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Kurt Müller

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born on 8th  August 1904 in Elberfeld
died on 23rd December 1982 in Gütersloh
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Poems in the war 1941 - 43
©   Kurt Müller 2006
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Devotement (by Goethe)
From you  -  9. July 1941
Parting from you  -  December 1941
All roads lead to you  -  New years eve 1941
Russian quarter  -  7. January 1942
Russia  -  18. January 1942
St. George  -  January 1942
On the river Dnjepr  -  7. February 1942
And it was just a long journey  -  6. May 1942
Prayer  -  8. August 1942
The soldier  - 2. December 1942
I have an angel in me  -  8. December 1942
The soldier's wife  -  31. December 1942
Areas of the heart  -  17. January 1943
A day like yesterday and tomorrow  -  28. January 1943
Kurt Müller sen. reciting the poem
"Enfant Perdu"  by Heinrich Heine
During his time as a soldier in Russia from 1941 to 1943 Kurt Müller wrote a series of 14 poems which he edited after the war as a little booklet dedicated to his wife (with an introducing verse by Goethe). These poems reflect his feelings and impressions of the war in Russia. The innermost need expressed by them is the anxiety to retain or restore his self. He finds his hold in his belief in his home, his wife, in his never ending longing and remembering,  woven with reflections of his war experiences in a tense balance.
 
In the following pages the poems are presented in chronological order, as shown by the links (see right). The poems have not been translated into English yet; there are the pages in German language, only.  The last link leads to a tape recording of a poem by Heinrich Heine, spontaneously recited by Kurt Müller sen. in 1967:  the last words of a thoroughly unheroic soldier.
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