At this point on the grounds, two testaments to the resistance against the annihilation of the human encounter each other. The aluminum plaque by Eberhard F. Gutberlet preserves a fragment by Paul Celan: \u201eA star still has light. Nothing, nothing is lost.\u201c It is a sentence that breathes hope despite the deepest darkness. The plaque stands in direct dialogue with Friedhelm Welge's sculpture, which is a memorial to Dietrich Bonhoeffer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bonhoeffer, who was murdered in Flossenb\u00fcrg concentration camp in 1945, is portrayed here as a modern Christopher. Like the patron saint of travelers, he helped his fellow prisoners in Gestapo custody to reach \u201ethe other side\u201c \u2013 not just physically, but by preserving their dignity and humanity. He was the steadfast support in times of greatest need, a Christopher of flesh and blood who rendered his executioners powerless because his spirit remained unconquerable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This plaque is also part of a larger literary path that inextricably links Celan with Rose Ausl\u00e4nder. Both came from the German-Jewish cultural tradition in Czernowitz and met during the Shoah in the ghetto there. This shared experience of persecution and loss shaped their entire creative work and later brought them together again in Paris, where Celan encouraged Ausl\u00e4nder to radically renew her poetry. The fact that both texts have now found their place here on the grounds, each corresponding with a sculpture by Welge, weaves an invisible network of history and common origin. It is a dialogue about survival and the power of language, reminding us that we are never entirely in the dark as long as a star still has light.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
An dieser Stelle des Gel\u00e4ndes begegnen sich zwei Zeugnisse des Widerstands gegen die Vernichtung des Menschlichen. Die Aluminiumtafel von Eberhard F. Gutberlet bewahrt ein Fragment von Paul Celan: \u201eEin Stern hat noch Licht. Nichts, nichts ist verloren.\u201c Es ist ein Satz, der trotz der tiefsten Dunkelheit Hoffnung atmet. Die Tafel steht in direktem Dialog mit […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2476,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arte-povera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unionitaet.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unionitaet.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unionitaet.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unionitaet.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unionitaet.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unionitaet.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2478,"href":"https:\/\/unionitaet.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2474\/revisions\/2478"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unionitaet.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unionitaet.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unionitaet.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unionitaet.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}