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Gunter Grasse nuclear poetry
In Germany, the press is violently discussing the poem of the Nobel Prize in the literature of the Gunter Grasse with criticism of the policy of the Israeli government, published in the Suddeutsche Zeitung newspaper. In Germany, the press is violently discussing the poem of the Nobel Prize in the literature of the Gunter Grasse with criticism of the policy of the Israeli government, published in the Suddeutsche Zeitung newspaper.
In Suddeutsche Zeitung, the publication of the poem Gunter Grassa precedes the following text:
"Gunter Grass warns in his poem" What should be said "primarily about the danger of war against Iran. Therefore, the Nobel Prize laureate insists in his poem that Israel does not have the right to receive submarines from Germany.
I personally did not find such a requirement of a graph.
Here is my translation of the poem:
"Why am I silent, I am silent for too long
That it is so obvious and worked out
On staff exercises, at the end of which we,
Survivors, fall into the footnote reports?
This is a confident right to strike the first
Impact
and to organized joy seduced
Iranian people can be destroyed
because in his echelons of power
Suggest an atomic bomb.
But why do I forbid myself to name the country by name
That country that has been in many years and also secretly
Has an ever -increasing arsenal of nuclear weapons,
It has uncontrolled, since it does not allow any check?
The universal silence of this fact,
To which my silence obeys
I feel like a load of lies
And coercion that scares punishment
In case of a taboo violation
Be branded like an anti -Semite.
But now, because from my country
whose real crimes are
how there are no equal ones, remind of themselves again and again
And they raise questions that are given purely business answers,
And in them, trained lips call compensation for damage that
that another new submarine must be delivered to Israel,
A boat capable of carrying all types of all destroying bombs
And direct them to where the presence of one single atomic bomb has not been proven
And only fears are accepted for evidence
I will say what should be said.
Why am I still silent?
Because he believed that my origin,
Which still remains tarnished,
Forbids me to present this fact to the state of Israel,
with whom I feel connected and would like to remain so,
Present the truth expressed.
Why do I say this only now
Sticking up, and collecting the last forces, I say,
That the atomic power of Israel threatens the fragile world on this earth?
Because I must say that tomorrow it will be possible to say late.
Because we - as the Germans are already stained enough -
We can turn out to be suppliers of crime,
Which can be foreseen and complicity in which
It will be impossible to justify any ordinary excuses.
And I admit: I'm not silent anymore
Because tired of the hypocrisy of the West
In addition, in the hope that this can relieve the seal of silence from many lips
And calling those from whom the danger comes to rejection of violence,
At the same time demanding
To unhindered constant international control
Israeli atomic potential and Iranian atomic objects
was allowed by the governments of both countries
This is the only way to help everyone - Israelis and Palestinians.
Moreover, all people living in this region, occupied by madness,
People who live in the tightness of mutual hostility.
And ultimately we all. "
The most sharp reaction to the poem of the count was an open letter to him by the famous playwright Rolf Khokhhut (80 years), in which he, in particular, writes to Grassa: "You remained who you once became voluntarily-the SS person."
Although the press has votes in defense of the count, the tone of most publications is critical. Gunter Grass in his poem, according to most commentators, proceeds from incorrect parcels.
Westdeutsche Zeitung (Dusseldorf):
“The very name of the poem“ What should be said ”makes you start from the proximity to the primitive vocabulary of the beer regulars. Gunter Grass earned a stream of criticism for his poem. And not for the fact that the German author supposedly does not have the right to criticize something in Israeli’s policy, but for closing and actually in some points, far from the truth of the version. Israel ".
Der Tagesspiegel (Berlin):
"If Grass sees himself with a certain head of the literary government, then he is mistaken. If he considers himself a great intellectual, he is mistaken twice. Why? Because he does not argue, does not discuss, but simply broadcasts. Because he believes himself the only one who has something to say. But what he says is too much intellectual. The Middle East in the recent years and days, but if he still knew it? Iran ".
Die Freie Presse (Hemnitsa) reproaches the grass in an attempt to give his own views for the destruction of the taboo:
"What should the detailed, which will replace the grass? What, in Germany or in other countries, cannot be criticized by Israeli's policy? It is possible, and this is regularly happening. Yes, it is true that the creation of atomic weapons, possessing it in contradiction with international law agreements. But the Grass approval does not correspond to the approval of this weapon when the first weapons are pronounced by the first. The Iranian plants.
Die TAZ (Berlin):
"The scandal is not criticized by Gunter Grasses of Israel, but in the fact that in his criticism he is in advance of himself a martyr, to whom the Jews, allegedly threatening accusations of anti -Semitism, plug their mouths, not letting the truth about themselves. But this is just an anti -Semitic stereotype. It is not so important that an aging writer who clearly re -amends his own Issuer criticizes Israel and at the same time speaks of the dangers of an atomic war.
Gunter Grass himself continued his appeal to the Germans in an explanatory interview on the first channel of the ARD socio-legal television. He explained that he was a creative impetus for writing a poem was the statements of the Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu and a message about the sixth submarine built by Germany for Israel, capable of carrying missiles with nuclear warheads.
Regarding the danger of the atomic destruction of Iran, Grass explained that he was not in mind the direct use of atomic weapons by Israel:
"I do not know what weapons Israel will strike at Iran. If they use ordinary rockets with bombs and try to destroy the nuclear centers of Iran, which is the goal, then in this case the probability of the atomic catastrophe is great. After the story with the atomic power plant of Fukushim, we all understand what is the danger."
Die Frankfurter Rundschau:
“The atomic power of Israel threatens to destroy the fragile balance of the world,” writes Grass. Such a formulation of the issue has the right to life, since the policy of Benjamin Netanyahu is not aimed at achieving a conversation on equal terms with either Iran or Palestinians. But in Iran, Grass sees only a talker-provocateur, which, perhaps, will never be an atomic bomb. This talker (in the eyes of the graph) is called Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. He calls Israel a shameful spot that should be erased from the world map, he spreads the theories about the world conspiracy of the Zionists, he denies the Holocaust and strives for the possession of atomic weapons. For the count, all this was not worthy of mention. What is the reason? Freedom of creativity? Grass once noticed that lyrics, poetry are the most clear and understandable form of writing self -expression. Clear and understandable: the author of the poem is blind to one eye. What supposedly had to be said would be better in this case unspoken. Politically publication is outrage. And we leave the assessment of the literary qualities of the poem to literary critics. "
Die Kieler Nachrichten:
"Here one elderly master sprays his anti -Semitic poison. This master had to hear as President Iran Ahmadinejad called Israel a cancer tumor to be destroyed. Grass must know that Israel is fighting for its existence. Grass is a person who was told about the mass destruction of Jews at the latest when he returned home after serving in service Waffen-SS.
Among those who defend Gunter Grasse from critical attacks in the press, in particular, the former Israeli ambassador to Germany, and now the President of the Israeli Society of Foreign Policy Avi Primor. He stated that he did not consider criticizing the Grass of Israel's policy by the manifestation of anti -Semitism.
Klaus Paruk - president of the Berlin Academy of Arts, designer, caricaturer and lawyer in one person - also tried to explain the appearance of the poem by Gunther Grasse:
“This is the grass, as we know him, the grass, which, as always, formulates his criticism. In a free country, which is Germany, there should be normal criticism in a friendly circle. And even if it is acute, it should not cause reflex suspicions in anti -Semitism. Grass clearly expressed his position, but no one obliges him to follow. You can have a completely different point of view. It is normal and possible - to discuss about Israel's policy in general and about the policy of building new settlements, in particular. "
In Suddeutsche Zeitung, the publication of the poem Gunter Grassa precedes the following text:
"Gunter Grass warns in his poem" What should be said "primarily about the danger of war against Iran. Therefore, the Nobel Prize laureate insists in his poem that Israel does not have the right to receive submarines from Germany.
I personally did not find such a requirement of a graph.
Here is my translation of the poem:
"Why am I silent, I am silent for too long
That it is so obvious and worked out
On staff exercises, at the end of which we,
Survivors, fall into the footnote reports?
This is a confident right to strike the first
Impact
and to organized joy seduced
Iranian people can be destroyed
because in his echelons of power
Suggest an atomic bomb.
But why do I forbid myself to name the country by name
That country that has been in many years and also secretly
Has an ever -increasing arsenal of nuclear weapons,
It has uncontrolled, since it does not allow any check?
The universal silence of this fact,
To which my silence obeys
I feel like a load of lies
And coercion that scares punishment
In case of a taboo violation
Be branded like an anti -Semite.
But now, because from my country
whose real crimes are
how there are no equal ones, remind of themselves again and again
And they raise questions that are given purely business answers,
And in them, trained lips call compensation for damage that
that another new submarine must be delivered to Israel,
A boat capable of carrying all types of all destroying bombs
And direct them to where the presence of one single atomic bomb has not been proven
And only fears are accepted for evidence
I will say what should be said.
Why am I still silent?
Because he believed that my origin,
Which still remains tarnished,
Forbids me to present this fact to the state of Israel,
with whom I feel connected and would like to remain so,
Present the truth expressed.
Why do I say this only now
Sticking up, and collecting the last forces, I say,
That the atomic power of Israel threatens the fragile world on this earth?
Because I must say that tomorrow it will be possible to say late.
Because we - as the Germans are already stained enough -
We can turn out to be suppliers of crime,
Which can be foreseen and complicity in which
It will be impossible to justify any ordinary excuses.
And I admit: I'm not silent anymore
Because tired of the hypocrisy of the West
In addition, in the hope that this can relieve the seal of silence from many lips
And calling those from whom the danger comes to rejection of violence,
At the same time demanding
To unhindered constant international control
Israeli atomic potential and Iranian atomic objects
was allowed by the governments of both countries
This is the only way to help everyone - Israelis and Palestinians.
Moreover, all people living in this region, occupied by madness,
People who live in the tightness of mutual hostility.
And ultimately we all. "
The most sharp reaction to the poem of the count was an open letter to him by the famous playwright Rolf Khokhhut (80 years), in which he, in particular, writes to Grassa: "You remained who you once became voluntarily-the SS person."
Although the press has votes in defense of the count, the tone of most publications is critical. Gunter Grass in his poem, according to most commentators, proceeds from incorrect parcels.
Westdeutsche Zeitung (Dusseldorf):
“The very name of the poem“ What should be said ”makes you start from the proximity to the primitive vocabulary of the beer regulars. Gunter Grass earned a stream of criticism for his poem. And not for the fact that the German author supposedly does not have the right to criticize something in Israeli’s policy, but for closing and actually in some points, far from the truth of the version. Israel ".
Der Tagesspiegel (Berlin):
"If Grass sees himself with a certain head of the literary government, then he is mistaken. If he considers himself a great intellectual, he is mistaken twice. Why? Because he does not argue, does not discuss, but simply broadcasts. Because he believes himself the only one who has something to say. But what he says is too much intellectual. The Middle East in the recent years and days, but if he still knew it? Iran ".
Die Freie Presse (Hemnitsa) reproaches the grass in an attempt to give his own views for the destruction of the taboo:
"What should the detailed, which will replace the grass? What, in Germany or in other countries, cannot be criticized by Israeli's policy? It is possible, and this is regularly happening. Yes, it is true that the creation of atomic weapons, possessing it in contradiction with international law agreements. But the Grass approval does not correspond to the approval of this weapon when the first weapons are pronounced by the first. The Iranian plants.
Die TAZ (Berlin):
"The scandal is not criticized by Gunter Grasses of Israel, but in the fact that in his criticism he is in advance of himself a martyr, to whom the Jews, allegedly threatening accusations of anti -Semitism, plug their mouths, not letting the truth about themselves. But this is just an anti -Semitic stereotype. It is not so important that an aging writer who clearly re -amends his own Issuer criticizes Israel and at the same time speaks of the dangers of an atomic war.
Gunter Grass himself continued his appeal to the Germans in an explanatory interview on the first channel of the ARD socio-legal television. He explained that he was a creative impetus for writing a poem was the statements of the Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu and a message about the sixth submarine built by Germany for Israel, capable of carrying missiles with nuclear warheads.
Regarding the danger of the atomic destruction of Iran, Grass explained that he was not in mind the direct use of atomic weapons by Israel:
"I do not know what weapons Israel will strike at Iran. If they use ordinary rockets with bombs and try to destroy the nuclear centers of Iran, which is the goal, then in this case the probability of the atomic catastrophe is great. After the story with the atomic power plant of Fukushim, we all understand what is the danger."
Die Frankfurter Rundschau:
“The atomic power of Israel threatens to destroy the fragile balance of the world,” writes Grass. Such a formulation of the issue has the right to life, since the policy of Benjamin Netanyahu is not aimed at achieving a conversation on equal terms with either Iran or Palestinians. But in Iran, Grass sees only a talker-provocateur, which, perhaps, will never be an atomic bomb. This talker (in the eyes of the graph) is called Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. He calls Israel a shameful spot that should be erased from the world map, he spreads the theories about the world conspiracy of the Zionists, he denies the Holocaust and strives for the possession of atomic weapons. For the count, all this was not worthy of mention. What is the reason? Freedom of creativity? Grass once noticed that lyrics, poetry are the most clear and understandable form of writing self -expression. Clear and understandable: the author of the poem is blind to one eye. What supposedly had to be said would be better in this case unspoken. Politically publication is outrage. And we leave the assessment of the literary qualities of the poem to literary critics. "
Die Kieler Nachrichten:
"Here one elderly master sprays his anti -Semitic poison. This master had to hear as President Iran Ahmadinejad called Israel a cancer tumor to be destroyed. Grass must know that Israel is fighting for its existence. Grass is a person who was told about the mass destruction of Jews at the latest when he returned home after serving in service Waffen-SS.
Among those who defend Gunter Grasse from critical attacks in the press, in particular, the former Israeli ambassador to Germany, and now the President of the Israeli Society of Foreign Policy Avi Primor. He stated that he did not consider criticizing the Grass of Israel's policy by the manifestation of anti -Semitism.
Klaus Paruk - president of the Berlin Academy of Arts, designer, caricaturer and lawyer in one person - also tried to explain the appearance of the poem by Gunther Grasse:
“This is the grass, as we know him, the grass, which, as always, formulates his criticism. In a free country, which is Germany, there should be normal criticism in a friendly circle. And even if it is acute, it should not cause reflex suspicions in anti -Semitism. Grass clearly expressed his position, but no one obliges him to follow. You can have a completely different point of view. It is normal and possible - to discuss about Israel's policy in general and about the policy of building new settlements, in particular. "