"These terrible longings" or to be united indefinitely
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| Radio feature from Germany | |
| original language | German |
| publication | December 26, 2010 |
| genre | "Poetic audio piece" |
| Duration | 55 min |
| production | WDR 3 |
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| author | Alban Nikolai Herbst |
| Director | Alban Nikolai Herbst |
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“These terrible longings” or to be united indefinitely is a radio feature by Alban Nikolai Herbst . The first broadcast took place on December 26, 2010 in WDR 3 .
construction
The "poetic audio piece" takes about 55 minutes and is divided into an intro and three movements: falling asleep (starts at around 4:30 minutes), dreaming (from around 27:00) and awakening (from around 48: 30). In terms of content, it is a continuous quote collage with texts on romanticism from the end of the 18th century to the present. The underlying idea is
- “To seek out the traces of romantic thought - both of its revolutionary and of its reactionary (it can hardly be dismissed out of hand that romanticism had an enormous influence on Hitler's rise to power and on the development of his ideology) - in the present and to ring out bring to".
In this respect, the audio piece is reminiscent of Elfriede Jelinek's piece of clouds, which also consists of (partly modified) quotations, both in terms of content and form . Autumn is primarily about making the cycle visible, which always allows a new romanticism to follow an old one:
- "Political awakening, empowerment, consolidation, paralysis, disintegration and new political awakening - these are the cycles, part of the romantic movement itself."
The quotation "These terrible sinews" in the title of the audio piece comes from Richard Wagner's opera Tristan und Isolde .
Work process
On November 6, 2010, Herbst began working on the feature publicly. On his website he wrote and discussed seven longer entries on the subject.
Sources of quotation
- Guillaume Apollinaire ( Alcools )
- Louis Aragon ( The Parisian Peasant )
- Hermann Bahr ( The Modern Age ; Overcoming Naturalism )
- Honoré de Balzac
- Charles Baudelaire ( The Flowers of Evil ; The Artificial Paradises )
- Ernst Behler
- Walter Benjamin ( main features of the first hashish impression )
- Gottfried Benn ( Cocaine ; O, night )
- Paulus Böhmer (by the sea )
- Clemens Brentano (letter to Karoline von Günderrode 1802)
- Karl Heinz Bohrer ( This is the last stand ; " Zeit " interview 1997; The Aesthetics of Terror )
- Lord Byron (but you, unbeliever )
- Uwe Dick ( Theriak ; Hab in the dune rubble )
- Peter Doig
- Ulrike Draesner ( Isar. Rausch )
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte
- Théophile Gautier
- William Gibson ( neuromancer )
- Allen Ginsberg ( Last Night in Calcutta )
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ( Faust I ; Prometheus )
- Rainald Goetz ( Subito ; Rave ; Lawsuit )
- Jorge Guillén ( Cántico )
- Manfred Hausmann ( night watch )
- Alban Nikolai Herbst ( Thetis. Anderswelt ; Argo. Anderswelt )
- Hermann Hesse ( Siddhartha )
- Georg Heym ( The Demons of the City )
- Thomas Kling ( Ratinger Hof, Zettbeh (3) )
- Else Lasker-Schüler ( escape from the world )
- Jürgen Lorenz
- David Lynch (interview)
- Thomas Meinecke ( music )
- Friedrich Nietzsche ( On Truth and Lies in the Extra-Moral Sense ; The Happy Science ; Also Spoke Zarathustra )
- Novalis ( Hymns to the Night ; The Apprentices at Sais )
- Ezra Pound ( Sestina: Altaforte )
- Thomas Pynchon
- Rengha Rodewill ( Manifesto 2000 )
- Friedrich Schlegel ( Athenaeum fragments no.116 and no.424; signature of the age ; about La Martine's religious poems ; speech about mythology )
- Sabine Scho ( Shades )
- Arthur Schopenhauer ( The world as will and imagination )
- Bram Stoker ( Dracula )
- Ulf Stolterfoht ( technical languages X )
- Rahel Varnhagen
- Dorothea F. Voigtländer ( furnishing tips: cozy apartment in winter )
- Richard Wagner ( Tristan and Isolde ; Beethoven )
The music recordings are by Hector Berlioz , Anton Bruckner , Sinéad O'Connor , Depeche Mode , Jimi Hendrix , JJ Cale , Konstantin Wecker , Sven Väth and Richard Wagner.
Web links
- “These terrible sinews” or to be united indefinitely ( memento from November 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of WDR 3
- Alban Nikolai Herbst: These terrible longings OR to be united indefinitely (1). To the concept.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Archived copy ( Memento from July 1, 2011 in the Internet Archive )