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Happy Birthday, Walter Benjamin

Happy Birthday, Walter Benjamin

on memories and remembrance, flowers and stones

Huw Lemmey
Jul 16, 2021
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Benjamin (right) playing chess with Brecht

Yesterday was Walter Benjamin’s birthday. He was born at the height of the German Empire, in 1892, “a well-born bourgeois child”, in his own words, and he died 48 years later, a Jewish refugee trapped between states with little more than his suit and briefcase to his name. In between he made a legacy, a life of …

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