Often the existence is a labyrinth of courage and caution, from dreams and tactics
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Hardly anything is difficult to recognize than the direction of those processes whose part and witness you are. This fact refers to exciting phenomena of incompatibility – of life and knowledge: We are viewers, there and a gold decorative council caught, almost always missed it, and yet we do, as if we are – knowing. But he does not let Kitten, that contradiction between the unpredictability of our existence and the effort for the most logical history of history and time.
Where does this effort come from? Quite simply: every life needs protection. We want to be justified. The indulging romantic claims as much validity as the leather cynic. And then this work experiences public recognition, sobering truth is on the plan: “Success is an error.”
This is the name of the book by Jens-Fietje Dwars-Talking, Essays, Comments over three decades. The publisher and author, the curator and editor, writes from Jena into the country (beyond?), Always as passionate as suffering, because: Whoever wants to work without a lobby also always chokes on the managing ignorances of the literary business.
DWARS ‘endurance over the years: carefully edited books and rows. Beautiful inevitable also in his own texts: he wants to be an impetus, hence the overwhelming emissions of paper, and therefore also the ongoing advance with spirit. Which naturally bumps in front of minds. Because this author wants to remain sharp in the analysis of time flow and time sludge; And where he gets into a floating mood, he never gets lost in the swarming.
In the present volume, he presents cardiac and headboards. In over 30 texts, the novel of philosophical thinking is flipped against the grapping of the dissolved tongues – this time sign of epidemic entertainment. Is there a “stop of reason by the labyrinthly omnipresent delusion”? This is the DWARS question, kept in essays for people who feel addressed when you, for example, come with Nietzsche. He wrote: “By the way, everything is hated to me that I just taught me without revitalizing my work …”
This author wants to remain sharp in the analysis of time flow and time sludge
Nietzsche: Enduring, stimulating it is tried by DWARS, such as the birth of modern arts from the spirit of this philosopher. And others. How do you get to self-creation, without any trip to higher powers? “Maybe we have to go through the Feuerbach again.” And then the place Jena – DWARS tells about a special “baton of thinking”: the mostly unknown Kantians Schütz and Schmid, head of the “alchemist cuisine” in Thuringia, where the most stimulating of their time had once searched for wisdom. Schiller and Novalis also appear – teachers in the “primary school of a freedom that will later be called revolution”. It was – German experience – not a mistake, so no success.
Considerations on Christoph Hein, Erik Neutsch, Christa Wolf, short ports of visual artists such as Horst Hussel, Strawalde, Moritz Götze, and sometimes only the gem of a sentence: “Is there God when the order creates chaos?” Dwars describes what binds him to a spiritual heritage, and he also continues the reader. Wherever you can live in contact with an urgent tone, i.e. the whirring of the sirens. You read this like under a rain that washes you in the wrong feeling of importance, the newspaper spirit, the daily adhesive. You interrogate tones of a utopist in the back. This is non -restorative historical summoning, but calling what we as demanding, rich budget of tuneness and the memory dignity carry in us. Worthwhile order: prefer to be greedy greedy than just always research.
He looks at the Basel Congress in 1912, i.e. the failure of social democracy from the dark horizons of the upcoming World War. He portrays Peter Weiss, whose “aesthetics of resistance” is the “cruelest, coldest and most compassionate text in German literary history”. He thinks about “rational mechanisms of power reproduction” that had no end with Stalin. Always a look at structures. History always as a pre-history (something like that comes from something like that) and as a shimmering process. One concern is that, contrasted with the common demonization of global policy dictators. “What is the need for a historical science for which it only confirms the irrationality of historical processes, a judgment that has everyday mind cheaper at hand”.
The author works, as it were, in an indispensable change, with a telescope and microscope. Hotest efforts with a cold look, also addressed. One of the most exciting essays is “the life of the others”: a letter about DWARS ‘own fate between the GDR and West; A truly re -drawn labyrinth of courage and caution, from dreams and tactics, out of scientific passion and political consequences. A text, knitted out of conviction (“I was a Trotskyist, without having read Trotsky”) and entanglement, the curse is called “Stasi”, and sentences hook up: “The vain of a pregnant curiosity of a recent in the spell of evil.” What remains after 1990? “Unspeakable grief for the lack of all efforts to make themselves understandable.”
In these considerations, the person who remembers is a tempter – who does not want to find a tireful point of view between becoming and passing. But who wants to see that binding person that gives existence a reliable reality in a changing time. Despite continued breaks. The author is clairvoyant without triumphant; He stands upright in stubbornness: In the recall of contemporary spirit sizes from completely different times, the present becomes “paradise of devils that maintain their self -interest behind the facade of the non -benefits”.
The sound is sometimes targeted, rugged. For example, against “stutterers of historiography”, who think in annual days, not in problems, i.e. reversal and transitions. “Black books count on communism as if it had ever existed, and the heirs of history are practicing in a permanent apology.” For example, DWARS concerns that contradiction between Goethe and Buchenwald – “Classical and concentration camp”, the notorious counterpart of Weimar, “long pasted to the advertising slogan, to the secretly uncomfortable location in the tourism business”.
He goes through the memorial of Buchenwald. Monumental, mythical. What may be shaken – it also happens. He reads the lines of Johannes R. Becher, dedicated to Ernst Thälmann, chiseled into the steles. Religion and transfiguration, an individual becomes “to the miraculous sensor of nameless suffering” for ideological urge to use. And the terrifying idea increases: The thousands of victims of fascist violence would be humiliated again, “they are deteriorating to the gray mass of a petrified memory”.
What helps you who live in the falling word? The written? No. It only helps: write. “If books are not read, one would like to fall silent about pain and still talk further, more and more precisely, more concentrated, to the border to silence.” Because: Success may be a mistake, the striving continued continued.
Jens-Fietje DWARS: Success is an error. Talking, essays and other marginal notes. Quartus-Verlag, born, 272 pages, € 22