Thanks for this - inspired me to listen to a version that came up on YouTube (Jonas Kaufman). The late BC poet Peter Culley has a great poem also called “Winterreise” in his 1995 collection _The Climax Forest_, which ends with these amazing lines: “from the narrow window/Friedrich’s Christ/just barely visible/on his mountaintop, still/writhing in the warm searchlight/of late summer” — I saw that Caspar David Friedrich painting, The Tetachen Altar, in the Galerie Neue Meister, Dresden, in 2022. Thanks, too for the Zizek quip I will have to hunt it down. He does write that he imagines Hans Hotter’s 1942 recording being listened to by German troops at the Battle of Stalingrad. “Die Füße frugen nicht nach Rast,/es war zu kalt zum Stehen„
Thanks for this - inspired me to listen to a version that came up on YouTube (Jonas Kaufman). The late BC poet Peter Culley has a great poem also called “Winterreise” in his 1995 collection _The Climax Forest_, which ends with these amazing lines: “from the narrow window/Friedrich’s Christ/just barely visible/on his mountaintop, still/writhing in the warm searchlight/of late summer” — I saw that Caspar David Friedrich painting, The Tetachen Altar, in the Galerie Neue Meister, Dresden, in 2022. Thanks, too for the Zizek quip I will have to hunt it down. He does write that he imagines Hans Hotter’s 1942 recording being listened to by German troops at the Battle of Stalingrad. “Die Füße frugen nicht nach Rast,/es war zu kalt zum Stehen„