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transcript is a disturbing document. Using the techniques of concrete and visual poetry, Heimrad Bäcker presents quotations from the Holocaust's planners, perpetrators, and victims. The book offers a startling collection of documents that confront us with details from the bureaucratic world of the Nazis and the intimate worlds they destroyed. Bäcker's sources range from victims' letters and medical charts to train schedules and the telephone records of Auschwitz. His transcriptions and reworkings of these sources serve as a reminder that everything about the Shoah was spoken about in great detail, from the most banal to the most monstrous. transcript shows us that the Holocaust was not "unspeakable," but was an eminently describable and described act spoken about by thousands of people concerned with the precision and even the beauty of their language.
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ISBN-10
1564785653
ISBN-13
9781564785657
Publication Date
Feb 2010
Nb of pages
172
Excerpt
you would see distraught people on the street: "i forgot my star!" or they would be stopped: "where's your star?" then they would rush to their quarters shielding themselves with their hands held out in front of them.
legal bulletin of the reich 1933, I
legal bulletin of the reich 1933, I
legal bulletin of the reich 1935, I
legal bulletin of the reich 1935, I
legal bulletin of the reich 1935, I
legal bulletin of the reich 1938, I
legal bulletin of the reich 1938, I
legal bulletin of the reich 1938, I
legal bulletin of the reich 1938, I
legal bulletin of the reich 1938, I
legal bulletin of the reich 1938, I
legal bulletin of the reich 1938, I
legal bulletin of the reich 1938, I
legal bulletin of the reich 1938, I
legal bulletin of the reich 1938, I
legal bulletin of the reich 1938, I
legal bulletin of the reich 1938, I
legal bulletin of the reich 1938, I
legal bulletin of the reich 1939, I
legal bulletin of the reich 1939, I
legal bulletin of the reich 1939, I
legal bulletin of the reich 1941, I
legal bulletin of the reich 1941, I
einsatzgruppe A einsatzgruppe B
einsatzgruppe C einsatzgruppe D
if jews required to wear the insignia live in an apartment whose owner is not required to wear the insignia, then they are required to have a separate nameplate on the apartment entrance and the insignia immediately next to it
if persons not required to wear the insignia live in an apartment whose owner is required to wear the insignia, then they are entitled to a separate nameplate without the insignia
the affixation of nameplates and insignia is to be completed in such a way that every doubt is eliminated and so that it is clearly evident that
city hall park palace garden people's garden city park park grounds in beethoven square franz josef quay schmerling square occupying the benches on the ring boulevard the augarten garden grounds on sterneck square rose park on the archduke karl square prater (all areas) arenberg park belvedere garden botanic garden park grounds along the erdberg quai hermann park modena park gardens in the schwarzenberg square swiss gardens gardens along the weissgerber quai ressel park drasche park st. johann park klieber park park grounds between haydn park and reumannhof complex park grounds across from the housing project at 76–80 margarete beltway esterházy park johann strauss park park grounds on hamerling square schönborn park benno park neudegger park garden grounds along the rossau quai garden grounds along the tow path on the danube canal gardens on the grounds of the former home for the poor in währing street park in front of the votive church (in hermann göring square) the garden grounds belonging to the clam-gallas family at 37 lichtenstein street hübler park brunnhuber park wilhelmsdorf park miesbach garden haydn park steinbauer park park grounds in the schedifka square and in front of the meidling barracks auer-welsbach park baumgarten casino park ferdinand wolf park lainz cemetery park gulden park hügel park maxing park leitenwald park schimon park strecker park gardens of schönbrunn palace and of hetzendorf palace grounds on the baumgarten hill and by the lainz home for the elderly march park on the grounds of the former schmelz cemetery congress park rosenstein park park grounds in richthausen street and in frauenfeld square türkenschanz park schubert park anton baumann park ebner-eschenbach park kainz park garden grounds in aumann square währing park with the exception that crossing over from semper street to the währing tram station is allowed due to transportation considerations heiligenstadt park saar park strauss lanner park wertheimstein park park grounds in the mortara square all saints square brigitta square saxony square gauss square garden grounds on the brigittenau quai hans smital park jedlesee park floridsdorf park recreational area on the old upper danube stadlau park park grounds in bismark square and kagran square garden grounds along the old danube the entire area of the vienna woods of the bisam hill and freudenau are forbidden as excursion areas
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Heimrad Bäcker's 'documentary poems' turn artifacts of evil into the stuff of art.
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transcript is an indictment, understanding transcript, evidence of that most human trait, our inhumanity.
Quotations
The cumulative effect of these fragments is harrowing. A letter says: "i probably won't ever see you again, won't hear your voice, won't kiss you. but how i want to see you, if only once!" In the long lists of names, one or two stick out. What did the tailor Zoltan Fleishmann look like? What sort of life did the shopkeeper Bernhard Herskovits have? We read about a camp inmate who was punished with death for not executing with total accuracy the motion of taking off his cap and putting it back on, of another who was shot because he was no longer capable of performing certain kinds of heavy labor owing to his physical condition, and of a little four-year-old Jewish boy who distributed short pieces of string to men and women on the way to the gas chamber—presumably by way of reassurance. Poetry is in the details, we usually say, but so is cruelty.
-Charles Simic
Thus while transcript is extremely effective both as literature and a warning against the horrors of Nazism, it simultaneously leads the reader to question their ability to fully apprehend 'reality' because of the ways in which our experience is filtered through prior 'knowledge' that may be of either a ‘documentary’ or a ‘fictional’ nature.
-Stuart Home
With transcript, a new chapter began for concrete and visual poetry.
-Eugen Gomringer
I consider transcript to be a major work of concrete poetry and, beyond that, proof that its methods can convey reality much more intensively than the methods of description.
-Friedrich Achleitner
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