Barefoot at heart: The great (East) German freedom poet Reiner Kunze turns 90 | free press

2023-08-15 19:59:00

“For everyone who is barefoot at heart” – this line could be about Reiner Kunze’s life’s work, although, no, precisely because it only comes halfway from him, so to speak. It concludes one of his adaptations of the poetry of the Czech poet Jan Skácel (1922 – 1989). He experienced and suffered a fate similar to that of Kunze himself,…