Memorial to the Future Torne Volker von
This volume of selected poems by the German poet Volker von T rne may not make comfortable reading but it will certainly make a deep and lasting impression on all those who open its pages, for this is…
Specifikacia Memorial to the Future Torne Volker von
This volume of selected poems by the German poet Volker von T rne may not make comfortable reading but it will certainly make a deep and lasting impression on all those who open its pages, for this is a collection of remarkable intensity. This intensity comes from the weight of guilt and anger in so many of the poems - not only von T rne's personal guilt about his father's being a unit commander in the SS and the fact that he had, as a child in the late 1930s, repeated the phrases he heard about German Nationalism and racial purity, but also the collective guilt of the German people after the Second World War and the Holocaust, as they attempted to forget or, in some cases, to insist they had known nothing.It is no coincidence that the poet Volker von T rne was, for many years, the Director of Aktion S hnezeichen Friedensdienste (Action for Atonement - Service for Peace), the