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Marcel Krueger
@marcelkrueger.bsky.social
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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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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“started making it, had a breakdown, bon appetit”
November 28, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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"My journey to the death of Katte is...a Prussian pilgrimage but also one across the layers of the recent history of Europe and its leftovers."

@marcelkrueger.bsky.social on Lieutenant Hans Hermann von Kattea, a tragic footnote in early 18th century Prussian history.

@thearsonista.bsky.social
There Is Nothing To Forgive by Marcel Krueger
Memorial to Lieutenant Hans Hermann von Katte. All photos by Marcel Krueger. The border is the maddest line on the map, the most fluid, unnatural and dangerous.Tomasz Różycki, from Trial by Fire On…
burninghousepress.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Meine vorletzte Fahrt mit @deutschebahn.com in diesem Jahr und zwischen Berlin Hauptbahnhof und Berlin Spandau erhöht sich die Verspätung von 0 auf 60 Minuten 👌 Ich fahre wirklich gerne und viel Bahn in ganz Europa, aber DB stellt meine Contenance wirklich kontinuierlich auf die Probe.
November 28, 2025 at 10:48 AM
I visited Kostrzyn nad Odrą, the former German Küstrin, and its vanished old town. For @thearsonista.bsky.social I wrote about its most famous inhabitant Hans Hermann von Katte and the ghosts of empire. Many thanks to @ccohanlon.bsky.social for publishing it. burninghousepress.com/2025/11/27/t...
November 28, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Józef Chełmoński (1849–1914): Winter Night in Ukraine, 1877
November 28, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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The anti-communist dissident intellectuals, from Václav Havel to Leszek Kołakowski to Milan Kundera to Györgi Konrad and more, provided much that should have been embraced in Western Liberal thought in shaping a 21st liberalism. It's not too late to still do so now, almost 40 years after 1989.
November 26, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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The war will end when Russia stops fighting. Therefore, pressure has to be put on Russia, so that they stop believing that they will win. Why is that so hard to understand?
November 27, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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November 26, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Ich freue mich sehr, morgen an der Deutschlandpremiere vom Serhij Zhadans „Feuerpause“ in der Volksbühne Berlin teilnehmen zu dürfen. Das Stüch wird vorgestellt von den Übersetzern Anna Kolomiitseva und Sebastian Anton. www.volksbuehne.berlin/de/events/th...
November 26, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Liebe Leute, bitte, bitte bestellt eure Bücher beim lokalen Buchhändler. Herr Bezos wartet nur darauf, dass unsere kleinteilige, vielfältige Einzelhandelsstruktur kaputt geht.
Zahl der Buchhandlungen binnen fünf Jahren um ein Viertel gesunken
Schnell mal zum Buchladen um die Ecke - das wird immer schwieriger. Obwohl die Branche mehr Umsatz macht, gibt es immer weniger Geschäfte. Das Statistikamt nennt auch mögliche Gründe für den Rückgang.
www.tagesschau.de
October 14, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Edward Hartwig (1909-2003): Ulica Ztota in Lublin, 1954
November 26, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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If you like an author's work, the best thing you can do is buy it. The second best thing you can do is ask your local library to buy it. Or, do both!
A reminder that the median book deal for a debut author in the UK is £7000, paid over 12-18 months. (from 2022 Society of Authors report). Some of your favourite writers are struggling. societyofauthors.org/2022/12/06/a....
A profession struggling to sustain itself - The Society of Authors
ALCS report on author incomes shows 60% drop in median incomes since 2006
societyofauthors.org
November 24, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Und übrigens: Mitglied werden lohnt sich! Tolle Menschen, inspirierende Gespräche, informative Veranstaltungen und gelebte Partnerschaft zwischen Menschen aus der Ukraine und Deutschland.

Zum Mitgliedsantrag geht es hier entlang:

deutsch-ukrainische-gesellschaft.de/become-a-mem...
November 24, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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What we need to address:

The role of Merkel and Steinmeier in the weakening of Europe.
The failure of Scholz.
The ambivalence of Macron.

How did we get on the menu of the Russians?
We are no longer actors, we became bystanders.
November 23, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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1) Start the worst European war since 1945 and commit every imaginable war crime
2) Decide how you want to be rewarded for your aggression
3) Leak the list of your desiderata to the US press
4) Wait for the US president to enforce your wish list on your victim.
Russian policy 2025
November 23, 2025 at 3:30 PM
I’m listening, Wuppertal Hauptbahnhof, I’m listening.
November 23, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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November 22, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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Der Vorstoß der US-Regierung fordert die #Ukraine faktisch auf, ihre Souveränität aufzugeben; die Drohung aus Washington, D.C., #Kyjiw bei Ablehnung die Unterstützung zu entziehen, ist eine Erpressung.

deutsch-ukrainische-gesellschaft.de/publications...
November 23, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Did… did AI write this?
November 23, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Moments of light and happiness are few and far between at the moment, but last Friday I was allowed to be on stage with my friends in Black Sunshine and fire my soap bubble guns at an unsuspecting metal crowd.
November 23, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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23.11.1944, 12h, 19jährige Arbeiterin Erna Wazinski hingerichtet. Sie war nach Bergung persönlicher Habe nach einem Luftangriff, vom Sondergericht Braunschweig wegen Plünderung zum Tode verurteilt. Nachbarin hatte sie denunziert. [THREAD]

#OTD #Geschichte #Braunschweig #Wolfenbüttel #Sondergericht
November 23, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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The “peace plan” for Ukraine is just a framework for Russia & the US to take assets away from Ukrainian recovery, and to ensure Russia evades accountability for war crimes

Europe can, and must, craft better with Ukraine

A point by point analysis of the shambles:

www.greatpower.us/p/28-points-...
28 Points Later
A definitive guide to the Russian zombie diplomacy of Trump’s peace plan for Ukraine — aka what happens when you let the Russians eat your brains
www.greatpower.us
November 21, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.
November 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM
November 21, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Wie können wir das Erniedrigungslevel künstlicher Konkurrenz in einem prekären Betrieb nochmal anziehen?

Spiegel Literaturpreis:
Hold my Beer. Wie wäre es 20 Bücher zu ranken und dann bei der Preisverleihung alle Bücher mit ihrer Nummer im Ranking auf einem Tisch anzuordnen?
November 21, 2025 at 9:43 AM