Walter Kempowski (1929 - 2007)
Salzburger Festspiele
Ok, this year’s festival was a short one for me. I saw only a couple of performances but some of these were really excellent!
1) Grisey: Les Espaces Acoustiques. I’ve already written about that one on this blog.
Marc Ribot
2) Then there was this other concert from the Kontinent Scelsi series. An evening with the Ensemble [...]
The Academy of Arts in Berlin will open its exhibition on the life and works of Walter Kempowski tonight. No other book in recent years has fascinated me as much as Kempowski’s Echolot. A collective diary, as Kempowski call his opus magnus in the subtitle, the book brings together thousands of autobiographical reports, letters, diaries, [...]
“Dann eines Tages kam ein Ritterkreuzträger in unsere Unterkunft und wir mußten alle antreten - so einer mit einem Arm, ein Kriegsversehrter, er war Offizier, mit zwei eisernen Leuten : ‘So sagt er, Kameraden, jetzt meldet ihr euch alle freiwillig zur SS, wir wollen das Hitler zum Geburtstag schenken,’ das muß so ungefähr der 15 [...]