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Kairos, the god of fortunate moments, is supposed to have a lock of hair on his forehead, which is the only way of grasping hold of him. Because once the god has slipped past on his winged feet, the back of his head is sleek and hairless, nowhere to grab hold of.
Kairos
letters, carbons, and souvenirs, “flat product” for the most part, as the archivists like to say.
Flat product
kyrie eleison, Lord, take pity,
Kyrie eleison
Dies irae, the day of divine fury,
Dies irae
Ganymede
Trojan youth who was cup bearer to the gods.
dialectics.
Ernst Bloch,
That strange word “believe,” with “lie” in it,
Believe has lie in it.
Ariadne. The one with the thread? Yes, she’s half sister to the minotaur.
Ariadne
Bienenstich!
Bee sting cake
Springer publications building, which was something like the citadel of the class enemy.
Springer in West Berlin
Adenauer,
Hölderlin,
German Romantic
Kurt Barthel.
AKA Kuba
Stutthof? The concentration camp.
Nazi concentration camp
fifty-eight. Hans’s age.
ack-ack
Antiaircraft gun or regiment
Hiddensee.
Baltic Sea island
thirty-four years older?
Helene Weigel
Second wife of Brecht
Bukharin, Lenin’s comrade in arms, darling of the Party, shot by a firing squad of his own people in 1938.
Bukharin
Catabasis,
Journey to the underworld
Gehenna
Hell
She is now a year older, twenty, not a teenager anymore.
Katherina is 20 years old.
his birth year and hers when added come to one hundred.
100
Three years ago, Honecker, in return for several billions in Western credits to keep the Socialist state in the good graces of its citizens, placed that state at the mercy of the West.
Honecker
Until recently an individual who had intended to study commercial art in Halle; now an individual who will apply to study stage and costume design in Berlin,
Katherina's internship
Riga.
Capital of Latvia on the Baltic Sea
Gotenhafen,
Gdynia in Poland on the Baltic Sea
Maupassant
Polterabend
Heiner Müller.
Nibelungen.
Fritz Lang
Peter Hacks’s
Georg Knepler was teaching musicology. Hans Mayer, in Leipzig only two hours away by train, German literature. And Bertolt Brecht was directing at the Berliner Ensemble.
Austrian
Georg Knepler was teaching musicology. Hans Mayer, in Leipzig only two hours away by train, German literature. And Bertolt Brecht was directing at the Berliner Ensemble.
German scholar
Georg Knepler was teaching musicology. Hans Mayer, in Leipzig only two hours away by train, German literature. And Bertolt Brecht wa...
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East Berlin
dramaturge
Hoyerswerda
In German state of Saxony
Christoph Hein
German author and translator
February 1956 Khrushchev speaks for the first time about Stalin’s crimes. In March 1956 Brecht falls ill, in August he dies. The Stalinallee in Berlin is renamed Karl-Marx-Allee.
1956
monogamy is just an arrangement, nothing more. Basically, it was invented to secure the inheritance in a patriarchal system.
Monogamy
aufheben first in the sense of “suspended,” secondly something like “preserved in a different form,” and third, “lifted to another, higher level.”
3 meanings
Babi Yar?
Ravine in Kyiv - site of Nazi massacres
basically Americans and Russians are each other’s spitting image. Also in their devotion to kitsch.
Americans and Russians
the Politburo takes pride of place over Lenin’s tomb. Legitimization by the father of the revolution, incorporation of the thinker who can do no more damage now, that’s one view of it. Another is the demonstration of a power that is deeply rooted in the earth, as deep as a grave is dug if the earth is soft enough.
Lenin's tomb
Pankow
Most populous borough of Berlin
Isenheim Altarpiece,
In Colmar, painted for the Monastery of St. Anthony nearby
Hannah Arendt’s definition of bureaucracy as “rule by nobody.”
Bureaucracy
Hermann Kant.
