GR-related: "The Orchestra of Expropriated Hereros" (satire by Tucholsky from 1930)

Kai Frederik Lorentzen lorentzen at hotmail.de
Sat Dec 14 11:16:06 UTC 2019


Does anybody know more about this?

+ ... Tucholsky schrieb 1930 eine Satire auf einen Berliner Kolonialball, in dem ein „Orchester enteigneter Hereros“ den Takt vorgibt ... +

https://www.welt.de/print/die_welt/literatur/article204315688/Das-vergessene-Kapitel.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Tucholsky

"Back in Südwest, the Erdschweinhöhle was a powerful symbol of fertility and life. But here in the Zone, its real status is not so clear.
   Inside the Schwarzkommando there are forces, at present, who have opted for sterility and death. The struggle is mostly in silence, in the night, in the nauseas and crampings of pregnancies or miscarriages. But it is political struggle. No one is more troubled with it than Enzian."

Gravity's Rainbow, p. 316




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