Glasfryn Project

In 2014, as a creative response to conditions in the former East Germany after reunification, fugitive Dessau poet Daniel zur Höhe (1960– ) completed his multi-layered, paranoid reinventions of the twenty four lyrics by Wilhelm Müller that became the basis for Schubert’s greatest song cycle Winterreise (1827). Before his Winter Journey could be published, zur Höhe disappeared, leaving behind a bewildered group of friends and disappointing the many readers of his cryptic Jedem das Sein: Conversations in the Beech Forest (first published in 2009, reissued 2015).

Anthony Mellors’ translations make these difficult, idiomatic poems very much his own, tuning them to the flexible cadences of English innovative verse, whilst keeping as closely as possible to the spirit of the originals. The texts are accompanied by a scholarly introduction and illuminating notes from the author; with photogravures by David Rees.

Never before available in English, these poems are a unique example of East German postmodernism. In their obsessional focus on Schubert’s late song cycle and its high and low musical reverberations over the last two hundred years, they pull into their orbit reflections on ideology, surveillance culture, gentrification, nostalgia, romance, and male fantasy: glimmering fragments of a world both lost and uncannily present.

Published May 2022. Uk £12.00

Aquifer Books

ISBN: 978-1-8383587-6-1

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