Marcus Antonius&lt;/a&gt; teil, der dem zusehenden Diktator Caesar ein Königsdiadem anbot. Siehe auch Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;But anyway :Happy Valentine's everyone &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/633044462221600284-8878162423043440058?l=ginster-plantagenet.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://ginster-plantagenet.blogspot.com/2011/02/juno-februata-history-behind-valentines.html' title='Valentine&apos;s Day = Juno Februata - The history behind Valentine&apos;s day and Lupercalia'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ginster-plantagenet.blogspot.com/feeds/8878162423043440058/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=633044462221600284&amp;postID=8878162423043440058' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/633044462221600284/posts/default/8878162423043440058'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/633044462221600284/posts/default/8878162423043440058'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ginster-plantagenet.blogspot.com/2011/02/juno-februata-history-behind-valentines.html' title='Valentine&apos;s Day = Juno Februata - The history behind Valentine&apos;s day and Lupercalia'/><author><name>plantagenet</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03692658044077590559</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='20' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TOkcNtlYpyI/AAAAAAAAGo8/uuqc08POng4/S220/meeting%2Bpessoa%2Bin%2Blisbon.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-L_yjdmORMZI/TVkmH4wOQXI/AAAAAAAAGxA/yoHRNsASNNY/s72-c/article_1156_ZUM.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-633044462221600284.post-1622643417171453840</id><published>2011-01-24T03:18:00.002-06:00</published><updated>2011-07-27T03:17:17.572-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='kirche'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='propaganda'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='kungelei'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='geschichtsfaelschung'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='doppelmoral'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='papst'/><title type='text'>Indignez-vous!  - Ein Fall für die Propaganda perfidei - Empoert euch!</title><content type='html'>&lt;h1&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-weight: normal;"&gt;Die Seligwaschung von Pius XII:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-weight: normal;"&gt;Hier einige &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/33/33999/1.html" style="color: blue; font-weight: normal;"&gt;Ausschnitte&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-weight: normal;"&gt; aus diesem sehr lesenswerten Artikel ueber &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_ELzM_S573r8/R1Az0oA7srI/AAAAAAAADzU/is1g_qXWtJk/s1600-R/papst_benedikt_XVI.jpg"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5138664154017280690" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_ELzM_S573r8/R1Az0oA7srI/AAAAAAAADzU/pECkHmbc-P8/s400/papst_benedikt_XVI.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;a href="http://swiss-lupe.blogspot.com/2007/11/ich-hab-es-doch-immer-vermutet.html"&gt;atheisten &lt;/a&gt;sind böse. sie  verschulden die schlimmsten formen an grausamkeit und die meisten  verstösse gegen die gerechtigkeit. der papst bestätigt dies in seiner &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nzz.ch/nachrichten/international/papst_kritisiert_atheismus_und_modernes_christentum_1.592165.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;neuen enzyklika&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; (via nzz).&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-weight: normal;"&gt;Nicht genug, dass wir alle diese Priester und Kirche aus unseren Steuern bezahlen, koennen sie sich aus den gesetzlichen Verantwortlichkeiten fuer Ihre Verbrechen stehlen (siehe diesen blog von &lt;a href="http://nicsbloghaus.org/2011/01/20/unsere-unabhaengige-justiz-kungelt-mit-der-kirche/"&gt;nicsbloghaus:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1 class="posttitle"&gt;&lt;a class="entry-title" href="http://nicsbloghaus.org/2011/01/20/unsere-unabhaengige-justiz-kungelt-mit-der-kirche/" rel="bookmark" title="unsere unabhängige Justiz kungelt mit der Kirche"&gt;unsere unabhängige Justiz kungelt mit der Kirche&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-weight: normal;"&gt;und es wird zugelassen, dass sie sich fuer diese Verbrechen nicht verantworten wollen, keine Entschaedigungen an die Missbrauchsopfer zahlen und sich ausserhalb unserer Gesetzgebung stellen.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-weight: normal;"&gt;Auch die Einflussnahme und Geschichtsklitterung durch Filmproduktionen wie diese ueber den Piuspapst, gehoeren zu diesen Ungeheuerlichkeiten, die dann auch noch im deutschen Staatsfernsehen ausgestrahlt werden, finanziert von meinen Gebuehren!&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"&gt;Ich kann nur mit dem franzoesischen Autor &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.tree2share.org/article-1031-les-v-ux-pour-2011-de-stephane-hessel-auteur-du-livre-indignez-vous-formidable-succes-de-conscience-."&gt;Stéphane Hessel&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp; rufen:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"&gt;Empoert Euch - Indignez vous!!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"&gt;Er meint in seinem Buch, dass Empoerung der Schluessel zum Engagement in jede Richtung sei und daher rufe ich auch in dem Fall der staatlichen Verflechtung Deutschlands mit der Kirchen&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-weight: normal;"&gt; dazu auf, sich zu empoeren!!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pius XII. - Ein Fall für die Propaganda perfidei - &lt;br /&gt;Peter Bürger 23.01.2011 &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h1 style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span class="date"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;Der Verfasser ist röm.-kath. Theologe und Autor des Kirchenreformbuches  "Die fromme Revolte" (2009). Im Internet ist sein Dossier &lt;a class="link" href="http://friedensbilder.de/projudaeis/buerger-pro-judaeis2009.pdf"&gt;&lt;img alt="[extern] " src="http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/icons/inline/extlink.gif" /&gt;Pro Judaeis – Die römisch-katholische Kirche und der Abgrund des 20. Jahrhunderts&lt;/a&gt; abrufbar.)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h2 style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;Die Seligwaschung des heroischen Stillschweigerpapstes heiligt alle  Mittel. - Der "gebildete Katholizismus" übt sich in vornehmer  Zurückhaltung&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;h3 style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Karol Wojtyla (Johannes Paul II.) soll am 1. Mai 2011 selig  gesprochen werden. Seine Duldsamkeit gegenüber Marcial Maciel, dem wegen  sexueller Gewalt berüchtigten Ordensgründer der finanzstarken Legionäre  Christi, ist nun offenbar doch kein Hindernisgrund. Der Vatikan will  harte Fakten schaffen. Als nächster Kandidat wartet der antijudaistisch  geprägte Pius XII. (1939-1958), der heldenhafte Stillschweiger in der  Zeit von Faschismus und Shoa. Papst Benedikt XVI. aus Deutschland hat  diesem am 19. Dezember 2009 per Dekret schon mal den "heroischen  Tugendgrad" zugesprochen und damit die Schlussphase der Seligwaschung  definitiv eingeläutet.   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Eugenio Pacelli war der letzte Machthaber jener autoritären und  zentralistischen Kirchengeschichtsepoche, in der alle modernen oder  unangepassten Ansätze im Katholizismus kaltgestellt wurden. Da die  Pontifikate von Karol Wojtyla und Joseph Ratzinger wieder an diese  unselige Ära anknüpfen, wird man in Rom den Pacelli-Papst im Kreis der  "seligen Vorbilder" nicht missen können. Das Verfahren dafür ist  abgeschlossen, und das Fernsehen hilft auch mit. Jetzt muss "nur" noch  ein – auf Fürsprache des Kirchenfürsten hin erfolgtes – Heilungswunder  beglaubigt werden.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=""&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/33/33999/33999_2.jpg" /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;h3 style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;Nuntius Eugenio Pacelli 1924 in Bamberg. Bild: &lt;a class="link" href="http://www.bild.bundesarchiv.de/"&gt;Deutsches Bundesarchiv&lt;/a&gt; (Bild 102-00535). Lizenz: &lt;a class="link" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/de/deed.en"&gt;CC-BY-SA-3.0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div class="fliess"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Das Thema wird hoffentlich so bald nicht in der Mottenkiste  verschwinden. Jüngst gab der israelische Holocaust-Forscher Saul  Friedländer der "Jüdischen Allgemeinen" ein pointiertes &lt;a class="link" href="http://www.juedische-allgemeine.de/article/view/id/9414"&gt;&lt;img alt="[extern] " src="http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/icons/inline/extlink.gif" /&gt;Kurzinterview&lt;/a&gt; über den an ausgewählter Stelle schweigsamen Pontifex. Pius XII. ist laut &lt;a class="link" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/21/wikileaks-cables-vatican-holocaust-pius"&gt;&lt;img alt="[extern] " src="http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/icons/inline/extlink.gif" /&gt;Guardian&lt;/a&gt; sogar Gegenstand von Wikileaks-Enthüllungen. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="zu"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Politik und Antijudaismus  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="fliess"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="fliess"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Als der Stern des italienischen Duce schon gesunken war und  Nazi-Deutschland – anders als Pius XII. ursprünglich erwartet hatte –  auf eine Niederlage zusteuerte, wusste dieser Papst 1944 noch  rechtzeitig die Zeitgemäßheit demokratischer Regierungsformen zu  erwägen. Zuvor jedoch hatte der Vatikan die katholischen Demokraten und  Antifaschisten Italiens in die Wüste geschickt. Namentlich Pacelli  wünschte während der Weimarer Republik ein Zusammengehen der  katholischen Zentrumspartei mit den deutschnationalen  Verfassungsfeinden. Koalitionen von Katholiken mit der Sozialdemokratie  waren ihm ein Gräuel. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="fliess"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Die für das Wirken Eugenio Pacellis maßgeblichen Motivkomplexe liegen  offen zutage: Stärkung der päpstlichen Zentralmacht, Konkordatspolitik,  kirchliche Struktursicherung im Dienste eines "ewigen Seelenheils",  Antikommunismus, primärer Schutz von Katholiken und schließlich Angst  vor einer nahenden Attacke auf die Integrität des (heilsnotwendigen)  Vatikans. Dies ist der Hintergrund für seine – sehr selektive und  ideologisch zementierte – "Neutralitätspolitik" und für sein  durchgehendes Schweigen dort, wo angesichts der Verbrechen an &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="kursiv" style="font-size: large;"&gt;Nichtkatholiken&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; Täter und Opfer hätten beim &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="kursiv" style="font-size: large;"&gt;Namen&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;  genannt werden müssen. Antisemitismus und Judenverfolgung gehörten  schon ab 1933 zur deutschen Staatsdoktrin und wurden Teil der  staatlichen Gesetzgebung eines von deutschen Bischöfen als "rechtmäßige  Obrigkeit" bezeichneten Regimes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h3 style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;div class=""&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="img"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a class="link" href="http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/bild/33/33999/33999_1x.html"&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/33/33999/33999_1.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="ul"&gt;Eugenio Pacelli, der spätere Pius XII.,  am 20. Juli 1933 beim Abschluss des Konkordats mit Hitler-Deutschland.  Ganz links der ihm eng vertraute rechte Politiker und Kleriker Prof. Dr.  Ludwig Kaas, der sich nach seinem Verrat an der der katholischen  Zentrumspartei in die Obhut des Vatikans begeben hatte und Deutschland  nie wieder aufsuchte. Neben ihm Hitlers Steigbügelhalter, der  rechtskatholische Adelige Franz von Papen. Bild: &lt;a class="link" href="http://www.bild.bundesarchiv.de/"&gt;Deutsches Bundesarchiv&lt;/a&gt; (Bild 183-R24391). Lizenz: &lt;a class="link" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/de/deed.en"&gt;CC-BY-SA-3.0&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="link" href="http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/bild/33/33999/33999_1x.html"&gt;(Bild vergrößern)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="ul"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="ul"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="ul"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="ul"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="ul"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="zu"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="zu"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Römisch-katholische Geschichtsfälscherwerkstatt&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="zu"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="fliess"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Zu den beliebtesten Narrativen von römisch-katholischen Pius-Apologeten  gehört die Phrase, der Papst habe durch sein Schweigen Schlimmeres  verhüten wollen. Tatsächlich entspricht dies einer Begründung, die Pius  XII. am 30. April 1943 in einem Schreiben an Bischof Preysing selbst  anführt. Was aber sollte dieses "schlimmere Übel" gegenüber der zu  diesem Zeitpunkt durchgeführten und in Rom bekannten Vernichtung der  europäischen Juden gewesen sein? Genau so sollte der kritische Forscher  fragen: "Was wäre denn &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="kursiv" style="font-size: large;"&gt;für Pius XII.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;  schlimmer gewesen als die Shoa?" Wer sich die Kontexte anschaut, in  denen der Vatikan und fast alle deutschen Bischöfe seit 1933 zu den  Verbrechen an – nicht getauften – Juden beharrlich geschwiegen haben,  wird hier auch schlüssige Antworten finden können. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Als die niederländischen Bischöfe aber nicht schwiegen, da weiteten die  Nazis ihre zehntausendfache Massendeportation zur "Vergeltung" auch auf  114 katholisch getaufte Juden aus (zu den Mordopfern gehörte dann die  später heiliggesprochene Edith Stein, deren flehentliche Eingabe von  1933 auf Pacelli offenkundig wenig Eindruck gemacht hatte). Gleichwohl  aber bat der Erzbischof von Utrecht den Papst (im Verein mit vielen  anderen katholischen Stimmen), in der "Judenfrage" energischer zu  reagieren.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;… jetzt auch massenkulturell und mit Hilfe des deutschen Staatsfernsehens&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="fliess"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Zentrale Filmthemen sind die Verhaftung und Deportation von mehr als  tausend römischen Juden im Oktober 1943 und die nachfolgenden Asylhilfen  für Juden durch den Vatikan. Von Kühlweins "Mängelliste", die gewiss  keinen Anspruch auf Vollständigkeit stellen kann, gebe ich hier nur  einige ausgewählte Punkte wieder: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" class="fliess-iv"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td valign="top" width="14"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;img alt="1" src="http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/icons/inline/1.gif" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Dem Zuschauer wird weisgemacht, der Papst habe einen vorzeitigen Abbruch der Jagd auf die Juden Roms bewirkt (frei erfunden).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td valign="top" width="14"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;img alt="2" src="http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/icons/inline/2.gif" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Dem Zuschauer wird suggeriert,  Freilassungen von bereits verhafteten Menschen seien auf den Papst – und  nicht auf interne Überprüfungen des verantwortlichen  SS-Hauptsturmführers – zurückzuführen (frei erfunden).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td valign="top" width="14"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;img alt="3" src="http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/icons/inline/3.gif" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Die Abläufe von Razzia und Deportation  werden durch das Drehbuch so stark verfälscht bzw. manipuliert, dass der  Zuschauer glauben muss, Pius XII. habe kein Zeitfenster mehr zur  Intervention zugunsten der vor seiner Haustür – zur späteren Ermordung –  eingefangenen Juden gehabt (frei erlogen).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td valign="top" width="14"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;img alt="4" src="http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/icons/inline/4.gif" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Der Film zeigt die fiktive SS-Razzia in  einem römischen Kloster (historisch gab es zwei Durchsuchungsaktionen  einer italienischen Faschistengruppe).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td valign="top" width="14"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;img alt="5" src="http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/icons/inline/5.gif" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Der Film suggeriert, alle in kirchlichen  Häusern aufgenommenen Juden habe man in Ordenskleider etc. gesteckt  (historisch sind solche "Tarnungen" nur als Einzelfälle bekannt, und der  Papst verbot dergleichen auch, als er davon erfuhr). &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;h3 style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;div class=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Zu den explosiv angestiegenen antijudaistischen und antisemitischen  Umtrieben im Katholizismus der Ratzinger-Ära habe ich wiederholt auch in  Telepolis Beiträge veröffentlicht. Wer nicht glauben will, wie weit das  zugrundeliegende "Gedankengut" in kirchlich-traditionalistische Kreise  hineinreicht, nehme z.B. das neue Buch "Der heilige Schein" von David  Berger (&lt;a class="link" href="http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/33/33835/1.html"&gt;&lt;img alt="[local] " src="http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/icons/inline/tplink.gif" /&gt;"Vom Weltjudentum gesteuerte Attacke auf Kirche und Papst"&lt;/a&gt;)  zur Hand. Was sich hier insgesamt abspielt, verdient die traurige  Überschrift: "Der Fundamentalismus besiegt die Geschichte." Der  gegenwärtige Abschied von allem, was in den Tagen des letzten  Reformkonzils der römischen Weltkirche so viel Achtung bei zahllosen  "Menschen guten Willens" auch außerhalb von Kirche und Gottesglauben  eingebracht hat, geht einher mit einem selbstverliebten Ästhetizismus.  Und auch dafür gibt es Beifall von Leuten, die nicht römisch-katholisch  sozialisiert sind. Diesmal freilich kommen diese von den rechten  Rändern. (Es sei in diesem Zusammenhang nachdrücklich betont: Nur eine  "semitophile Kirche" im Sinne von Johannes XXIII. hat gegenwärtig das  Recht – und auch die drängende Pflicht, die staatliche Politik Israels  unter dem Maßstab des ausnahmslos für alle geltenden Menschenrechtes zu  beklagen.) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=""&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="" style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Weiter lesen im&lt;a href="http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/33/33999/1.html"&gt; Link&lt;/a&gt; und&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.tree2share.org/article-1031-les-v-ux-pour-2011-de-stephane-hessel-auteur-du-livre-indignez-vous-formidable-succes-de-conscience-."&gt; hier&lt;/a&gt; und &lt;a href="http://www.infokriegernews.de/wordpress/2011/01/05/stephane-hessel-die-empoerung-ist-der-schluessel-zum-engagement/"&gt;hier&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="" style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Satire zur Doppelmoral &lt;a href="http://blog.bilderdaemmerung.de/?p=2006&amp;amp;pid=992"&gt;hier&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Die Doppelmoral der Kirche&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;div class="pic"&gt;&lt;a href="http://blog.bilderdaemmerung.de/wp-content/gallery/kirchenfenster/Kirchenfenster01.jpg" rel="lightbox[kirchenfenster]" title="Die Doppelmoral der Kirche / Missbrauch"&gt;  &lt;img alt="" src="http://blog.bilderdaemmerung.de/wp-content/gallery/kirchenfenster/Kirchenfenster01.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://blog.bilderdaemmerung.de/wp-content/gallery/kirchenfenster/Kirchenfenster01.jpg" rel="lightbox[kirchenfenster]" title="Die Doppelmoral der Kirche / Missbrauch"&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=""&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;h3 style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;h3 style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;h3 style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/633044462221600284-1622643417171453840?l=ginster-plantagenet.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/33/33999/1.html' title='Indignez-vous!  - Ein Fall für die Propaganda perfidei - Empoert euch!'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ginster-plantagenet.blogspot.com/feeds/1622643417171453840/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=633044462221600284&amp;postID=1622643417171453840' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/633044462221600284/posts/default/1622643417171453840'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/633044462221600284/posts/default/1622643417171453840'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ginster-plantagenet.blogspot.com/2011/01/indignez-vous-ein-fall-fur-die.html' title='Indignez-vous!  - Ein Fall für die Propaganda perfidei - Empoert euch!'/><author><name>plantagenet</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03692658044077590559</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='20' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TOkcNtlYpyI/AAAAAAAAGo8/uuqc08POng4/S220/meeting%2Bpessoa%2Bin%2Blisbon.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_ELzM_S573r8/R1Az0oA7srI/AAAAAAAADzU/pECkHmbc-P8/s72-c/papst_benedikt_XVI.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-633044462221600284.post-6095930736613298995</id><published>2011-01-13T17:32:00.007-06:00</published><updated>2011-07-27T03:17:59.401-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sheherazade'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Arab Women'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Nawal El Saadawi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Lilith'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Joumana Haddad'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fatema Mernissi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Feminist'/><title type='text'>Joumana Haddad's Manifesto for Strong Arab Women</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Today I learned about &lt;a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joumana_Haddad"&gt;Joumana Haddad&lt;/a&gt;, who's performance, thoughts, provocations and courage has impressed me much, that's why I want to introduce her and her books and poems.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Only few of her art work could I find online.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TS-JV7hFrEI/AAAAAAAAGu0/8i_tYwxzEdg/s1600/jh.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="251" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TS-JV7hFrEI/AAAAAAAAGu0/8i_tYwxzEdg/s320/jh.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;I have met &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatema_Mernissi"&gt;Fatema Mernissi &lt;/a&gt;the Moroccan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TS-OImQK_2I/AAAAAAAAGvM/oiR7OVrfhhE/s1600/fatema+mernissi.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TS-OImQK_2I/AAAAAAAAGvM/oiR7OVrfhhE/s1600/fatema+mernissi.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; and &lt;a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nawal_El_Saadawi"&gt;Nawal El Saadawi&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nawal_El_Saadawi"&gt; &lt;/a&gt;the Egyptian feminist,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TS-OPNCM2DI/AAAAAAAAGvQ/Pjf04GihOrI/s1600/nawal.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TS-OPNCM2DI/AAAAAAAAGvQ/Pjf04GihOrI/s1600/nawal.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Haddad is the first Lebanese I learned about.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TS-Or4XODEI/AAAAAAAAGvU/67ltlz8PLy4/s1600/M0307.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TS-Or4XODEI/AAAAAAAAGvU/67ltlz8PLy4/s1600/M0307.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Joumana Haddad's Manifesto for Strong Arab Women -&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;"I Killed Scheherazade"&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;figure&gt;        &lt;img alt="Joumana Haddad interview" height="276" src="http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2010/8/20/1282327063108/Joumana-Haddad-interview-006.jpg" width="460" /&gt;           &lt;figcaption&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/figcaption&gt;&lt;/figure&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;figure&gt;&lt;figcaption&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2010/aug/21/joumana-haddad-interview"&gt;Joumana Haddad&lt;/a&gt;: 'We have done, and keep&amp;nbsp;on doing,  almost everything we can to encourage intolerance towards us.'  Photograph: Eamonn Mccabe          &lt;/figcaption&gt;&lt;/figure&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"&gt;Born in 1970 in Beirut, Joumana Haddad is a poet, literary translator,  magazine publisher and journalist. She has published several widely  acclaimed poetry collections, four of which have been translated into  French, German, Spanish and Italian. Joumana is the cultural editor for  the prestigious an-Nahar newspaper, as well as the administrator of the  International Prize of Arabic Fiction (the 'Arab Booker').   Author  location: Beirut, Lebanon&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TS-FRqhZw0I/AAAAAAAAGuM/tv2Xu6s6-NY/s1600/Joumana_Haddad.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TS-FRqhZw0I/AAAAAAAAGuM/tv2Xu6s6-NY/s1600/Joumana_Haddad.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;A pretty daring admission: reading and masturbation were her favourite  childhood hobbies, writes Joumana Haddad. She had read all of Balzac by  the age of twelve and then moved on to de Sade: "De Sade gripped me by  the shoulders and spoke: 'Imagination is your kingdom.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TS-HHrA9PMI/AAAAAAAAGuo/nEvhtRYB65Y/s1600/valie+export.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TS-HHrA9PMI/AAAAAAAAGuo/nEvhtRYB65Y/s1600/valie+export.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Anything is  possible.'" De Sade was to prove right – nothing seems to be impossible  for Joumana Haddad any more:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TS-Jru781lI/AAAAAAAAGu8/8bnPA1t-hJE/s1600/jadad.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TS-Jru781lI/AAAAAAAAGu8/8bnPA1t-hJE/s320/jadad.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;neither writing an Arabic poem containing  the word "penis", nor editing a glossy magazine in Beirut by the name of  "body" – not porn, but a joyful countering of all the Middle Eastern  taboos concerned with bodies and sexuality.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TS-FnW0hqrI/AAAAAAAAGug/JE1g6f5afwA/s1600/4cdd4369ef508_Zeitschrift.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TS-FnW0hqrI/AAAAAAAAGug/JE1g6f5afwA/s320/4cdd4369ef508_Zeitschrift.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Recently published in English and German, the forty-year-old Lebanese writer's "confessions" are more of a &lt;i&gt;J'accuse&lt;/i&gt; than a&lt;i&gt; Confessio&lt;/i&gt;. The book is a brief, wild trip of a read, turning our image of the Arab world on its head.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TS-GLckcKkI/AAAAAAAAGuk/XX1uPjyvQ18/s1600/9780863564277.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TS-GLckcKkI/AAAAAAAAGuk/XX1uPjyvQ18/s1600/9780863564277.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote class="templatequote" style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;"In this courageous book, Joumana Haddad breaks down the taboo of  the silent absent Arab woman. Scheherazade has to die to be able to tell  her own story: that is, to become a human being."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="templatequotecite"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;—&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elfriede_Jelinek" title="Elfriede Jelinek"&gt;Elfriede Jelinek&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;i&gt;Nobel Prize for literature 2004&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TS-Fa-4l27I/AAAAAAAAGuQ/kCUKMD4eK3U/s1600/joumana_haddad284px.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TS-Fa-4l27I/AAAAAAAAGuQ/kCUKMD4eK3U/s1600/joumana_haddad284px.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="style4" style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.joumanahaddad.com/identity.html"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Identity &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="style4" style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="style4" style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;This is how I am, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="style4" style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;no time for guilt, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="style4" style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;playing with fate and quick to bore. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="style4" style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Promises that implode betrayed with neglect. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="style4" style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="style4" style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="style4" style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;It's useless to change me. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="style4" style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Certainty is a stranger to me &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="style4" style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;because of the panic love causes, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="style4" style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;because of imagination, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="style4" style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;because I'm only &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="style4" style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;fit &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="style4" style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;for laziness. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="style4" style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="style4" style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="style4" style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;My time is arranged in the last minute &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="style4" style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;or in premature withdrawals, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="style4" style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;in a sun that does not suffice &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="style4" style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;and a night that never ends, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="style4" style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;in impetuous leaps between thirst and its slaking. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="style4" style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="style4" style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="style4" style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;This how I am - &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="style4" style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;silence to reassemble my parts, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="style4" style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;a slow terror to shatter me, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="style4" style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;silence and terror to heal me from a wicked memory &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="style4" style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;No hope that light will guide me. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="style4" style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;I own nothing &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="style4" style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;except my errors. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="style4" style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="style4" style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;(Translated by khaled Mattawa)&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="style4" style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TS-FkVDWkPI/AAAAAAAAGuc/fBW7NtACnqQ/s1600/B0208.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TS-FkVDWkPI/AAAAAAAAGuc/fBW7NtACnqQ/s1600/B0208.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote class="templatequote" style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;"A poet who tumbles down all stereotyped images of the Arab woman"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="templatequotecite"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;—Valentina Colombo, &lt;i&gt;Italian orientalist&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TS-J1MvG1aI/AAAAAAAAGvA/mgUPTuWa6bs/s1600/sculpt+haddad.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TS-J1MvG1aI/AAAAAAAAGvA/mgUPTuWa6bs/s320/sculpt+haddad.jpg" width="270" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"&gt;Joumana Haddad explains her courage as a journalist through her own  biography. Yet the book is more than a description of Haddad's  self-liberation and more than a refutation of Western clichés of the  oppressed Arab woman. It is above all a call to arms against the  dominant structures in the Arab world, mercilessly exposing their  hostile stance to women and the body.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TS-FGbUbtCI/AAAAAAAAGuE/SDobiPkGF50/s1600/haddad.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TS-FGbUbtCI/AAAAAAAAGuE/SDobiPkGF50/s320/haddad.jpg" width="318" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="style11" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;I have a body &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="style4"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="style4"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;I have a body waiting at the ocean's bottom. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="style4"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;I have a body which is like a volcano, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="style4"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Whose crater the water licks &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="style4"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Lest it should emit pleasure before love comes. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="style4"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;I have a body which I don't know. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="style4"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;It may be a grain of sand &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="style4"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Or a red fish &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="style4"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Or a pearl in a shell. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="style4"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;But I will discover its taste &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="style4"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;With two lips which will burn &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="style4"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;And a tongue which will take in, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="style4"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;And with lava which has a sound &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="style4"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Like entering Paradise . &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="style4"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="style4"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="style4"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;At the ocean's bottom, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="style4"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Inside bubbles of desire, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="style4"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;I have a body for you, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="style4"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;And I have a morrow and an eternity: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="style4"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;A morrow in which you will reach me &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="style4"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;And an eternity in which you will open the shell &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="style4"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Slowly, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span class="style4"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="style4"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;With all the slowness I desire &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="style4"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;And you are capable of. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="style4"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="style4"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;(Translated by Issa Boullata)&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TS-HyhXKiNI/AAAAAAAAGus/bsPOVBNHFGY/s1600/lilith.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TS-HyhXKiNI/AAAAAAAAGus/bsPOVBNHFGY/s320/lilith.jpg" width="239" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://goddessschool.com/projects/willowrayne/l1fplilith.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;i&gt;Lilith's Statement:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Lilith boldly instructs us to stand up for what we believe in, unbridled and courageous no matter what the cost.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;u&gt;Her Mantra:&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Equality&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;u&gt;Affirmations:&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;I forgive&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;I welcome forgiveness&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;I am free from judgement&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;I deserve to be free from g uilt&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;I am creating the life I love&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;I am tolerate of unenlightened people&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;My vital energy resurfaces naturally&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;I am honest and truthful in all I say and do&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.saqibooks.com/saqi/display.asp?ISB=9780863564277&amp;amp;TAG=&amp;amp;CID="&gt;&lt;b&gt;Joumana Haddad&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/a&gt;is a revolutionary, this book is the manifesto. Read it  or be left behind.'&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Rabih Alameddine&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Joumana Haddad breaks down the  rigid taboo of the Silent Absent Woman.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Joumana - lifts the veil on the hypocrisy of Arab  society and confronts all those people who fear desire, the joy of  desire and the celebration of desire -&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Literature is not a quiet river,  nor is it a lake of peace or a serene mirror.  It is often a storm that  breaks the rules of decorum, disturbs the forest of words and forces us  to come face to face with our weaknesses and illusions.  Joumana Haddad  is a poet who inhabits the storm.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Faith in the freedom of the individual &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.qantara.de/webcom/show_article.php/_c-310/_nr-800/i.html"&gt;Joumana Haddad&lt;/a&gt;  takes an assertive and intrepid stand in her book, aligning herself  neither with Western critics of Islam nor with Arab-Islamic apologists.  It is confusing at times, yet all in all a refreshingly impartial take  on the subject, particularly as Haddad makes no secret of her own  confidence and mission. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Her pride in being an attractive, financially independent, free, highly  educated, well-travelled and fashion-conscious woman who enjoys life,  this pride is present in every line, granting the book a &lt;i&gt;yes-we-can &lt;/i&gt;optimism  that never pales, even in the face of descriptions of a painful  childhood during the Lebanese civil war and the disheartening state of  the Arab world as a whole. It is an optimism that thrives on an  unshakable faith in the freedom of the individual to choose her own  destiny&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;links:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.jasadmag.com/en/editor.html&lt;br /&gt;http://www.freewebs.com/joumana/extra.htm&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"&gt;Here I found a nice &lt;a href="http://bookhaven.stanford.edu/2010/10/joumana-haddad-killing-scheherazade/"&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; about J.H.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt; &lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;“&lt;a href="http://bookhaven.stanford.edu/2010/10/joumana-haddad-killing-scheherazade/"&gt;He&lt;/a&gt; also thought of those who were still fighting — ‘brave students  beaten with bottles,’ facing interrogation and torture in their struggle  for human rights. ‘There are times the Iranian women are braver than  the men. I think so,’ he said softly.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Haddad (she was reared as a Catholic, not Muslim, and now calls herself  an agnostic, “thank God … whoever He is”) is an appealing and very  attractive figure.&amp;nbsp; The 40-year-old poet and journalist spoke about her  creation,&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasad_magazine"&gt;&lt;i&gt; &lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;Jasad&lt;/i&gt; magazine&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h1 id="watch-headline-title"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span class="" dir="ltr" id="eow-title" title="Making of- JOUMANA HADDAD- JASAD"&gt;Making of- JOUMANA HADDAD- JASAD   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;object height="385" width="480"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/jm8ClJNubNM?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=de_DE"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/jm8ClJNubNM?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=de_DE" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;which wikipedia described as “a controversial Arabic magazine  specialized in the literature and arts of the body.” She calls it  “erotica.”&amp;nbsp; Not surprisingly, it is banned in Saudi Arabia.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;She spoke of Scheherazade and the title of her book. Evidently,  Haddad is agin’ her, because she has “negotiated her basic rights — one  of the things we have to stop doing is negotiating basic rights.&amp;nbsp; We are  equal to men — we don’t have to ask for that.”&amp;nbsp; True, true … we are  equal.&amp;nbsp; But we still are the ones who get pregnant.&amp;nbsp; Access to  universal, quality child care is still a more pressing concern for women  than men.&amp;nbsp; Maternity leave, as well.&amp;nbsp; You simply can’t unhook the  welfare of women from the welfare of children.&amp;nbsp; In the sense that we  create life, we are more than equal; we are also less free.&amp;nbsp; Anyone who  has been a single mother can tell you that.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;In the larger picture, Scheherazade represents not only a female  heroine, but a universal hero — precisely because we are all negotiating  the terms of our existence, every single day.&amp;nbsp; She’s speaks not only to  other women, but to the whole human family.&amp;nbsp; She is speaking to the  power of the word, and the endurance of the story.&amp;nbsp; Those things exist  beyond “fashion, needs, anger.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;So what does it mean when Haddad wants to “kill” her — even in a flippant, symbolic&amp;nbsp; way, for a catchy book title?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;As the much much-maligned Naomi Wolf wrote, “it’s worth thinking in a  more nuanced way about what female freedom really means.”&amp;nbsp; Maybe we  need some kind of “empowerment” that goes even beyond “erotica.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;see video:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;http://www.3sat.de/mediathek/?mode=play&amp;amp;obj=22572&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.3sat.de/page/?source=/kulturzeit/themen/150939/index.html"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Sie kämpft für die Sache der Frauen&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;"Sie  ist im Libanon vor allem als Lyrikerin bekannt geworden", sagt der  Islamwissenschaftler und Schriftsteller Stefan Weidner. "Darüber hinaus  ist Haddad eine hervorragende Journalistin. Schon als Lyrikerin ist sie  sehr mutig, sehr gewagt und auch sehr explizit. So, dass man merkt, sie  will kämpfen. Sie kämpft für die Sache der Frauen. Manchmal geht es ihr  auch mehr um den Kampf als um die Lyrik selbst. Das macht die Gedichte  sehr stark." Der biblischen Figur Lilith, der ersten Frau, die Gott  schuf, fühlt sich die Lyrikerin verwandt und schlüpft in deren  Entschlossenheit. "Ich bin Lilith, Schale und Mundschenk / Ich bin  gekommen zu sagen: An mir ist's, mehr als eine Schale zu trinken", heißt  es in ihrem Werk "Liliths Wiederkehr".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TS-Kbc70kZI/AAAAAAAAGvE/ha3wnRNWtNQ/s1600/4cdd4c823ab61_Joumana_Haddad_on_august_2007.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TS-Kbc70kZI/AAAAAAAAGvE/ha3wnRNWtNQ/s1600/4cdd4c823ab61_Joumana_Haddad_on_august_2007.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Beirut ist eine Verheißung. Kaum  eine andere arabische Stadt im Nahen Osten hat sich so offen zu  westlichen Lebensweisen bekannt - trotz des Israel-Libanon-Krieges, der  tiefe Wunden hinterlassen hat, über die die schönen Fassaden der  Kaufhäuser nicht hinweg täuschen. Schon als junges Mädchen hat Haddad  erkannt, dass sie sich dem Schicksal einer arabischen Frau entziehen  muss. In doppelter Hinsicht: den westlichen Orient-Fantasien und dem  Diktat der eigenen Gesellschaft. "Im Grunde genommen musste ich zwei  Scheherazades töten", sagt die Autorin. "Scheherazade, wie sie in der  westlich geprägten Vorstellung vom Orient existiert, mit allen Klischees  und Vorurteilen ihr gegenüber, und dann die zweite Scheherazade, für  mich die viel wichtigere Figur, mit der ich fertig werden musste: die  arabische Frau selbst."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="article_paragraph"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TS-LfLGAY8I/AAAAAAAAGvI/gwamqmkrY8I/s1600/arab+fic.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TS-LfLGAY8I/AAAAAAAAGvI/gwamqmkrY8I/s320/arab+fic.jpg" width="216" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="article_paragraphsection"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="article_paragraphsection"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Sie ist zutiefst davon  überzeugt, dass man aufhören muss, Menschen als religiöse Subjekte zu  betrachten. "Stattdessen sollten wir sie als menschliche Wesen anschauen  und sie als solche akzeptieren", so die Dichterin. 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href='http://ginster-plantagenet.blogspot.com/2011/01/joumana-haddads-manifesto-for-strong.html' title='Joumana Haddad&apos;s Manifesto for Strong Arab Women'/><author><name>plantagenet</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03692658044077590559</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='20' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TOkcNtlYpyI/AAAAAAAAGo8/uuqc08POng4/S220/meeting%2Bpessoa%2Bin%2Blisbon.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TS-JV7hFrEI/AAAAAAAAGu0/8i_tYwxzEdg/s72-c/jh.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-633044462221600284.post-5206565367357384147</id><published>2011-01-10T02:52:00.001-06:00</published><updated>2011-07-27T03:18:34.610-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='quotes of the day'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='nachdenklich'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Wilhelm Busch'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='selbstkritik'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='poems'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='impending doom'/><title type='text'>Wilhelm Busch -The sum of our life are the hours when we loved</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Today I am a bit pensive - Nachdenklich -&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img alt="http://static3.kleinezeitung.at/system/galleries_520x335/upload/6/3/4/701852/busch080107_apa308.jpg" height="190" src="http://static3.kleinezeitung.at/system/galleries_520x335/upload/6/3/4/701852/busch080107_apa308.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;This happens frequently especially when I 'meet'&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.poemhunter.com/wilhelm-busch/biography/"&gt;Wilhelm Busch&lt;/a&gt;'s&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img align="BOTTOM" alt="Wilhelm Busch self-portrait" height="119" src="http://www.rivertext.com/images_busch/c_busch_portrait.gif" width="100" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;lines or quotes like this one:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span class="short_text" id="result_box"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;" title="Die Summe unseres Lebens sind die Stunden, in denen wir liebten"&gt;The sum of our life are the hours when we loved&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wassereimer.de/galerie/bilder/Schoenes%20und%20Liebe/Herz%20Hand.jpg" id="thumbnail"&gt;&lt;img alt="Vollbild anzeigen" height="320" src="http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:u2eVbsm6kgx0vM:http://www.wassereimer.de/galerie/bilder/Schoenes%20und%20Liebe/Herz%20Hand.jpg" style="border: 1px solid; float: left; margin: 10px 10px 0pt;" width="272" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Die Summe unseres Lebens sind die Stunden, in denen wir liebten&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="short_text" id="result_box"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;" title="Die Summe unseres Lebens sind die Stunden, in denen wir liebten"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"&gt;or when I read his poems:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a 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style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 1px; vertical-align: bottom;" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="short_text" id="result_box"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;" title="Die Summe unseres Lebens sind die Stunden, in denen wir liebten"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;b&gt;To criticize yourself is smart  &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;b&gt; To criticize yourself is smart. &lt;br /&gt;Say, I would scold myself to start: &lt;br /&gt;this brings me, first, the real gain &lt;br /&gt;that I'm a very modest man; &lt;br /&gt;for, second, who would not agree &lt;br /&gt;that I am full of honesty; &lt;br /&gt;besides, and third, I snatch the prey &lt;br /&gt;away from what the critics say; &lt;br /&gt;and, fourth, I hope the crowd presents &lt;br /&gt;some forceful counterarguments. &lt;br /&gt;So, in the end, my little rap &lt;br /&gt;makes me the most admired chap!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="thumb tright"&gt;&lt;div class="thumbinner" style="width: 222px;"&gt;&lt;a class="image" href="http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Datei:Jaja,_das_kommt_von_das.jpg&amp;amp;filetimestamp=20080226085806"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="thumbimage" height="168" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Jaja%2C_das_kommt_von_das.jpg/220px-Jaja%2C_das_kommt_von_das.jpg" width="220" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="thumbcaption"&gt;&lt;div class="magnify"&gt;&lt;a class="internal" href="http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Datei:Jaja,_das_kommt_von_das.jpg&amp;amp;filetimestamp=20080226085806" title="vergrößern"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="11" src="http://bits.wikimedia.org/skins-1.5/common/images/magnify-clip.png" width="15" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Schlussbild aus &lt;i&gt;Diogenes und die bösen Buben von Korinth&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;b&gt;  Die &lt;a href="http://myweb.dal.ca/waue/Trans/Busch-Selbstkritik.html"&gt;Selbstkritik&lt;/a&gt; hat viel für sich  &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;b&gt; Die Selbstkritik hat viel für sich. &lt;br /&gt;Gesetzt den Fall, ich tadle mich: &lt;br /&gt;So hab ich erstens den Gewinn, &lt;br /&gt;Daß ich so hübsch bescheiden bin; &lt;br /&gt;Zum zweiten denken sich die Leut, &lt;br /&gt;Der Mann ist lauter Redlichkeit; &lt;br /&gt;Auch schnapp ich drittens diesen Bissen &lt;br /&gt;Vorweg den andern Kritiküssen; &lt;br /&gt;Und viertens hoff ich außerdem &lt;br /&gt;Auf Widerspruch, der mir genehm. &lt;br /&gt;So kommt es denn zuletzt heraus, &lt;br /&gt;Daß ich ein ganz famoses Haus.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sagen.at/texte/maerchen/maerchen_deutschland/wilhelmbusch/images/diogenes/diogenes2.jpg" id="thumbnail"&gt;&lt;img alt="Vollbild anzeigen" height="224" src="http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:6lOE4ovsgaNl_M:http://www.sagen.at/texte/maerchen/maerchen_deutschland/wilhelmbusch/images/diogenes/diogenes2.jpg" style="border: 1px solid; float: left; margin: 10px 10px 0pt;" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;They are always written with a wink and still serious:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img align="BOTTOM" alt="Impending Doom art" height="248" src="http://www.rivertext.com/images_busch/doom.gif" width="326" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Drohendes Verhaengnis&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;"&gt;Es mac&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;hen&lt;/span&gt; sich die Fliegen &lt;br /&gt;Ein luftig Tanzvergnügen. &lt;br /&gt;Der Frosch, der denkt: Nur munter! &lt;br /&gt;Ihr kommt schon noch herunter!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="http://gregor-koall.de/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/wilhelmbusch16.jpg" id="thumbnail"&gt;&lt;img alt="Vollbild anzeigen" height="253" src="http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:GvhPx9-ph2AM9M:http://gregor-koall.de/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/wilhelmbusch16.jpg" style="border: 1px solid; float: left; margin: 10px 10px 0pt;" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h1 style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Impending Doom&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;"&gt;Up high, the flies are playing, &lt;br /&gt;And frolicking, and swaying. &lt;br /&gt;The frog thinks: Dance! I know &lt;br /&gt;You'll end up here below.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Have a smile on this day :o))&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/633044462221600284-5206565367357384147?l=ginster-plantagenet.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ginster-plantagenet.blogspot.com/feeds/5206565367357384147/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=633044462221600284&amp;postID=5206565367357384147' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/633044462221600284/posts/default/5206565367357384147'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/633044462221600284/posts/default/5206565367357384147'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ginster-plantagenet.blogspot.com/2011/01/wilhelm-busch-sum-of-our-life-are-hours.html' title='Wilhelm Busch -The sum of our life are the hours when we loved'/><author><name>plantagenet</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03692658044077590559</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='20' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TOkcNtlYpyI/AAAAAAAAGo8/uuqc08POng4/S220/meeting%2Bpessoa%2Bin%2Blisbon.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-633044462221600284.post-4015924573338211317</id><published>2011-01-01T03:40:00.014-06:00</published><updated>2011-07-27T03:18:57.101-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Theater'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='performance'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bodo Wartke'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Oedipus'/><title type='text'>king Oedipus/Koenig Oedipus - von Bodo Wartke - wunderbare Performance</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Eine meiner amuesantesten Entdeckungen in der letzten Zeit ist die Darbietung von Bodo Wartke mit seiner Interpretation des Koenig Oedipus!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;One of my most amusing discoveries lately is Bodo Wartke's performance of king Oedipus! See YouTube trailer and link. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Hier kann ich einen YouTube Trailer zeigen, aber der link:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="moz-text-html" lang="x-western"&gt;&lt;a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://de.sevenload.com/sendungen/Bodo-Wartke/folgen/oHVntwz-Oedipus-Episode-1"&gt;http://de.sevenload.com/sendungen/Bodo-Wartke/folgen/oHVntwz-Oedipus-Episode-1&lt;/a&gt;   &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;fuehrt zur 'richtigen' Version.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Hier ist seine Website:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bodowartke.de/seiten/index.php?nav=48#anker8%20"&gt;http://www.bodowartke.de/seiten/index.php?nav=48#anker8&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;http://www.koenig-oedipus.de/seiten/index.php?nav=1&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Cobject%20width=%22640%22%20height=%22385%22%3E%3Cparam%20name=%22movie%22%20value=%22http://www.youtube.com/v/kKSf-cSZC1Q?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=de_DE%22%3E%3C/param%3E%3Cparam%20name=%22allowFullScreen%22%20value=%22true%22%3E%3C/param%3E%3Cparam%20name=%22allowscriptaccess%22%20value=%22always%22%3E%3C/param%3E%3Cembed%20src=%22http://www.youtube.com/v/kKSf-cSZC1Q?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=de_DE%22%20type=%22application/x-shockwave-flash%22%20allowscriptaccess=%22always%22%20allowfullscreen=%22true%22%20width=%22400%22%20height=%22385%22%3E%3C/embed%3E%3C/object%3E"&gt;&lt;object height="385" width="400"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/kKSf-cSZC1Q?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=de_DE"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/kKSf-cSZC1Q?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=de_DE" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="400" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"&gt;und hier die laengere Version ueber Sevenload: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script src="http://de.sevenload.com/pl/oHVntwz/500x314" type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Link: &lt;a href="http://de.sevenload.com/sendungen/Bodo-Wartke/folgen/oHVntwz-Oedipus-Episode-1"&gt;&lt;img alt="Ödipus - Episode 1" height="10" src="http://static.sevenload.net/img/sevenload.png" width="66" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Lean back and just enjoy this great artist. Unfortunately this exists in German language only.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Lehnt euch zurueck und schaut es euch in Ruhe an. Es ist einfach wunderbar!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Man kann auch die Texte zum Stueck gratis downloaden fuer evtl. Interessierte:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.koenig-oedipus.de/seiten/index.php?nav=3#F%C3%BCr%20Lehrerinnen"&gt;http://www.koenig-oedipus.de/seiten/index.php?nav=3#F%C3%BCr%20Lehrerinnen&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/633044462221600284-4015924573338211317?l=ginster-plantagenet.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodo_Wartke' title='king Oedipus/Koenig Oedipus - von Bodo Wartke - wunderbare Performance'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ginster-plantagenet.blogspot.com/feeds/4015924573338211317/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=633044462221600284&amp;postID=4015924573338211317' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/633044462221600284/posts/default/4015924573338211317'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/633044462221600284/posts/default/4015924573338211317'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ginster-plantagenet.blogspot.com/2011/01/koenig-oedipus-von-bodo-wartke.html' title='king Oedipus/Koenig Oedipus - von Bodo Wartke - wunderbare Performance'/><author><name>plantagenet</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03692658044077590559</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='20' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TOkcNtlYpyI/AAAAAAAAGo8/uuqc08POng4/S220/meeting%2Bpessoa%2Bin%2Blisbon.JPG'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-633044462221600284.post-7644464537050431296</id><published>2010-12-31T07:49:00.001-06:00</published><updated>2011-01-01T03:03:24.771-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='New Years Eve'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='May Warden'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Freddie Frinton'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dinner for one'/><title type='text'>Dinner for one - 90th birthday of Miss Sophie</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;There is a funny tradition for New Year's eve on German TV:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;It is the comedy 'Dinner for one' by Mary Warden and Freddie Frinton.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;It is shown as an NDR production and funny enough hardly known in England. When the film was skipped from the New Years eve TV program there were so many protests that it was taken back into New Years Eve early evening program. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;object class="BLOGGER-youtube-video" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" data-thumbnail-src="http://3.gvt0.com/vi/-37hCaatyLs/0.jpg" height="266" width="320"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/-37hCaatyLs&amp;fs=1&amp;source=uds" /&gt;&lt;param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /&gt;&lt;embed width="320" height="266" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/-37hCaatyLs&amp;fs=1&amp;source=uds" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;I hope you find it just as amusing! Happy New Year 2011 to you all&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/633044462221600284-7644464537050431296?l=ginster-plantagenet.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ginster-plantagenet.blogspot.com/feeds/7644464537050431296/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=633044462221600284&amp;postID=7644464537050431296' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/633044462221600284/posts/default/7644464537050431296'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/633044462221600284/posts/default/7644464537050431296'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ginster-plantagenet.blogspot.com/2010/12/dinner-for-one-90th-birthday-of-miss.html' title='Dinner for one - 90th birthday of Miss Sophie'/><author><name>plantagenet</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03692658044077590559</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='20' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TOkcNtlYpyI/AAAAAAAAGo8/uuqc08POng4/S220/meeting%2Bpessoa%2Bin%2Blisbon.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-633044462221600284.post-792635042869500</id><published>2010-12-31T07:29:00.001-06:00</published><updated>2011-01-01T03:20:31.182-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tom Lehrer'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Christmas Carol'/><title type='text'>Tom Lehrer- A Christmas Carol</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"&gt;Finally I found the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h1 id="watch-headline-title"&gt;&lt;span class="" dir="ltr" id="eow-title" title="Tom Lehrer- A Christmas Carol"&gt;Tom Lehrer- A Christmas Carol   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;object class="BLOGGER-youtube-video" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" data-thumbnail-src="http://3.gvt0.com/vi/TSlpCBek1_M/0.jpg" height="266" width="320"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/TSlpCBek1_M&amp;fs=1&amp;source=uds" /&gt;&lt;param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /&gt;&lt;embed width="320" height="266" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/TSlpCBek1_M&amp;fs=1&amp;source=uds" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Have fun and it is interesting that I couldn't share it in Germany..... Now maybe it is too critical of the Christmas holiday?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Here is the text:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Christmas time is here, by golly, &lt;br /&gt;Disapproval would be folly, &lt;br /&gt;Deck the halls with hunks of holly, &lt;br /&gt;Fill the cup and don't say "when." &lt;br /&gt;Kill the turkeys, ducks and chickens, &lt;br /&gt;Mix the punch, drag out the dickens, &lt;br /&gt;Even though the prospect sickens, &lt;br /&gt;Brother, here we go again. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On christmas day you can't get sore, &lt;br /&gt;Your fellow man you must adore, &lt;br /&gt;There's time to rob him all the more &lt;br /&gt;The other three hundred and sixty-four. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Relations, sparing no expense'll &lt;br /&gt;Send some useless old utensil, &lt;br /&gt;Or a matching pen and pencil. &lt;br /&gt;"just the thing I need! how nice!" &lt;br /&gt;It doesn't matter how sincere it &lt;br /&gt;Is, nor how heartfelt the spirit, &lt;br /&gt;Sentiment will not endear it, &lt;br /&gt;What's important is the price. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hark the herald tribune sings, &lt;br /&gt;Advertising wondrous things. &lt;br /&gt;God rest ye merry, merchants, &lt;br /&gt;May you make the yuletide pay. &lt;br /&gt;Angels we have heard on high &lt;br /&gt;Tell us to go out and buy! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So let the raucous sleigh bells jingle, &lt;br /&gt;Hail our dear old friend kris kringle, &lt;br /&gt;Driving his reindeer across the sky. &lt;br /&gt;Don't stand underneath when they fly by.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Actually, I did rather well myself this past Christmas. &lt;br /&gt;The nicest present I received was a gift certificate &lt;br /&gt;Good at any hospital for a lobotomy... rather thoughtful. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/633044462221600284-792635042869500?l=ginster-plantagenet.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSlpCBek1_M&amp;feature=more_related' title='Tom Lehrer- A Christmas Carol'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ginster-plantagenet.blogspot.com/feeds/792635042869500/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=633044462221600284&amp;postID=792635042869500' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/633044462221600284/posts/default/792635042869500'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/633044462221600284/posts/default/792635042869500'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ginster-plantagenet.blogspot.com/2010/12/tom-lehrer-christmas-carol.html' title='Tom Lehrer- A Christmas Carol'/><author><name>plantagenet</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03692658044077590559</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='20' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TOkcNtlYpyI/AAAAAAAAGo8/uuqc08POng4/S220/meeting%2Bpessoa%2Bin%2Blisbon.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-633044462221600284.post-7145246772555796814</id><published>2010-12-29T13:08:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2010-12-29T13:08:45.405-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sappho'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ellen Ahayne'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='spinster'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Christina Rosetti'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Victorian'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='poems'/><title type='text'>Christina Georgina Rossetti poems/Gedichte</title><content type='html'>&lt;h1 class="bold"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;"&gt;I always adored Dante Rosetti's paintings and that is how I discovered the poems of his sister&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1 class="bold"&gt;Christina Rossetti&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TRuCDUfRzjI/AAAAAAAAGsk/9Xt-5H1m0sQ/s1600/danteros.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="285" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TRuCDUfRzjI/AAAAAAAAGsk/9Xt-5H1m0sQ/s320/danteros.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h1 class="bold"&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1 class="bold" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://rossetti.webjewel.net/engl_bio.html"&gt;Christina Georgina Rossetti&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;was an English and Italian poet, born on 5th  December in 1830 in London/England. Her parents Gabriele and Frances  Rossetti came from Italy. She had&amp;nbsp;three siblings: her older sister Maria Francesca and her brothers Gabriel Charles Dante&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="color: blue;" /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;and William Michael. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="color: blue;" /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Her siblings had of cou&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"&gt;rse a great influence on Christina's life. — Her brother was the famous poet and painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti and her  house was a regular meeting place for the group of artists later called  the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TRuCUkJAmpI/AAAAAAAAGtA/Rw6WzMSgbgw/s1600/christinaroset.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TRuCUkJAmpI/AAAAAAAAGtA/Rw6WzMSgbgw/s320/christinaroset.jpg" width="235" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h1 class="bold" style="color: blue; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;As a devout Anglican, Rossetti called  off a two-year engagement when her fiancé converted to Roman  Catholicism. Despite a lifetime of illness, Rossetti continued to write  poetry. Today she is best known for her collection &lt;em&gt;Goblin Market and Other Poems&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TRuCV2wtGNI/AAAAAAAAGtE/TuDVmlD4MJs/s1600/chrrosetti.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TRuCV2wtGNI/AAAAAAAAGtE/TuDVmlD4MJs/s1600/chrrosetti.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;(&lt;a href="http://www.fembio.org/biographie.php/frau/biographie/christina-rossetti/"&gt;Christina Georgina Rossetti&lt;/a&gt;; Pseudonym Ellen Ahayne)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="right" style="color: blue;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;geboren am 5. Dezember 1830 in London&lt;br /&gt;gestorben am 29. Dezember 1894 in London&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;englische Dichterin - 180. Geburtstag am 5. Dezember 2010 - &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Schwester von Dante Gabriel Rossetti; schrieb düster-schwermütige  Erzählungen und Märchen, religiöse Lyrik.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TRuCYby6kzI/AAAAAAAAGtI/LntjwUkoH4I/s1600/pet.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TRuCYby6kzI/AAAAAAAAGtI/LntjwUkoH4I/s320/pet.jpg" width="193" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3 style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://rossetti.webjewel.net/engl_bio.html"&gt;Who has seen the wind&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Who has seen the wind?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="color: blue;" /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt; Neither I nor you:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="color: blue;" /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt; But when the leaves hang trembling&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="color: blue;" /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt; The wind is passing thro'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="color: blue;" /&gt;&lt;br style="color: blue;" /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt; Who has seen the wind?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br style="color: blue;" /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt; Neither you nor I:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="color: blue;" /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt; But when the trees bow down their heads&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="color: blue;" /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt; The wind is passing by.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TRuCZ51tT_I/AAAAAAAAGtM/8Oede-cxOVw/s1600/birthday.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TRuCZ51tT_I/AAAAAAAAGtM/8Oede-cxOVw/s1600/birthday.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3 style="color: blue; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Wer hat den Wind gesehen?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Wer hat den Wind gesehen?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="color: blue;" /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt; Weder ich noch du:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="color: blue;" /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt; Doch wenn die Blätter zittern,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="color: blue;" /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt; Streicht der Wind hindurch.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="color: blue;" /&gt;&lt;br style="color: blue;" /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt; Wer hat den Wind gesehen?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="color: blue;" /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt; Weder du noch ich:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="color: blue;" /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt; Doch wenn die Bäume ihre Kronen neigen,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="color: blue;" /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt; Zieht der Wind hindurch. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TRuCd8X0yDI/AAAAAAAAGtQ/CYfjniDRoOw/s1600/ecce.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TRuCd8X0yDI/AAAAAAAAGtQ/CYfjniDRoOw/s320/ecce.jpg" width="260" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;A birthday&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; My heart is like a singing bird &lt;br /&gt;Whose nest is in a watered shoot: &lt;br /&gt;My heart is like an apple-tree &lt;br /&gt;Whose boughs are bent with thickset fruit; &lt;br /&gt;My heart is like a rainbow shell &lt;br /&gt;That paddles in a halcyon sea; &lt;br /&gt;My heart is gladder than all these &lt;br /&gt;Because my love is come to me.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3 style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Ein Geburtstag&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; Mein Herz ist wie ein singender Vogel, &lt;br /&gt;dessen Nest gebaut an rauschendes Wehr. &lt;br /&gt;Mein Herz ist wie ein &lt;a href="" name="fnt03ref"&gt; Apfelbaum &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;mit ästen hangend von Früchten schwer. &lt;br /&gt;Mein Herz ist wie eine schimmernde Muschel, &lt;br /&gt;friedlich treibend durch stilles Meer. &lt;br /&gt;Mein Herz ist nimmermehr beklommen, &lt;br /&gt;denn mein Liebster ist gekommen.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TRuCQMgTsHI/AAAAAAAAGs4/hVnozRI7oyo/s1600/christdante.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TRuCQMgTsHI/AAAAAAAAGs4/hVnozRI7oyo/s320/christdante.jpg" width="219" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="float"&gt; &lt;h3 style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Song (1848)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"&gt; When I am dead, my dearest,&lt;br /&gt;Sing no sad songs for me;&lt;br /&gt;Plant thou no roses at my head,&lt;br /&gt;Nor shady cypress tree.&lt;br /&gt;Be the green grass above me&lt;br /&gt;With showers and dewdrops wet;&lt;br /&gt;And if thou wilt, remember,&lt;br /&gt;And if thou wilt, forget.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I shall not see the shadows,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I shall not feel the rain;&lt;br /&gt;I shall not hear the nightingale&lt;br /&gt;Sing on as if in pain.&lt;br /&gt;And dreaming through the twilight&lt;br /&gt;That doth not rise nor set,&lt;br /&gt;Haply I may remember,&lt;br /&gt;And haply may forget.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TRuCKaziXVI/AAAAAAAAGss/c1w8O_js2Ig/s1600/rosettichris.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="216" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TRuCKaziXVI/AAAAAAAAGss/c1w8O_js2Ig/s320/rosettichris.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3 style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Sterbelied (1848)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; Bin ich einst tot, mein Liebster,&lt;br /&gt;sing keine Trauermessen;&lt;br /&gt;pflanz mir zu Häupten Rosen nicht&lt;br /&gt;noch schattige Zypressen:&lt;br /&gt;Lass grünes Gras mich decken,&lt;br /&gt;das Tau und Regen nässt;&lt;br /&gt;und wenn ihr wollt, gedenket,&lt;br /&gt;und wenn ihr wollt, vergesst.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ich sehe nicht die &lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="" name="fnt01ref"&gt;Schatten&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;br /&gt;spür nicht des Regens Fall;&lt;br /&gt;hör nicht den schwermutsatten&lt;br /&gt;Gesang der Nachtigall;&lt;br /&gt;und träumend lang im Dämmer,&lt;br /&gt;der nimmer steigt noch fällt,&lt;br /&gt;wer weiß, ob ich gedenke,&lt;br /&gt;ob ich vergess der Welt.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TRuCHRbYC2I/AAAAAAAAGso/kKKusPGCEkg/s1600/rosettichr.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TRuCHRbYC2I/AAAAAAAAGso/kKKusPGCEkg/s320/rosettichr.jpg" width="183" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;All three &lt;a href="http://www.poetseers.org/the_great_poets/british_poets/rossetti/"&gt;Rossetti women&lt;/a&gt;, at first devout members of the evangelical  branch of the Church of England, were drawn toward the Tractarians in  the 1840s.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;They nevertheless retained their evangelical seriousness:  Maria eventually became an Anglican nun, and Christina's religious  scruples remind one of Dorothea Brooke in George Eliot's Middlemarch :  as Eliot's heroine looked forward to giving up riding because she  enjoyed it so much, so Christina gave up chess because she found she  enjoyed winning; pasted paper strips over the antireligious parts of  Swinburne's Atalanta in Calydon (which allowed her to enjoy the poem  very much); objected to nudity in painting, especially if the artist was  a woman; and refused even to go see Wagner's Parsifal, because it  celebrated a pagan mythology.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;After rejecting Cayley in 1866,  according one biographer, Christina (like many Victorian spinsters)  lived vicariously in the lives of other people. Although pretty much a  stay-at-home, her circle included her brothers' friends, like Whistler,  Swinburne, F.M. Brown, and Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll). She  continued to write and in the 1870s to work for the Society for  Promoting Christian Knowledge. She was troubled physically by neuralgia  and emotionally by Dante's breakdown in 1872. The last 12 years of her  life, after his death in 1882, were quiet ones. She died of cancer  December 29, 1894.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Author: Glen Everett , University of Tennessee at Martin. Reproduced with permission&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TRuCgnoJoVI/AAAAAAAAGtU/JrhTWe1CZUQ/s1600/crosetti.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TRuCgnoJoVI/AAAAAAAAGtU/JrhTWe1CZUQ/s1600/crosetti.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina_Rossetti"&gt;She &lt;/a&gt;was ambivalent about &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_suffrage" title="Women's suffrage"&gt;women's suffrage&lt;/a&gt;, but many scholars have identified &lt;a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminist" title="Feminist"&gt;feminist&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery" title="Slavery"&gt; slavery&lt;/a&gt; (in the American South), cruelty to animals (in the prevalent practice of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivisection" title="Vivisection"&gt;animal experimentation&lt;/a&gt;), the exploitation of girls in under-age prostitution and all forms of military aggression."&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;themes in her poetry. Marsh notes, "she was opposed to war... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/crossetti/womble1.html"&gt;There&lt;/a&gt; are some striking similarities between &lt;a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sappho"&gt;Sappho&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TRuDkYHF8aI/AAAAAAAAGtY/h1Q4WiTiJUM/s1600/saffo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TRuDkYHF8aI/AAAAAAAAGtY/h1Q4WiTiJUM/s1600/saffo.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"&gt;and Christina  Rossetti.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TRuCOvwVNiI/AAAAAAAAGs0/-HY0Oa1nSqI/s1600/christinaeve.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TRuCOvwVNiI/AAAAAAAAGs0/-HY0Oa1nSqI/s320/christinaeve.jpg" width="213" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;First, and most important, is the fact that they both lived in  male-centered cultures, societies which prized the achievements of men  over women. As a matter of fact, women were rarely awarded achievement  status at all in either of these cultures. This fact is an important one  because I believe it provides fertile soil for the worldviews from  which these women wrote.  Their tiny seeds of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/crossetti/silenced.html" style="color: blue;"&gt;voices were pushed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;  down until it was inevitable that something had to sprout; for &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sappho" style="color: blue;"&gt;Sappho&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;  and Rossetti, the harvest was abundant. A second similarity between the  two is that the scholarship done on them recently has been rather  myopic.  Sappho's critics focus on the lesbianism in her poetry, and  Rossetti's critics focus on the dichotomous imagery in her texts. By  focusing too closely on one area, critics miss the bigger picture, a  picture that shows the relationship of women to history, and history to  now.  By steadily listening to the faint voices of women throughout  history, we can better understand our own voices now.&amp;nbsp;    &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TRuE3O8VgTI/AAAAAAAAGtc/hTOOjNZwzEM/s1600/6a00e55119b5ec8834013480541d58970c-800wi.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TRuE3O8VgTI/AAAAAAAAGtc/hTOOjNZwzEM/s320/6a00e55119b5ec8834013480541d58970c-800wi.jpg" width="208" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Christinas Sprache ist sehr schlicht, sie verwendet ungewöhnliche  Satzstellungen und eine veraltete Ausdrucksweise, die ihrem Gedicht  jedoch einen geheimnisvollen Hauch geben und gleichzeitig zeitlos wirken  lassen.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TRuE9a_Vf7I/AAAAAAAAGtk/czq6Eds7tEg/s1600/rossetti.sisters.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TRuE9a_Vf7I/AAAAAAAAGtk/czq6Eds7tEg/s1600/rossetti.sisters.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"&gt;I hope you enjoy this discovery of a poet!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/633044462221600284-7145246772555796814?l=ginster-plantagenet.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://rossetti.webjewel.net/deu_inter.html' title='Christina Georgina Rossetti poems/Gedichte'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ginster-plantagenet.blogspot.com/feeds/7145246772555796814/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=633044462221600284&amp;postID=7145246772555796814' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/633044462221600284/posts/default/7145246772555796814'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/633044462221600284/posts/default/7145246772555796814'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ginster-plantagenet.blogspot.com/2010/12/christina-georgina-rossetti.html' title='Christina Georgina Rossetti poems/Gedichte'/><author><name>plantagenet</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03692658044077590559</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='20' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TOkcNtlYpyI/AAAAAAAAGo8/uuqc08POng4/S220/meeting%2Bpessoa%2Bin%2Blisbon.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TRuCDUfRzjI/AAAAAAAAGsk/9Xt-5H1m0sQ/s72-c/danteros.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-633044462221600284.post-3397129445865430390</id><published>2010-12-20T04:44:00.009-06:00</published><updated>2010-12-20T05:01:22.282-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mascha Kaleko'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='schnee'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='advent'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='snow'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Christmas'/><title type='text'>Erster Schnee - Advent Mascha Kaléko</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TQ82y9VGaWI/AAAAAAAAGrk/eSQBECdSh0M/s1600/IMGP5949.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TQ8tzcBUZcI/AAAAAAAAGrU/uxSMzQAXlIc/s1600/IMGP5860.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h3 style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TQ82y9VGaWI/AAAAAAAAGrk/eSQBECdSh0M/s1600/IMGP5949.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TQ82y9VGaWI/AAAAAAAAGrk/eSQBECdSh0M/s400/IMGP5949.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;h3 style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Mascha  Kaleko's poems for&amp;nbsp; 'first snow' and 'Advent' which describes the 4  weeks before Christmas, on which some Germans have a crest made from  spruce twigs with 4 candles, that are lit one by one until the 4th on  the last Sunday before Christmas. &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;h3 style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;img alt="Adventskranz 2007" height="400" src="http://static.twoday.net/EinBlicke/images/Adventskranz.jpg" title="Adventskranz 2007" width="533" /&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;h3 style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;unfortunately I couldn't find those poems in English. If anyone would have them, I appreciate yours in comments.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;Mascha Kaléko&amp;nbsp;(1907-1975)&amp;nbsp; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a class="thumblink" href="http://www.buecher-wiki.de/uploads/BuecherWiki/kaleko_mascha_honorarfrei_fritz_eschen.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img alt="http://www.buecher-wiki.de/uploads/BuecherWiki/th128---ffffff--kaleko_mascha_honorarfrei_fritz_eschen.jpg.jpg" border="0" class="thumbs" height="320" src="http://www.buecher-wiki.de/uploads/BuecherWiki/th128---ffffff--kaleko_mascha_honorarfrei_fritz_eschen.jpg.jpg" title="Mascha Kaléko - (c) Fritz Eschen" width="297" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.kaleko.ch/index2.php?option=com_jce&amp;amp;task=popup"&gt;&lt;img align="left" alt="Minetta2" border="0" height="220" hspace="5" src="http://www.kaleko.ch/images/stories/fotos/Minetta2.jpg" title="Minetta2" vspace="5" width="295" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a class="thumblink" href="http://www.buecher-wiki.de/uploads/BuecherWiki/kaleko_mascha_honorarfrei_fritz_eschen.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.repage1.de/member/rosanna/maschakalko.html"&gt;Betrifft: Erster Schnee&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TQ8tkLtnAAI/AAAAAAAAGrQ/7a13-VewUZw/s1600/IMGP5948.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TQ8tkLtnAAI/AAAAAAAAGrQ/7a13-VewUZw/s320/IMGP5948.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Eines Morgens leuchtet es ins Zimmer,&lt;br /&gt;und du merkst: ‘s ist wieder mal soweit.&lt;br /&gt;Schnee und Barometer sind gefallen.&lt;br /&gt;Und nun kommt die liebe Halswehzeit.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Kalte Blumen blühn auf Fensterscheiben.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Fröstelnd seufzt der Morgenblattpoet:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;„Winter läßt sich besser nicht beschreiben,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;als es schon im Lesebuche steht.“&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Blüten kann man noch mit Schnee vergleichen,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;doch den Schnee . . . Man wird leicht zu banal.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Denn im Sommer ist man manchmal glücklich,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;doch im Winter nur sentimental.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Und man muß an Grimmsche Märchen denken&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;und an einen winterweißen Wald&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;und an eine Bergtour um Silvester.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Und dabei an sein Tarifgehalt.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Und man möchte wieder vierzehn Jahr sein:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Weihnachtsferien . . . Mit dem Schlitten raus!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Und man müßte keinen Schnupfen haben,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;sondern irgendwo ein kleines Haus.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Und davor ein paar verschneite Tannen,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;ziemlich viele Stunden vor der Stadt.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Wo es kein Büro, kein Telefon gibt.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Wo man beinah keine Pflichten hat.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Ein paar Tage lang soll nichts passieren!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Ein paar Stunden, da man nichts erfährt.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Denn was hat wohl einer zu verlieren,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;dem ja doch so gut wie nichts gehört.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table class="thumbtable"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr class="thumbtr"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TQ8tzcBUZcI/AAAAAAAAGrU/uxSMzQAXlIc/s1600/IMGP5860.JPG"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TQ8tzcBUZcI/AAAAAAAAGrU/uxSMzQAXlIc/s1600/IMGP5860.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TQ8tzcBUZcI/AAAAAAAAGrU/uxSMzQAXlIc/s320/IMGP5860.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;td align="center" class="thumbtd" height="132" valign="middle" width="132"&gt;&lt;a class="thumblink" href="http://www.buecher-wiki.de/uploads/BuecherWiki/kaleko_mascha_honorarfrei_fritz_eschen.jpg" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;  &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.christmasmagazine.com/de/spirit/poem.asp?ID=162&amp;amp;sort=author"&gt;Advent&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mascha Kaléko&amp;nbsp;(1907-1975)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Der Frost haucht zarte Häkelspitzen&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Perlmuttergrau ans Scheibenglas.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Da blühn bis an die Fensterritzen&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Eisblumen, Sterne, Farn und Gras.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Kristalle schaukeln von den Bäumen,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Die letzen Vögel sind entflohn.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Leis fällt der Schnee ... In unsern Träumen&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Weihnachtet es seit gestern schon.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TQ82y9VGaWI/AAAAAAAAGrk/eSQBECdSh0M/s1600/IMGP5949.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/633044462221600284-3397129445865430390?l=ginster-plantagenet.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ginster-plantagenet.blogspot.com/feeds/3397129445865430390/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=633044462221600284&amp;postID=3397129445865430390' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/633044462221600284/posts/default/3397129445865430390'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/633044462221600284/posts/default/3397129445865430390'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ginster-plantagenet.blogspot.com/2010/12/erster-schnee-advent-mascha-kaleko.html' title='Erster Schnee - Advent Mascha Kaléko'/><author><name>plantagenet</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03692658044077590559</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='20' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TOkcNtlYpyI/AAAAAAAAGo8/uuqc08POng4/S220/meeting%2Bpessoa%2Bin%2Blisbon.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TQ82y9VGaWI/AAAAAAAAGrk/eSQBECdSh0M/s72-c/IMGP5949.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-633044462221600284.post-6978372776020672380</id><published>2010-12-19T14:50:00.006-06:00</published><updated>2010-12-31T07:34:40.639-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Happy New Year 2011'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Merry Christmas'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='spanking Madonna'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Max Ernst'/><title type='text'>Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2011</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"&gt;For this season I wish you all wonderful days and&lt;br /&gt;nice parties! May the New Year be prosperous to you all!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TQ5u3IttCsI/AAAAAAAAGrA/jZ17Y3LEqYU/s1600/ernstvirginspankingchrist.jpg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TQ5u3IttCsI/AAAAAAAAGrA/jZ17Y3LEqYU/s1600/ernstvirginspankingchrist.jpg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TQ5u3IttCsI/AAAAAAAAGrA/jZ17Y3LEqYU/s1600/ernstvirginspankingchrist.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TQ5u3IttCsI/AAAAAAAAGrA/jZ17Y3LEqYU/s320/ernstvirginspankingchrist.jpg" width="205" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h1 class="photo-title" id="title_div4140025323"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Ernst"&gt;Max Ernst&lt;/a&gt;, Madonna, Spanking Child Christ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/633044462221600284-6978372776020672380?l=ginster-plantagenet.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ginster-plantagenet.blogspot.com/feeds/6978372776020672380/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=633044462221600284&amp;postID=6978372776020672380' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/633044462221600284/posts/default/6978372776020672380'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/633044462221600284/posts/default/6978372776020672380'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ginster-plantagenet.blogspot.com/2010/12/merry-christmas-and-happy-new-year-2011.html' title='Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2011'/><author><name>plantagenet</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03692658044077590559</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='20' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TOkcNtlYpyI/AAAAAAAAGo8/uuqc08POng4/S220/meeting%2Bpessoa%2Bin%2Blisbon.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TQ5u3IttCsI/AAAAAAAAGrA/jZ17Y3LEqYU/s72-c/ernstvirginspankingchrist.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-633044462221600284.post-2087385235395036994</id><published>2010-12-18T16:59:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2010-12-18T16:59:56.999-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Impossible Fact'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Palmstroem'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Christian Morgenstern'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='poems'/><title type='text'>For, he reasons pointedly / That which must not, can not be- Christian Morgenstern</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;One of my favorite poets is Christian Morgenstern.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TQ0r12_1aHI/AAAAAAAAGqY/qOAVhUjmF58/s1600/173425.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TQ0r12_1aHI/AAAAAAAAGqY/qOAVhUjmF58/s1600/173425.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Some of his poetry is humorous or even nonsense, but mostly philosophical and I also love his quotes:&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;"Home is not where you live but where they understand you."   &lt;br /&gt;—        &lt;a class="authorNameRegular" href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/173425.Christian_Morgenstern"&gt;Christian Morgenstern&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;"Nicht da ist man daheim, wo man seinen Wohnsitz hat, sondern wo man verstanden wird."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span class="reviewText" id="freeTextauthor173425"&gt;Christian Morgenstern (May 6, 1871–March 31, 1914) was a German author and poet.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span class="reviewText" id="freeTextauthor173425"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span class="reviewText" id="freeTextauthor173425"&gt;My favorite poem is Fish's Nightsong:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Fisches Nachtgesang&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span class="reviewText" id="freeTextauthor173425"&gt;Needless to translate&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href="http://hor.de/gedichte/christian_morgenstern/index.html"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href="http://hor.de/gedichte/christian_morgenstern/galgenlieder/index.html"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TQ00B5LlEYI/AAAAAAAAGqg/7vlZMhAGrxA/s1600/fn.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TQ00B5LlEYI/AAAAAAAAGqg/7vlZMhAGrxA/s320/fn.gif" width="176" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h4&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Cobject%20width=%22480%22%20height=%22385%22%3E%3Cparam%20name=%22movie%22%20value=%22http://www.youtube.com/v/DsOKjVZ0GzM?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=de_DE%22%3E%3C/param%3E%3Cparam%20name=%22allowFullScreen%22%20value=%22true%22%3E%3C/param%3E%3Cparam%20name=%22allowscriptaccess%22%20value=%22always%22%3E%3C/param%3E%3Cembed%20src=%22http://www.youtube.com/v/DsOKjVZ0GzM?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=de_DE%22%20type=%22application/x-shockwave-flash%22%20allowscriptaccess=%22always%22%20allowfullscreen=%22true%22%20width=%22480%22%20height=%22385%22%3E%3C/embed%3E%3C/object%3E"&gt;&lt;object height="385" width="480"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/DsOKjVZ0GzM?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=de_DE"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/DsOKjVZ0GzM?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=de_DE" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/h4&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span class="reviewText" id="freeTextauthor173425"&gt;Morgenstern's poetry, much of which was inspired by English literary  nonsense, is immensely popular, even though he enjoyed very little  success during his lifetime.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span class="reviewText" id="freeTextauthor173425"&gt;He made fun of scholasticism, e.g. literary  criticism in "Drei Hasen", grammar in "Der Werwolf", narrow-mindedness  in "Der Gaul", and symbolism in "Der Wasseresel".&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span class="reviewText" id="freeTextauthor173425"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;In  "Scholastikerprobleme" he discussed how many angels could sit on a  needle. Still many Germans know some of his poems and quotations by  heart, e.g. the following line from&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span class="reviewText" id="freeTextauthor173425"&gt;"The Impossible Fact" ("Die  unmögliche Tatsache", 1910): &lt;br /&gt;For, he reasons pointedly / That which must not, can not be.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span class="reviewText" id="freeTextauthor173425"&gt; German: "Weil, so schließt er messerscharf / Nicht sein kann, was nicht  sein darf."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="reviewText" id="freeTextauthor173425"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4 style="text-align: center;"&gt;         &lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;The Impossible Fact&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;div&gt;         &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;         Palmstroem, old, an aimless rover,&lt;br /&gt;walking in the wrong direction&lt;br /&gt;at a busy intersection&lt;br /&gt;is run over.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;         &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;"How," he says,         his life restoring&lt;br /&gt;and with pluck his death ignoring,&lt;br /&gt;"can an accident like this&lt;br /&gt;ever happen? What's amiss?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;         &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;"Did the state         administration&lt;br /&gt;fail in motor transportation?&lt;br /&gt;Did police ignore the need&lt;br /&gt;for reducing driving speed?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;         &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;"Isn't there a         prohibition,&lt;br /&gt;barring motorized transmission&lt;br /&gt;of the living to the dead?&lt;br /&gt;Was the driver right who sped . . . ?"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;         &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Tightly swathed in         dampened tissues&lt;br /&gt;he explores the legal issues,&lt;br /&gt;and it soon is clear as air:&lt;br /&gt;Cars were not permitted there!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;         &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;And he comes to the         conclusion:&lt;br /&gt;His mishap was an illusion,&lt;br /&gt;for, he reasons pointedly,&lt;br /&gt;that which must not, can not be.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TQ0ylXoK2qI/AAAAAAAAGqc/ETjnQ51E5bQ/s1600/auto.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="212" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jht2zvicBiQ/TQ0ylXoK2qI/AAAAAAAAGqc/ETjnQ51E5bQ/s320/auto.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h4 style="text-align: center;"&gt;         &lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Die unmögliche Tatsache&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;div&gt;         &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;         Palmström, etwas schon an Jahren,&lt;br /&gt;wird an einer Straßenbeuge&lt;br /&gt;und von einem Kraftfahrzeuge&lt;br /&gt;überfahren.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;         &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;"Wie war"         (spricht er, sich erhebend&lt;br /&gt;und entschlossen weiterlebend)&lt;br /&gt;"möglich, wie dies Unglück, ja - :&lt;br /&gt;daß es überhaupt geschah?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;         &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;"Ist die Staatskunst         anzuklagen&lt;br /&gt;in Bezug auf Kraftfahrwagen?&lt;br /&gt;Gab die Polizeivorschrift&lt;br /&gt;hier dem Fahrer freie Trift?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;         &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;"Oder war vielmehr         verboten,&lt;br /&gt;hier Lebendige zu Toten&lt;br /&gt;umzuwandeln, -kurz und schlicht:&lt;br /&gt;Durfte hier der Kutscher nicht-?"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;         &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Eingehüllt in feuchte         Tücher,&lt;br /&gt;prüft er die Gesetzesbücher&lt;br /&gt;und ist alsobald im Klaren:&lt;br /&gt;Wagen durften dort nicht fahren!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;         &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Und er kommt zu dem         Ergebnis:&lt;br /&gt;Nur ein Traum war das Erlebnis.&lt;br /&gt;Weil, so schliesst er messerscharf,&lt;br /&gt;nicht sein kann, was nicht sein darf.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;"Home isn't where our house is, but wherever we are understood."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I shall excavate the strata of my soul."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I’m a man of limits: forever physically, emotionally, morally and  artistically on the brink of plunging into the abyss. Yet I manage to  keep my balance and possess presence of mind."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I bear no treasures within me. I only possess the power to  transform much of what I touch into something of value. I have no  depths, save my incessant desire for the depths." &lt;/span&gt;(Translated by David  W. 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color: blue; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1 style="clear: left; color: blue; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1 style="clear: left; color: blue; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;V&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;olkslied: Hermann&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Schla lerm an, Lat piepen,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;tat trummen, Jesuiten sind kummen,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;Met speeren un Stangen&amp;nbsp; De Frieheit tau fangen.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="455" src="http://www.payer.de/religionskritik/floh/floh930416.gif" width="363" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: blue; color: blue; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue;"&gt;Die Debatte, um die inzwischen nicht mehr zu  rechtfertigenden Zahlungen des Staates an die Kirchen sollte unbedingt  weitergefuehrt werden.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;In Zeiten schmaler Kassen sind diese Zahlungen nicht &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;mehr zu vermitteln. &lt;br /&gt;Vor allem nicht an die ueber 30% konfessionslosen &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;SteuerzahlerInnen. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Aber mit einer Pastorentochter als Kanzlerin und einem Evangelisten als Bundespraesidenten koennen wir eine ernsthafte Auseinandersetzung wohl vergessen.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id="spArticleTopAsset"&gt;&lt;div class="spArticleImageBox spAssetAligncenter" style="width: 522px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/bild-727683-134137.html"&gt;            &lt;img align="center" alt="Kirche: Sonnenuntergang hinter dem Glockenturm der Heilig-Geist-Kirche in Oberjoch (Oberallgäu)" border="0" height="250" hspace="0" src="http://www.spiegel.de/images/image-134137-panoV9free-gdbw.jpg" title="Kirche: Sonnenuntergang hinter dem Glockenturm der Heilig-Geist-Kirche in Oberjoch (Oberallgäu)" width="520" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/bild-727683-134137.html"&gt;           &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id="spIntroTeaser"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Deutschlands Kirchen erhalten aus der  Staatskasse jährlich rund 19 Milliarden Euro. Nach SPIEGEL-Informationen  ist das wesentlich mehr als bislang bekannt.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div id="spIntroTeaser"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Die deutschen Kirchen, ihre Mitglieder und Wohlfahrtsverbände  erhalten nach Informationen des SPIEGEL wesentlich höhere staatliche  Zuschüsse als vielfach angenommen. Z&lt;br /&gt;u diesem Ergebnis kommt der Experte  für kirchliche Finanzen, Carsten Frerk, in seiner neuen Publikation  "Violettbuch Kirchenfinanzen", die nächste Woche veröffentlicht wird.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="spMInline"&gt;&lt;span class="quchnoad" style="display: none;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;Das Buch dürfte die Debatte um die künftige Finanzierung der Kirchen  anheizen. Nach Frerk betragen die direkten und indirekten Leistungen,  die der Staat Katholiken und Protestanten und deren Einrichtungen bisher  gewährt, jährlich insgesamt rund &lt;b&gt;19 Milliarden &lt;/b&gt;Euro.&lt;br /&gt;Diese Summe  enthält &lt;b&gt;nicht&lt;/b&gt; die &lt;b&gt;neun &lt;/b&gt;Milliarden Euro Kirchensteuern und die  schätzungsweise &lt;b&gt;45 &lt;/b&gt;Milliarden für Caritas und Diakonie.   &lt;br /&gt;Teils geschehe das direkt, wie bei den Zuschüssen der Bundesländer  für Bischöfe und anderes Kirchenpersonal, teils indirekt, wie durch  Steuerbefreiungen.&lt;br /&gt;Allein der Religionsunterricht kostete den Staat im  vergangenen Jahr 1,7 Milliarden, theologische Fakultäten und kirchliche  Hochschulen weitere 509 Millionen Euro.&lt;br /&gt;Mit 3,9 Milliarden finanziert  wurden christliche Kindergärten.&lt;br /&gt;Selbst eine rein kirchliche  Unternehmung wie Misereor, das Bischöfliche Hilfswerk, bekam zuletzt &lt;b&gt;63  Prozent seines 162-Millionen-Etats vom Entwicklungsministerium&lt;/b&gt;, nur fünf  Prozent stammen direkt von der Kirche.&lt;br /&gt;Die Bundesländer zahlen zudem  "Baulasten" für den Erhalt von Tausenden Kirchen und Pfarrhäusern. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Bizarre Handel um Zahlungen&lt;/b&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Aufgeschreckt durch die öffentliche Debatte, hatten die katholischen  Bischöfe das Thema einer stärkeren Trennung von Staat und Kirche auf  ihrer Tagung in Fulda auf das Programm gesetzt.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In einem Fachvortrag  wurde die Möglichkeit für eine Ablösung von rund 460 Millionen Euro  Ansprüchen, teils aus dem 19. Jahrhundert, vorgestellt.&lt;br /&gt;Für die Kirche  ist das allerdings nur dann vorstellbar, wenn die Bundesländer dafür  letztmalig "einen zweistelligen Milliardenbetrag" zahlen, "damit die  Kirchen dann - bei einer Verzinsung von drei bis vier Prozent - den  bisherigen Umfang an Staatsleistungen erzielen könnten".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Angesichts vieler&lt;b&gt; Konfessionsloser &lt;/b&gt;wird in Bundesländern wie Sachsen  darüber diskutiert, ob eine Co-Finanzierung von Kirchentagen noch  angemessen ist.&lt;br /&gt;Der SPD-Bundestagsabgeordnete Rolf Schwanitz möchte,  dass die Gespräche über die Staatszuschüsse auf Bundesebene weiter in  Gang kommen:&lt;br /&gt;"Wir müssen jetzt dringend die rechtlichen Grundlagen  schaffen, um die Regeln für die Ablösung der überkommenen  Staatsleistungen endlich festzulegen."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt; &lt;img border="0" height="538" src="http://www.payer.de/religionskritik/floh/floh050108.gif" width="435" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Abb.: Der neue Rattenfänge&lt;span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"&gt;. -- Karikatur von &lt;b&gt; Alexander Wilke&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;.. -- In: Der Floh. -- 1905-01-08&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Der Rattenfänger der alten Sage&lt;br /&gt;Ward jetzt zu einer neuen Plage.&lt;br /&gt;Schon hat der Schwarze angefangen,&lt;br /&gt;Frau Austrias Kinder einzufangen.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h1 style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Carsten Frerks “Violettbuch Kirchenfinanzen” ist&amp;nbsp;erschienen!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;span class="time"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="post-comments"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;                                                            &lt;img alt="" class="alignleft" height="200" src="http://www.alibri-buecher.de/images/product_images/info_images/348_0.jpg" width="130" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wie der Alibri-Verlag meldet, ist ab sofort das neue und mit Spannung   erwartete “Violettbuch Kirchenfinanzen” von Carsten Frerk erschienen.&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Obwohl die beiden großen christlichen Kirchen heute weniger als   zwei  Drittel der Bevölkerung organisieren, werden viele ihrer Belange   durch  die öffentliche Hand finanziert. Und das betrifft keineswegs nur    Krankenhäuser oder Sozialstationen, die von der Allgemeinheit in    Anspruch genommen werden können. Ob Bischofsgehälter, die Ausbildung    kirchlichen Personals oder Missionswerke – konfessionslose und    andersgläubige Bürgerinnen und Bürger zahlen alle kräftig mit.&lt;br /&gt;Carsten Frerk gibt einen systematischen Überblick, zu welchen    Gelegenheiten der Staat von den Kirchen zur Kasse gebeten wird. Er    problematisiert versteckte Begünstigungen&amp;nbsp; wie die steuerliche    Absetzbarkeit der Kirchensteuer, erläutert die rechtliche und    historische Fragwürdigkeit der so genannten Staatsleistungen und stellt    die Frage, warum die Allgemeinheit soziale Einrichtungen in  kirchlicher   Trägerschaft bezuschusst, obwohl dort die  Arbeitnehmerrechte  weitgehend  außer Kraft gesetzt sind.&lt;br /&gt;Dabei geht es nicht um Kleinigkeiten: Die Zuwendungen der öffentlichen    Hand an die Kirchen übersteigen deren Einnahmen aus der Kirchensteuer    beiweitem. Und da die Kirchen steuerbefreit sind, tragen sie nichts zur    Finanzierung der gesellschaftlichen Infrastruktur bei, von der sie    profitieren.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;Zu alten Zeiten hieß heilig, wenn der Fliegen, der&lt;br /&gt;Heuschrecken fraß und jener gar mit seinem&lt;br /&gt;heil'gen Hintern in einem Ameisenhaufen saß, um&lt;br /&gt;voller Andacht drin zu überwintern.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;aus: http://www.thule-italia.net/ns/Otto%20von%20Corvin%20-%20Pfaffenspiegel%20%281979%29.pdf&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; 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text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"&gt;I am in the mood for Charles Baudelaire today - The Albatros&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;It is a certain mood, that makes me read his poems.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://users.telenet.be/gaston.d.haese/beaudelaire_1843.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h2 style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: midnightblue; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;span style="color: midnightblue; font-family: times new roman; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: navy; font-family: monotype corsiva; font-size: x-large;"&gt;Charles Baudelaire&lt;/span&gt; &amp;nbsp; &lt;span style="color: navy; font-family: monotype corsiva; font-size: large;"&gt;(1821-1867)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://users.telenet.be/gaston.d.haese/beaudelaire_1843.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img alt="Charles BaudelairePortrait par Deroy (1843)" border="0" src="http://users.telenet.be/gaston.d.haese/beaudelaire_1843.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: midnightblue; font-family: times new roman; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: navy; font-family: monotype corsiva; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: navy; font-family: monotype corsiva; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Charles Baudelaire&lt;/b&gt; was a &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_poetry" title="French poetry"&gt;French poet&lt;/a&gt; who also produced notable work as an essayist, art &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critic" title="Critic"&gt;critic&lt;/a&gt;, and pioneering &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Translation" title="Translation"&gt;translator&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Allan_Poe" title="Edgar Allan Poe"&gt;Edgar Allan Poe&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;One of my favorites is the Albatros:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;span style="color: navy; font-family: times new roman; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;img alt="Albatross" src="http://users.telenet.be/gaston.d.haese/albatros_baudelaire.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2 style="color: #0b5394; text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman; font-size: large;"&gt;L' ALBATROS&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;span style="color: midnightblue; font-family: times new roman; font-size: large;"&gt;   &lt;span style="color: #0b5394;"&gt;Souvent, pour s'amuser, les hommes d'équipage,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="color: #0b5394;" /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0b5394;"&gt; Prennent des albatros, vastes oiseaux des mers,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="color: #0b5394;" /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0b5394;"&gt; Qui suivent, indolents compagnons de voyage,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="color: #0b5394;" /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0b5394;"&gt; Le navire glissant sur les gouffres amers.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="color: #0b5394;" /&gt; &lt;br style="color: #0b5394;" /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0b5394;"&gt; A peine les ont-ils déposés sur les planches,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="color: #0b5394;" /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0b5394;"&gt; Que ces rois de l'azur, maladroits et honteux,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="color: #0b5394;" /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0b5394;"&gt; Laissent piteusement leurs grandes ailes blanches&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="color: #0b5394;" /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0b5394;"&gt; Comme des avirons traîner à côté d'eux.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="color: #0b5394;" /&gt; &lt;br style="color: #0b5394;" /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0b5394;"&gt; Ce voyageur ailé, comme il est gauche et veule !&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="color: #0b5394;" /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0b5394;"&gt; Lui, naguère si beau, qu'il est comique et laid !&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="color: #0b5394;" /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0b5394;"&gt; L'un agace son bec avec un brûle-gueule,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="color: #0b5394;" /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0b5394;"&gt; L'autre mime, en boitant, l'infirme qui volait !&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="color: #0b5394;" /&gt; &lt;br style="color: #0b5394;" /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0b5394;"&gt; Le Poète est semblable au prince des nuées&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="color: #0b5394;" /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0b5394;"&gt; Qui hante la tempête et se rit de l'archer;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="color: #0b5394;" /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0b5394;"&gt; Exilé sur le sol au milieu des huées,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="color: #0b5394;" /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0b5394;"&gt; Ses ailes de géant l'empêchent de marcher.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img alt="http://www.online-artikel.de/editor/assets/umwelt_natur/albatros.jpg" height="502" src="http://www.online-artikel.de/editor/assets/umwelt_natur/albatros.jpg" style="cursor: -moz-zoom-in;" width="518" /&gt;&lt;span style="color: midnightblue; font-family: times new roman; font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: navy; font-family: times new roman; font-size: large;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h2 style="color: #0b5394; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman; font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;THE ALBATROSS&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;div style="color: #0b5394;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman; font-size: large;"&gt;  Often, for their amusement, bored sailors&lt;br /&gt;take albatrosses, vast seabirds, that sleep&lt;br /&gt;in the air, indolent fellow travellers,&lt;br /&gt;following the ship skimming the deep.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No sooner are they set down on the boards,&lt;br /&gt;than those kings of the azure, clumsy, shamefully&lt;br /&gt;let their vast white wings, like oars,&lt;br /&gt;trail along their sides, piteously.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Winged traveller, gauche, gross, useless, laughable,&lt;br /&gt;now, one of them, with a pipe stem, prods you,&lt;br /&gt;who, a moment ago, were beautiful:&lt;br /&gt;Another, limping, mimics the cripple who flew.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Poet bears a likeness to that prince of the air,&lt;br /&gt;who mocks at slingshots, and haunts the winds:&lt;br /&gt;On earth, an exile among the scornful, where&lt;br /&gt;he is hampered, in walking, by his giant wings.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: navy; font-family: times new roman; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;img alt="Photo: Black-browed albatross in flight" height="450" src="http://images.nationalgeographic.com/wpf/media-live/photos/000/004/cache/black-browed-albatross_464_600x450.jpg" width="600" /&gt;                          &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="caption"&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;Wide-winged and long-lived, albatrosses  are rarely seen on land, prefe
