
Hans-Jürgen Schatz reads "The 13 Months" and Springtime by Erich Kästner, Kurt Tucholsky and Mascha Kaleko
“If twelve are enough for you, there is no help for you.” Erich Kästner’s cycle of poems “The 13 Months” is more than a superficial inventory of the seasons. The poet reflects on the salient features of the 12 months with humor, appeals to childishness, imagination and love of nature, thinks about what time does to people, what they do with it, and invents a thirteenth month with all the beautiful things of the year, concluding: “Patience, my heart. The journey goes in circles. And December is followed by January.”
In Erich Kästner’s other poems, spring is not neglected, be it the annual capriciousness of the weather or those of love. Spring and love have always belonged together in literature and music – including in Kurt Tucholsky and Mascha Kaleko, who sang a song about love in all its facets, from tender buds to full blossoms to wilted leaves.
(READING IN GERMAN)
Additional information
Participating artists
Mascha Kaleko (Autor/in)
Erich Kästner (Autor/in)
Kurt Tucholsky (Autor/in)
Hans-Jürgen Schatz
Dates
May 2025
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