Re. Grass poem

Kai Frederik Lorentzen lorentzen at hotmail.de
Mon Apr 23 02:08:34 CDT 2012


Already on the same day the poem got published, Frank Schirrmacher wrote 
on the website of the FAZ the comment (next day published in the print 
edition) I put a link to below.

Not only it's not a poem at all (plus: too simpled minded for an actual 
political essay); actually it is, as Schirrmacher with Nietzsche says, a 
"document of imaginary revenge" out of the spirit of resentment, by a 
member of a generation that felt insulted all its life. Not directly 
responsible for World War or Holocaust, people from the 
"Flakhelfergeneration" were definitely deeply coined by the Nazi era and 
had to live with the resulting ambivalences for decades. Schirrmacher's 
final sentence says: "The debate must be over the question whether it is 
justified to imagine the whole world to be a victim of Israel just to 
get along with one's own biography."  My personal answer would be: No.

http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/eine-erlaeuterung-was-grass-uns-sagen-will-11708120.html





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