Read the latest in our ongoing issue “Intersecting Histories”: “Domači glasovi” by Andrea Scrima: statorec.com/domaci-glasovi… Named after an inmate newspaper circulated in the Austrian camp at Lienz-Peggetz in the years following WWII... 🧵

Close friends and family in Ukraine, memories of an old Swedish settlement on the Dnipro: Herb Randall probes a personal connection to a village more than one year into the war. Part of our “Intersecting Histories” issue: statorec.com/privilege-agon…

If you happen to be in or near Taos, come to an event at the Taos Center for the Arts – three writers and two musicians in residence at the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation will be doing a collaborative performance on Monday, April 17 at 7 pm.

The following essay published on Three Quarks Daily—“The Shameless Gaze”—is about the power differential in the relationship between artists and art patrons. It retains a trace of the shock I felt at a members' meeting of an arts organization. Read it: shorturl.at/hkoG0

For any of you German-speaking friends – interview with Bernd Melichar for the Kleine Zeitung and reading tomorrow in the Literaturhaus. If you happen to be in Graz, come by! tinyurl.com/bdh7r2ps

I interviewed John Reed on his new book “The Never End: The Other Orwell, the Cold War, the CIA, MI6, and the Origin of Animal Farm.” Read it on 3 Quarks Daily: 3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2… Pote, Jambi, "John Reed" Stat®rec

Here's the first essay I’ve written for the Kleine Zeitung of Austria, which offered me a bi-weekly column. I wrote it in German, haven’t yet translated it into English, and it’s not in the online edition.

The Berlin-based film magazine Cargo has published an essay of mine (in English) on exile, Jonas Mekas, and the mysterious appearance of a musical fragment from Brecht/Weill's play "Der Jasager" in his film Lost, Lost, Lost: cargo-film.de/film/experimen…

One of the pleasures of editing Stat®rec, apart from meeting all the other crazies in Berlin putting out foreign-language literary journals in their spare time, is the chance to shine a spotlight on authors I respect and love. statorec.com/scheggia-by-al… and statorec.com/magic-carpets-…

After sending this around – including to the FAZ, which has published political essays of mine before but will not run this one – and in the span of time it took to translate this into English, I had to change the # of dead in Gaza from 11,000 to 14,000. andreascrima.wordpress.com/2023/11/25/a-g…

Second column in the Kleine Zeitung.

Megamegaphonshows als poetischer Sand im Getriebe des Alltags: meine Marginalie zu manuskripte 242, die am Di, 5.12., 19:30, mit Lesungen von Andrea Scrima, Kathrin Bach und Mischa Mangel sowie Musik von Anna Illushyna auf der Murinsel präsentiert werden: andreasunterweger.wordpress.com/2023/12/04/man…

Here's an abridged German version of the essay "A German Perspective," published yesterday in the taz — you can read the (somewhat longer) English version here: andreascrima.wordpress.com/.../a-german-p… #gaza #israel #antisemitism #deutscheverantwortung #palestine #palästina #Gazastreifen

Third column in the Kleine Zeitung: "In was für Zeiten leben wir, fragte ich mich, [...] Wenn es fast unmöglich geworden ist, Empathie für die leidenden Zivilisten öffentlich auszusprechen, ohne mit empörten Reaktionen rechnen zu müssen?" #Gaza #Weltfrieden #Empathie #Israel

Die größte Lehre Deutschlands entsetzlichen Geschichte besteht darin, den Mechanismen der Dehumanisierung, der Diskriminierung und der Gewalt gegenüber allen marginalisierten Gruppen entgegenzuwirken. taz.de/Deutsche-Haltu…

"One of the hardest habits of thought to shake is the reflex to look away, to not see what is in front of us, and to not know what we know." Two chapters of Naomi Klein's new book "Doppelganger Effect" about Israel and Palestine are free to download for the next few days.

There’s a parallel between the East/West psychic split Germany underwent post-WWII—each side projecting its own worst guilt & fears etc. onto the other—and the psychic split between Israelis and Palestinians. The dynamic seems key to me & quite possibly explains the inexplicable.

Article in the Kulturzeitung 80

Bis zu 10.000 für Demokratie und Menschenrechte in Graz! Unter den mehr als 130 unterstützenden Institutionen auch die manuskripte . Die Grazer Stadtschreiberin Andrea Scrima , Max Höfler und ich lasen auf der Bühne am Hauptplatz. Mehr dazu: andreasunterweger.wordpress.com/2024/02/04/dem…

Andrea Scrima’s LOOPY LOONIES At Kunsthaus Graz, Museum Joanneum, Austria ift.tt/sAdSl9D