Julia Schiefer is reporting on the OMNIBUS Reading Tour – without actually partaking personally, of course! A blog somewhere between fiction and reality: she will be taking us on her own Hop-On Hop-Off bus tour with real insights instead of the usual sightseeing! Her excursions – open to all – are designed for everyday life (but mostly out of range). If you look to your left, you may see a dog chewing on a skirt; to your right, a scooter transporting a bucket of water as a chariot carries a peacock off to a jolly good show. Continue reading Travel log. Stuff your piney whispers
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Answering Kleist: Michael Spyra (in German)
Answering Kleist – Michael Spyra
Kleist’s Achilles Das Klopfen stiller Tränen auf’s Papier war, was den Meister aus dem Schlummer zog. “Ein Sturm, vielleicht? Das Dach nicht dicht? Ach was! dann hätten doch die Fenster auch gescheppert. Schon wieder also irgendwas verschüttet, das durch die Balkenbohlendecke sickert, um mir das Manuskript zu ruinieren.” So geht’s ihm durch den Kopf, schon ist er auf, zu seinem Schreibtisch, stockt, reibt sich die Augen. Da sitzt Achilles selbst, der Herr der Klingen, auch Meister aller Zungen, wie es scheint, und Lazarus der Myrmidonen, liest die jüngsten Verse Kleist’s, Penthesilea, hochkonzentriert, dass er das blasse Nachthemd und nicht das Wasser an den Linsen merkt. “Ist also von den Toten auferstanden” schießt es dem Herrn der Federn in den Sinn: “und hier und heute Nacht mein erster Leser!” Doch näher wagt er sich nicht an den Geist, verharrt, wie angewurzelt auf der Schwelle, bis sein Besuch im Morgenlicht verschwindet, bevor er eilig jede Seiten prüft, um mit der Tinte schleunigst nachzubessern.
Answering Kleist: Richard Duraj
Kleist’s letter answered
Dear Henry. Or is it ‘Dearest’? I hardly knew ye. To whom it may concern. I remember eighteen-o-five as a time. As a matter of fact. As you were. The average year would be 1910, I guess, just between you and me. Would this be a Germany both of us could be comfortable with, at least a little, the best of both worlds for a meet and greet? When the bus came and stopped at the bus stop, when the doors opened I entered, then showed the driver what must be shown. Always. And I thought of you, ‘thought’ in the broadest sense of that term. I wanted to write something. I saw streets like you wouldn’t believe, through the windows in this little city named fittingly Berlin. Most if not all the trees you ever saw aren’t here anymore. Carriages are automobiles now and pigs can fly. Would you wonder out and about, wandering through the parks, with its nature unfolding, with that grin you could have been known for, if you were here with me? It was January, when you wrote Earnest. It must have been cold that winter. As every winter. I’m not a good conversationalist, but I’m quite the listener, drifting ever further away from you, into my own mind, never listening in this endless suburb, the bus halting neither here nor there. There is a Kleiststraße in the city I grew up, certainly, and I never thought about it. There was a girl I liked, perhaps loved, in my own silly way. She was a looker, but when I saw her I don’t think I was ever reminded of Europe, ready to get fucked by the metamorphosed Zeus, bull virility and all. Poor Earnest, being a canvas your feelings could sublime themselves on. No wonder he didn’t write back. But i jest. I did the same thing. It’s evening now. As it must be. Time to move on. I left the bus at the Kleistpark. Shadows grow here between the columns, there’s a rectangle of green, being green and nothing else. It’s not easy being green. A muppet once sang that. It could make you wonder why. But why wonder, why wonder. So there’s that. I hope you’re well when this letter reaches you.
R. D.
Answering Kleist: Ilse Kilic pictures
Travel log. Never go this way, Red-Riding-Hood!
Julia Schiefer is reporting on the OMNIBUS Reading Tour – without actually partaking personally, of course! A blog somewhere between fiction and reality: she will be taking us on her own Hop-On Hop-Off bus tour with real insights instead of the usual sightseeing! Her excursions – open to all – are designed for everyday life (but mostly out of range). If you look to your left, you may see a dog chewing on a skirt; to your right, a scooter transporting a bucket of water as a chariot carries a peacock off to a jolly good show… Continue reading Travel log. Never go this way, Red-Riding-Hood!
Travel log. Dedicated to Sven.
Julia Schiefer is reporting on the OMNIBUS Reading Tour – without actually partaking personally, of course! A blog somewhere between fiction and reality: she will be taking us on her own Hop-On Hop-Off bus tour with real insights instead of the usual sightseeing! Her excursions – open to all – are designed for everyday life (but mostly out of range). If you look to your left, you may see a dog chewing on a skirt; to your right, a scooter transporting a bucket of water as a chariot carries a peacock off to a jolly good show… Continue reading Travel log. Dedicated to Sven.
Travel log. A word, an action, a token
Julia Schiefer is reporting on the OMNIBUS Reading Tour – without actually partaking personally, of course! A blog somewhere between fiction and reality: she will be taking us on her own Hop-On Hop-Off bus tour with real insights instead of the usual sightseeing! Her excursions – open to all – are designed for everyday life (but mostly out of range). If you look to your left, you may see a dog chewing on a skirt; to your right, a scooter transporting a bucket of water as a chariot carries a peacock off to a jolly good show…
Partners in Crime.
Traffic news for the bus.
| A1 | minor | Location : The A1 southbound exit slip to the A1139 . Status : Currently Active. Return To Normal : Normal traffic conditions are expected between 08:45 and 09:00 on 13 May 2016. Reason : Congestion. | ||
| A14 | minor | Location : The A14 eastbound at junction J33 Cambridge. Status : Currently Active. Return To Normal : Normal traffic conditions are expected between 08:45 and 09:00 on 13 May 2016. Delay : There are currently delays of 10 minutes against expected traffic. Reason : Congestion. | ||
| A69 | minor | Status : Currently Active. Time To Clear : The event is expected to clear between 09:30 and 09:45 on 13 May 2016. Location : The A14 westbound entry slip at junction J34 Fen Ditton . Return To Normal : Normal traffic conditions are expected between 09:30 and 09:45 on 13 May 2016. Lanes Closed : There are lane closures. Reason : Obstruction caused by a broken down Heavy Goods Vehicle. | ||
| E16 + E6 | unclear | Status: No reports lately. The event is expected to already have cleared up on 13 May 2016. Location: E16 and/or E6, unknown Bus is travelling on one of them. No delay: The traffic has been interrupted but is supposed to run smoothly again. Reason: An accident happened on a trial track of Google Inc. near the highway. A test of a self-driving car was conducted. Due to several reasons it ended in the car swerving into the main road, leaving the passenger hurt but still alive. The person testing the automated car was allegedly an author. Read more. | ||
| M62 | none | Status : Currently Active. Lane Closures : Lane three is closed. Time To Clear : The event is expected to clear between 10:00 and 10:15 on 13 May 2016. Location : The M62 westbound at junction J27 . Return To Normal : Normal traffic conditions are expected between 09:30 and 09:45 on 13 May 2016. Lanes Closed : There is one of three lanes closed. Reason : Road traffic collision. |
Partners in Crime. Where art thou, Norway?
Hi folks, country musicians, fjord walkers, cloud gardeners and fellow participants, unexpected room-mates and folly colleagues in what can be called a collectivisation CROWD, hi to everyone on the road or not, and hi to the authors currently on the bus. Seemingly the authors disappeared for a little while, leaving only small traces of their journey. Listen to the silence of Norway.
In conversation with the authors. Norway
The second week (out of 12) of the OMNIBUS tour has started. The bus crawls up north to Tromsø covering big streches across Lapland before gradually falling back down again towards continental Europe. Please let me introduce the authors on tour once again, in a handy shake-around.