Memorial to the Future
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It is no coincidence that the poet Volker von Törne was, for many years, the Director of Aktion Sühnezeichen Friedensdienste (Action for Atonement – Service for Peace), the German charitable organisation for education and reparation in countries throughout the world that have suffered under fascism and other oppressive regimes. His father had been a member of the SS in Germany in the Second World War, and as a consequence, his poetry is written from the perspective of someone who suffered, through no fault of his own, from terrible guilt after the war. This selection from von Toerne's collected poems is particularly significant in that it is a powerful and moving articulation of the psychological burden still carried by countless people today whose voices are not often heard, a burden which von Toerne's powerful, poignant and sometimes angry poetry helps us all the better to understand.

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Publisher
Arc Publications
Year
2017
ISBN
9781910345665
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
European Poetry
Index
Literature
Elegie (1)
Dörfer, windschief im Regen
Wiesen im Weidenlicht
Die sanfte Schönheit
Der Mädchen am Abend
Überm Zaun des Flieders
Duftender Schnee

Land, ausgelöscht
Aus allen Atlanten
Verbrannte Erde, Asche
Von Wurzeln durchbohrt
Worte, geworfen wie Steine
In steigende Wasser

Kürzer werden die Tage
Kälter das Licht
In den Händen nichts
Als meine Trauer
Sammle ich in meinen Augen
Die Scherben des Himmels
Elegy (1)
Villages, wind-bent in rain
Meadows in willow-light
The gentle beauty
Of girls in the evening
A lilac-tree over the fence
Sweet-smelling snow

This land wiped out
From every atlas
Scorched earth, ashes
Pierced by roots
Words thrown like stones
Into rising waters

The days are growing shorter
And the light colder
In my hands nothing
But grief
In my eyes I gather up
The fragments of the sky
Nachricht
Sie haben die Erde
vermessen.
Sie erklären
die Sonne,
durchschauen
den Wind.
Der Regenbogen
ist ihnen untertan. Jetzt

fliegt der Greif. Der Tazzelwurm
schlägt seine Klauen in Beton.
Message
They have measured
the earth.
They explain
the sun,
interpret
the wind.
The rainbow
is in their power. Now

the Griffin flies. The Tatzelwurm
drives its claws into concrete.



The Tatzelwurm, like the Griffin, is a mythical creature. Whereas the Griffin is part lion and part eagle, the Tatzelwurm, which, according to legend, lives in the Alps, is half cat and half lizard.
Arbeitgeber
Seine Kinder laufen
barfuß. Seine Frau
geht betteln. Er nagt
am Hungertuch. Weinend
d...

Table of contents

  1. CONTENTS
  2. Series Editor’s note
  3. Translator’s Preface
  4. Introduction
  5. Wassili am Weg
  6. Vasily on the Road
  7. Endlösung
  8. Final Solution
  9. Deutscher Psalm
  10. German Psalm
  11. Abschied
  12. Leaving
  13. Wege
  14. Paths
  15. Rauch
  16. Smoke
  17. Was mir die Leute sagen
  18. What People Tell Me
  19. Erinnerung an die Zukunft
  20. Memorial to the Future
  21. An Hölty
  22. To Hölty
  23. Pogrom
  24. Pogrom
  25. Erinnerung an einen Oberlehrer
  26. Memorial to a Schoolmaster
  27. Krähenflügel
  28. The Wing of the Crow
  29. Am Wegrand
  30. By the Wayside
  31. Wege der Asche
  32. On Paths of Ashes
  33. Herbstfeier
  34. Autumn Festival
  35. Sieger der Geschichte
  36. History’s True Heroes
  37. Elegie (1)
  38. Elegy (1)
  39. Nachricht
  40. Message
  41. Arbeitgeber
  42. Employer
  43. An Attila József
  44. To Attila József
  45. Masurischer Sommer
  46. Summer in the Masurian Lakes
  47. Mittagslicht
  48. Midday Light
  49. Elegie (2)
  50. Elegy (2)
  51. Am Schreibtisch
  52. At This Desk
  53. Diesseits
  54. Over Here
  55. Im Fahrtwind
  56. In the Rush of Air
  57. Nachmittagsbesuch
  58. An Afternoon Visit
  59. Vaterlandslos
  60. Free of my Fatherland
  61. Epigramm
  62. Epigram
  63. Frühlingsgedicht
  64. Spring Song
  65. Flugblatt
  66. Flyer
  67. Selbstgespräch
  68. Soliloquy
  69. Rückzug
  70. Withdrawal
  71. Notstand
  72. State of Emergency
  73. Anrufung meines Engels
  74. I Call upon my Angel
  75. Beim Lesen der Zeitung
  76. While Reading the Paper
  77. Stunde der Wölfe
  78. Hour of the Wolves
  79. Gedanken im Mai
  80. Thoughts in May
  81. Bilder
  82. Images
  83. An Ahasver
  84. To Ahasuerus
  85. An Hölderlin
  86. To Hölderlin
  87. Notstandsübung
  88. Emergency Drill
  89. Eiszeit
  90. Ice Age
  91. Erinnerung an Carl Sandburg
  92. Remembering Carl Sandburg
  93. Auf dem Boden des Grundgesetzes (1976)
  94. The Constitution (1976)
  95. Kriegsspiel
  96. War Game
  97. Regierungserklärung
  98. A Statement by the Government
  99. Pastorale
  100. Pastoral
  101. Trinkspruch
  102. Drinking Song
  103. Liebesgedicht
  104. Love Poem
  105. Zu Beginn der Achtzigerjahre. Nach Catull
  106. At the Start of the Eighties: After Catullus
  107. Biographical Notes