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Marcel Krueger
@marcelkrueger.bsky.social
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Run out the boat, my broken comrades. Books & essays on memory and place, especially about Ireland, Germany, Poland. Antifascist and proud member of #NAFO. I live in Berlin.

Editor of @elsewherejournal.bsky.social

https://www.marcelkrueger.eu/
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Marcel Krueger @marcelkrueger.bsky.social · Nov 17
Allow me to (re)introduce myself. I’m a German-Irish writer and translator, disciple of Drndić, Sebald and Benjamin. I write about memory, nostalgia and identity by way of my German-Polish family history full of spies, forced labour, and lost homes. I'm adding some essays and books of mine below.
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Der Philosoph Jason Stanley verlässt die USA wegen der politischen Lage und wird in Deutschland bei einer Rede zum 9. November vor der jüdischen Gemeinde von der Bühne gebrüllt, weil er die Vorgänge um Masha Gessen erwähnt. taz.de/Streit-um-Ge...
November 11, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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Deutsche Entlastungshoffnung und Realitätsschock in zwei Absätzen.
(aus: www.t-online.de/unterhaltung...)
November 10, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Support and protect your local libraries and keep using them as that ensures they are funded, buy books 2nd hand from independent bookstores, start cultivating your own library at home, and share the joy of reading as a critical cultural skill with others. Fuck AI.
B/w photo of the author wearing a t-shirt that says “Support your local Library” in a heavy metal font.
November 10, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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OTD in 1989 crowds of CIA sponsored fascists in pay of Soros stormed the Berlin Wall to begin an illegal, and very gay, annexation of East Germany.
November 9, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Liesenbrücken, 2025 // Gustav Wunderwald (1882 - 1945): Brücke über die Ackerstraße Berlin Nord, 1927
November 9, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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„Das tritt nach meiner Kenntnis... ist das sofort... unverzüglich.“
A picture of crowds of GDR citizens entering West Berlin on November 9, 1989, on the walls of Bornholmer Straße S-Bahn station.
November 9, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Support and protect your local libraries, buy books in print 2nd hand, start cultivating your own library and share the joy of reading as a critical cultural skill with others.
70sbachchan.bsky.social Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 8d
“The elites are ecstatic about imagining a vast, uneducated, and unproductive population forced to pay companies like OpenAI to access the written word and to approximate thought.”

Must read piece by Noah McCormack with too many quotaboe lines to select one! thebaffler.com/salvos/we-us...
We Used to Read Things in This Country | Noah McCormack
Technology changes us—and it is currently changing us for the worse.
thebaffler.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:51 AM
marcelkrueger.bsky.social
Schicksalstag again today boys and girls.
November 9, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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European history: red brick and catastrophes.
November 8, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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One of the two men accused of plotting an attack on immigrants in Ireland is called Karolis Peckauskas and I have nothing to add to that
Right-wing extremist terror group planned destruction of Galway Mosque, court hears
Portlaoise District Court hears gardaí discovered ‘manifesto’ and video during search
www.irishtimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Me waiting for the bus omw to kick your ass
A tiny little floofy white dog that looks like it weighs five pounds sopping wet sits very polite looking slightly nervous in a little clear raincoat with blue pipping. Next to a foot ignore the foot
May 13, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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The Combat, 1939, by Leslie Gilbert Illingworth (1902–1979).
November 6, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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1. This is a thread on freedom, and how easy it is to lose.

Over the past 2,000 years in Europe, there have been few periods and places of freedom. For much of the time we lived under highly oppressive tyrannies of various kinds, whether small or grand, local or imperial, secular or religious.🧵
November 7, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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unddieregel.bsky.social
Vielleicht irgendwann kann man mal nachzeichnen, wie diese willentliche zerstörung jeder kritischen antisemitismusanalytik im namen einer rechtswende ein sehr wichtiges ding kaputt gemacht hat, und warum es so kam oder kommen musste und was damit verloren ging
Prof. Dr. Susann... @susann… • 12h g Wer steht hinter der Kampagne gegen @AhmadMansour_ ? Warum wird ein Forschungsvorhaben gegen #Antisemitismus von links-woker Seite skandalisiert? juedische-allgemeine.de/politik/so-erz..
November 6, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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»Noch nie in der Geschichte hat eine kleine Gruppe von Menschen so viel Macht akkumuliert wie die Hyperreichen von heute. Man kann durchaus behaupten: Die Welt nähert sich einer globalen Diktatur der Superreichen.«
November 5, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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lol
November 6, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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Morning motivation from Krzysztof Kieślowski.
November 6, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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Now open for submissions of unpublished fiction and non-fiction, poetry, graphic narratives, photo-essays, and short films focussed on the actuality or idea (no matter how abstract) of a journey(or journeys): email to guesteditorbhp@gmail.com.
November 4, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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The Amazing World Of Tomorrow
A comic strip titled The Amazing World of Tomorrow. A food delivery robot cooler drives down a sidewalk. It crashes into a rental scooter. It backs up. It crashes into the rental scooter again. The scooter wobbles. The scooter falls to the ground as the food delivery robot backs up again. A driverless taxi crashes into both the scooter and the food delivery robot sending them flying.
November 3, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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One of my favourite red brick buildings in the world, the Wysoka Brama or Hohes Tor or High Gate in Olsztyn in the north of Poland. It was built in 1378 and still protects the old town to this day. Images from 1890, between 1945 and 1949, and October 2025:
A b/w picture of the medieval High Gate in Olsztyn at night, October 2025. A b/w image of the medieval High Gate of Olsztyn and Oberstrasse/Staromiejska street ca. 1949, the left side of the street still in ruins. A b/w image of the medieval High Gate of Olsztyn ca. 1945, surrounded by war rubble. A b/w image of the medieval High Gate of Olsztyn and Oberstrasse/Staromiejska street taken by photographer Paul Horn in 1890.
November 4, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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okwonga.bsky.social
everybody was underestimating Hitler and the National Socialists. Ebbutt believed that they would absorb the other far-right nationalist parties because the Nazis ‘know what they want and have a concrete programme, which is more than the others can claim. I think Hitler is going places.’ If the flood of American money invested in Germany ceased, he wrote, ‘you will see a sudden slump here and general unemployment. That will be Hitler’s chance.’
November 3, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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Happy Wszystkich Świętych, All Hallows Day, celebrated in Poland. One of my favourite celebrations, remembering these who have passed by decorating graves and lighting up znicze (a glass lantern)
Picture of graveyard with lanterns Lit up graveyard from sky
November 1, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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Oíche Shamhna
October 31, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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It being Halloween, here’s also an older piece I wrote about the ghosts of Warmia-Masuria from both German and Polish folklore. przekroj.org/en/art-stori...
October 31, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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As it is Halloween, here’s the scariest picture & caption on Wikipedia that I know. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vajont_...
The Vajont Dam as seen from the village of Longarone in 2005, showing roughly the top 60–70 m (200–230 ft) of concrete. The wall of water that overtopped the dam by 250 m (820 ft)[1] and destroyed this village and all nearby villages on 9 October 1963 would have obscured virtually all of the blue sky in this photo.
October 31, 2025 at 8:26 PM