Volker Braun – Rubble Flora
Holywell Music Room, Holywell Street, Oxford, OX1 3BN, 18.00.
The oldest custom-built concert hall in Europe, the Holywell Music Room opened its doors to the public for the first time in 1748. Twenty Five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall Volker Braun visits Oxford to offer his characteristically caustic and melancholy reckoning with the East German past and the present of the Berlin Republic.
Introduced by Ian Wallace, with David Constantine and Karen Leeder. See the film of the bilingual evening of poetry and discussion.
What I never owned, they’ve taken even this.
What I never lived, I know I’ll always miss.
It was hope that came before this fall,
My property, you flog from stall to stall.
When will I say mine again and mean of all.
From ‘Property’ (1990)