Secondary Witness

To better understand the effect of “Todesfuge” “Deathfugue” on the Margarete and Sulamith paintings of Anselm Kiefer, Bonnie Roos in her ar...

Recently I read a review of Andrea Lauterwein's book Anselm Kiefer/Paul Celan: Myth, Mourning and Memory by Kevin Hart that explores th...

To understand a little about the nature of the Jewish Museum Berlin as a representation of the uncanny, it may be useful to look at the way ...

When Daniel Libeskind was chosen as the architect for the Jüdisches Museum Berlin / Jewish Museum Berlin, he needed to reexamine his thought...

Certain memories of this day are still clear to me. I remember the subway stairs in Munich where my first husband and my two children left ...

Here’s my story for the week. First off, know my plan was to be multi-tasking, as I was trying to understand Paul Celan’s “Todesfuge” and t...

Pulse Shadows In exploring this song cycle that Sir Harrison Birtwistle based on the poems of Paul Celan, it may be useful to see ways the...