Art
She dances on the graves, with grace
With her rogue memory. WE KNOW
WE CAN’T HOLD ON TO ANYTHING. She
Calls up the croaked, the forgotten, them
With their knives and demands. Love
Gone out, anger gone cold, the wasted times. What
Is the thought that we are mortal set against
THE GREAT IN VAIN? She dares to think it
Underground where everything lives. How
Is it possible that things the way they are
Are dancing?
Volker Braun was born in 1939 in Dresden. He worked as a labourer between school and university, then studied philosophy at Leipzig. He was both dramatist and director at the Berliner Ensemble (with Helene Weigel) and at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin. Author of numerous plays, and of volumes of fiction, poetry and essays, he has won many prizes, most recently the prestigious Georg- Büchner-Preis, in 2000.
David Constantine was born in 1944 in Salford. He has published several volumes of poetry, and translations of Hölderlin, Goethe and Kleist. Until October 2000 he was Fellow in German at the Queen’s College, Oxford.
David Constantine was born in 1944 in Salford. He has published several volumes of poetry, and translations of Hölderlin, Goethe and Kleist. Until October 2000 he was Fellow in German at the Queen’s College, Oxford.
Translated by David Constantine
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