{"id":1317,"date":"2016-07-14T07:28:38","date_gmt":"2016-07-14T14:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heuermontage.com\/?p=1317"},"modified":"2016-07-14T07:28:38","modified_gmt":"2016-07-14T14:28:38","slug":"the-childrens-keeper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heuermontage.com\/?p=1317","title":{"rendered":"The Children’s Keeper"},"content":{"rendered":"

Towards the end of World War II she was beheaded by the Nazis for high treason. Elisabeth von Thadden was seen as part of the resistance to Hitler’s regime, assumed to be connected to those trying to overthrow Hitler.\u00a0She certainly was a critical thinker, a liberal, a devout protestant who had social contact to some of those involved in the July 20th assassination attempt. She helped where she could, but never considered herself political, just an upright, ethical citizen, a humanitarian. I spent several\u00a0truly unhappy years in the park where her ashes were laid to rest.<\/p>\n

Von Thadden\u00a0had founded a boarding school for girls in the 1920s which was shut down later by the Nazis for activities endangering the State – there were\u00a0no Hitler portraits hung in the halls of Wieblingen castle but there were Jewish students. The school reopened after the war under her name, and I was shipped there at age 13. I had no clue about the founder, I just hated an environment which at this time was\u00a0less about\u00a0giving girls an education, but rather a prep school for the daughters of the rich, the aristocracy,\u00a0the divorced, and a few of us \u00a0belonging to none\u00a0of these categories, ultimate outsiders, like myself. Internat is the German word for boarding school and interned I felt.<\/p>\n

Lonely\u00a0years. Years of ruining my stockings and scraping my knees or worse, climbing over glass shard-covered\u00a0walls surrounding the castle to escape the sense of suffocation (I have the scars to prove it.) Years spent writing “why escape is\u00a0not a good idea” or other\u00a0inane essays as punishment when the governesses\u00a0caught me, as they so often did. But the original\u00a0founder had a heart for children, a soul\u00a0to provide shelter for them and protection, a brain\u00a0to educate girls, so all good. Had she lived, she would have been the first to take in orphans after the war ended.<\/p>\n

Read here about her nephew writing an opera about her\u00a0https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2012\/nov\/21\/opera-for-my-resistance-fighter-aunt<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Sachs-From<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

If Someone Comes<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

If someone comes<\/em><\/p>\n

from afar<\/em><\/p>\n

with a language<\/em><\/p>\n

whose sounds are possibly<\/em><\/p>\n

silenced<\/em><\/p>\n

by the whinnying of a mare<\/em><\/p>\n

or<\/em><\/p>\n

the chirping of <\/em><\/p>\n

young blackbirds<\/em><\/p>\n

or<\/em><\/p>\n

like a shrieking saw<\/em><\/p>\n

cutting apart any closeness \u2013<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

If someone comes<\/em><\/p>\n

from afar<\/em><\/p>\n

with movements of a dog<\/em><\/p>\n

or<\/em><\/p>\n

perhaps of a rat<\/em><\/p>\n

and it is winter<\/em><\/p>\n

then give him warm clothes<\/em><\/p>\n

it could also be<\/em><\/p>\n

that his soles are on fire<\/em><\/p>\n

(perhaps he straddled<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 a meteor)<\/em><\/p>\n

so do not scold him<\/em><\/p>\n

for burning holes into your suffering carpet –<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

A foreigner\u2019s arm always<\/em><\/p>\n

holds his own country <\/em><\/p>\n

like an orphan<\/em><\/p>\n

for whom he possibly seeks<\/em><\/p>\n

but a grave.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Nelly Sachs\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/nobel_prizes\/literature\/laureates\/1966\/sachs-bio.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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