Oct 20, 2021
Alfons Bauer sagt: "Bismarck war kein Eisbrecher"
The Social Democratic mayor of Bautzen said in a right-wing daily newspaper: "Bismarck was not a criminal (Verbrecher)." I modified this sentence with a play on words (Verbrecher/Eisbrecher) and put it into the mouth of the character Alfons Bauer from the novel "The Wendish Voyage" by Kito Lorenc. In the novel, the positive-tragic hero Alfons Bauer dreams of connecting Upper Lusatia to the sea using canals. The 'Bismarck' was the largest and most powerful German battleship in the Second World War (and not an icebreaker). The ship sank three days after beginning her first mission during a naval battle in the North Atlantic.