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donate In memoriam Lothar Baier
Lothar Baier died in the night from the 9 to the 10 July 2004 in Montreal, Canada. Since the 1980s, Lothar Baier was a regular participant of the European Meetings of Cultural Journals and closely associated with the Eurozine project as a friend and author. He was co-founder of the magazine text und kritik , editorial member of the Zurich weekly Wochenzeitung and regular contributor to Wespennest , where his last text appeared in June. His contributions for German-language and international newspapers and magazines are countless. We will miss his pointed criticism, his gentle humour, his stupendous knowledge, as well as his essayistic style, his solidarity for a common cause, his kind friendship and his incorruptible intellectualism.
Walter Famler
(Magazine Wespennest )
Eurozine (Editorial Board and Staff)
Read here George Blecher's commemoration of Lothar Baier.
See below for some of his essays and articles:
How do I construct my own enemy? (de)
Small DIY-manual according to latest real-life experiences
Baier traces the American war-rhetoric against Iraq and lays bare how enemies are constructed.
North-American Eastern Bloc (de)
Why does the mayor of Montréal want to call a Christmas tree a "festivity tree"? Lothar Baier discovers a contemporary parallel of the language regulations applied in GDR.
New anti-Semitism and old delusions (de)
(en)
(ru)
Is the new wave of anti-Semitism in Europe a serious threat or largely unfounded hysteria?
Happy is, who forgets (de) (sv)
A flood of criticism hit Austria when the Freedom Party was included in the government. Self-appointed "experts" deemed the alpine republic plague-infected and put it in quarantine. But in order to repudiate Austria, Europe has made itself blind of its own history, says Lothar Baier.
Writers as national oracles (fr) (sv)
An essay on the Martin Walser affair in Germany.
Published 2004-07-15
Original in English
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