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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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I’m listening, Wuppertal Hauptbahnhof, I’m listening.
The sign of the former lost-and-found office at Wuppertal Hauptbahnhof that reads “ All is not lost!” in German.
November 23, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Moments of light and happiness are few and far between at the moment, but last Friday I was allowed to be on stage with my friends in Black Sunshine and fire my soap bubble guns at an unsuspecting metal crowd.
November 23, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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November 21, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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My little metal band Black Sunshine is turning 30 today and isn’t it absolutely strange and beautiful how time does not fly but jumps and stutters and loops in on itself?
November 21, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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November 20, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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Nicht zu vergessen dieses journalistische Glanzstück:
November 18, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Writing about the Nord Express today.
Poster for the Nord Express by A. M. Cassandre, 1927
November 18, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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Ich freue mich sehr, dass meine Freundin “Mart(h)a” heute in Wroclaw mit dem Anatol Omelaniuk-Preis für Regionalliteratur ausgezeichnet wurde! Herzlichen Glückwunsch an die Herausgeberinnen Anna Mikotajewska, Marta Sikorska und Katarzyna Szczerbowska-Prusevicius. wydawnictwo.umk.pl/produkt/mart...
November 15, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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A lovely evening yesterday at the Romanisches Café exhibition at Europa-Center Berlin, where @paulscraton.bsky.social read from Erich Kästner and Joseph Roth and I from the poems of John Hoexter. Thanks again to the exhibition team for the warm welcome and @slowberlin.bsky.social for presenting us.
November 15, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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The Work of Art in the Age of Figure Skating.
A poster for an ice skating show with the title “Ice & Aura”
November 14, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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Ich freue mich sehr, nächste Woche im Gerhart-Hauptmann-Haus in Düsseldorf die Geschichte von meinem Großonkel Franz Nerowski erzählen zu dürfen, dem polnischen Spion in der Wehrmacht. www.g-h-h.de/veranstaltun...
November 11, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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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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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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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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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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Morning motivation from Krzysztof Kieślowski.
November 6, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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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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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
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walter-benjamin.online is a fantastic source for any devotee or scholar of the man. They recently digitised his address book: here’s the page with the addresses of Siegfried Kracauer and Kurt Wolff:
October 30, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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A brilliant short piece on war and its monsters by @katetsurkan.bsky.social in La Piccioleta Barca: www.picciolettabarca.com/posts/iron-j...
October 30, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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@slowberlin.bsky.social & Romanisches Cafe exhibition invite Julia Bosson, @paulscraton.bsky.social and me to introduce our favourite literary regulars of Romanisches and our own writing, followed by a public discussion on November 14. Free tickets: romanisches-cafe.berlin/event/rebels...
October 29, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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August Sander (1876–1964): Revolutionaries (Alois Lindner, Erich Mühsam, Guido Kopp), 1929
October 27, 2025 at 8:30 AM