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So now we are going to have a
little turn into German poems.

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Because these poems,
which I've read,

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they were originally
written in Belarusian.

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And now I would like
to read the first poem

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in the German original and then
you will hear the translation.

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Should I speak
louder or it's OK?

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Thank you.

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Burg Ranis.

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Grenzfeste gegen die Slaven.

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Nach zehn Jahrhunderten,
lese ich hier Gedichte 

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für die Krähen und Bienen die es
bis hier oben geschafft haben.

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Bin ich keine Slaven.

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Bin ich eine für Menschen?

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Die Zeit versteht sich
nicht mehr in diesen Mauern.

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Wir fangen an mit Phonetik,
wie es bei Sprachen üblich ist.

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Verdächtige Laute,
Akzente immer verraten,

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aber immer ist immer
ein schlechte Anfang.

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Gewalttätig, langsam.

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Wie viele Wörter muẞ
ich in mir stecken,

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um frei sprechen zu können?

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Um keine Fremde zu sein,
um nicht verrückt zu werden

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wegen so viele Bedeutungen?

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Mein Exil erzieht mich mit
Schweigen, und ich schreibe

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Gedichte die ich nicht schreibe.

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You know the word Burg?

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Yeah, so that's why
I haven't discussed

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this first line with
Annie, my translator,

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because she left it Burg.

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And I think maybe
castle is also possible.

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But to be sure, we know
what we are talking about.

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Burg Ranis.

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Border fortification
against the Slavs.

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10 centuries later, I
come here to read poems

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To the crows and bees which
have made their way up here.

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I'm not a Slav.

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What about to the people?

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In these walls, time no
longer understands itself.

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We begin with phonetics like
you usually do with languages.

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Suspicious sounds,
accents always betray,

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But always is always
a bad beginning.

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Violent, slow.

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How many words do I have
to cram inside myself

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to be able to talk freely?

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To not be a stranger, to not
go mad with all these meanings?

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My exile brings me
up with silence.

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And I write poems
which I do not write.

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