Die Nackten: Eine Dichtung

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Die Nackten: Eine Dichtung

by Alfred Wolfenstein

DE·~17 minutes·1 chapter

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17:11

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A restless, lyrical journey opens in a vacant square where a young voice wrestles with the glare of city lights and the weight of an unseen fate. The poet’s fragmented verses tumble through night‑lit streets, mixing fevered self‑examination with vivid, almost surreal snapshots of urban life. The language feels both urgent and musical, turning ordinary corners into stages for inner revolt.

In its first act the work interrogates the relationship between the individual and the bustling metropolis, questioning whether the city becomes a tyrannical mother or a mirror for consciousness. Themes of alienation, material excess, and the search for authentic feeling surface amid a chorus of shouting parties and clanking machinery. Listeners are invited into a kaleidoscopic soundscape where each line pulses with restless energy, offering a thought‑provoking glimpse into a world that is at once familiar and disorientingly strange.

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Language

de

Duration

~17 minutes (16K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by Jens Sadowski

Release date

2014-09-11

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

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About the author

Alfred Wolfenstein

Alfred Wolfenstein

1888–1945

A vivid voice of German Expressionism, his poems and plays capture the strain of modern city life and the upheavals of exile. His best-known work, including the poem "Städter," is remembered for its sharp, haunting imagery.

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