Hölderlin’s Poltergeists

Depicting the literary, erotic, political and clinical trajectory of the Swabian Frühromantiker Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843), Solomons shapeshifting study presents an audacious English «remix» of Stephan Hermlins 1970 radio drama Scardanelli, amplifying the complex contexts of Hölderlins psychiatric committal and subsequent discharge into the home of a Tübingen carpenter in May 1807. Supplemented by a new translation of Hermlins memoir essay «Hölderlin 1944» and the authors interdisciplinary texts and commentaries, this provocative volume furnishes a creative reinterpretation of a contribution to modern audio drama that will speak to playmakers and scholars engaged with German Romanticism, the poetics of translation and the cultural history of radio.

Síomón Solomon is a poet, playwright, translator and editor. He holds a doctorate in German Studies from the University of London, for which he completed a thesis on the 'schizopoetics' of Friedrich Hölderlin. He lives in Dublin.

CONTENTS: Hölderlin’s Poltergeists – Hölderlin 1944 – «Spills of mire I swallowed inside the tower» (an audiopoetic symphony in five short movements).