domingo, 6 de mayo de 2012

Schwabing and Rilke

Rainer María Rilke lived in Munich more than once. Between 1918 and 1919 he lived in Ainmillerstraße 34, and there is a plate for remember it.



However it would be cool if I could find the house where he lived in 1915. It was the flat of some art collector and in the wall was hung a Picasso painting, "The Acrobat Family", this one:


It would have been really cool, just imagine, some friend let you to stay in his house, you wake up in the morning and there is a Picasso in the living room. I wouldn't throw a party there. Well, the truth is that this woman bought the painting after a recommendation from Rilke himself. I am mentioning that because this painting inspired him to write the fifth Elegy from the Duino Elegies, the most representative poems from Rilke.

In general, Schwabing is full of plates, statues and stone/metal stuff remembering intellectuals who lived there. For example in a square nearby, there is this stone about a Pakistani poet called Muhammad Iqbal, who happened to study in LMU. I have never read him, I have put him in  my to-read list.


Why all intellectuals have to live in the same neighborhood? If I were a famous poet, I would live in the countryside (e.g. Holzkirchen). I guess in those times Munich wasn't as large as it is now, and actually Schwabing was half of the city...


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