An Easter of Words Steps Towards a Reading of Anne Duden’s Steinschlag
In: Anne Duden: A Revolution of Words
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Georgina Paul
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Published in 1993 to reviews that almost unanimously hailed it as a great work, Anne Duden’s poem-cycle Steinschlag has subsequently never been the subject of a systematic scholarly reading. This essay seeks to end the critical silence by providing an approach to Duden’s poem that can open up a path for later readings. It is conceived as a sequence of steps, starting with the ‘obscurity’ of the poem’s meanings and moving on through aspects such as musical composition and the poem’s construction of space to the final proposition of the poem’s relation to its cultural context.
STEINSCHLAG hinter den Käfern.
Da sah ich einen, der log nicht,
heimstehn in seine Verzweiflung.
Wie deinem Einsamkeitssturm
glückt ihm die weit
ausschreitende Stille.