Kafka about Egyptian president Mursi

Franz Kafka when asked what he thought of the (Russian) Revolution:

"These people are so confident and funny. They are masters of the streets and think they are the masters of the world. They are wrong. (...) The more the flood spreads, the more shallow and turbid becomes the water. Then the revolution evaporates and leaves just the mud of a new bureaucracy."

 

(Gustav Janouch:.. Conversations with Kafka, memories and records Frankfurt 1951, p.71)

King Kong in Chile

 FIRST just this: http://vimeo.com/53989876

Then he arrived ...

... finally with great SUCCESS!! 

Official Video. 

(Congratulations to the friends from casagrande...)

What was up at the FLUPP in Rio?

From 7 to 11 November 2012 Rio de Janeiro's first literature festival in a favela (in Prazares at St. Teresa) took place: FLUPP! It was really an EXTRAORDINARY FESTIVAL because the audience and the concept was quite different from anything else in the world. I took part there in the program of "poets between bombs and spys" to talk about my experiences in the East German oppositional movement of 1989 in Leipzig (which lead to the fall of the wall in Berlin). THIS is what I answered to the question of the very engaged favela TV during the festival ... 

There is a detailed German blog written by me and illustrated with many photos about every day of the festival (see links - german blog).  The teeangers of the favela neighbourhood Prazares painted a quote from the lyrics of my song "sekundenfest" (from the novel "Rabet") an the stairs of their way to the top of the hill in Rio - St Teresa... (Brasilian-Portuguese version by Carlos Abbenseth; to read from the bottom stair to the top.) Muito obrigado, thank you Flavio, Charles & the others!! And congratulations to Toni Marques and his engaged team for this unique successful event.

 

FLUPP has now been nominated for the Make a Difference Award, which is an annual award given by O Globo newspaper. 

O Globo is part of Organizações Globo, the largest news and entertainment media group in Brazil and one of the largests in the world.

Some Brasilian press articles in Portuguese language concering this:

O segundo dia da FLUPP - Globo (Rio de Janeiro),  10. November 2012

FLUPP no Morro dos Prazares - machete online, 9. November 2012
 
Arte entre bombas opressao e espioes - FLUPP Blog, 9. November 2012

Novas vozes da periferia - Globo (Rio de Janeiro),  3. November 2012

tsunami baby

the newest wave is coming baby

i don’t know if you know

what that means

i’m sitting here on the mountain baby

la france beats hawaii in the question of coasts

musk is fortunately already out again

professional experience absolutely required

3D in real-time becoming standard

and pink is the upcoming colour

i, high above, have the overbite overview

novels and film-trilogies are winning the race

whoever is clever prints the explicit lyrics

of the soundtrack promptly in various languages

my verdict on the water-levels blusters unrestrained

on the downward open laughing richter scale

see you tomorrow baby I’ll be right back after a short

application break with the latest insights

good for nothing

but ready for anything

i sit on the mountain baby

near the giant dishes

in clothes that calculate

and receive pictures

near the shining dishes

with which we browse the universe

in london they saw up cows

as artwork in bangkok they

have cockroaches as friends

the newest wave is coming baby

i don’t know if you know

what that means

if you want to know

what you should do baby

look for your own style

I will send you the catalogues

                from "sekundenbuch", poems, Leipziger Literaturverlag 2012.
English version by Martin Jankowski & Rebecca Jany.