Recently enjoyed Radio 4's program featuring Sibyl Ruth's interpretation of poems written by her German great aunt "Tante Rose" written during time in the 'ghetto-town' Theresienstadt during WWII.
As in Sebald's 'Austerlitz', which gives us a rare glimpse of the life of prominent Jewish writers, intellectuals and musicians interned in the camp, the poems give us personal insight into day to day life inside the ghetto, how they endured the horrendous conditions and how they remained hopeful of freedom.
With this in mind, hoping to develop ideas for an exhibition later this year as part of Thame Arts & Literary Festival entitled "Another Language" - encorporating themes of visual or artistic language and translation.
Saturday 20 February 2010
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