“There are only three emotions: cold, hot and longing. The rest is a combination, «writes Alexander Kluge. And Tucholsky’s lion knows that too.
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The first touch that I had with Kurt Tucholsky was a gloss that my penal friend copied to A3 paper and folded several times in an envelope. In “The Löw is going!”, Written in a feature stylish style, under one of his pseudonyms – Theobald Tiger or Peter Panter, Ignaz Wrobel or Kaspar Hauser.
The appearance of a newspaper message describes how a lion, called Franz Wüstenkönig, breaks out of the Berlin Zoo and walks across the Ku’damm. The excitement is great; In its threatening charisma, the wild animal is exploited by various political contexts and used rhetorically for its own purposes.
At some point the lion is tired of becoming an instrument of people. He voluntarily pulls himself back into his cage, good -natured, as he was all the time, and first makes a nap in the enclosure, which was certain before the political turmoil of his time. A time that was almost exactly a hundred years ago. Sometimes it feels like a déjà vu. And sometimes I then ask myself: How will you be perceived in a hundred years as a historical subject? Did you be on the right or the wrong side of the story? The right or the wrong side of history?
Alexander Kluge says that a politically thinking person should think about himself in Futur II: Who will have been? And then he says: “Time can not only be read horizontally, chronological, but also vertical.” Historical layers lie on top of each other. Like floors of a house. The attic is the brain, memory, long -term memory. Some memories have to be dusted in order to be made visible again.
The birth is the first trauma of man who is flushed ashore by the water. Who tries to reach the stage of the liquid all his life. That literally sits on the dry. And my friend A.’s mother says: “When you were on my chest for the first time, I realized that I had not only given you life but also death.”
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And D. says: We all just want to go back to the womb. And sometimes I think the older I get, the more often: “Mom, I want to go back to your uterus.” I crawl, be invisible. Freed from the burden to become a historical subject.
It is not only the shortest, but also the longest journey that you get behind in a life with which you produce all of this that is then beautifully and painfully and nicely painful.
And my friend of the archaeologist says: »There are no historical layers per se. They are constructed by archaeologists afterwards to tell the stories that the story wants to tell itself. They provide as much information about the historical situation in the times of historiography as about the time described. «
And Alexander Kluge writes: »There are only three emotions: cold, hot and longing. The rest is a combination. ”And I think: Even today, a broken lion would be exploited by different political parties and positions for the respective purposes.
And D. lies on the jetty like a gentle, exhausted predator in century temperatures, a contemporary Franz Wüsten king in yellow swimming trunks above the yellow fur. And I remember how a lion was spotted in Kleinmachnow two years ago, which then turned out to be wild boar. In the course of the investigation, it also turned out how many lions and other predators are actually kept in private households in and around Berlin. The actual scandal.
And Jamieson Webster writes: »People’s sexuality gets into the crisis where we are rinsed ashore by the water. We have to search for the liquid, in dealing with each other. ”Can you understand that politically?