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Spoiling the Party?
#Heidegger’s Lectures on #Trakl at Spa Bühlerhöhe
by Tobias Keiling and Ian Alexander Moore
'it is difficult, at first blush, to understand how, of all people, Trakl—the drug-addled, Austrian expressionist in love with decay and obsessed with his sister—could become for Heidegger the next “poet of the Germans” and take on the role of savior of the German people and indeed of the entire Occident.'
Tobias Keiling and Ian Alexander Moore–Spoiling the Party? Heidegger’s Lectures on Trakl at Spa Bühlerhöhe
It all began with plans for a birthday party.[1] Gerhard Stroomann, chief physician and charismatic leader of the posh spa resort and sanitarium Bühlerhöhe (imagine Thomas Mann’s character Hofrat Behrens, transplanted to a postwar “magic mountain” in the Black Forest) would be turning sixty-five in 1952, and he wanted to celebrate it with a weekend...