Hoe kies je wat goed is? Waarom is het zo moeilijk om je vaderland te Een indrukwekkend boek dat me lang bij zal blijven. Waarom is het zo moeilijk om je vaderland te verlaten en waarom blijf je in den vreemde bijna altijd een buitenstaander? Het laat de afschuwelijke kanten van zowel het nationaal-socialisme als van het communisme zien, maar leert je ook beter begrijpen waarom een deel van de midden- een Oost-Europeanen ook een soort van heimwee hebben naar hun oude leven. Dit boek heeft een sterk humanistische inslag en laat zien hoe mensen worstelen met uit te vinden wat goed is te doen in moeilijke omstandigheden en dat ze daarin ook fouten maken, kleine- en grotere en dat zaken die onschuldig lijken achteraf gezien grote gevolgen kunnen hebben.
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To view it, click here. Wolf does "autobiofictionalography" um Linda Barry zu zitieren! Vergangenheit heimgesucht, schaut Star Trek und liest "Maus" und streut englische Brocken in den deutschen Text. Beide weisen starke Passagen auf, haben aber einen "wehleidigen" Grundton durch ihre Hauptfiguren, Wolf does "autobiofictionalography" um Linda Barry zu zitieren!
Christa Wolf passed away in December and these news reminded me that i had yet to read a book of hers. When i was young, she visited my school to read from one of her latest publications. Back then i even wrote a school newspaper article about her lecture. Last winter, this book fell into my hands and it intrigued me that Christa Wolf was writing about a time of her life when she was living on the West Coast, a detail of her personal story that i had not even been aware of.
I was very curio Christa Wolf passed away in December and these news reminded me that i had yet to read a book of hers. I was very curious to read of her impressions of living in LA. I admit that this read was not the most enjoyable one, sometimes i had to drag myself along. Wolf's writing appeared quite verbose to me, a bit dry at times. It is not a book of action, but rather a recapitulation of constant thought, emotion, and consciousness. In that regard, it comes to no surprise to me that this book is not the easiest to digest. As for many of us, Wolf's mind and heart are caught in circles, and she does a great job of mirroring that process for her readers.
As a result, i got an impression of genuine authenticity and integrity. It seems like Wolf used this book to make peace with her life, to come to terms with her past. I could feel with her, i felt compassion for her. Wolf draws a remarkable historical line from the Third Reich, to the time of the German Democratic Republic, until today, based on her personal beliefs, values and story. Thanks to this book, i received a new platform on which to meet my own grandparents, my mother, to question them about their past and personal history. My reading of this book has already triggered interesting conversation with my family as it offered new grounds for interpretation, understaning, and raised further questions.
In particular, Wolf's being in LA seems to have provided a fitting background with the necessary distance to dig deeper into her own self. Anyone interested in German history experienced on a personal account, and especially from someone living in the east of the country, is recommended to read this book. Sep 11, Laura rated it really liked it Shelves: Freud" by Christa Wolf gives readers an up close and personal view into the mind of an elderly woman looking back at her life, and trying to come to terms with all that she has experienced. I felt as I read the book, that I was literally wading at times through regret.
This was not an easy read, but not all novels are meant for entertainment Wolf's world view in many ways, I feel I have grown as a person from reading her story. One quote in particular stood out to me--"I've begun to see the value of everybody's wisdom and the fact that people discover the same truths through many avenues. Open up your life so that you're not caught in self-concern. Then you will no longer think you're at the center of the world, because you're so concerned with your worries, pains, limitations, desires, and fears that you are blind to the beauty of existence.
You will see that life is such a miracle, and we spend so much time doing nothing except figuring out the ways life is being unfair to us. She has left us her impressions of Los Angeles, the US and the 'culture' we have now; the loss of faith she and her friends experienced post-GDR, and the way Westerners and the US reacted to the post-Wall and post-USSR era, as though the reunification were an unmitigated triumph, forgetting about the sense of loss and diminution this evoked in the GDR. This isn't a novel in the sense of inventiveness or dramatic arc Ms.
This isn't a novel in the sense of inventiveness or dramatic arc, but a series of stories within stories about Wolf and some other emigres Germans who came to LA in the '30s and '40s , other Europeans in LA. The book shows how people cope psychologically with the loss of their homeland, and incidentally, the loss of belief in a Marxist ideal or notion, not just when the GDR fell, but during the years Stalin destroyed those ideals. Not her best book but important since it's her final legacy, published one year before her death.
I read this fictionalized memoir by the East German writer in English, a publication from Farrar, Straus Giroux which Goodreads doesn't seem to recognize. It is a confusing book, in which the author tries to make sense of her experiences as a visiting scholar at, I am guessing, the Getty Center, in Santa Monica and also of the revelation that she informed on comrades to the East German secret police at a time in her past. The unsealing of secret Stasi files has made her -- and people back i I read this fictionalized memoir by the East German writer in English, a publication from Farrar, Straus Giroux which Goodreads doesn't seem to recognize.
The unsealing of secret Stasi files has made her -- and people back in the reunited Germany -- aware of this episode that she has forgotten, to her horror. The voice changes often from first to second person, often in the same sentence. Is this a deliberate effort to communicate her inability to connect with the Informant she once was?
Oct 04, Sarah rated it really liked it. This book had so many layers, and made me think so deeply - not only about the fall of the Berlin wall and Germany's history both pre and post that event. But also about the nature of depression, reading, conversations about literature, travel, America of the last few years and being an expat. Added to that was Wolf's intimate portrayal of the discovery that she contributed, however unwittingly, to collection of information by the Stasi and East German governments.
Fascinating and incredibly tho This book had so many layers, and made me think so deeply - not only about the fall of the Berlin wall and Germany's history both pre and post that event. Fascinating and incredibly thought-provoking. One part of the title refers to the novel's setting and a character's role and the other part is a metaphor for comfortable, private confession.
The German writer was born in so she was four when Hitler came to power and 16 when the Third Reich collapsed and Hitler killed himself. She became an adult in the German Democratic Republic East Germany , first a zealous socialist and later a skeptical even dissident citizen-writer when it came to the actions of the government.
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City of Angels is a novel but a very autobiographical one. Wolf had a fellowship at the Getty in the s, here called The Center, to work on materials related to her Stasi files. Two things surprise her when she is reviewing her files, but one discovery that is not surprising is that friends had informed on her. Who did was interesting to her, but that some of her friends were among the informers was expected. Such was the state of things in the GDR under the thumb and relentless eye of the Stasi.
The surprises were that along with the yards of folders on her as a dissident was a smaller file of her own contributions as an informer and that, almost forty years later, she had no recollection of her informing until she saw the file. When it becomes public everyone concerned wonders how could she, of all people, have done it. She, on the other hand, wonders how could she have forgotten this? How did she not have even vague worries about what the released files would reveal?
She mixes and befriends the fellows at the Center, the news of her informing becomes public and the public reacts, and she becomes familiar with Los Angeles as a pedestrian, scholar, and driver. This exploration of setting and people and her following of TV coverage of politics allows Wolf to provide a critical and, at times, affectionate view of the United States. She doesn't overplay or equate different abuses but she is true to her skeptical and challenging self in criticizing American capitalism for its tolerance of social and economic inequality and its own history of abuses of its democratic values.
One unbalanced and nuance free note occurs in the recounting of an occasion when Soviet and American publishers each had objections to different passages in one of her novels and she notes that the offending passages were left in the Soviet translation but deleted from the American edition.
She remembers that it had to do with Vietnam but that the deletion came without her knowledge and against her will, which seems oddly fuzzy. Plus scores of books highly critical of American involvement in Vietnam were published during and after the war so one can't quite imagine what she must have written that an American publisher would have reacted to unless it was something specific to an individual that might have led to lawsuits. It may be ironic but the incident doesn't make any kind of case that the state of freedom of expression in the two countries was in any way similar.
A brief, weak moment in the book. The book is challenging. Victoria Hotel, and episodes of Star Trek and this density of shifting of time and reference sometimes leaves you uncertain of where you are. Plus, Wolf, or her narrator, often refers to herself in the second person. Despite the challenge, the book is rewarding, provocative and fascinating. Who precisely are these anonymous victors?
Even in her early years as a socialist and writer her individuality and questioning rubbed party professionals the wrong way. The urge to purity that troubles her, past and present, comes with an unabashed entitlement to own up at all costs. The above observation is powerful and well heeded regardless of the situation.
Never trust the pure. They see only black and white. There is no restraint of conscience, law, or empathy. Dieses Buch ist mir nicht leicht gefallen. Um sich besser zurecht zu finden, Dieses Buch ist mir nicht leicht gefallen. Trotzdem greifen die einzelnen Teile puzzle-artig ineinaner und ergeben ein Ganzes. Die Geschichte selbst ist schwer zu greifen. Es ist ein Buch, das mich zum nachdenken und nachforschen und neugierig werden angeregt hat. The story has a lot that is close to my heart: But still it was hard to read.
As a left socialist she could only be irritated by the place The story has a lot that is close to my heart: As a left socialist she could only be irritated by the place and that was interesting to observe. I liked her descriptions of the European emigrants in LA.
During her time in Los Angeles Wolf's Stasi file was publically revealed suggesting that from to she had "informed" against others. The writer is at a loss to explain it and the issue of whether she did or didn't is left moot. Wolf, rather unconvincingly, claims she "repressed the memory": Can someone forget something like that? That they gave me a code name? That I wrote a report? And by the way: A person can forget anything. They need to, in fact.
We cannot live without forgetting? It was such a long time ago. And what makes you think you know what was important to you back then? But please, be careful. No one will take that responsibility off your shoulders. And also, excuse me for saying so, you are going through a psychological crisis. It would be a mistake though to reduce this book to a tale about someone suddenly finding themselves on "the wrong side of history" and squirming to justify past mistakes.
It explores the history of someone, who for the most part, struggled against increasing repression - Wolf variously found herself courted and then shunned by the East German government throughout her career. She refused, however, to abandon her country or socialism at the time of the G. There are some interesting passages in City of Angels about the Cold War and the alleged advantages of German "reunification" which created a crisis for Wolf. She argued for social reform in East Germany but thought the dismantling of the G.
She was harshly criticized from both East and West. By contrast, Wolf's year in America seems to be taken up with impromptu dinner parties where she is endlessly engaged in dull conversation with colleagues. She hangs around second hand bookshops seeking out rare publications in German and to my surprise seems to get ripped off blind! She retreats to her apartment whenever she can. Her interest in American culture and society doesn't seem to run very deep. Her limited English language skills, for which she apologises throughout the book, creates even more of a barrier.
Her thinly veiled boredom and inability to widely or easily communicate combine to make for observations which are thin and not very original. There are lots of criticisms made of the many homeless on LA's streets which become tiresome. Predictably there is a great deal of discussion about the German artists and intellectuals who sought refuge from the Nazis in the 30s and 40s.
Wolf's curious focus on Thomas Mann's "secret" questions about his sexuality provides her with an opportunity to raise the issue of her own "secret" - that as a past Stasi informer. Wolf circles around the issue but fails to get to the heart of the matter concerning her own culpability: But writing is also an attempt to respect the borderline only for the truly innermost secret, and bit by bit to free the taboos around that core, difficult to admit as they are, from their prison of unspeakability.
Not self-destruction but self-redemption.
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Not being afraid of unavoidable suffering. This is where Wolf soars as a writer: So they rattle, but why did it take us so long to realize that? We have to live following an uncertain inner compass, without any appropriate moral code. Only we cannot keep deluding ourselves any longer. Freud", is suggestive of the need for a writer - for any honest person - to not fear exposure when confronted with adversity, accusations or perhaps even their own guilt. To make the inside visible.
Dec 18, A'Llyn rated it really liked it. A long, thoughtful reflective look at life in East Germany compared to the United States, forms of government, memory, love, chance, art A bit slow, but rewarding. Very interesting to read her thoughts about "life under a dictatorship.
Dit heb ik opgegeven na bladzijden De protagonist boeide me niet meer en er waren onnavolgbare gedachtelijnen, zinnen en uitweidingen. Ik voelde me steeds dommer worden. Threaded thickly with melancholy, loneliness, giddiness. We had to become one with this thousand-eyed creature of legend in two equal parts, five lanes each, racing toward each other and then past each other, seemingly missing each other by a hair's breadth; had to attune our spirit to the other parts of this creature driving along in front of us, behind us, to either side--a creature that ruled us all and cruelly punished every individual movement, every mistake, as we saw show Threaded thickly with melancholy, loneliness, giddiness.
We had to become one with this thousand-eyed creature of legend in two equal parts, five lanes each, racing toward each other and then past each other, seemingly missing each other by a hair's breadth; had to attune our spirit to the other parts of this creature driving along in front of us, behind us, to either side--a creature that ruled us all and cruelly punished every individual movement, every mistake, as we saw shown on television night after night. I didn't then know, and would not have believed, that sympathy gets weaker when excessive claims are made upon it.
That it doesn't grow back to the same extent after you give it out. That people, without realizing it or wanting it, develop protective techniques against self-destructive sympathy. It was as though the substance of the world, whatever that might mean, were eluding me. I lived between two realities: Jun 11, Full Stop added it Shelves: For decades both occupied a unique position of moral and artistic authority on the world stage.
Both attempted in their writings to work meaningfully though a history so beset with atrocities that nuanced accounts can too often be edged out by more psychologica http: Both attempted in their writings to work meaningfully though a history so beset with atrocities that nuanced accounts can too often be edged out by more psychologically and emotionally comforting broad strokes.
In a poem he pictures in words the changes that had taken place in the scenes of his childhood, changes which made his life there seem to have been only a dream. Walther's work is exceptionally well preserved compared to that of his contemporaries, with over 30 complete manuscripts and fragments containing widely varying numbers of strophes under his name. The most extensive collections of his songs are in four of the main Minnesang manuscripts: In addition to these, there are many manuscripts with smaller amounts of material, sometimes as little as a single strophe.
With the exception of MS M the Carmina Burana , which may even have been compiled in Walther's lifetime, all the sources date from at least two generations after his death, and most are from the 14th or 15th centuries. Certain or potential melodies to Walther's songs come from three sources: The latter are the only potential melodies to Walther's love songs, the remainder being for religious and political songs.
The ascription of other melodies to Walther in the Meistersang manuscripts the Goldene Weise , the Kreuzton , and the Langer Ton is regarded as erroneous.
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How she carols over the heath in her high clear voice! What marvels she performs! How deftly she sings in organon! How she varies her singing from one compass to another in that mode, I mean, which has come down to us from Cythaeron , on whose slopes and in whose caves the Goddess of Love holds sway!
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She is Mistress of the Chamber there at court. Grove Music Online evaluates Walther's work as follows:. He is regarded as one of the most outstanding and innovative authors of his generation His poetic oeuvre is the most varied of his time, In his work he freed Minnesang from the traditional patterns of motifs and restricting social function and transformed it into genuinely experienced and yet universally valid love-poetry.
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Walther's main contribution to the German love lyric was to increase the range of roles that could be adopted by the singer and his beloved, and to lend the depiction of the experience of love new immediacy and vibrancy. In Walther's political and didactic poetry we again observe a consummately versatile poetic voice, one which finds new ways to give artistic expression to experience despite the constraints of the taste of audiences and patrons and by the authority of literary conventions.
Walther is one of the traditional competitors in the tale of the song contest at the Wartburg. Walter is mentioned in Samuel Beckett 's short story " The Calmative ": In , a statue of Walther was unveiled in a square in Bolzano see above , which was subsequently renamed the Walther von der Vogelweide-Platz.
Under fascist rule, the statue was moved to a less prominent site, but it was restored to its original location in Fountain on main square in Sankt Veit an der Glan , Austria. There have been more scholarly editions of Walther's works than of any other medieval German poet's, a reflection of both his importance to literary history and the complex manuscript tradition.
Consistent reference to Walther's songs is made by means of "Lachmann numbers", which are formed of an "L" for "Lachmann" followed by the page and line number in Lachmann's edition of All serious editions and translations of Walther's songs either give the Lachmann numbers alongside the text or provide a concordance of Lachmann numbers for the poems in the edition or translation. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This section has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page.
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