{"id":5670,"date":"2011-01-08T09:16:50","date_gmt":"2011-01-08T13:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=5670"},"modified":"2011-01-08T09:19:31","modified_gmt":"2011-01-08T13:19:31","slug":"the-end-of-the-world-happened-100-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/the-end-of-the-world-happened-100-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"The End of the World Happened 100 Years Ago&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/vonHoddis.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5675 lazyload\" title=\"vonHoddis\" data-src=\"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/vonHoddis.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"268\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 160px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 160\/268;\" \/><\/a>&#8230; when <strong>Jakob von Hoddis<\/strong> published\u00a0 maybe his best known poem \u2014 &amp; maybe the opening shot of Expressionism? \u2014 titled &#8220;Weltende,&#8221; &#8220;End of the World&#8221; \u2014in the German paper <strong>Der Demokrat<\/strong> (well, he did so in three days, on 11 January, to be precise, so we can breathe easy until Tuesday):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: large;\"><strong><a name=\"we\">Weltende<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Dem B\u00fcrger fliegt vom spitzen         Kopf der Hut,<br \/>\nin allen L\u00fcften hallt es wie Geschrei.<br \/>\nDachdecker st\u00fcrzen ab und gehn entzwei<br \/>\nund an den K\u00fcsten &#8211; liest man &#8211; steigt die Flut.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Der Sturm ist da, die wilden         Meere hupfen<br \/>\nan Land, um dicke D\u00e4mme zu zerdr\u00fccken.<br \/>\nDie meisten Menschen haben einen Schnupfen.<br \/>\nDie Eisenbahnen fallen von den Br\u00fccken.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">and today with apocalyptic translation software this becomes instantly and with the comedy situated elsewhere:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The citizens fly from the pointed top of the hat<br \/>\nventilation in all the crying like crying.<br \/>\nRoofing crash and go in two<br \/>\nand on the coasts &#8211; to read &#8211; the tide is rising.<\/p>\n<p>The storm is here, the wild seas hupfer<br \/>\non land, to crush big dams.<br \/>\nMost people have a cold.<br \/>\nThe railways are falling from the bridges.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; when Jakob von Hoddis published\u00a0 maybe his best known poem \u2014 &amp; maybe the opening shot of Expressionism? \u2014 titled &#8220;Weltende,&#8221; &#8220;End of the World&#8221; \u2014in the German paper Der Demokrat (well, he&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,108],"tags":[917],"class_list":["post-5670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-whatever","tag-jacob-von-hoddis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5670"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5678,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5670\/revisions\/5678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}