Marc Estrin
Nonfiction
WHATEVER BEFALLS; Poems from the Dietenbronn Neurological Clinic
Johannes Hösle wrote these poems in 1977, during a stay in the specialist clinic for neurology in Dietenbronn, Germany. He selected thirty-one poems for the collection, one for each day he spent at the clinic. This is a dual language German/English edition. The collection was previously published in 2019 as a German/Italian dual language edition titled Album aus Dietenbronn: Album da Dietenbronn, translated into Italian by Antonello Borra.
About the Author
Johannes Hösle was born in 1929 in Erolzheim, a town in the district of Biberach in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Between 1961 and 1965, he was the director of the Goethe-Institute in Milan, Italy. From 1968-1995, he was Professor of Romance Languages at the University of Regensburg. He died in 2017 in Regensburg.
NOTES OF DEVASTATION
Notes of Devastation is a compilation of the John, Matthew and Luke Passion texts set to music in the late 1660s by Heinrich Schütz. Ilustrated with etchings by Jaques Callot, depicting the devastation wrought by the Thirty Years War, the years in which the music was conceived.
