Georg Trakl, Gertrude Stein, Ferdinand Schmatz, Michael Scharang

De Oostenrijkse dichter Georg Trakl werd op 3 februari 1887 in Salzburg geboren. Zie ook mijn blog van 3 februari 2007 en ook mijn blog van 3 februari 2008 en ook mijn blog van 3 februari 2009 en ook mijn blog van 3 februari 2010.

Ballade

Ein schwüler Garten stand die Nacht.
Wir verschwiegen uns, was uns grauend erfaßt.
Davon sind unsre Herzen erwacht
Und erlagen unter des Schweigens Last.

Es blühte kein Stern in jener Nacht
Und niemand war, der für uns bat.
Ein Dämon nur hat im Dunkel gelacht.
Seid alle verflucht! Da ward die Tat.

 

Passion

Wenn Orpheus silbern die Laute rührt,
Beklagend ein Totes im Abendgarten,
Wer bist du Ruhendes unter hohen Bäumen?
Es rauscht die Klage das herbstliche Rohr,
Der blaue Teich,
Hinsterbend unter grünenden Bäumen
Und folgend dem Schatten der Schwester;
Dunkle Liebe
Eines wilden Geschlechts,
Dem auf goldenen Rädern der Tag davonrauscht.
Stille Nacht.

Unter finsteren Tannen
Mischten zwei Wölfe ihr Blut
In steinerner Umarmung; ein Goldnes
Verlor sich die Wolke über dem Steg,
Geduld und Schweigen der Kindheit.
Wieder begegnet der zarte Leichnam
Am Tritonsteich
Schlummernd in seinem hyazinthenen Haar.
Daß endlich zerbräche das kühle Haupt!

Denn immer folgt, ein blaues Wild,
Ein Äugendes unter dämmernden Bäumen,
Dieser dunkleren Pfaden
Wachend und bewegt von nächtigem Wohllaut,
Sanftem Wahnsinn;
Oder es tönte dunkler Verzückung
Voll das Saitenspiel
Zu den kühlen Füßen der Büßerin
In der steinernen Stadt.

 

Elis

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Volmaakt is de stilte van deze gouden dag.
Onder oude eiken
Verschijn jij, Elis, een rustende met ronde ogen.

Hun blauwte spiegelt de sluimer der geliefden.
Op je mond
Verstomden hun rozige vruchten.

’s Avonds haalde de visser de zware netten in.
Een goede herder
Leidt zijn kudde langs de bosrand.
O! hoe rechtvaardig zijn, Elis, al je dagen.

Zachtjes zinkt
Tegen kale muren de blauwe stilte van de olijfboom,
Sterft het donkere gezang van een grijsaard weg.

Een gouden bootje
Schommelt, Elis, je hart aan de eenzame hemel.

Vertaald door Frans Roumen


Georg Trakl (3 februari 1887 – 4 november 1914)

Aquarel door Christoph M Frisch

 

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Paul Auster, Johannes Kühn, Andrzej Szczypiorski, Lao She, Henning Mankell

De Amerikaanse dichter, schrijver en essayist Paul Auster werd geboren op 3 februari 1947 in Newark, New Jersey. Zie ook mijn blog van 3 februari 2008 en ook mijn blog van 3 februari 2009 en ook mijn blog van 3 februari 2010.

 

Uit: Sunset Park

 

For almost a year now, he has been taking photographs of abandoned things. There are at least two jobs every day, sometimes as many as six or seven, and each time he and his cohorts enter another house, they are confronted by the things, the innumerable cast-off things left behind by the departed families. The absent people have all fled in haste, in shame, in confusion, and it is certain that wherever they are living now (if they have found a place to live and are not camped out in the streets) their new dwellings are smaller than the houses they have lost. Each house is a story of failure—of bankruptcy and default, of debt and foreclosure—and he has taken it upon himself to document the last, lingering traces of those scattered lives in order to prove that the vanished families were once here, that the ghosts of people he will never see and never know are still present in the discarded things strewn about their empty houses.

The work is called trashing out, and he belongs to a four-man crew employed by the Dunbar Realty Corporation, which subcontracts its “home preservation” services to the local banks that now own the properties in question. The sprawling flatlands of south Florida are filled with these orphaned structures, and because it is in the interest of the banks to resell them as quickly as possible, the vacated houses must be cleaned, repaired, and made ready to be shown to prospective buyers. In a collapsing world of economic ruin and relentless, ever-expanding hardship, trashing out is one of the few thriving businesses in the area. No doubt he is lucky to have found this job. He doesn’t know how much longer he can bear it, but the pay is decent, and in a land of fewer and fewer jobs, it is nothing if not a good job.“

 

 

Paul Auster (Newark, 3 februari 1947)

 

 

Lees verder “Paul Auster, Johannes Kühn, Andrzej Szczypiorski, Lao She, Henning Mankell”

Richard Yates, Sarah Kane, James A. Michener, Annette Kolb, Ernst von Wildenbruch

De Amerikaanse schrijver Richard Yates werd geboren op 3 februari 1926 in Yonkers, New York. Zie ook mijn blog van 3 februari 2009 en ook mijn blog van 3 februari 2010.

 

Uit: Revolutionary Road 

 

“See you tomorrow!” they called, as happy as children, and riding home under the moon they found they could roll down the windows of their cars and let the air in, with its health-giving smells of loam and young flowers. It was the first time many of the Laurel Players had allowed themselves to acknowledge the coming of spring.

The year was 1955 and the place was a part of western Connecticut where three swollen villages had lately been merged by a wide and clamorous highway called Route Twelve. The Laurel Players were an amateur company, but a costly and very serious one, carefully recruited from among the younger adults of all three towns, and this was to be their maiden production. All winter, gathering in one anther’s living rooms for excited talks about Ibsen and Shaw and O’Neill, and then for the show of hands in which a common-sense majority chose The Petrified Forest, and then for preliminary casting, they had felt their dedication growing stronger every week.

 

 

 

Scene uit de film met Kate Winslet en Leonardo DiCaprio

 

 

They might privately consider their director a funny little man (and he was, in a way: he seemed incapable of any but a very earnest manner of speaking, and would often conclude his remarks with a little shake of the head that caused his cheeks to wobble) but they liked and respected him, and they fully believed in most of the things he said. “Any play deserves the best that any actor has to give,” he’d told them once, and another time: “Remember this. We’re not just putting on a play here. We’re establishing a community theater, and that’s a pretty important thing to be doing.”

The trouble was that from the very beginning they had been afraid they would end by making fools of themselves, and they had compounded that fear by being afraid to admit it. At first their rehearsals had been held on Saturdays–always, it seemed, on the kind of windless February or March afternoon when the sky is white, the trees are black, and the brown fields and hummocks of the earth lie naked and tender between curds of shriveled snow.“

 

 

 

Richard Yates (3 februari 1926 – 7 november 1992)

 

Lees verder “Richard Yates, Sarah Kane, James A. Michener, Annette Kolb, Ernst von Wildenbruch”