The hubris of humility: Gunter Grass, Peter Schneider, and German guilt after 1989. From: The Germanic Review | Date: January 1, 2005| Author: Baer, Ulrich | COPYRIGHT 2005 Heldref Publications. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Ich verdanke Paul Celan viel: Anregung, Widerspruch, den Begriff von Einsamkeit, aber auch die Erkenntnis, dass Auschwitz kein Ende hat.

I owe Paul Celan a lot: stimulation, contradiction, the notion of solitude, but also the insight that there is no end to Auschwitz.

--Gunter Grass, "Schreiben" (1990)

Welches der Worte du sprichst-- du dankst dem Verderben.

Whichever word you speak-- you owe to disaster.

--Paul Celan, Von Schw...