Eugen Bartmer © from C’est la Vie Bibliothek der Provence Timeless Padhi im 3. Jahrtausend angekommen wird täglich mir bewusst nun bin auch ich endgültig ein alter Alter die Wiener Mariahilferstraße dagegen ist auffällig jünger geworden im nachmittäglichen[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
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She’s gone now, softly slipping away into eternity, leaving her legacy of poems and artworks. I had the honor and privilege of translating her marvelous poems into English. Now I have qualms of conscience for not continuing and having done[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
“Blackface” is not a slur. Entertainers who put on black paint were not putting African Americans down. In the Twenties and Thirties those who didn’t need paint stepped forward to do their own thing in spite of Jim Crow and[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
True Words “ You know what I am? I’m a nationalist, OK? I’m a nationalist.” (Thank you Donald! At last a true word! Actually ten words. We’ve been waiting. But we have not been waiting in vain.) Lucky and[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
ELOQUENT COMMENTS: A GOOD START BUT NO FOLLOW-UP Here are reviews by Edward Butscher and Aaron Kramer and a comment by Harry James Cargas of Borders/Grenzen by Peter Paul Wiplinger., my first book of poetry in translation. Regretfully there was[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
David B. Axelrod at Lhotzky’s Literaturbuffet The place to visit for the bookworm in Vienna is Lhotzky’s Literaturbuffet, Rotenstrengasse 2 at the corner of Taborstrasse in the 2nd district. Kurt Lhotzky offers a selection of German books, concentrating on political[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
Highland Snow on high mountains Is smoothed by the wind. The high white folds of winter Fray in to yellow grass And sleeping heather. There is no tree between me and the mountain- Only the wind combing the marsh grass.[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
A Review by Morelle Smith Issue 13 – Autumn 2017 – An SCW Books Publication – Review by Morelle Smith Jazz-Poems: author Herbert Kuhner Publisher: Proverbis (Andreas Schinko), Vienna, Austria (2015\ ISBN: 978-3 -902838-20-9 80 pages Paperback. 12 Euros This[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
From Memoirs of a 39er (Der Auschluss) In 1985 when Walter Reder, the last Nazi war criminal incarcerated in Italy, was released, Friedhelm Frischenschlager Freedomite Minister of Defense, flew to Graz to welcome the „old soldier“ with a handshake and[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
I was shocked to hear of the passing of my friend Heinz R. Unger. He was a fine prose writer, poet, playwright and author of texts for cabaret. Here are poems in original and translation. Goodbye Heinz! Goodbye, dear friend.[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
Eine Karriere Es gab einen Schauspieler, der Mitglied der NSDAP war, der in Propagandafilmen gespielt, und Kollegen bei der Gestapo denunziert hat, die deportiert und hingerichtet worden sind. Er setzte seine Karriere nach dem Krieg fort ohne ein Wort des Bedauerns. Auf[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
A Career There was an actor who was a member of the Nazi Party, who acted in propaganda films and denounced colleagues to the Gestapo, causing them to be deported and executed, and who continued his career after the war[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …