Volker März - Kafka in IsraelThis is the tale of Franz Kafka, who, in 1924, aged 41, does not die of tuberculosisbut rows with his ape, Mr Rotpeter, to Palestine, where he still lives to this day, aged 126. From here he provides a commentary on world events of the last 85 years, including the history of Israel in brief comments that I have gleaned from his letters and emails. Mr Rotpeter, ever at his side as he scurries through history, is his second ego – an ape become man, an ape snatched from his natural liberty in the jungle and brought to human civilisation. Rather than spend his days in a zoo he resolves to live out his life in a circus by adapting to human beings. So it is that the ape becomes man and artist and manages at last to mull over what it is to become an artistic person*. Not unlike Kafka‘s own biography, the ape, deprived of his freedom, becomes an artist in order to survive. He holds a special position in our society – that of the self-deprecating outsider who, merely through his presence, uses his shadow to hold a mirror up to our society. Israel differs only in the merest of details from other national human parks of the last century. *Franz Kafka: Report for the Academy |
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Südafrikas KüsteJörn VanhöfenMare Verlag 2008 ISBN 978-3-936543-94-0 49 EUR / 84 CHF |
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DU, Nr. 683 / 1998Die Elbe, Fluss durch die Zeit |
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Die Elbe – Jörn VanhöfenDie ElbeJörn Vanhöfen Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 2000 Hardcover, 119 pages exhausted |
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Christian Weihrauch – ZeichnungenChristian Weihrauchaus der Kegelbahnstube Zeichnungen Ostdeutsche Sparkassenstiftung im Land Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Hg.) Hardcover, 45 pages USD 17 |













