I’ve finished Chapter one of Vampire and it will soon be posted on the main webpage, finished “My Mother the Witch”, started chapter three of Alraune, in the middle of chapter two of Fundvogel.
I will do one more short story before starting “The Spider”. I am curious if there will be any significant differences in my translation. I will only post things I have personally translated so it needs to be done. The Spider is probably HHE’s most famous short story. I should have it on my web page.
The translation work is taking form and so is the influence of Hanns Heinz Ewers in my own life. He represents my dark aspect just as my other books represent my spiritual/light side. On the pages of Anarchist World there are two polarities, one light and one dark. Both are related to each other in some mysterious way.
There is no doubt in my mind that this polarity will draw readers. It will draw members of the nation of culture! Hanns Heinz Ewers believed in the nation of culture, thought it was destroyed during world war I, thought that the third Reich might be able to bring it back. Vienna had been the cultural capital of the world.
Post World War I Germany gave the world many things including Psychology with Freud, Jung, Reich and others. It gave us Einstein, nuclear physics, rockets, the space program. It gave us German philosophers such as Kant and Neitzche.
This is just scratching the surface. Many of the medical miracles of today such as organ transplants have come out of the horrendous human experimentation done during world war II by the Nazis.
Was Nazi Germany a nation of culture? The frightening answer is that I don’t really know! I do know that something went horribly wrong. Hanns Heinz Ewers was banned in Nazi Germany, was on the death list but escaped to die in poverty, persona non grata. The nation that he believed in did not in the end believe in him. Hanns Heinz Ewers was a Jewish sympathiser as well as Hitler’s favorite author! What an explosive position to be in!
In today’s world, I wonder about a nation of culture. Is it possible? Is it too dangerous to consider? Would such a nation be corrupted to evil? These are all questions that I would like the answer to.
All I know is that I long for people of culture! I tire of the petty lives of those that talk only of deer hunting, favorite restaurants and television shows. Sometimes I long so deeply for a decent conversation that I just need to be alone, there is no one there. That’s when I write on Anarchist World.
There is a nation of culture and Anarchist World is part of it!
