Brasch, Thomas – ‘The Murdered Poet’ (Der ermordete Dichter)
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Author: Thomas Brasch Publisher: Cold Turkey Press, France Year: 2022 ISBN: x Translation: Mark Terrill Softcover, sewed, 12 pages, poems in German and English This chapbook printed in a first edition limited to 12 copies. Condition: NEW
Thomas Brasch (1945 - 2001) Allein zeitgeschichtliche Gründe wären mehr als ausreichend, um den Dichter, Romanautor, Filmemacher und Theaterautor Thomas Brasch unter die wichtigsten Figuren des ausgehenden 20. Jahrhunderts zu reihen: 1945 in London geboren und in der DDR aufgewachsen, Kind einer Wiener Jüdin und eines in den Nachkriegsjahren zum hochrangigen Parteimitglied aufgestiegenen Emigranten, unter Helene Weigel Mitarbeiter im Brecht-Archiv, nach seiner Ausreise in den Westen 1977 von den Medien zum exemplarischen Dichter-Dissidenten stilisiert, hat Brasch die Widersprüche seiner Epoche am eigenen Leibe durchquert. Der „Riß der Zeit, der durch den Mann geht“ (Christa Wolf) stach jedem, der mit diesem Autor näher in Berührung kam, unweigerlich ins Auge. Brasch störte auf, er begeisterte, er schaffte sich Gehör und er verstörte. (Text Theresia Prammer) Thomas Brasch (1945 - 2001) Historical reasons alone would be more than enough to rank the poet, novelist, filmmaker and playwright Thomas Brasch among the most important figures of the late 20th century: born in London in 1945 and raised in the GDR, child of a Viennese Jew and a child in the post-war years emigre who had risen to become a high-ranking party member, worked under Helene Weigel in the Brecht archives, and after he left for the West in 1977, was stylized by the media as an exemplary dissident poet, Brasch went through the contradictions of his epoch first-hand. The "crack of time that runs through the man" (Christa Wolf) inevitably caught the eye of everyone who came into close contact with this author. Brasch disturbed, he inspired, he made himself heard and he disturbed. (Text Theresia Prammer)
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