Posts Tagged ‘foreigners’
12月 29, 2019
Yi Sha
CHRISTMAS MEMORY
In the early 1990s
the city I live in
didn’t celebrate Christmas.
The college I teach at did,
a foreign languages campus.
It was more like each class had it’s own party,
students and their foreign teachers
singing foreign Christmas carols
into the air from the classroom building
and into the sky looking for snowflakes
to sing with in harmony.
I would stop and listen,
feeling the civilization and beauty
patching my still raw wounds inside.
2019
Translated by MW, December 2019
圣诞之忆 | 伊沙
在1990年代初期
我所在的城市
是不过圣诞节的
我任教的大学
一所外语学院过
更像是各班在开联欢会
学生与他们的外教
用外语唱的圣诞歌
从教学楼的窗口飘出来
为天空中有或没有的雪花
唱出和声
引我驻足倾听
感觉到文明与美好
内心的新伤在愈合
标签：1989, Christmas, civilization, foreign, foreigners, history, language, languages, memory, music, party, people, singing, snow, song, students, teaching, University, yi sha
发表在 1980s, 1989, 1990, 1990s, 1991, 1992, 1993, 2000s, 2010s, 2019, 20th century, 21st century, December 2019, June, Middle Ages, poetry, Translations, Uncategorized, 伊沙 | Leave a Comment »
6月 25, 2019
A Yu
DEINE GEDICHTE
Ich hab sie ganz vorne ausgebreitet,
Amichai, Auden, Achmatowa,
Dickinson, Mark Strand,
Rilke, Sexton, Pessoa.
Nur lauter Lyrik.
Sowohl als Verkäufer als auch als Dichter
weiß ich natürlich
die Leser sind nicht allzu viele.
Aber ich rücke das Zeug in die Mitte.
Am nächsten Tag hab ich frei
und bekomm eine Nachricht von gestern abend
von meinem Kollegen für Literatur.
“Damit wir heute mehr Bücher verkaufen
hab ich deine Gedichte alle versetzt.”
Mai 2019
Übersetzt von MW im Juni 2019
A Yu
YOUR POETRY
I displayed in front of the counter
Amichai, Auden, Akhmatova,
Dickinson, Mark Strand,
Rilke, Pessoa, Sexton,
all poetry collections.
Both as bookseller and as a poet
I know very well,
these books don’t have too many readers.
But I still put them right in the center.
Next day in my break time
the evening shift literature colleague
sends me a note:
“I moved all your poetry,
so we sell some more books.”
May 2019
Tr. MW, June 2019
标签：A Yu, books, clerk, colleagues, 阿煜, foreigners, language, money, NPC, poetry, readers, selling, stuff, translation, work, 新世纪詩典
发表在 2019, 20th century, 21st century, June 2019, May 2019, Middle Ages, NPC, poetry, PR, prose, Translations, Uncategorized, Welcome!, 新世纪诗典 | Leave a Comment »
5月 10, 2019
Martin Winter
WANG WEI’S GRAVE
Wang Wei’s Grave.
Key research zone,
No entrance!
Something with aviation.
Wang Wei up in heaven
smiles at the foreigner
who brings a child
under his tree,
the gingko he planted,
father & son hiding under their hoods,
stealing close
to his stone
to read his poetry
in language from far, far away.
Written in Chinese on April 13, 2019
on location, a factory site near Xi’an.
Translated in Mai 2019
《王维墓》
维马丁
王维墓
科研重地
禁止入内
好像跟航天有关系。
王维在天上
笑着看见
在他种的
银杏树下
有外国诗人
还带孩子
都戴上帽子
偷偷靠近，
对他的幕牌
用外语
读他的诗。
2019，4，13
标签：aviation, buddhism, child, culture, 王维, 维马丁, factory, foreigners, heaven, history, memory, military, painting, poetry, recite, restricted, Tang Dynasty, tradition, translation, tree, Wang Wei, writing
发表在 2019, 21st century, Antique times, April 2019, May 2019, poetry, Tang Dynasty, Translations, Uncategorized | Leave a Comment »
4月 20, 2017
Tang Xin
EINKÄUFER MIT ZIGARETTE
1972, auf einer Zugreise
sieht ein Einkäufer einen Stand
mit Waren für ausländische Gäste.
Neugierig erkundigt er sich über den Preis
einer Zigarettenmarke. Ein Ausländer lächelt,
vielleicht aus Mitleid. Jedenfalls,
der Einkäufer ist tief getroffen. Niemand
darf auf Chinesen herabsehen! Niemand!
Ohne zu zögern kauft er eine Packung,
verwendet mehrere Monatsgehälter
(er trägt öffentliche Gelder bei sich),
aber wovon sollen er und seine Familie
in nächster Zeit leben? Er spürt eine Träne
und zündet sich eine Zigarette an,
durch den ganzen Waggon geht ein eigenartiger Duft.
März 2017
Übersetzt von MW im April 2017
标签：capitalism, cigarettes, family, foreigners, history, memory, money, nation, NPC, poetry, pride, socialism, society, stand, Tang Xin, trade, train, travel, work, 唐欣, 新世纪诗典
发表在 1970s, 1972, 2017, April 2017, March 2017, NPC, poetry, Translations, Uncategorized, 新世纪诗典 | Leave a Comment »
5月 28, 2016
GEWONNEN
es riecht nach sommer
vor ein paar tagen
haben wir gewonnen
es riecht nach sommer
eine frisch gemähte wiese
österreich hat gewonnen
gegen deutschnationale ausländerfeinde
also gegen die nazis
eine frisch gemähte wiese
warum haben wir so knapp gewonnen
sie sagen die eu sei korrupt
aus prinzip
sie sind nationalisten
kleingeister
kleinformat
neoliberal
die eu hat wirklich versagt
jean-claude juncker
ist in panama
schon in den 90er jahren
hat die eu nichts gemacht
gegen den krieg
in jugoslawien
ist die eu in panama?
ist die eu neoliberal?
was denn sonst?
es ist sommer
warum haben wir so knapp gewonnen?
MW Mai 2016
标签：austria, economy, election, Europe, Fascism, foreigners, grass, international, nationalism, nazis, neoliberal, Panama, poetry, politics, refugees, scent, small, summer, war, we, yugoslavia
发表在 April 2016, May 2016, poetry, September 2015, Uncategorized | Leave a Comment »
5月 29, 2015
《“融合協議”》
45歲，德語為母语
在科技公司教德語寫作
就没當地護照。
雖然嫁給當地人
每兩年要簽證。
“初级德語文憑帶了嗎？“
2015.5.27, 维也纳
INTEGRATIONSVEREINBARUNG 45 yrs native speaker teaching writing for scientists But no EU passport Haben Sie einen B1Nachweis?
INTEGRATIONSVEREINBARUNG Muttersprachlerin, 45 unterrichtet wissenschaftl. Schreiben ohne EU-Pass Haben Sie 1 B1-Nachweis?
标签：austria, foreigners, German, immigration, language, poetry, politics, science, speech, Vienna, visa, writing
发表在 MAY 2015, poetry | Leave a Comment »
2月 4, 2015
Please click on the picture!
This is a very good article. One of the few very inspiring responses to these horrible attacks in Paris. I was involved in another response – I translated a text by Liao Yiwu 廖亦武, a Chinese writer in exile in Germany. I put it in a blog post here some two weeks ago, along with words by “Charb” from Charlie Hebdo and others. Liao Yiwu’s text first appeared in German in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung. It is also available in English, on the website of the German Book Trade Organization. This response should equally be read by as many people as possible! Thank you very much, Soh Wee Ling! I went demonstrating in Vienna on January 11, and again on Friday, January 30, when the xenophobe Neo-Nazis had their ball in the historic halls of the Hofburg in Vienna, overlooking the Heldenplatz where Hitler spoke to eradicate Austria in 1938, cheered by thousands. We were around 5000-6000 at least all over the centre of Vienna, although the police had cordoned off a large area and many people had been arrested and criminalized last year. No windows broken this time, and hardly anyone injured. Some people always get angry, and there are Neo-Nazi sympathizers in the police and in parliament. And they have been tolerated and cosseted, and they were in government 2000-2006. Recently an editor of the newspaper Der Standard, which has been very much against the fascists, has actually suggested that the Social Democrats should consider working with the F-Party. In Germany, their slogans would not be allowed, and some of their leaders would be in prison. On the other hand, we have a cherished tradition of fierce satire in Austria. I read an article by the Jewish French-German writer Gina Lustiger, published in Die Welt. She also said, just like you Soh Wee Ling, that the Charlie Hebdo cartoons were aimed at the average French citizens, including the cartoonists themselves. She said she missed them very much, missed their incisive humour. And she emphasized that unless the French Jewish victims were equally respected, even if their relatives had them buried abroad, people had not understood what this was about. Unless you can imagine Charlie as a Turkish woman in a head scarf at a funeral in Jerusalem, she said. Thank you very much again!
标签：art, austria, Charlie Hebdo, Europe, Fascism, foreigners, France, freedom of expression, government, hope, housing, integration, jews, Neo-Nazis, police, protest, satire, Singapore, speech, terror, youth
发表在 February 2015, January 2015 | Leave a Comment »
中国大好き 