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30 Jul 2023, Siegfried Lenz (1955): So zärtlich war Suleyken – Masurische Geschichten

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30.7.2023, Siegfried Lenz (1955): So zärtlich war Suleyken – Masurische Geschichten

Fischer Bücherei, Frankfurt am Main und Hamburg; ursprgl.: Hoffmann & Campe Verlag, Hamburg

  • Vorspann: „Es war einmal ein … Dörfchen, …, gelegen irgendwo und nirgendwo in Masuren …
  • Nachspann, „Diskrete Auskunft über Masuren“: „… meine Heimat lag sozusagen im Rücken der Geschichte … Die hier vorliegenden Geschichten sind … kleine Erkundungen der masurischen Seele …
  • 20 Geschichten; Favoriten: Nr. 1 (p.7ff), Der Leseteufel: „Hamilkar Schaß, mein Großvater, ein Herrchen von … einundsiebzig Jahren, hatte sich gerade das Lesen beigebracht, als die Sache losging …“; Nr. 7 (p.54ff), Schissomirs großer Tag; Nr.11 (p.82ff), Die Kunst, einen Hahn zu fangen; Nr. 14 (p.99ff), Sozusagen Dienst am Geist: „… der Lehrer von Suleyken … gewusst, welchen Tags die Inspektion erscheinen sollte, das hatte er nicht …“; Nr. 15 (p.108ff), Eine Sache wie das Impfen: „… unser Kreisphysikus … sann alles ordentlich durch … und sprach so: ‚Wir werden‘, sprach er, ‚impfen!‘“; Nr. 19 (p.133), Die Schüssel der Prophezeiungen: „… mein Onkelchen … fragte: ‚Ist denn, Ludwig Karnickel, auch alles eingetroffen?‘“

Siegfried Lenz, https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegfried_Lenz: (* 17. März 1926 in Lyck, Ostpreußen; † 7. Oktober 2014 in Hamburg) … deutscher Schriftsteller … einer der bekanntesten deutschsprachigen Erzähler der Nachkriegs- und Gegenwartsliteratur. Als … wichtigstes Werk gilt der … Roman Deutschstunde (1968), der die Zeit des Nationalsozialismus … behandelt. Auch seine erste Sammlung von Kurzgeschichten … , So zärtlich war Suleyken, wurde aufgrund seiner neuartigen Erzählweise und der Verwendung der ostpreußisch-masurischen Umgangssprache sehr erfolgreich …

22 Jul 2023, HH Kunsthalle: (i) Vija Celmins, Gerhard Richter – Double Vision, (ii) 1923 – Gesichter einer Zeit

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22.7.2023, HH Kunsthalle: (i) Vija Celmins, Gerhard Richter – Double Vision, (ii) 1923 – Gesichter einer Zeit

(i) Vija Celmins, Gerhard Richter – Double Vision. 12. Mai – 27. Aug 2023, 2. OG, Galerie der Gegenwart (HASPA-Galerie). www.hamburger-kunsthalle.de/ausstellungen/vija-celmins-gerhard-richter / www.hamburger-kunsthalle.de/en/exhibitions/vija-celmins-gerhard-richter-0:

  • Vija Celmins (*1938 Riga) und Gerhard Richter (*1932 Dresden) … Doppelschau … bringt die beiden erstmalig zusammen und macht überraschende Verbindungen sichtbar. Neben der thematischen Nähe, der künstlerischen Arbeit mit fotografischen Vorlagen und der besonderen Bedeutung der Farbe Grau ist es die Frage nach den elementaren Bedingungen des Darstellens … / A double show at the Hamburger Kunsthalle will bring together for the first time …: Vija Celmins (b. 1938 in Riga) and Gerhard Richter (b. 1932 in Dresden). The transatlantic dialogue promises to reveal … surprising parallels – not only shared themes and the use of photographic templates but also an interrogation of the elementary conditions of representation …
  • … Vija Celmins‘ … Gemälde und Zeichnungen sind in Europa selten zu sehen und so möchte die Hamburger Kunsthalle … dazu beitragen, ihrem Werk zu einer größeren Sichtbarkeit und Aufmerksamkeit zu verhelfen. Mit einer starken, weiblichen Position als Dialogpartnerin öffnet sich die Möglichkeit, das oft als singulär vorgestellte Werk Gerhard Richters mit einem frischen Blick neu zu befragen und zu entdecken / Vija Celmins’s … paintings and drawings are all too rarely exhibited in Europe, and the Hamburger Kunsthalle would like to contribute to greater public awareness of her work … juxtaposing such a strong female position with the work of Gerhard Richter, so often presented as a singular phenomenon, provides an opportunity to look at his oeuvre with a fresh eye.

[Nachtrag, 18 Oct 2023] Sabine Danek: Viele Shades of Grey. Szene Hamburg, Aug. 2023, p.70. “… enorm, welche Parallelen es zwischen den Werken der beiden gibt, die sich nie getroffen oder aufeinander bezogen haben. DIe Kuratorin Brigitte Kölle macht sie in der erstaunlichen Ausstellung … sichtbar. Und genauso erstaunlich ist es, dass es die Erste ist, die das Werk der beiden zusammenbringt … zeigt auch, wie Richter schließlich in die Abstraktion abbog, während Celmins es mitunter bis ins Weltall … zieht, um zu zeigen, dass es hinter dem Erwartbaren immer noch einen ganz anderen Raum gibt …”

(ii) 1923 – Gesichter einer Zeit / The Faces of an Era. 28. April 2023 – 24. Sep 2023, Sammlung Klassische Moderne, Lichtwark-Galerie, Säle 38 bis 44. www.hamburger-kunsthalle.de/ausstellungen/1923 / www.hamburger-kunsthalle.de/en/exhibitions/1923:

  • … Fünf Monate lang konzentriert sich die Galerie Klassische Moderne auf … Werke …, die um 1923 entstanden … Einblick in das Kunstschaffen, gesellschaftliche Strömungen und historische Ereignisse … dieses Jahres, in dem auch die Freunde der Kunsthalle e.V. gegründet wurden / To mark the 100th anniversary of the friends’ society Freunde der Kunsthalle e.V., the Hamburger Kunsthalle will pay tribute in 2023 with an exhibition of … works … from its Modern Art collection dating from the years around 1923.
  • … Schwere Krisen erschütterten die junge Weimarer Republik: … Ruhrbesetzung, Hyperinflation, zunehmende Verelendung und Putschversuche … Die Kultur … war politisch, avantgardistisch … Vielfalt, in der sich Impressionismus, Expressionismus, Neue Sachlichkeit, Surrealismus und die angewandte Kunst des Staatlichen Bauhauses begegneten / … Severe crises were unsettling the young Weimar Republic … the occupation of the Ruhr region, hyperinflation, rampant poverty and coup attempts … The culture … was political, avant-garde … diversity, with Impressionism, Expressionism, New Objectivity, Surrealism and applied arts at the state-run Bauhaus happily existing side-by-side.

16 Jun 2023, Re-reading Jack Kerouac (1962): Big Sur

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16.6.2023, Re-reading Jack Kerouac (1962): Big Sur

1985_08_08ca Andrew Molera State park (CA)

Jack Kerouac (1962): Big Sur. Penguin Books (1992). [Acquired 1993]

  • p.5 … coming 3000 miles from my home in Long Island … in a pleasant roomette on the California Zephyr train watching America roll by … up the Hudson Valley and over across New York State to Chicago and then the Plains, the mountains, the desert, the final mountains of California …
  • p.9 … cabdriver … he lets me off at the Raton Canyon bridge … [i.e. Bixby bridge]
  • p.18 … I myself turned from serene Jekyll to hysterical Hyde in … six weeks, losing absolute control of the peace mechanisms of my mind …
  • p.23 So easy in the woods to daydream and pray to the local spirits …
  • p.107 … confusion that’s beginning to pile up in my battered drinking brain …
  • p.166 … the cabin of sweet loneness on Big Sur …
  • p.203 If I try to to turn over the whole universe turns over with me but it’s no better on the other side of the universe …
  • p.211 … a series of explosions that get louder … some of them big orchestral and then rainbow explosions of sound and sight mixed …
  • p.217-241 „SEA“ – Sounds of the Pacific Ocean at Big Sur

p.v-vi Foreword (Aram Saroyan)

p.vi His work … brought something of the luminous pleasures of the French Impressionists into American writing, and something too of the brooding syntactic circuitry of Proust … he was a tender writer …

Back cover / Allen Ginsberg, 10/10/91, N.Y.C.: … a humane, precise account of the extraordinary ravages of alcohol delirium tremens on Kerouac …at the peak of his suffering humerous genius he wrote through his misery to end with „Sea“, a brilliant poem appended, on the hallucinatory Sounds of the Pacific Ocean at Big Sur.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Sur_(novel): … written in the fall of 1961 over a ten-day period, with Kerouac typewriting onto a teletype roll … recounts the events surrounding … three brief sojourns to a cabin in Bixby Canyon, Big Sur, California, owned by Kerouac’s friend … Lawrence Ferlinghetti; at the same time dealing with his increased drinking and declining mental health … departs from his previous fictionalized autobiographical series in that the character Duluoz [Kerouac] is shown as a popular … published author; most of Kerouac’s previous novels … portray him as a bohemian traveller.

Cf.:

  • 5.5.2023, NYC (Sub)Cultural anchorage [incl. cumulative listing of Beat references]
  • 25.2.2021, Lawrence Ferlinghetti died 3 days ago, at age 101
  • 30.7.-1.8.1988, Amtrak California Zephyr; Chicago – Oakland

27 May 2023, ♣ Berkeley: Poetry Garden „Allen Ginsberg“ & Arts Magnet School

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27.5.2023, ♣ Berkeley: Poetry Garden „Allen Ginsberg“ & Arts Magnet School

Poetry Garden, https://berkeleyplaques.org/plaque/poetry-garden/: … honors Berkeley’s many innovative poets, poetry presses and publications … dedicated in 1999 on the second anniversary of … Allen Ginsberg’s death … Ginsberg lived across the street in a now demolished house at 1624 Milvia Street while writing … parts of his … Howl! … Jack Kerouac lived for a time in a “rose-covered cottage” on Berkeley Way … The creation of the garden was a joint effort of students, teachers, and parents from the Berkeley Arts Magnet … School together with neighbors and the City of Berkeley. Berkeley Historical Plaque Project 2000

Berkeley Arts Magnet at Whittier school, https://www.berkeleyartsmagnet.org/: … 2015 Virginia St. Berkeley, CA 94709 … commonly referred to as BAM, is a K through 5 elementary school … The school community values learning experiences in all domains, and consistently pledges funds and instructional time to incorporate visual and performing arts into a comprehensive education program …

Cf. 5.5.2023, NYC (Sub)Cultural anchorage

19-21 May 2023, Φ Esalen Retreat and Institute (Big Sur)

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19.-21.5.2023, Φ Esalen Retreat and Institute (Big Sur)

Esalen Institute, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esalen_Institute: … a non-profit … retreat center and intentional community in Big Sur, California, which focuses on humanistic alternative education … played a key role in the Human Potential Movement beginning in the 1960s. Its innovative use of encounter groups … and their … experimentation in personal awareness introduced many ideas that later became mainstream … founded by Michael Murphy and Dick Price in 1962 … to support alternative methods for exploring human consciousness … Over the next few years, Esalen became the center of practices and beliefs that make up the New Age movement, from Eastern religions/philosophy, to alternative medicine and mind-body interventions, from transpersonal to Gestalt Practice … Alan Watts gave the first lecture at Esalen in January 1962 … Abraham Maslow, a prominent humanistic psychologist, … happened to drive into the grounds and … became an important figure at the institute … Early leaders included … Ansel Adams, … Buckminster Fuller, Timothy Leary, … Linus Pauling, Carl Rogers, … B.F. Skinner, and Arnold Toynbee … In 1964, Joan Baez led a workshop entitled “The New Folk Music”… Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, … Gary Snyder and others held poetry readings and workshops.

On the way to Esalen: Bixby bridge.

Excerpt: Jeffrey J Kripal, Glenn W. Shuck (eds.) (2005): On the edge of the future. Esalen and the evolution of American culture. Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN, USA:

  • (pp.1ff Introducing Esalen) p.6: two Esalen … mantras – „No one captures the flag“ and „We hold our dogmas lightly“ …
  • (pp.45ff Catherine L. Albanese: Ch. 2, Sacred (and secular) self-fashioning: Esalen and the American transformation of Yoga) p.73: … when the …Institute opened its doors in 1962, it took to heart its mission of exploring the „human potential“ …
  • (pp.165ff Gordon Wheeler: Ch. 6, Spirit and shadow: Esalen and the Gestalt model) p.170 … founding of two of the most remarkable … and alternative projects of those times. One was the Esalen Institute … in 1962 … The other was the Gestalt model of psychotherapy, first articulated by Frederick (Fritz) Perls and Paul Goodman … in the early postwar period … the Gestalt approach would continue to color (and be colored by) the development of the Institute over the next several decades … p.172 Gestalt… is the psychology of constructivism … p.194 … the urgent task at hand: the co-creation of a sustainable, livable world …
  • (pp. 197ff Robert C. Fuller: Ch. 7, Esalen and the cultural boundaries of metalanguage) p.208 … Attending Esalen links one to a community that spans generations – a community including Native Americans, beatniks, literati, and countercultural rebels … pp.211-214 Carl Rogers … Esalen connections …
  • (pp. 250ff Don Hanlon Johnson: Ch. 9, From Sarx to Soma: Esalen’s role in recovering the body for spiritual development) p.256 … Esalen was in some ways like a Wild West version of the 1920s German Bauhaus … p.260 … Esalen’s role … is due in part to its extraordinary natural beauty … p.265 … unique … place on the edge of the Western world that is closer to Kyoto than to Athens …
  • (pp. 268 ff Marion S. Goldman: Ch. 11, Esalen Institute, essence faiths, and the religious marketplace) p.268 Esalen brings together essence faiths from both eastern and western spiritual traditions. These religions do not have deities who reveal ultimate truths … Instead, … posit ephemeral … supernatural essences within individuals and, in some traditions, … in the natural world … p.287 … consider Esalen as a spiritual retreat, think tank, and pilgrimage center and as an example of … personal growth centers … p.287-288 Informal exchanges link Esalen with … the California Institute of Integral Studies … p.292 Landscape is Esalen’s keystone …