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Staaten und ihre Gründung

by | Apr 29, 2018

Wer sich für die Frage interessiert, was denn einen Staat ausmacht, erhält zwar keine theoretische Antwort, aber ein gutes Anschauungsbeispiel und einen faszinierenden Einblick in die Geschichte der “Baierischen Räterepublik”, November 1918 bis April 1919, im Buch von Volker Weidermann über den Versuch, der Dichter und Träumer in der Welt zu sein. Vielleicht weckt es ja sogar die Lust, Ernst Toller, Oskar Maria Graf, Erich Mühsam, Rainer Maria Rilke oder Thomas Mann wiederzulesen:

Volker Weidermann: Träumer. Als die Dichter die Macht übernahmen. Köln: Kiepenheuer & Witsch. 2017.

 

Verdorben

by | Mar 10, 2018

“Once I tried to have a lover but I was so sick at the heart, so utterly worn out that I had to send him away.” That struck me as the most amazing thing I had ever heard. She said “I was actually in a man’s arms. Such a nice chap! Such a dear fellow! And I was saying to myself, fiercely, hissing it between my teeth, as they say in novels—and really clenching them together: I was saying to myself: ‘Now, I’m in for it and I’ll really have a good time for once in my life—for once in my life!’ It was in the dark, in a carriage, coming back from a hunt ball. Eleven miles we had to drive! And then suddenly the bitterness of the endless poverty, of the endless acting–it fell on me like a blight, it spoilt everything. Yes, I had to realize that I had been spoilt for the good time when it came.

Ford Madox Ford, The Good Soldier, London 1915

Licht

by | Apr 8, 2017

Wer direkt ins Licht schaut, dem verdunkelt sich bald alles andere.