{"id":12566,"date":"2020-10-22T14:13:01","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T12:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=12566"},"modified":"2020-10-22T14:25:34","modified_gmt":"2020-10-22T12:25:34","slug":"masuria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/?p=12566","title":{"rendered":"Masuria"},"content":{"rendered":"

A while ago I was talking with the Hausmeister here and when he said he was from Silesia I both knew just what he was talking about and also remembered that five years ago I had only the foggiest idea. The protagonist in Siegfried Lenz’s Heimatmuseum<\/em> references the Winterschlacht in Masuren in the middle of a lengthy sentence which he continues while I am halted, stumped. Where is\/was Masuren?<\/p>\n

Wikipedia<\/a>: „Masuria was the only region of Germany directly affected by the battles of World War I<\/span>„.<\/p>\n

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I have been to this place. It rained off and on that day. Crossing the border from Lithuania I stopped the car briefly to swap from the Lithuanian to the German SIM. Parts of the Schanze bunkers sat askew, huge moss-covered concrete slabs cast about by explosives like a child’s wooden blocks \u2014 this is such an overused metaphor that I would normally avoid employing it but here it’s quite fitting. There was a small Polish museum to narrate.<\/p>\n

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At Tannenberg once grandiose structures are now literally just a few bricks poking above the earth, accompanied by signs to suggest what had been.<\/p>\n

I went to these sites to see martial relics of the alien, of the invader, the occupier. Lenz’s dozent speaks of the weaver’s lore, of dye materials, of the sensual human-scale world of cloth, yarn, fabric, the cultural world of the Masuren inhabitants. Before the camps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A while ago I was talking with the Hausmeister here and when he said he was from Silesia I both knew just what he was talking about and also remembered that five years ago I had only the foggiest idea. … Weiterlesen →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}