Ms. Schalansky, you have worked for your book, “directory of some of the losses,” five years in space: with a destroyed painting by Caspar David Friedrich, in the extinct Caspian Tiger, or the fragmentary poetry of Sappho. What is the last thing you lost?
The poplar trees outside my window. Down there you can still see the Stumps. Four weeks ago, the men came back and they like it. That was incredibly painful. I have spoken with the Competent by the parks Department. These poplars, he said, had reached their destination the age. They were healthy, but tend to, Branches to throw off, and down here in the yard of a family centre is situated, so that a child could come to harm. You cut back costs a lot of money.
you Were not well prepared for such a loss, according to your research on the topic?
That’s what I thought. And then I was crying because of these trees. Dendrolog they are considered to be not particularly valuable, but I like the poplars, the happy growing to you. The leaves have what is pennant-like, to make beautiful sounds. The squirrel, which we were able to observe there almost every day, hung up to the end, motionless in the crown. It was only when the tree is already tipped, jumped it. Since then, we have not seen it.
Judith Schalansky
Judith Schalansky, 39, is best known for her “Atlas of remote Islands” and the novel “The neck of the Giraffe,” international. Both works designed the a trained book designer self and the award of the Stiftung buchkunst for the most beautiful book of the year, won. With the series “Nature” at the Berlin-based publisher Matthes & Seitz, the art historian has made the Genre of “Nature Writing” popular in Germany.
Schalansky grew up on the village, as a teacher, a child in the vicinity of Greifswald. She now lives with actress Bettina Hoppe and daughter in Berlin. 16. May is reading the author in the Potsdam Museum of her latest work, “a directory of some of the losses” (Suhrkamp),.
The conversation takes place at the long table in their bright Studio apartment in Berlin Wilmersdorf, surrounded by books. A corner Shelf is reserved for the monsters, the you times wanted to write. One idea that you rejected. The writer is talking about, as she writes: very precise, highly compressed. Even more Cut not actually.
Therefore, this is a longer version than in the paper.
you Can also disconnect objects difficult?
In our family, there was never great heirlooms. I have a Hang of doing things themselves even as heirlooms, fetish prison deal in order to formalize the you Muse. I have a box full of Teeth marks from me, because they’re such beautiful objects.
you have engaged a clean-up consultant.
appeared As the book, I rewarded myself with an order Manager. I can only recommend, especially as a Couple. We have not ventured to the personal stuff, but to be able to what you believe in, easy to sort out. Kitchen utensils. This woman is such a Solomonic advice: Now everyone is allowed to keep an ugly Cup.
And everyone was allowed to throw an ugly Cup from the other out?
Yes, so what do you do then. But it remains at this level, it is escalated less. Often things have to serve Yes, to negotiate something quite different. I’m unfortunately more likely to be collectors. The documents on my Desk, that’s not even more towers, there are geological layers. My many books do not have only what is Cozy, but what’s Threatening, Intrusive,. How many of them are unread! Also things can make a allegations.
The GDR, they have lost nine when the wall fell. How have you seen the time?
The adults were overwhelmed at once. Our teacher didn’t know what she should teach, and started poetry in February, with Spring, because you could make Lenin’s youth now. The Land of Childhood is not for all one, in the back. But for me, it lost twice. That is possible, that overnight, a whole reference system to dissolve, was not only traumatic, but also beautiful: a utopian Moment. This is the experience we have in Eastern Germany.
More about
clean-up consultant, Gunda Borgeest “After four weeks, the sock in the trash”
Julia Prosinger Marius Buhl
it Was the end of their Childhood?
Yes. I was confused, whether I should “buy now Mickey mouse” or “Bravo”. I don’t know what is “girrrls” and “bois”. At once there was a target audience. In 1990, I was at summer camp on the island of Rügen, in the morning we had to line up, but there was no slogans. The replaced then a loud: Good Morning! Mistaken, that the Form survives, even if the contents are long gone. A from the time a fallen summer.
page 1 of 4 next page “My heart is beating for the loser filled with” The loss of the father, The Stabi – a special place The snail read as the queer precursor to article on a page
