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Die Mit Abstand Beste Unterhaltung, An Der Ich Nicht Teilgenommen Habe ... (vom Oktober 2020)
Die mit Abstand beste Unterhaltung, an der ich nicht teilgenommen habe ... (vom Oktober 2020)
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Irgendwann habe ich angefangen, Kleinigkeiten von der Straße oder vom Flohmarkt in den Wohnungen meiner Leute zu verstecken. Eine Barbra-Streisand-CD im Bücherregal hier, einen kleinen einarmigen Weihnachtsmann am Küchenschrank dort ... mit ein bisschen Geduld wird’s zumeist ganz lustig.
I found this photo while I was reading Kafkas “The Stoker” (”Der Heizer”) - this really shaped my visualisation of the story.
This winter I was reading ‘The Virgin Suicides’ by Jeffrey Eugenides. I had both versions - the original version and the German translation - and I loved comparing them very much. Especially Cecilias poem and its translation kept me thinking - because it sounds a little strange in German. That is why I very often think about how I would have translated it differently ... maybe someday I’ll have a good idea. The trees like lungs filling with air My sister the mean one, pulling my hair (The Virgin Suicides, S.44) Wie Lungen fülln sich die Bäume mit Luft. Meine Schwester, das Biest, hat mich wieder geknufft. (Die Selbstmord-Schwestern, S.47)
Some more found photos - this time it is a stripe of negatives I found in a pile of ‘trash’ on a deserted spot close to the railroad. Someone left all the remainings of Herta K. there. I also found some letters, that’s how I know her name. I went through her stuff (though it was already exposed to rain, snow and the cold) and took home some of it ...
