Kategorie: Stories and excerpts
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Expropriated Reality: Life in a Psychiatric Ward
Excerpt from Nadja Dietrich’s Novel Emperor’s Eyrie Part 1 of Nadja Dietrich’s novel Emperor’s Eyrie is set in a psychiatric ward. The longer the diarist and protagonist of the novel is kept there, the more he is affected by the image that is created of him there. The longer I…
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The Secret of the Hunting Lodge
Nothing in the life of the protagonist in Nadja Dietrich’s novel Emperor’s Eyrie is as it was when he passes a hunting lodge on a walk through the woods one evening. Something terrible seems to be going on inside. On my evening walks through the forest, I frequently passed a…
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The Threat
A Literary Miniature from Zacharias Mbizo’s Collection of Texts on The Ukrainian Apocalypse Nachdem der Zar seinen Feldzug im Osten beendet hatte, stand er eines Tages vor deiner Tür. Nun steht ihr euch Aug in Auge ge-genüber.„Ich fühle mich von dir bedroht“, verkündet der Zar mit einem mitleidheischenden Augenaufschlag. „Du musst…
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Stolen Childhood
A Literary Miniature from Zacharias Mbizo’s Collection of Texts on The Ukrainian Apocalypse One of the most serious crimes in the war against Ukraine is the abduction of Ukrainian children to Russia. How might these children feel, deprived of any contact with their biological parents? When you were told that…
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In the Storm Surge of War
A poem from Zacharias Mbizo’s Ukrainian Apocalypse Every day, new figures are reported about deaths in Ukraine. At the same time, the abstract numbers make it easy to forget that each figure represents a personal fate and the immeasurable suffering of the victims‘ families. He was your son,your bridge into…
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