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The River Told Me.
Upstream Danube PhilosophyHerbert Hrachovec
Department of Philosophy
University of Vienna
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Now come, fire!
We are impatient
To look upon the Day,And when the trial
Has passed through the knees
One may perceive the cries in the wood.
But, as for us, we sing from the Indus,
Arrived from afar, and
From the Alpheus, long weHave sought what is fitting,
Not without wings may one
Reach out for that which is nearest
Like so
And get to the other side.
But here we wish to build.For rivers make arable
The land. For when herbs are growing
And to the same in summer
The animals go to drink,
There too will human kind go.
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This one, however, is called the Ister.
Beautifully he lives. The pillars foliage burns,
And stirs. Wildly they stand
Supporting one another; above,A second measure, juts out
The roof of rocks. No wonder, therefore,
I say, this river
Invited Hercules,
Distantly gleaming, down by Olympus,
When he, to look for shadows,Came up from the sultry isthmus,
For full of courage they were
In that place, but, because of the spirits,
Theres need of coolness too. That is why that hero
Preferred to come here to the wellsprings and yellow banks,
Highly fragrant on top, and blackWith fir woods, in whose depths
A huntsman loves to amble
At noon, and growth is audible
In resinous trees of the Ister,
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Yet it seems
To travel backwards and
I think it must come from
The East.Much could
Be said about this. And why does
It cling to the mountains, straight?The other,
The Rhine, has gone away
Sideways. Not for nothing rivers flow
Through dry land. But how? A sign is needed,Nothing else, plain and honest, so that
Sun and Moon it may bear in mind, inseparable,
And go away, day and night no less, and
The Heavenly feel warm one beside the other.
That also is why these are
The joy of the Highest. For howWould he get down? And like Hertha green
They are the children of Heaven. But all too patient
He seems to me, not
More free, and nearly derisive. For when
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Day is due to begin
In youth, where it starts
To grow, another already there
Drives high the splendour, and like foalsHe grinds the bit, and far off the breezes
Can hear the commotion,
If he is contented;
But the rock needs incisions
And the earth needs furrows,
Would be desolate else, unabiding;Yet what that one does, the river,
Nobody knows. (Michael Hamburger
Translation,
With A. Sol Invictus
Emendation)
http://poetrybeingzen.blogspot.com/2007/11/hlderlin-der-ister-translation.html
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Two Itineraries
river mouth 1
Baile Herculane 4
Vukovar 2
Mauthausen 5 Straubing/Pfatter 6
Regensburg 9
Beuron 3
Vhrenbach 7
Furtwangen 8
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Framework Sorge
Being and Time
Rektoratsrede
Riverie
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The being of Dasein means: to-be-ahead-of-oneself-already-in-(the world) as
being-with (beings encountered in the world). This being fulfils the
signification of the term care, which is used here purely in an ontological-
existenzial way. Every ontically intended tendency of being such as worry
(having cares) or carefreeness remains excluded from this signification.(Being and Time, p. 192)
Whether this will or will not happen depends solely on whether we, as a
historical-spiritual people, still and once again will ourselvesor whether we no
longer will ourselves. Each individualparticipates in this decision even when, andespecially when, he evades it.
But we do will that our people fulfill its historical mission.
We do will ourselves. For the young and the youngest strength of the people,
which is already reaching beyond us, has already decided the matter.
But we will only fully understand the magnificence and greatness of this new
departure when we carry within us that profound and far-reaching thoughtfulness that
gave ancient Greek wisdom the saying:
...
[All that is great stands in the storm ...]
(... to sway ...)
(Plato, Republic, 497 d. 9)
Rektoratsrede, p. 13
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Martin Heidegger: Hlderlin's Hymn The Ister, p.15
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German Visionaries: The Dead End
Hans Jrgen Syberberg
at the Villa Wahnfried: Winifred Wagner
on Poetry lost
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Fault Lines
The Ister MixThe Hlderlin Autographs
Generalplan Ost
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Soon after Germany conquered Poland in September 1939, Hitler directed
SS chief Heinrich Himmler to begin distilling his geopolitical aims into a formal
plan of action. The newly conquered territories of Poland, and lands
Germany intended to conquer in the western Soviet Union, lands Himmler
referred to as the "California of Europe," would be "Germanized." In 1940,
Himmler had experts in the Reich Office for the Strengthening of Germandom
(RKFDV) and the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) develop plans for the
territory won by the Third Reich through its military conquests in Eastern
Europe. Known alternately by their names as the Generalplan Ostor the
Gesamtplan Ost(GPO), the different versions of these plans envisaged a
comprehensive restructuring of social, political, ethnic, and economic life in
occupied Bohemia and Moravia, Poland, the Baltic States, and regions of theSoviet Union west of the Ural Mountains according to National Socialist racial-
political principles. The GPO was in effect a utopian, ideologically oriented
plan for the creation of a German land-based empire in the east. As such,
the Generalplan Ostrepresented the most detailed statement ever
produced during the Third Reich of long-term foreign policy goals that
Adolf Hitler had first articulated in the mid-1920s.
In their place, the SS intended to settle communities of millions German
warrior-farmers (Wehrbauern) from Germany, Holland, Norway, Denmark,
and other countries with Germanic-Nordic racial stock would settle in the
lands between the eastern frontier and the German homeland.
http://www.worldfuturefund.org/wffmaster/Reading/GPO/Generalplanostnew.htm