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Café Sport is another scene. A scene, because that is where the artists and intellectuals go to be seen. Taking part is what matters, not winning. It is like sport, which is where the café got its…
Contributor:
Elfriede Jelinek
Places:
Vienna, Austria
Date:
1980
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But who emptied your shoes of sand
When you had to get up, to die?
The sand which Israel gathered,
Its nomad sand?
Burning Sinai sand,
Mingled with throats of nightingales,
Mingled with wings of…
Contributor:
Nelly Sachs
Places:
Stockholm, Sweden
Date:
1947
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Witness 4:When we had crossed the tracks
and were waiting
at the entrance to the camp
I heard
a prisoner say to a woman
The Red Cross van is only used
to carry gas to the…
Contributor:
Peter Weiss
Places:
Stockholm, Sweden
Date:
1965
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And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God.—Job 19: 26
O the chimneys
On the ingeniously devised habitations of death
When Israel’s body drifted as smoke
Th…
Contributor:
Nelly Sachs
Places:
Stockholm, Sweden
Date:
1947
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Black milk of daybreak we drink it at evening
we drink it at midday and morning we drink it at night
we drink and we drink
we shovel a grave in the air there you won’t lie too cramped
A man lives in…
Contributor:
Paul Celan
Places:
Paris, French Republic (Paris, France)
Date:
1952
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Leuchtentrager sets down his cup. “And there’s no end in sight to the confusion,” he says as though his mind were seriously troubled by this, “they say the Wandering Jew was seen again, not far from…
Contributor:
Stefan Heym
Places:
East Berlin, East Germany (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1981
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Ruschuk, on the lower Danube, where I came into the world, was a marvelous city for a child, and if I say that Ruschuk is in Bulgaria, then I am giving an inadequate picture of it. For…
Contributor:
Elias Canetti
Places:
Zurich, Switzerland
Date:
1977
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I went to see to my sister in Berlin.
She wants me to consider moving in.
Her husband’s passed away now, a schlemiel,
He left her too much money in his will.
Her residence is filled with precious…
Contributor:
Georg Kreisler
Places:
Munich, West Germany (Munich, Germany)
Date:
1963