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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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Anne Rabe @annerabe.bsky.social · 9h

Natürlich ist ein so guter, kluger und kämpferischer Verlag wie der @verbrecherverlag.bsky.social Rechtsextremisten ein Dorn im
Auge, natürlich versuchen sie auf alles, was Kultur ist, was Denken ist und Progression Angriffe zu starten. Das sind Angriffe auf uns alle und deswegen sollten 1/2

Ich mit dem Buch von Milo Rau: ,Widerstand hat keine Form Widerstand ist die Form‘, das im Verbrecherverlag erschienen ist.

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Marcel Krueger @marcelkrueger.bsky.social · 16h

Many happy returns!

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Straßenverlauf @strassenverlauf.bsky.social · 19h

Am 11. Oktober 1950 dokumentierte Eva Kemlein, die im Nationalsozialismus antisemitisch verfolgt worden war und Widerstand geleistet hatte, den Abriss des Berliner Schlosses.

Mehr zu ihrer Biografie folgt 🧵⤵️

Fotografie aus Vogelperspektive zeigt den Abriss des Berliner Schlosses am 11.10.1950. Aus Vogelperspektive Blick hinunter auf zerstörte Gebäude. Nachweis von wiki commons folgt.

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Marcel Krueger @marcelkrueger.bsky.social · 1d

Going to Lübeck today.

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Der Volksverpetzer @volksverpetzer.de · 2d

Ich habe mich gefragt, wie eine Regierung handeln müsste, wenn sie heimlich alles tun würde, um dafür zu sorgen, dass die AfD stärker wird und an die Macht kommt: Sie würde deren Forderungen umsetzen, ihre Probleme & Feindbilder übernehmen und den Sozialstaat und die Zivilgesellschaft abbauen.

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(It Was a Graveyard Josh) @shmeppy.bsky.social · 2d

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Marcel Krueger @marcelkrueger.bsky.social · 2d

Followerpower! I'm looking for an artist/illustrator for a design for the 30th anniversary t-shirt of my metal band Black Sunshine. We're looking for a woodcut/comic-style illustration and we like @beckycloonan.bsky.social and medieval woodcuts a lot... www.instagram.com/blacksunshin...

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GOETHE @jwvgoethe.bsky.social · 2d

Der Begriff des Fortschritts ist in der Idee der Katastrophe zu fundieren. Daß es »so weiter« geht, ist die Katastrophe. Sie ist nicht das jeweils Bevorstehende sondern das jeweils Gegebene.

▪️Walter Benjamin

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Marcel Krueger @marcelkrueger.bsky.social · 2d

Karl Dedecius FTW.

Eine Ausgabe von „Polnische Prosa des 20. Jahrhunderts“, herausgegeben von Karl Dedecius, 1966

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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 3d

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 3d

Please join me in raising funds for medical cargo buses and trucks with electric jamming for brigades of Ukraine's Khartiia Corps. These automobiles make the difference between whether people survive or not. We can do something very specific and meaningful to help.
www.help99.co/patches/timo...

Timothy Snyder: Freedom is Action

Professor Timothy Snyder – a prominent voice of freedom, teams up with NAFO to fundraise for ten trucks and ten cargo buses with anti-drone jamming systems. These will transport and protect those who ...

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NAFO 69th Sniffing Brigade @69thsb.bsky.social · 4d

Fellas! We’re pleased to announce a new campaign in partnership with @timothysnyder.bsky.social!

Introducing Timothy Snyder: Freedom is Action

Timothy Snyder has partnered with #NAFO to provide critically needed aid for 🇺🇦 defenders!

More info can be found in 🧵
🔗 www.help99.co/patches/timo...

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Marcel Krueger @marcelkrueger.bsky.social · 3d

"Amid this transformation, the walls of Berlin, a city often compared to Babylon, go on talking like the work of so many disembodied hands, delivering messages whose ultimate import we cannot fully comprehend, even as political authorities would prefer us not to see them."

Cabinet magazine @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social · 5d

In our latest article, Alex Cocotas reflects on Berlin, the effacement of Gaza graffiti, and the writing on the wall. “The dream of the West is to grieve tomorrow for what we could have prevented today.”

www.cabinetmagazine.org/kiosk/cocota...

In Gaza Dies Your Western Dream | Alex Cocotas

Berlin, Palestine, and the writing on the wall

www.cabinetmagazine.org

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Marcel Krueger @marcelkrueger.bsky.social · 4d

Arnold Zweig’s miniature archive.

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The handwritten draft of Walter Benjamin’s “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” on a San Pellegrino napkin. @slowberlin.bsky.social

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Marcel Krueger @marcelkrueger.bsky.social · 4d

All issues of Anna Seghers’ “The Seventh Cross”:

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Marcel Krueger @marcelkrueger.bsky.social · 4d

Some fascinating items from “Out of the Box”, an exhibition of 75 years of the archives of the Akademie der Künste Berlin. The exhibition runs until January 2026, and we start with the Tin Drum from movie and novel with the same name.

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Marcel Krueger @marcelkrueger.bsky.social · 4d

A few words about Lviv, Ukraine and Joseph Roth in wartime over on my Substack. open.substack.com/pub/topograp...

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Tea Junkie @teajunkie.bsky.social · 4d

"And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it ‘the future,’ AI is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be re-consumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line".
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

Robin Williams’ daughter Zelda hits out at AI-generated videos of her dead father: ‘stop doing this to him’

Film-maker tells the public to stop sending her videos, saying: ‘You’re not making art, you’re making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings’

www.theguardian.com

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Alice Bota @alicebota.bsky.social · 5d

Russland hat eine Geburtsabteilung in Mariupol bombardiert. Ein Theater mit hunderten Geflohenen, vor dem „Kinder“ geschrieben stand. Das Kinderkrankenhaus Ochmatdyt in Kyjiw. Es bombardiert Schulen, Kitas und nun eine Geburtenklinik in Sumy. Keine News mehr.

kyivindependent.com/russian-dron...

Russian drone hits maternity hospital in Sumy

Everyone managed to take shelter in time, and no casualties were reported. The fire has since been extinguished by first responders.

kyivindependent.com

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 7d

German authorities have confirmed drones circling Munich were military grade.

Not sure how much longer NATO countries can keep up the pretense…

a cartoon dog is sitting in front of a fire and saying i 'm fine this is fine everything is fine

Alt: a cartoon dog is sitting in front of a fire and saying i 'm fine this is fine everything is fine

media.tenor.com

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Marcel Krueger @marcelkrueger.bsky.social · 7d

“When you have nothing more to say, just drive
For a day all round the peninsula.
The sky is tall as over a runway,
The land without marks, so you will not arrive
But pass through, though always skirting landfall.”

Seamus Heaney, The Peninsula

Dundalk & Carlingford, October 2025

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Marcel Krueger @marcelkrueger.bsky.social · 8d

W tym roku wezmę udział nie w jednym, ale w dwóch wydarzeniach podczas Festiwalu Mendelssohna. Przeprowadzę wywiad ze wspaniałym @paulscraton.bsky.social oraz opowiem o sobie i mojej rodzinie na Warmii. Zorganizowane przez moich przyjaciół z BORUSSIA Olsztyn. madeinwm.pl/wydarzenia/f...

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Marcel Krueger @marcelkrueger.bsky.social · 10d

Back in my home country for a while. From “The October Country” by Ray Bradbury, 1955.

Marcel Krueger @marcelkrueger.bsky.social · 10d

48. Bah.
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Tom Waits - "I Don't Wanna Grow Up"

YouTube video by Tom Waits

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