Max Czollek

jubiläum

Language: german

Translations: arabic (الذكرى), english (anniversary), spanish (aniversario), italian (giubileo), portuguese (aniversário), slovenian (Jubilej), ukrainian (Ювілей)

jubiläum

durch meine wohnung
wandern schatten
trinken auf gestern

hinter den wänden
ruft es nach ihnen
kann sein: schweigen

oj, ich habe flaschen
geleert für das meer
morgen fahre ich hin

bis dahin sterben
meine väter in weiß
sie werden das nicht verstehen

Translations:

Language: arabic

الذكرى

تَجُــولُ الأَخْيِلَةُ
خِلالَ شُقَتِي
احتَسيْنَا نَخْبُنَا الأَمَسِ

خَلفَ الجُدَرانِ
أَصوَاتٌ تَبكِيهُـمُ
أَلا وَهُوَ: صَوتُ الصَّمْتِ

آه, قَـدْ أَخلَيْتُ
فِي البَحرِ القَوارِيـرَ
وفِي الغِدِ سَأَكونُ رَاحِلاً

سِوَى أَسْـلَاِفي أَوَلاً
سَتَتَوفَاهُمُ المَنِيةُ بِلِبَاسِهُمُ الأبيض
وَلَــنْ تَستَطِيـــعَ أَنْ تَـــعِيَّ هَذَا

Language: english

anniversary

shadows wander through my
appartment
raising a glass to yesterday

behind the walls
something is calling for them
possibly: silence

oj, i’ve emptied
bottles for the sea
tomorrow i’ll drive out there

but before that my fathers
will die in white
you wouldn’t understand

Language: spanish

aniversario

por mi casa
deambulan sombras
brindan por el ayer

detrás de los muros
algo las llama
puede ser: silencio

oy, he vaciado
botellas al mar
mañana viajo

antes que mueran
mis antepasados de blanco
no lo comprenderán

Language: italian

giubileo

dentro casa mia

si aggirano delle ombre

brindano al passato

dietro le pareti

c’è chi le chiama

può essere il silenzio

ragazzi, ho scolato

bottiglie da gettare in mare

domani ci vado

fino ad allora moriranno

in bianco i miei padri

non lo capiranno

Language: portuguese

aniversário

pelo meu quarto
vagam sombras
brindam ao ontem

atrás das paredes
elas são invocadas
pode ser: silêncio

oi, esvaziei garrafas
para o oceano
amanhã sigo para lá

antes morrem
meus pais em branco
vocês não entenderão isso

Language: slovenian

Jubilej

skozi moje stanovanje
potujejo sence
nazdravljajo na včeraj

za stenami
kliče za njimi
morda: molk

oj, steklenice sem
spraznil za morje
jutri se peljem tja

do takrat umirajo
moji očetje v belem
tega ne bodo razumeli

Language: ukrainian

Ювілей

Моєю квартирою
Бродять тіні
П’ють за вчорашній день

За стінами
Кличуть їх
А можливо: мовчать

Ой, я пляшки
Спорожнив для моря
Завтра вирушу в дорогу

Колись мої отці
Помирали в білому
Вам цього не зрозуміти

Max Czollek

* 06.05.1987, Berlin, Germany
lives in: Berlin, Germany

Max Czollek is a poet, publicist and political scientist. He received his doctorate from the Center for Research on Anti-Semitism at the Technische Universität Berlin and is particularly well known for his theatrical and essayistic work surrounding memory culture, integration and Jewish identity in post-war Germany. Theaters works include De-Integration. A Congress on contemporary Jewish positions and the Days of Radical Jewish Culture at Maxim Gorki Theater as well as the international Days of Jewish-Muslim Hegemony. His essays Desintegriert Euch! (Disintegrate!) and Gegenwartsbewältigung (Overcoming the Present) are published with Carl Hanser Verlag, his collections of poetry at Verlagshaus Berlin. He is co-editor of the magazine Jalta - Positionen zur jüdischen Gegenwart. (Yalta - Positions on the Jewish Present) and guest curator for the exhibition “Revenge – History and Fantasie” that opening in March 2022 at the Jewish Museum Frankfurt/Main.

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