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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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Marcel Krueger @marcelkrueger.bsky.social · 1h
"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."
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Cabinet magazine @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social · 1d
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.”

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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 · 22h
Arnold Zweig’s miniature archive.
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Marcel Krueger @marcelkrueger.bsky.social · 22h
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 · 22h
All issues of Anna Seghers’ “The Seventh Cross”:
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Marcel Krueger @marcelkrueger.bsky.social · 22h
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 · 1d
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 · 1d
"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’
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Alice Bota @alicebota.bsky.social · 1d
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.

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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.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 4d
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
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Marcel Krueger @marcelkrueger.bsky.social · 4d
“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 · 5d
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 · 7d
Back in my home country for a while. From “The October Country” by Ray Bradbury, 1955.
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Marcel Krueger @marcelkrueger.bsky.social · 7d
48. Bah.
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Tom Waits - "I Don't Wanna Grow Up"
YouTube video by Tom Waits
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Marcel Krueger @marcelkrueger.bsky.social · 7d
a woman in a blue tank top is drinking from a mug
ALT: a woman in a blue tank top is drinking from a mug
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Marcel Krueger @marcelkrueger.bsky.social · 8d
Back on my island for a short while.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 8d
How weird that this should have disappeared from the Telegraph archive...
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Sergey Radchenko @radchenko.bsky.social · 9d
I have a new piece with The Guardian where I look into the history of aerial confrontations going back to the Cold War. I argue that intruding Russian aircraft must be shot down as a prophylactic measure. There will not be a nuclear war. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Russia’s provocations are menacing Nato. The cold war shows how it needs to respond | Sergey Radchenko
Despite the cost of shooting down fighter jets and drones, small skirmishes remind both sides of the dangers of escalation, says academic Sergey Radchenko
www.theguardian.com
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Marcel Krueger @marcelkrueger.bsky.social · 9d
Als Backstein-Enthusiast freue ich mich, am 10.10. in Lübeck zu sein, im Haus Hansestadt Danzig aus dem 13. Jahrhundert! Ich lese mit Anna Kolomiitseva und Timo Janca & werde das Kochbuch “Martha” und Auszüge aus meinem neuen Buch “Seenland” vorstellen. haus-hansestadt-danzig.de/lesung-drei-...
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Marcel Krueger @marcelkrueger.bsky.social · 10d
A glorious, deep red, pink and yellow sunset over the darkening southeast of Poland, with woodsmoke in the air like fog as my train from Ukraine clanks past fires burning in fields and backyards, maybe a pagan tradition of the Lubelski region that I’m oblivious to.
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Marcel Krueger @marcelkrueger.bsky.social · 10d
Odo Dobrowolski (1883-1917): Adam Mickiewicz monument in Lviv, lithography, 1915.
A lithography of a tall monument on a square with pedestrians and vehicles in the snow, under a yellowish sky.
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Marcel Krueger @marcelkrueger.bsky.social · 12d
Legacy of empire, or the lion of San Marco in the City of Lions. The former embassy of La Serenissima to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth on Rynok Square in Lviv.
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Marcel Krueger @marcelkrueger.bsky.social · 13d
The glorious Lviv Theatre of Opera and Ballet, designed by Zygmunt Gorgolewski in 1900 as the Lemberg Stadttheater, in the autumn sun.
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After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 13d
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Marcel Krueger @marcelkrueger.bsky.social · 14d
Here the link to the event of @de-ua-gesellschaft.bsky.social and INDEX this Friday in Lviv: www.index-ukraine.org/en/events/za...
“For Our Freedom and Yours.” An Evening of the German-Ukrainian Society in Lviv
The slogan “For Our Freedom and Yours”, which has united the members of the newly founded German-Ukrainian Society, serves as a reminder of historical continuity. First used during the November Up...
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Leandra Müller @leandra232.bsky.social · 15d
Ich fasse mal zusammen: Die Jugend soll für uns in den Krieg ziehen, unsere Klimasünden ausbaden, unsere Renten zahlen, für die eigene Rente gefälligst selber vorsorgen, uns pflegen und um all das zu finanzieren mehr Wochenstunden und länger arbeiten. Aber für einen #Kulturpass ist kein Geld übrig!
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