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pentecost

6月 15, 2011

pentecost

many stars are out tonight
many clouds around the moon
i can’t see her from this house
she must be around the corner
must be round the neighborhood
it is pentecost today
and we heard a lovely sermon
dorothea’s going soon
there is too much distance here
people cannot feel the spirit
god vibrating on the water
jewish men from different countries
like it says there in the bible
can we understand each other
although we don’t speak the language
many men from different places
many people in vienna
are we very far from jesus
everything looks very nice
and the weather has been lovely
are we safe here in vienna
can we feel the holy spirit
dorothea preached a sermon
and we felt at home a little
some of them don’t come to church
but they are for renovation
dorothea is a priestess
and christine is a priestess
and they have a lot of spirit
so they even made us welcome
i don’t understand the people
those who dominate the churches
i don’t care for them at all
we come for the weekly service
for the singing, for the organ
for a certain tolerance
it was better for the children
when it looked a little shabby
it’s a little bit like china
there’s not much democracy
and not very much religion
god is in the organ music
the vibration on the water
it is pentecost this weekend
lovely little holiday
so we’re going to the water
at the danube, for the children
we meet friends and we meet strangers
kari astrid jennifer
dorothea babtized maia
pentecost one year ago
leo’s doing better now
we had many languages
for vienna’s night of churches
it was dorothea’s project
we will have the taiwan choir
it’s an ordinary church
we are strangers in vienna
although we belong here now

MW June 2011

Lunar eclipse of June 15, 2011

Thanks to Malika Saulnier!

Lunar eclipse of June 15, 2011

Thanks to Malika Saulnier!

A spirits outlet in Vienna's 16th district. Thanks to Thomas Palfinger!

A spirits outlet in Vienna's 16th district. Thanks to Thomas Palfinger!

A spirits outlet in Vienna's 16th district. Thanks to Thomas Palfinger!

A spirits outlet in Vienna's 16th district. Thanks to Thomas Palfinger!

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so

6月 2, 2011

so (children’s day)

it is children’s day today
so i’m very very tired
as i’ve been for many years
so i don’t appear so often
so i’m very very late
so i’m here like anyone
so we’re doing what we can
so i’ll have another birthday
so we’ve china to remember
so we’ve 1989
so we’re doing what we can

MW June 1st, 2011

Maia & Leo

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Ai Weiwei

4月 8, 2011

Interesting. Please click on the Global Times link （also at the bottom）, read the article and then click on the “Related” links under the article. These other stories add a lot of perspective, through earlier and mostly positive Global Times coverage of Ai Weiwei’s various projects and activities. I remember seeing Lian Chan 連戰 on TV in Taiwan in the 1980s*. He was prime minister then, I think. Kept saying “Yi fa bali! 依法辦理”. To be handled according to law. Everything should be handled according to law. This was already after martial law 戒嚴 was lifted 解嚴 in 1987. But many opposition figures and activists were still in prison (they had a prison island, “Green Island” 綠島, for example) or barred from returning to Taiwan. Martial law had been lifted, but many laws from the One-Party-rule were still on the books, and actually still enforced (See the poem “After Martial Law Was Lifted – In Commemoration of Lifting Martial Law in Taiwan on July 15th, 1987” by Li Qin’an [李勤岸 – 解嚴以後 – 一九八七年七月十五日臺灣解嚴紀念] http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/dujuan99nihon/30163376.html). Now which law is the Global Times article referring to? Let US bake our cake of social progress and eat it at the same time, and have it OUR way, and let nobody in the world talk too much about it, because this is the LAW. Right?
Very interesting how they keep on contradicting themselves. “Was said to have been detained”. Was he, or was he not? Maybe just kidnapped? “It was reported his departure procedures were incomplete.” Interesting. So which law will not concede before Ai Weiwei? Which departure procedures law? No, it’s THE LAW. Shoot first, deflect questions later.* Happens in every society.

Martin

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Global Times (4/6/11):
http://en.huanqiu.com/opinion/editorial/2011-04/641187.html
Law will not concede before maverick
法律不会为特立独行者弯曲_评论_环球网: http://bit.ly/hwH7G4, most discussed on @dujuan99/china (http://bit.ly/evC5Ka) See also China Geeks (4/8/11).

魏京生: 从艾未未事件看中国法制的演变

Geremie Barme on Ai Qing and Ai Weiwei

Nude photos and other incriminating activities of Ai Weiwei

It’s really very simple, and even seems a bit tedious when you think about it. Yet I go on watching these shows. What else would you have me look at, dear readers?

Salman Rushdie

Who is afraid of Ai Weiwei？(Language Log)

貝嶺：裸體公民艾未未 (China Times, also in Ming Pao)

Naked Citizen Ai Weiwei (Ming Pao, Hong Kong, May 2011)

Photo by Katharina Hesse

There are many relations of this case to other arrests like the one on April 8 of Zhao Lianhai 趙連海, speaker for parents whose children had been poisoned by tainted milk.
Zhao had been released on parole after beeing imprisoned for “disturbing the peace”. But on April 6, he uplaoded a moving video, holding his child and trying to make a public statement at home.

FAZ

*This blog entry started out as a post on the MCLC email listserv. A lively discussion ensued. Andrew Field pointed out that Lu Xun 魯迅 and many other modern writers were banned in Taiwan under martial law. James Dew, Tim Wong, Kirk Denton, Christopher Lupke and others remembered how foreign students read these writers in a special room at Taiwan University, and how Chen Yingzhen 陳映真 connected to Lu Xun and the May Fourth tradition. Chen was imprisoned for “pro-communist activities”. Tai Jingnong 台静农 (1903～1990), a well-known writer and painter in Taiwan, was originally a student of Lu Xun.

* Jerome Cohen uses a similar expression in the South China Morning Post (4/27/11): “Second, it also seems clear that, whatever the evidence being assembled about tax evasion or other charges, this was not the motivation for Ai’s detention. This case started out on a ‘detain first and look for justification later’ basis.”

Chinese rock music related to Ai Weiwei: http://www.zuoxiaozuzhou.com/, via Jeroen Groenewegen

南都社论: 躺在时间的河流上怀念他们

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中止

3月 30, 2011

innehalten

(fuer japan, yunnan, burma …)

die tage die blueten
die spitzen die gruenen
die weissen die gelben
die bienen die fliegen
die wogen die steigen
die wagen die treiben
die erde die bebt und
das leben das keimt

MW Maerz 2011

http://tokyowriter.wordpress.com/2011/03/30/quakebook/、http://en.wordpress.com/tag/quakebook/、

hold it

(quakes, tsunamis, nuclear threats …)

the days of the blossoms
the yellow the white
the shoots and the air
and the birds and the bees
the flies and the beetles
the earth and the trembling
the cars that come floating
the buildings come tumbling
the life that sprouts

MW March 2011

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慕容雪村

3月 2, 2011

One of the best texts I have read in a long time is Murong Xuecun‘s recent speech in front of the Foreign Correspondent’s Club in Hongkong. It was a speech he had wanted to give at the occasion of receiving the People’s Literature magazine’s “special action award”. But they didn’t let him speak at the ceremony. Time magazine has the full text, they say (acc.2011-03-02). Please read this text. If you like it, maybe you’ll agree that literature is a very good indicator of the state (of a nation), exactly because you can’t really know what it states. This is true for art in general, or a capacity for innovative culture. You can’t really know what it states, or maybe you’re sure you know, but you can’t really say, or what you can say is only one aspect. You can analyze the structure. You can try to translate it, and still keep the spirit. I haven’t read the original text, haven’t had time to look for it. Is there an original text in Chinese? Did he write it in English? He probably gave the speech in English, because it was at the foreign correspondent’s club. If the text in Time magazine is a translation, I’m pretty sure it is translated well. Yes, maybe there is something universal about it. Maybe Chinese writers have said similar things through the centuries. And millenia. But not only Chinese writers. And I am pretty sure, on the other hand, that this text is a very powerful indicator for the present state (of things). It’s both. Perfect example for Yomi Braester’s Witness Against History. Art has something else, something that goes far beyond History. Or also keeps record more faithfully.

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Chinese Studies blogs

2月 28, 2011

In 2004/2005 or so in Beijing, my wife and I became friends with some parents of other kids at the local kindergarten. One mother had studied art in Japan and introduced me to blogging. Since early 2008 I have a website at Yahoo Japan. (I had spent a few weeks in Japan in early 1993, on a boat trip from Shanghai.) There is a blog I maintain at Langmates (translation and localization), another one for poems only (almost) and a harmonized teaser, among others. My translations of poems and various signs and banners in China can also be found on websites set up by Sam Brier (2004) and by Charles Laughlin (Ma Lan’s poetry). MCLC (Modern Chinese Literature and Culture), edited by Kirk Denton, has not only spawned an extensive treasure trove of Modern Chinese Literature and Culture sources, but also an Email-list server which has maintained professional and other exchange services for the international Chinese Studies community and beyond, including some very lively discussions. Recently, list members have introduced their blogs, such as Anne Henochowicz, Andrew Field, Jeanne Boden and Charles Laughlin. The initiative was started by Paul Manfredi.

Zhan Bing 詹冰（綠血球 Taipei: 笠, 1965), from http://chinaavantgarde.com/

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Valentine’s Day

2月 15, 2011

it’s not quite spring
a bird is singing in a tree
above the snow
the children eat
or clear away for joy and play
all close to home
i didn’t get you anything
when i was small there was this store
and there we would get violets
or tulips something colourful
to bring your mom or grandmother
and that was all.

MW Febr. 2011

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这两年

2月 14, 2011

Date Time From To Message (For poems see here or click below and scroll all the way down on the page)
2/27/2009 7:29:27 PM Nitram Lomy – 还想再看 是我。晚上才回來了，對不起。
2/27/2009 7:37:19 PM Nitram Lomy – 还想再看 明天再試一下好吧?
3/6/2009 3:09:19 PM Nitram Lomy – Einmal ist keinmal Hallo, wie geht’s?
3/6/2009 3:09:36 PM Lomy – Einmal ist keinmal Nitram Hi, gute abend.
3/6/2009 3:09:55 PM Nitram Lomy – Einmal ist keinmal 這里下午三點
3/6/2009 3:11:49 PM Lomy – Einmal ist keinmal Nitram Aber es ist die schlaffen Zeit fuer Martin.
3/6/2009 3:11:59 PM Lomy – Einmal ist keinmal Nitram hahah
3/6/2009 3:12:32 PM Nitram Lomy – Einmal ist keinmal 剛翻譯了詩，有時間請看看我的博客
3/6/2009 3:13:16 PM Lomy – Einmal ist keinmal Nitram 老实说，生活比在北京轻松了么？
3/6/2009 3:13:34 PM Nitram Lomy – Einmal ist keinmal 不

Snow in Beijing

February 13th, 2011

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Liu Xiaobo biography events

1月 17, 2011

Liu Xiaobo, the Chinese dissident sentenced to 11 years on Dec.25th 2009 for “inciting subversion“, was awarded the Nobel Peace prize in absentia in Oslo on Dec. 10th, 2010. Liu’s old friend and Independent Chinese PEN co-founder Bei Ling has written a biography of Liu Xiaobo. Bei Ling started off from an essay he wrote in June 1989 in New York, after Liu Xiaobo had been arrested in Beijing in the aftermath of the massacre throughout the city, as People’s Liberation Army troops forced their way through the streets blocked by protesters in the last phase of the demonstrations on Tian’anmen Square. Liu Xiaobo had returned to China from New York and led a hunger strike of intellectuals on the square, supporting the students and Beijing residents in their demands for civil liberties. Bei Ling‘s essay from 1989 was re-published in Chinese in Hongkong and Taiwan in June 2009, and in the German newspaper FAZ on October 12th, 2010, a few days after the Nobel Peace prize announcement from Oslo. Soon after, the German publisher Riva expressed interest in a biography of Liu. Bei Ling had recently written a literary memoir of his years a Beijing underground poet in the 1980s and a literary magazine editor, shuttling between China and foreign countries, in the 1990s. Liu Xiaobo and other old friends such as Liao Yiwu are important figures in Bei Ling’s memoir, to be published by Suhrkamp in Germany this year. So Bei Ling was ready to write his biography of Liu Xiaobo on short notice. It was a crazy idea, but it worked. We worked around the clock in November 2010, and in early December the book hit the shelves. In the first week, from Dec. 9 to 16, it sold 2500 volumes, according to the publisher. Since then, Bei Ling’s biography of Liu Xiaobo has been reviewed in many newspapers, magazines, on TV and radio stations etc. throughout Germany and in neighbouring countries. This month (January 2011), according to the publisher, the book has started to appear on the Spiegel magazine’s bestseller list, the standard list in the German-speaking realm.　On January 11th, 2011, a symposion with Bei Ling, Prof. Weigelin-Schwiedrzik， Prof. Findeisen, Prof. Zhu Jiaming, Dr. Felix Wemheuer and others was held at Vienna University and met with great interest among students and teachers from various faculties. See here …

Liu Xiaobo 劉曉波 discussion at Vienna University 1/11/11, featuring Liu Xiaobo biographer Bei Ling 貝嶺, Prof. Weigelin 魏格林, Prof. Findeisen 馮鐵, Dr. Felix Wemheuer 文浩, Prof. Zhu Jiaming 朱嘉明 and many others. Felix Wemheuer, noted for research into the Great Leap Forward famine, moderated the lively discussion following Bei Ling's lecture.

Liu Xiaobo biographer Bei Ling at Vienna University on Jan. 11th, 2011. Photo: Angelika Burgsteiner

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Es lohnt sich nicht zu leben – Yang Ze

8月 17, 2009

Es lohnt sich nicht zu leben – Yang Ze (1990)

Es lohnt sich nicht zu leben.
Früher, vielleicht
hatte ich eine böse Ahnung.
Früher, vor dem jungen bewegenden,
bewegenden Tier auf deiner Haut,
vor dem Papayabaum im Dunkel
des in seiner Höhe perfekten Balkons und der Sterne,
und vor der Nacht – der Nacht der Zauberflöte
und des Einhorns, die allen Liebenden angehört –
wenn die Zauberflöte schrillt,
schrillt durch die Zimmer, dann wird sie kühler,
dann kehrt das Horn zu jenem letzten,
zu jenem ersten Morgengrauen der Steppe zurück …

Es lohnt sich nicht zu leben.
Früher hatte ich schon diese Ahnung.
Früher war ich noch nicht relativ
und du warst noch nicht absolut – ehrlicher,
tapferer Liebesinstinkt wilder Hasen
und dann dieses (hochgradig zweifelhafte)
widersprüchliche Temperament
mit der Tendenz zum Gefühlvollen,
mit der Tendenz zum Tempo,
mit der Tendenz von der Illusion her
zu ein wenig Besessenheit und Wahn –

Es lohnt sich gar nicht zu leben.
Früher, noch vor den Büchern,
vor der Musik und der Malerei – ganz am Anfang
hatte ich schon eine dunkle Ahnung.
Grünes Licht und blaue Rosen,
Joints und Zen.
Ich träumte von dir: Mofa-Mädchen
macht einen kopflosen Reiter auf einem Bild nach,
mit deiner dichten schwarzen Mähne rast du
ins Morgengrauen über der Steppe …
Wenn die Zauberflöte schrillt
bis sie kalt geworden ist –
Liebe und Tod sind ein Zaubertrank, zweifellos
wie der Sonnenuntergang auf dem Meer
ewig wie Gewalt und Wahn …

Es lohnt sich nicht zu leben.
Bevor die laufende Elefantenherde am Ufer,
das Meer und der ferne Himmel zusammen alt werden:
düster leckt das junge Tier seine Wunden,
nur um deine früheste und deine letzte
Sentimentalität zu bewahren,
bin ich bereit, den Griff für die Klinge zu halten,
als ein unermüdlicher,
tausendmal besiegter Krieger
wie ein Murmeltier, so will ich
gerne fleißig weiterleben,
obwohl vor deinen Illusionen,
vor meinem Nichts, vor deiner
Höhle, und meinem Licht –
obwohl es sich nicht lohnt zu leben.

MW August 2009 übersetzt

 

人生不值得活的 – 楊澤 (1990)

人生不值得活的。
稍早，也許
我就有了不祥的預感。
稍早，早於你幼獸般
動人動人的花紋，早於
暗中的木瓜樹
高度完美的陽台與星
早於夜晚–屬於所有情人的
魔笛和獨角獸底夜晚;
當魔笛吹徹
魔笛終因吹徹小樓而轉涼
號角重返那最後
與最初的草原黎明……

人生不值得活的。
稍早，我便有了如此預感。
稍早，早於我的相對
你的絕封―野兔般
誠實勇敢底愛欲本能
還有那(讓人在在難以釋懷)
駁雜不純的氣質
傾向感傷，傾向速度
也傾向，因夢幻而來的
一點點耽溺與瘋狂

人生並不值得活的。
更早，早於書本
音樂及繪畫―一開始
我就有了暗暗的預感。
綠光和藍薔薇
大麻煙捲與禪
我夢見你:電單車的女子
模仿固畫裡的無頭騎士
拎著一頭黑濃長髮，朝
草原黎明疾馳離去……
當魔笛再度吹徹
魔笛終因吹徹而轉寒
愛與死的迷藥無非是
大海落日般–
一種永恒的暴力
與瘋狂……

人生不值得活的。
在岸上奔跑的象群
大海及遠天相偕老去前:
暗舔傷口的幼獸哪
只為了維護
你最早和最終的感傷主義
我願意持柄為鋒
作一名不懈的
千敗劍客
土撥鼠般，我將
努力去生活
雖然，早於你的夢幻
我的虛無;早於
你的洞穴，我的光明―
雖然，人生並不值得活的。

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yesterday

9月 29, 2008

tag

gestern war ein schoener tag
endlich wieder einmal warm
wolkenlos die meiste zeit
gestern war auch wieder wahl
das war leider nicht so schoen
vor zwei jahren war es gut
schwatzblau war nicht mehr gefragt
schwatzorange war auch ein kas
schwatzorange war auch ein schas
vor zwei jahren war das klar
erster war die spoe
oevp war auch nicht schlecht
gruene waren ganz ok
gestern war ein schoener tag

MW        29. September 2008

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yesterday

yesterday the day was fine
finally the sun was out
there were hardly any clouds
yesterday we had to vote
yesterday was not so good
it was fine two years ago
right-wing government was out
that was clear two years ago
yesterday the day was fine
there were hardly any clouds

MW        Sept. 29th, 2008

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yesterday the right-wing parties gained a lot in austria.
they have 29 percent together now.
really right-wing, anti-foreigners, "austrians first" in every ad.
austrians ueber alles?
yeah, most of the time we’re laughable, thank god.
not in the news at all internationally, i guess.
they had elections in bavaria and in belarus too

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Hello world!

2月 27, 2008

Welcome to WordPress.com. I am in Beijing. Maybe you need a proxy server to view this in China. This blog is for posting poetry in English and German, and translations from Chinese. Just my own, for now. See you!

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