He confronts Trakl’s ‘unlivable life’, as his poetry transcends the panaceas of black-and-white ... in splendor and in ordure’. In 1982, the German edition of At the Burning Abyss won the West German ...
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On the evening of Nov. 9, 1938, her mother, then Marianne Katzenstein, who was 16 at the time, was in her family’s synagogue ...
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His investigation into her life in communist East Berlin reveals long-concealed secrets, including an abandoned baby daughter. Like so many of her East German ... with Mozart, poetry and chess ...
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This Irish language translation of the spooky German poem "Der Erlkönig" is dramatically voiced for some extra horror. Eoin Mc Evoy, who is an Educational Technologist at the University College ...