Mommsen's block
Mommsen's block is a long poem by Heiner Müller , which - as has been pointed out several times - can just as easily be read as a theater text. It was written in December 1992 . It was first published in 1993 in Drucksache 1 , a series published by the Berliner Ensemble .
Subject of the text
Like many of Müller's texts, Mommsen's block is strongly associative and therefore it is difficult to identify the subject of the text straight away. The main topic is the speaker's dissatisfaction with the development of society after German reunification . He compares the unified Germany with the Roman Empire after Caesar. The speaker recognizes in Theodor Mommsen's missing volume on the Roman Empire a writer's block, which was caused by the decadence of this epoch, and sees a parallel to his own situation here.
Associations in the text
- Mommsen's block
- This refers to the monument created by Adolf Brütt . The long poem was created on the occasion of the return of the seat image by Theodor Mommsen to its old location in front of the Humboldt University .
- Before his monument stood on your pedestal
- For one state The base is your location again
- In front of the university, named after Humboldt
- Felix Guattari
- The text is dedicated to Félix Guattari . He died five months before the text was written.
- Tacitus
- Publius Cornelius Tacitus a historian of the Roman Empire, he criticized the decadence of his time.
- Machstrasse
- Fictional street in which the speaker locates Mommsen's house. Probably refers to Ernst Mach and his work on sensory psychology and philosophy .
- The street is less fictional than that Heiner Müller simply misspelled the street in which Mommsen actually lived, namely Marchstrasse, and then did it
- still left standing there - for whatever reason.
- Dilthey to Earl York
- This refers to the philosophers Wilhelm Dilthey and Paul Yorck von Wartenburg , who were in the correspondence.
- Wilamowitz
- Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff was a contemporary of Mommsen.
- John on Patmos
- The Revelation of John .
- Divine Comedy
- Divine Comedy , Dante's major work
- Ezra Pound ... the other Virgil
- Ezra Pound and Virgil
literature
Works 1. The poems , Frankfurt a. M. 1998, ISBN 3-51840-389-3 .
Buck, Theo: 'The Eagles in the Swamp' or The failed German unit . Weidler Buchverlag, 2011. 106 pages. ISBN 978-3-89693-296-9 . (In-depth interpretation of the poem).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sinn und Form, 1993, p. 210