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Why is the lyricist Rainer Maria Rilke trending on Instagram, TikTok and Co.? Germanist Sandra Richter explains what the man has to tell us today on his 150th birthday.
Closed to the ages / are the gods of men. Under the yoke / Complaining until the last blow of the times, / He who is never, I am and am still breathing.
Would you have recognized Rainer Maria Rilke in girl's clothes? He was actually baptized with the androgynous French-speaking name René, his mother would have wanted him to be a girl so she would sometimes dress him like a little princess. Rainer would become... The article 150 years after Rilke's birth first appeared in The Fifth Power.
He has long since become an iconic pop star. Lady Gaga wears a quote from this poet's letter as a tattoo on her upper arm. Young influencers recite his poems and letters on YouTube, Instagram and TikTok
150 years ago, the poet was born whose verses still divide people into two camps: bold criticism or mere kitsch?
Pop stars and influencers quote him: Rainer Maria Rilke fascinates even 150 years after his birth. What makes his work so timeless and worth reading to this day?
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