Friday, March 19, 2010

SO STARK
UND DOCH VERLETZBAR
DAS VOLK, DER MENSCH
DER WALD, DER BAUM

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

what does it mean? It's from the Berlin Wall, right? :)

Penny Dreadful said...

yes, I'm almost 100% sure it means,


The first bit: So strong.. and yet still fragile;

"das volk der mensch" is kind of harder but it means something along the lines of
The people [as a mass entity] the people [as lots of individuals]

and then "der wald der baum" is like, the wood, the trees (which I took as meaning something of similar note to not being able to see the wood for the trees, losing sight of the individual amongst the people...... etc etc

Maybe someone better than me at German will come along and clarify