Dein Suchergebnis zum Thema: Frankfurt am Main

[Transcription/translation] A DIALOGUE WITH DEATH Death: (Skeleton in top-hat and overcoat walks into my studio) How do you do? Me: (Terrified and trembling, I try to speak but can’t make a sound.) Death: Why such horror, why such frightful fear, when you spend so much time preoccupied with me, when you’ve been drawing me and carrying me around in your thoughts since childhood? I’m flattered that you’ve never forgotten me and I’m almost inclined to believe that you’ve fallen in love with me and wanted to welcome me with… Me: (Interrupting) Get out, Death, get out! Death: Do calm down, …
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[Transcription/translation] 17.1.1979 my dear joseph, isn’t it funny how these problems, these questions, just keep coming up, from generation to generation! i’ve just put down your brühl’sche terrasse [brühl terrace] and i’m still moved by its relevance! certainly, the privations, the purely economic privations, are unfamiliar to me, but my student days in stuttgart weren’t so different: working at the brewery to earn some money, working here, there and everywhere just to survive! … and all that – quite miraculously! – having already survived the war… just thinking about it induces painful nausea in me… let’s say no more about …
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Artist page for Jimmie Durham (1940 – 2021)
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New York, 12 November Dearest Annerl! Shortly after I wrote my last letter to you, Heinzl collapsed and almost died. He was in hospital for two weeks but he’s strong enough now to go back to the office and back to work. He was so incredibly brave. When I took him to hospital that night he was virtually in a coma with a high fever. The doctor said he couldn’t be absolutely certain that he’d make it through the night. And Heinzl sensed that. The following morning, as he lay there in bed, yellow and gaunt and pale, he laughed …
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