Tuesday, July 02, 2013

News at Eleven: "Weinheber wrote very explicit Nazi

propaganda poems," [Eduard] Freudmann told The Arty Semite by email. "We aim at sparking a debate about how to proceed with the contextualization and artistic reconfiguration of a Nazi monument. And we are prompting the City Secretary for Culture to launch the official procedure for an artistic reconfiguration."

The "intervention" will mark the first public demand for changes to the monument and its accompanying text, Freudmann said.

from The Jewish Daily Forward: The Arty Semite: Austrian Artists Revamp Nazi Poet Memorial

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