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De Oostenrijkse dichteres Ingeborg Bachmann werd geboren op 25 juni 1926 in Klagenfurt. Zie ook mijn blog van 25 juni 2006 en ook mijn blog van 25 juni 2007 en ook mijn blog van 25 juni 2008.xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
Die große Fracht
Die große Fracht des Sommers ist verladen,
das Sonnenschiff im Hafen liegt bereit,
wenn hinter dir die Möwe stürzt und schreit.
Die große Fracht des Sommers ist verladen.
Das Sonnenschiff im Hafen liegt bereit,
und auf die Lippen der Galionsfiguren
tritt unverhüllt das Lächeln der Lemuren.
Das Sonnenschiff im Hafen liegt bereit.
Wenn hinter dir die Möwe stürzt und schreit,
kommt aus dem Westen der Befehl zu sinken;
doch offnen Augs wirst du im Licht ertrinken,
wenn hinter dir die Möwe stürzt und schreit.
Abschied von England
Ich habe deinen Boden kaum betreten,
schweigsames Land, kaum einen Stein berührt,
ich war von deinem Himmel so hoch gehoben,
so in Wolken, Dunst und in noch Ferneres gestellt,
daß ich dich schon verließ,
als ich vor Anker ging.
Du hast meine Augen geschlossen
mit Meerhauch und Eichenblatt,
von meinen Tränen begossen,
hieltst du die Gräser satt;
aus meinen Träumen gelöst,
wagten sich Sonnen heran,
doch alles war wieder fort,
wenn dein Tag begann.
Alles blieb ungesagt.
Durch die Straßen flatterten die großen grauen Vögel
und wiesen mich aus.
War ich je hier?
Ich wollte nicht gesehen werden.
Meine Augen sind offen.
Meerhauch und Eichenblatt?
Unter den Schlangen des Meers
seh ich, an deiner Statt,
das Land meiner Seele erliegen.
Ich habe seinen Boden nie betreten.
Psalm
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Schweigt mit mir, wie alle Glocken schweigen!
In der Nachgeburt der Schrecken
sucht das Geschmeiß nach neuer Nahrung.
Zur Ansicht hängt karfreitags eine Hand
am Firmament, zwei Finger fehlen ihr,
sie kann nicht schwören, daß alles,
alles nicht gewesen sei und nichts
sein wird. Sie taucht ins Wolkenrot,
entrückt die neuen Mörder
und geht frei.
Nachts auf dieser Erde
in Fenster greifen, die Linnen zurückschlagen,
daß der Kranken Heimlichkeit bloßliegt,
ein Geschwür voll Nahrung, unendliche Schmerzen
für jeden Geschmack.
Die Metzger halten, behandschuht,
den Atem der Entblößten an,
der Mond in der Tür fällt zu Boden,
laß die Scherben liegen, den Henkel ...
Alles war gerichtet für die letzte Ölung.
(Das Sakrament kann nicht vollzogen werden.)
Ingeborg Bachmann (25 juni 1926 17 oktober 1973)
De Amerikaanse schrijver, columnist en homoactivist Larry Kramer werd geboren in Bridgeport, Connecticut op 25 juni 1935. Hij werd genomineerd voor een Academy Award, was finalist voor een Pulitzer-prijs en ontving tweemaal een Obie Award. Als antwoord op de Aids-crisis richtte hij Gay Men's Health Crisis op, de grootste organisatie van zijn soort op de wereld. Hij schreef The Normal Heart, het eerste serieuze artistieke onderzoek naar de Aids-crisis. Hij richtte later ACT UP op, een protestorganisatie die wordt geaccrediteerd voor het veranderen van het volksgezondheidbeleid en de openbare voorlichting van Hiv en Aids. Kramer woont momenteel in New York City en Connecticut.
Uit: Yale's Conspiracy of Silence
Here are some of the things that I have uncovered about our history in writing my new book, The American People:
That Jamestown was Americas first community of homosexuals, men who came to not only live with each other as partners but to adopt and raise children bought from the Indians. Some even arranged wedding ceremonies for themselves.
That George Washington was gay, and that his relationships with Alexander Hamilton and the Marquis de Lafayette were homosexual. And that his feelings for Hamilton led to a government and a country that became Hamiltonian rather than Jeffersonian.
That Meriwether Lewis was in love with William Clark and committed suicide when their historic journey was over and he wouldnt see Clark anymore.
That Abraham Lincoln was gay and had many, many gay interactions, that his nervous breakdown occurred when he and his lover, Joshua Speed, were forced to part, and that his sensitivity to the slaves came from his firsthand knowledge of what it meant to be so very different. And that the
possibility exists that Lincoln was murdered because he was gay and John Wilkes Booth, who was gay, knew this.
That Franklin Pierce, who became one of Americas worst presidents, and Nathaniel Hawthorne, who became one of our greatest writers, as roommates at Bowdoin College had interactions that changed them both forever and, indeed, served as the wellspring for what Hawthorne came to write about. Pierce was gay. And Hawthorne? Herman Melville certainly wanted him to be.
Larry Kramer (Bridgeport, 25 juni 1935)
De Amerikaanse schrijfster en journaliste Ariel Gore werd geboren op 25 juni 1970 in Carmel, Californië. Zij is de uitgeefster en redacteur van Hip Mama, een periodiek over politieke en culturele aspecten van het moederschap. In 2000 verscheen haar autobiografische Atlas of the Human Heart, in 2006 de roman The Traveling Death and Resurrection Show.
Uit: Traveling Death and Resurrection Show
Whoosh. Car tires through puddles. Gasoline rainbows. Picture this: Two beat-up candy apple red hatchbacks trailing a wildflower-painted caravan down a sogged main street that creeps southward along the waterfront.
Madre Pia shouts through a cracked megaphone from the back of the caravan as we roll into town: "The lost will be saved, the saved will be amazed!" She's a vision, Madre is. Three hundred pounds of blithe drag queen cloaked in her old-school nun's habit, great bellowing penguin. "Tonight only, ladies and gentlemen! Saint Cat will manifest the wounds of Christ."
Rain-wet asphalt and dull brick buildings welcome us to empty streets. Steely June sky. We haven't seen the sun in weeks. Northwestern springtime: damp, damp.
"Come and see for yourself," Madre implores the rows of Victorian houses that cling like swallows' nests to an inland hill. "Mary Magdalen will perform her death-defying midair acrobatics. Six p.m. tonight. Astoria's own River Theater!"
A solitary freckled face peers out from a fogged pizza parlor window, kind bewildered reassurance that we haven't stumbled into a ghost town.
Madre lowers the megaphone to clearher throat, then lifts it to her berry mouth again. "Barbaro the great fire spitter all the way from Venice, Italy!"
Ariel Gore (Carmel, 25 juni 1970)
De Canadese schrijver Michel Tremblay werd geboren in Quebec op 25 juni 1942. Na het beëindigen van zijn middelbare schooltijd ging hij op 18-jarige leeftijd naar the Graphic Arts Institute van Quebec, waar hij het beroep van typograaf leerde. Daar begon hij korte verhalen te schrijven, zoals Stories for Late Night Drinkers, die dan later werden gepubliceerd. In 1964 won hij met het toneelstuk Le Train een wedstrijd voor jonge schrijvers. In 1965, schreef Michel Tremblay Les Belles-Soeurs, dat 1968 voor het eerst werd uitgevoerd door The Théatre du Rideau Vert in Montreal. Les Belles-Soeurs werd onmiddellijk door critici, alsook door het publiek uitgeroepen tot het belangrijkste evenement binnen het theater van Quebec. Veel van zijn stukken zijn in het buitenland goed ontvangen, zoals onder meer de producties van Les Belles-Soeurs in Chicago and Glasgow en in 1973 werd Hosanna in Quebec alsook in Parijs voor volle zalen gespeeld. Zijn theaterstukken zijn onder meer opgevoerd in België, Zwitserland, Japan. Tremblays werk bevat 24 toneelstukken, 3 musicals, 12 verhalen en een collectie van sprookjes, korte verhalen enfilmscripts.
Uit: The Fat Woman Next Door is Pregnant (Vertaald door Sheila Fischman)
In the five years he'd been sleeping in the same room with her, Richard had spent an incalculable number of hours watching his grandmother die. In fact, every time he examined her in her sleep, grumbling, scarcely breathing, mouth open to reveal bare white gums as sharp as knives, Richard expected to see her expire. She was an exhausted flickering candle, a dismantled gasping clock, a motor at the end of the road, a dog grown too old, a servant who had finished serving and was dying of boredom, a useless old woman, a beaten human being, his grandmother. If she wanted to do anything in the house, her daughter-in-law, the fat woman, or her daughter-in-law, Albertine, very attentively would anticipate her intentions: "You just rest...you've done enough work in your life.. .sit down, Momma, your leg. . ." The old woman would lay down the dishcloth or the wooden spoon, swallowing so she wouldn't explode. Richard had often seen his grandmother weep with rage, leaning against the window in her room that looked out on the outside staircase. He'd even heard her curse the two women, cast impotent spells on them; he'd seen her stick out her tongue and pretend to be kicking them. From morning to night, she wandered from her bedroom to the dining room, from the dining room to her bedroom, a superfluous object of attention in this house where everyone and everything had assigned tasks or at least some use--except for her.
Michel Tremblay (Quebec, 25 juni 1942)
De Britse schrijver George Orwell (pseudoniem van Eric Arthur Blair) werd op 25 juni 1903 geboren in Motihari, India. Zie ook mijn blog van 25 juni 2006 en ook mijn blog van 25 juni 2007 en ook mijn blog van 25 juni 2008.
Uit: The Road To Wigan Pier
The first sound in the mornings was the clumping of the mill-girls' clogs down the cobbled street. Earlier than that, I suppose, there were factory whistles which I was never awake to hear.
There were generally four of us in the bedroom, and a beastly place it was, with that denied impermanent look of rooms that are not serving their rightful purpose. Years earlier the house had been an ordinary dwelling-house, and when the Brookers had taken it and fitted it out as a tripe-shop and lodging-house, they had inherited some of the more useless pieces of furniture and had never had the energy to remove them. We were therefore sleeping in what was still recognizably a drawing-room. Hanging from the ceiling there was a heavy glass chandelier on which the dust was so thick that it was like fur. And covering most of one wall there was a huge hideous piece of junk, something between a sideboard and a hall-stand, with lots of carving and little drawers and strips of looking-glass, and there was a once-gaudy carpet ringed by the slop-pails of years, and two gilt chairs with burst seats, and one of those old-fashioned horsehair armchairs which you slide off when you try to sit on them. The room had been turned into a bedroom by thrusting four squalid beds in among this other wreckage.
My bed was in the right-hand corner on the side nearest the door. There was another bed across the foot of it and jammed hard against it (it had to be in that position to allow the door to open) so that I had to sleep with my legs doubled up; if I straightened them out I kicked the occupant of the other bed in the small of the back. He was an elderly man named Mr Reilly, a mechanic of sorts and employed on top at one of the coal pits. Luckily he had to go to work at five in the morning, so I could uncoil my legs and have a couple of hours' proper sleep after he was gone. In the bed opposite there was a Scotch miner who had been injured in a pit accident (a huge chunk of stone pinned him to the ground and it was a couple of hours before they could lever it off), and had received five hundred pounds compensation. He was a big handsome man of forty, with grizzled hair and a clipped moustache, more like a sergeant-major than a miner, and he would lie in bed till late in the day, smoking a short pipe.
George Orwell (25 juni 1903 21 januari 1950)
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