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For me, the city is no longer a monolith, a uniform and alien entity devoid of history. I am already somewhat absorbed, like sun cream. I don't feel part of it yet. I don't recognise anybody. I don't get greeted by anyone. I don't understand the language. And yet a sense of belonging creeps into my consciousness. | For me, the city is no longer a monolith, a uniform and alien entity devoid of history. I am already somewhat absorbed, like sun cream. I don't feel part of it yet. I don't recognise anybody. I don't get greeted by anyone. I don't understand the language. And yet a sense of belonging creeps into my consciousness. | ||
- | Like a rhythm to which I have already danced. It is not possible to remember this state. It is life that cannot be grasped in retrospect. I can only write it while it is. This is the feeling that accompanies me in my travel writing. I have to capture it //now//, I can't write it down and process it later. It was during my second trip to Krakow that I became most aware of this. When Europe' | + | {{ : |
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+ | Like a rhythm to which I have already danced. It is not possible to remember this state. It is life that cannot be grasped in retrospect. I can only write it while it is. This is the feeling that accompanies me in my travel writing. I have to capture it //now//, I can't write it down and process it later. It was during my second trip to Krakow that I became most aware of this. When Europe' | ||
But in the first moment, one world collapsed and a new one began to emerge. I felt I had to write about it //now//, because if I wrote about it later, it would only be a reflection from the newly created reality. I would be aware of many things that in the past moment had been incalculably overwhelming. | But in the first moment, one world collapsed and a new one began to emerge. I felt I had to write about it //now//, because if I wrote about it later, it would only be a reflection from the newly created reality. I would be aware of many things that in the past moment had been incalculably overwhelming. | ||
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In this way, the travel texts are like islands, like logbook entries of a ship that always docks anew at the moment. The entries in the log book carry on from one another, but they are not from one state of mind. Each of these journeys changes me. And I record these changes. The transformation, | In this way, the travel texts are like islands, like logbook entries of a ship that always docks anew at the moment. The entries in the log book carry on from one another, but they are not from one state of mind. Each of these journeys changes me. And I record these changes. The transformation, | ||
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- | ===== A mission | + | ===== A demand |
//28 October, Book Fair// | //28 October, Book Fair// | ||
- | At the book fair in Krakow. Everything is very busy here. A lot of young people are interested in printed books in Poland. What a crowd. | ||
- | Is this civil society that has just given up its passivity? In the last parliamentary elections on 15 October, 74.4% of the population voted. That is much more than anyone could have expected. 11% more than in the first free parliamentary election | + | At the book fair in Krakow. It is very busy here. A lot of young people |
- | The PiS party, "Law and Justice", | + | Is this a civil society that has just abandoned its passivity? In the last parliamentary elections on 15 October, 74.4% of the population |
- | Civil society braced itself against fear with a declaration of hope for the future. 500,000 people | + | The Law and Justice Party (PiS) has been in power in Poland |
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+ | Civil society responded to fear with a declaration of hope for the future. 500,000 people took part in the opposition "March of Freedom" | ||
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+ | ===== The period | ||
//28 October, Klezmer Hois// | //28 October, Klezmer Hois// | ||
- | Will Tusk's KO, the "New Left" | + | Will Tusk's KO, the New Left and the two Third Way parties be able to agree on a coalition? Do they have more in common |
- | On 12 November, President Andrzej Duda (PiS) will propose a candidate for the office of Prime Minister | + | On 12 November, President Andrzej Duda (PiS) will propose a candidate for prime minister |
- | That would be fatal, because time is pressing. If Donald Tusk comes to power, he wants to revise laws passed by the PiS government that contradict EU rules. This would free up large sums of EU money for Poland. I hear a figure: 54 billion euros. Donald Tusk travelled to Brussels immediately after the election. He knows the processes of the EU better than almost anyone else. The EU institutions would probably accommodate a new Polish government as far as they could. Whether President Duda wants to support or obstruct Tusk remains to be seen. | + | {{ :logbuch: |
- | ===== Once again: the mission | + | That would be fatal, because time is running out. If Donald Tusk comes to power, he wants to revise laws passed by the PiS government that contradict EU rules. This would free up large sums of EU money for Poland. I hear a figure: 54 billion euros. Donald Tusk went to Brussels immediately after the election. He knows the workings of the EU better than almost anyone. The EU institutions would probably accommodate a new Polish government as much as possible. Whether President Duda will support or obstruct Tusk remains to be seen. |
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+ | ===== Once again: the demand | ||
//29 October, Kazimierz// | //29 October, Kazimierz// | ||
- | Many small initiatives at local and regional level were important for the large turnout in this parliamentary election. Polish civil society mobilised itself | + | Many small initiatives at local and regional level were important for the high turnout in this parliamentary election. Polish civil society mobilised itself |
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===== Interlude: three Poles and a German ===== | ===== Interlude: three Poles and a German ===== | ||
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- | I'm sitting on a bench in a small square in the Kazimierz neighbourhood | + | I'm sitting on a bench in a small square in the Kazimierz neighbourhood, writing |
- | I'm then told what it's like in Germany. How scared we all have to be and how terrible | + | Then they tell me what it's like in Germany. How scared we all must be and how horrible |
- | They then ask why we in Germany want to kick the Americans out of Europe. But they already know their answer: if the Americans were gone, we Germans would negotiate with the Russians and divide Poland | + | Then they ask why we in Germany want to kick the Americans out of Europe. But they already know the answer: if the Americans were gone, we Germans would negotiate with the Russians and divide Poland among ourselves. That's for sure. The three of them understand that, it's the laws of economics and power. |
- | But they are trying | + | But they try to make me understand |
- | I say Germany doesn' | + | I say that Germany doesn' |
- | I tell them a bit about Polish history after they tell me I don't know anything about it. Now we are even more friendly. The three of them have studied foreign trade economics. That's why they know what Germany | + | I tell them a bit about Polish history, after they tell me I don't know anything about it. From now on we were even more friendly. The three of them have studied foreign trade. That's why they have a better idea of what Germany's wishes are than I do. The EU, they tell me, doesn' |
- | I say that somewhere in Germany there could be exactly this place and four guys are talking at a public bench with beer and complaining that their country (in this case Germany) is being bullied by the EU in Brussels. They look at me dumbfounded. Not because they believe me. I'm a marvellous phantast for them. I make a few more attempts to tell them that Germany | + | I say that somewhere in Germany there could be exactly this place and four guys sitting on a public bench, drinking |
- | We talk a bit more about how important it is to maintain a critical awareness of information from the media and the Internet. We agree on that! I get the impression that the three of them would give themselves high marks on that point. But not me. I move on, it was kind of nice without us being able to convince each other of anything. | + | {{ : |
- | + | We talk a bit more about how important it is to be critical of information from the media and the internet. We agree on that! I get the impression that the three of them would give themselves high marks on this point. But not me. I move on. It was somehow nice - but without us being able to convince each other of anything. | |
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