SinoNet: Gedenkgottesdienst für Liu Xiaobo

[Martin Winter]

Liebe Freunde,

vielleicht ist jemand in den nächsten Tagen in Berlin, oder interessiert 
sich auch sonst dafür. Ich habe gerade auf Englisch für die MCLC-Liste 
darüber geschrieben. Bitte seid mir nicht böse, wenn ich es einfach hier 
anhänge. Es ist ein Link dabei, der zur Ankündigung auf Deutsch führt.

Alles Gute,

Martin

Memorial Service for Liu Xiaobo in Berlin, Gethsemane church, one year 
after his passing.

I wasn't surre if I should post this or not. Maybe Ian Johnson would do 
it, or someone else more involved with the event. Anyway, seems it's 
going to be a grand thing. A reminder there are some things politics and 
the arts both can and should try to stand for. In Berlin, in Germany, in 
Europe, anywhere. Solidarity, for once.

The announcement in English and in Chinese is on China Change 
<https://chinachange.org/2018/06/26/global-announcement-of-the-memorial-on-the-first-anniversary-of-liu-xiaobos-passing/>.
I have done a German translation from the Chinese version and put it on 
my blog 
<https://banianerguotoukeyihe.com/gedenkgottesdienst-fur-liu-xiaobo-in-berlin-2018%e5%b9%b47%e6%9c%8813%e6%97%a5%ef%bc%8c%e6%9f%8f%e6%9e%97gethsemane%e6%95%99%e5%a0%82%ef%bc%88stargarder-str-77-10437-berlin%ef%bc%89%e8%88%89/> 
(http://banianerguotoukeyihe.com/gedenkgottesdienst-fur-liu-xiaobo-in-berlin-2018%e5%b9%b47%e6%9c%8813%e6%97%a5%ef%bc%8c%e6%9f%8f%e6%9e%97gethsemane%e6%95%99%e5%a0%82%ef%bc%88stargarder-str-77-10437-berlin%ef%bc%89%e8%88%89/)

In 2010 I translated Bei Ling's biography of Liu Xiaobo into German. It 
was a rush job, but I checked the facts. It's an interesting book.
I am mostly interested in poetry. Liu Xiaobo has written poignant poems, 
he and his wife Liu Xia used to write each other poems from and into 
prison. Liu Xia still writes, when she is not too harrassed. She has 
great stuff. There is a video from 2013, also in the SCMP article posted 
recently.
Last summer, after Liu Xiaobo's death, I posted my translations of Yi 
Sha's poems on Liu Xiaobo. There are more, mostly small asides, hidden 
in Yi Sha's vast output. But these are the main ones, posted by Yi Sha 
on Sina Weibo and on WeChat last July 
<https://banianerguotoukeyihe.com/2017/07/22/yi-sha-%e4%bc%8a%e6%b2%99-liu-xiaobo-%e5%8a%89%e6%9b%89%e6%b3%a2/> 
(https://banianerguotoukeyihe.com/2017/07/22/yi-sha-%e4%bc%8a%e6%b2%99-liu-xiaobo-%e5%8a%89%e6%9b%89%e6%b3%a2/)

I remember hearing a Chinese military attache in Europe saying to me out 
of the blue he thought it was foolish to imprison Liu Xiaobo and make 
such a big deal out of it, an international embarrassment. I was very 
surprised. When he was in college, said the general, his job as class 
monitor involved inviting Prof. Liu for a speech. Many people in all 
walks of life seem to remember Liu Xiaobo. Especially writers, of 
course. Migrant worker writers, hospital worker writers. Yes, really, 
I've seen poems and statements. Translated some poems.

Liu Xiaobo was and is a very ambigous and controversial figure. When I 
heard his voice from the 1980s on tape for the first time I was shocked. 
Very loud and violent, very hard to understand.Yi Sha's poems 
<https://banianerguotoukeyihe.com/2017/07/22/yi-sha-%e4%bc%8a%e6%b2%99-liu-xiaobo-%e5%8a%89%e6%9b%89%e6%b3%a2/> 
are the strongest personal commentary on Liu Xiaobo I have ever read.
I won't be there in Berlin. Previous engagement with a small family 
holiday :). But if you can, go. And anyway, as they say in the 
announcement, please protest, or sing. Or pray.

Martin
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