October 1998

Max Neumann, Untitled, 1991.

Joachim Sartorius
Ingeborg Bachmann
Jürgen Becker
Ulrich Beil
Gottfried Benn

Table of Contents

From this Issue

Poem

Teils-teils/Half This, Half That

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Das Gewächshaus/The Greenhouse

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Ars Poetica 62/Ars Poetica 62

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Gottfried Benn
- Teils-teils/Half This, Half That
Bertolt Brecht
- Das Gewächshaus/The Greenhouse
Paul Celan
- Ars Poetica 62/Ars Poetica 62
Ingeborg Bachmann
- Keine Delikatessen/No Delicacies
Rolf-Dieter Brinkmann
- Sommer (Aus dem Amerikanischen)/Summer (From the American English)
Friederike Mayröcker
- Todes Auffassung/Conception of Death
- the obsessed age, Tr. by Margitt Lehbert
- Nausea, Tr. by Margitt Lehbert
Ernst Jandl
- kommentar/comment
- ende der schmach/end of infamy
- schweizer armeemesser/swiss army knife
Oskar Pastior
- fliegen eintag polyglott
- An Interview
Heiner Müller
- [Leichter Regen auf leichtem Staub]/[Light rain on light dust]
- Herz der Finsternis nach Joseph Conrad/Heart of Darkness Adapted from Joseph Conrad
Hans Magnus Enzensberger
- Die Verschwundenen/The Vanished
- Asphodelen/Asphodels
- Thoughts on the Run I-V
Jürgen Becker
- Chronik/Chronicle
- What One Can
- Oderbruch
- In Memory of Donald Barthelme
Sarah Kirsch
- Wiepersdorf/Wiepersdorf
- Free Verses
- Winter Music
Adel Karasholi
- Das Seil/The Rope
- Die Brücke/The Bridge
Robert Gernhardt
- Ach/Last Call
- Ballad of Depicting the Light
- So Much and So Many
- Guarding My Body
Volker Braun
- O Chicago! O Widerspruch!/O Chicago! O Dialectic!
- Das Theater der Toten/The Theater of the Dead
- Das Eigentum/Property
Gregor Laschen
- Die Poetik der Steine/The Poetics of Stones
- The Text of the Bird
Anne Duden
- Mouth Shut
Michael Krüger
- Vla-di-mir Na-bo-kov/Vla-di-mir Na-bo-kov
- Venetian Poetics
- Poet's Missive
Joachim Sartorius
- Poetics
- Gräber/Graves
- Language, Foreign: Saying You and Being Heard: On Poetry in German, 1986-1996
Thomas Rosenlöcher
- Minus/Subtraction
- Die Blütenfestung/The Flower Fortress
- The Neon Icon
- The Silent Depths
Gerhard Falkner
- Menues hinter Windows mit Blumen/Menus Behind Windows with Flowers
- klage um bernhard/lament for bernhard
- naked lunch poem I
- The Birthmark
Ernest Wichner
- [Das Fenster Zu]/[The Window Closed]
- Once More Kaspar Hauser
- Maggots
Brigitte Oleschinski
- Angefrorener Tang/Frozen Seaweed
- Nobody Here
- Out of the Night Talked Dry
Kurt Drawert
- Kaspar Hauser/Kaspar Hauser
- In This Situation
- The Last Picture
Ulrich J. Beil
- Fremdwörter/Foreign Words
- From The Crux of the Matter
Thomas Kling
- Stratum III (Beatrice)
- Stratum II (Double-headed Hermes)
- Stratum I (Petrarch)
- serner, karlsbad/serner, karlsbad
Barbara Köhler
- In the Movies
- Salutation Two: Diotima to Bellarmin
- Ingeborg Bachmann stirbt in Rom/Ingeborg Bachmann Dies in Rome
Zehra Çirac
- Doppelte Nationaltätsmoral/Dual Nationality: A Moral Tale
- Istanbul/Istanbul
José F. A. Oliver
- wassersprache/waterlanguage
- heimkehr, traueratem/homecoming, sigh
Durs Grünbein
- To a Chimpanzee in the London Zoo
- O Homeland, Cynical Euphone
- Biologischer Walzer/Biological Waltz
- The Ear in the Clock
- Casta Diva
Raoul Schrott
- Physikalische Optik I/Physical Perception I
- hotel vesuvius
- hotel continental
Marcel Beyer
- Dark Eyes
- Jihad Klänge der Heimat/Jihad Sounds of Home
- Only Two Suitcases
- Leni, tiernah/Leni, Animal Close
- Approaching Blue