We just watched a very interesting film, about Wolf Biermann. It is free (see link below) & is sub-titled in English - or French if you'd prefer.
Perhaps some may recall this folksinger, who left Western Germany as a youth to go to the GDR - his mum had raised him as a KPD-Communist youth. He calls Brecht "his master" and worked with him at the Berliner Ensemble.The GDR regime exiled him away to the West after one too many cutting songs and overt resistances. Alas no longer a communist - he was thoroughly disillusioned by the GDR regime - which he (mistakenly in my view) calls 'Stalinist'. Another problem was his siding with those calling for the invasion of Iraq. I felt as I imagine Marx and Engels felt as they lamented the errors that 'great poets' make, and 'forgave them' for their art and poetry. i think it was on Heinrich Heine they were talking - but it could have been on Ferdinand Freiligarth. Interesting at many levels. At the end - remains a very sharp and insightful poet. His take on Shakespeare's Sonnet 66 is in relation to the invasion of Ukraine by the dictator; he only wants to stay for his love. -> https://www.arte.tv/en/videos/112331-000-A/deep-thought-a-conversation-with-wolf-biermann/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#35592): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/35592 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/111464796/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
