Empfehlungen für den baldigen Rentner E.S.

"Um erfolgreich ein Unternehmen zu führen, müssen zwei Dinge stimmen: Fachwissen und Persönlichkeit. Stoiber hat weder fachlich Ahnung noch Charisma."

Headhunter Dieter Rickert über die Chancen des bayerischen Ministerpräsidenten in der Wirtschaft. Edmund S. scheidet in zwei Monaten aus dem Amt.

Oh, sorry, you would like to read it?

And finally: Bryan

While Cerys is on Sky News on Sunday, I have eventually published my first article.

There is something (or someone) good in the world

The BBC interviewed the US soldier who exposed the abuse of Iraqi prisoners in Abu Ghraib.

Joe Darby being asked if he saw himself as a hero or a traitor: "I see myself as a soldier who did his job. No more, no less."

If you come across an AK-47...

... call the DoD. It might belong to the 190,000 they gave to the Iraqi forces. It was said that they can't rule that these weapons might now be used by the insurgents. So, against their own forces.

I have a deja vu here. Didn't the CIA support of the mujahideen in the war in Afghanistan in the 80s? Apparently one "freedom fighter" (R. Reagan) was called Osama bin Laden...

See also David Gardner's article in Friday's FT.

For Life

This week has been depressing. For one one from the doorstep community told me that he's terminally ill and that doctors had told him he'd be lucky to see the end of September. I really feel sorry for him. He's a nice guy, very frienldy, always greets.

Secondly, I read an article in the guardian weekend magazine about prisoners who had been sentenced to life without parole. Bad enough, they were kids when the committed the crime. And worse still, two of them actualy didn't kill anyone. They were complicit to murder. I knew that the judicial system in th US is strange. I knew about the death penalty of course. And thought that's bad enough for a democracy. Pustekuchen.

I have learned that life sentenced actually means imprisonment for life. You never leave prison,. You die in prison. In one way or the other. Excuse my ignorance, in Germany it's 15 years.

I have also learned that kids can be jailed. For life. In one case a 17-year old was convicted because her boyfriend, the killer, accused her of actively taking part in the murder - in contrary of what he said while question first by the police. So the murder actually made a deal by testifying that his girlfriend took part in the murder. The result, he gets a 20-50 year sentence with the chance of leaving prison earlier for good bevaiour. She gets life without parole. What kind of world is it, we are living in? An injustice that cries out to high heaven.

Even here, we can add some sarcasm to the already absurd story.

"When she was sentenced, the judge ruled that the time she had spent in jail awaiting trial - 264 days - should be credited against her term of incarceration. What does that mean?"

Weisheit

Ich dachte, wenn ich schon keines der wichtigsten Bücher gelesen habe, sollten sie doch zumindest auf meinem blog erscheinen.

Liste der rezensierten Werke
(in Klammern die Namen der Rezensenten)

1. Die Bibel (Rudolf Augstein)
2. Homer, Odyssee (Herbert Bannert)
3. Platon, Apologie (Urs Jaeggi)
4. Vergil, Aeneis (Bernhard Kytzler)
5. Tacitus, Germania (Heinrich Böll)
6. Longos, Daphnis und Chloë (Bernhard Kytzler)
7. Augustinus, Bekenntnisse (Golo Mann)
8. Die Erzählungen aus den tausendundein Nächten (Iring Fetscher)
9. Wolfram von Eschenbach, Parzival (Peter Wapnewski)
10. Gottfried von Straßburg, Tristan (Peter Wapnewski)
11. Das Nibelungenlied (Peter Wapnewski)
12. Dante Alighieri, Die Göttliche Komödie (Horst Rüdiger)
13. Giovanni Boccaccio, Das Decamerone (Herbert Heckmann)
14. Thomas Morus, Utopia (Rudolf Augstein)
15. François Rabelais, Gargantua und Pantagruel (Herbert Heckmann)
16. Michel de Montaigne, Essais (Rolf Michaelis)
17. Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, Der abenteuerliche Simplicissimus (Günter Kunert)
18. Blaise Pascal, Pensées (Iring Fetscher)
19. Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe (Ulrich Greiner)
20. Jonathan Swift, Gullivers Reisen (Eberhard Lämmert)
21. Henry Fielding, Tom Jones (Ludwig Harig)
22. Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy (Rudolf Walter Leonhardt)
23. Voltaire, Candide (Robert Minder)
24. Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Die Leiden des jungen Werthers (Reinhard Lettau)
25. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Anti-Goeze (Dieter Hildebrandt)
26. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Die Bekenntnisse (Rolf Michaelis)
27. Karl Philipp Moritz, Anton Reiser (Peter Laemmle)
28. Immanuel Kant, Zum ewigen Frieden (Rudolf Walter Leonhardt)
29. Ulrich Bräker, Der arme Mann im Tockenburg (Peter Wapnewski)
30. Friedrich Schiller, Ästhetische Schriften (Hans Platschek)
31. Denis Diderot, Jacques der Fatalist und sein Herr (Helmut Heißenbüttel)
32. Jean Paul, Siebenkäs (Leo Kreutzer)
33. Friedrich Hölderlin, Hyperion (Rolf Michaelis)
34. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Sudelbücher (Klaus Schröter)
35. Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Die Wahlverwandtschaften (Reinhard Baumgart)
36. Heinrich von Kleist, Erzählungen (Eberhard Lämmert)
37. Johann Peter Hebel, Das Schatzkästlein des Rheinischen Hausfreunds (Hartmut von Hentig)
38. Die Brüder Grimm, Kinder- und Hausmärchen (Hartmut von Hentig)
39. E. T. A. Hoffmann, Kater Murr und Kreisler (Hans Mayer)
40. Giacomo Casanova, Geschichte meines Lebens (Manès Sperber)
41. Joseph von Eichendorff, Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts (Petra Kipphoff)
42. Stendhal, Rot und Schwarz (Luise Rinser)
43. Georg Büchner, Lenz (Peter Schneider)
44. Honoré de Balzac, Verlorene Illusionen (Hans-Jörg Neuschäfer)
45. Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist (Ludwig Harig)
46. Nikolaj Gogol, Die toten Seelen (Horst Bienek)
47. Søren Kierkegaard, Entweder – Oder (Heinz Josef Herbort)
48. Heinrich Heine, Deutschland. Ein Wintermärchen (Wolf Biermann)
49. Edgar Allan Poe, Phantastische Erzählungen (Dieter E. Zimmer)
50. Herman Melville, Moby Dick (Rolf Hochhuth)
51. Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga und Paralipomena (Rudolf Walter Leonhardt)
52. Karl Marx, Der achtzehnte Brumaire des Louis Bonaparte (Oskar Negt)
53. Hans Christian Andersen, Märchen (Egon Monk)
54. Gottfried Keller, Der grüne Heinrich (Adolf Muschg)
55. Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary (Eberhard Lämmert)
56. Iwan Alexandrowitsch Gontscharow, Oblomow (Hans J. Fröhlich)
57. Victor Hugo, Die Elenden (Hanns Grössel)
58. Lewis Carroll, Alice im Wunderland (Dieter E. Zimmer)
59. Iwan Sergejewitsch Turgenew, Väter und Söhne (Reinhard Baumgart)
60. Wilhelm Raabe, Abu Telfan oder Die Heimkehr vom Mondgebirge (Hans Mayer)
61. Leo Tolstoi, Krieg und Frieden (Walter Kempowski)
62. Adalbert Stifter, Erzählungen (Ilse Aichinger)
63. Fjodor Michailowitsch Dostojewski, Die Dämonen (Luise Rinser)
64. Friedrich Nietzsche, Menschliches, Allzumenschliches (Rudolf Walter Leonhardt)
65. Emile Zola, Germinal (Günter Wallraff)
66. August Strindberg, Sohn einer Magd (Helmut Heißenbüttel)
67. Knut Hamsun, Hunger (Gabriele Wohmann)
68. Oscar Wilde, Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray (Rudolf Walter Leonhardt)
69. Anton Tschechow, Erzählungen (Peter Urban)
70. Theodor Fontane, Der Stechlin (Peter Härtling)
71. Thomas Mann, Buddenbrooks (Hans Mayer)
72. Robert Musil, Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törleß (Thomas Brasch)
73. Rainer Maria Rilke, Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge (Jürgen Becker)
74. Heinrich Mann, Der Untertan (Alfred Kantorowicz)
75. Marcel Proust, Auf der Suche nach der verlorenen Zeit (Walter Mehring)
76. Jaroslav Hašek, Die Abenteuer des braven Soldaten Schwejk (Pavel Kohout)
77. James Joyce, Ulysses (Wolfgang Hildesheimer)
78. John Dos Passos, Manhattan Transfer (Siegfried Lenz)
79. Franz Kafka, Das Schloss (Dieter E. Zimmer)
80. Hermann Hesse, Der Steppenwolf (Petra Kipphoff)
81. Alfred Döblin, Berlin Alexanderplatz (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
82. Ernst Bloch, Spuren (Fritz J. Raddatz)
83. Sigmund Freud, Das Unbehagen in der Kultur (Hermann Glaser)
84. Leo Trotzki, Mein Leben (Christian Gneuss)
85. William Faulkner, Licht im August (Hans C. Blumenberg)
86. Franz Kafka, Erzählungen (Hans Mayer)
87. André Gide, Tagebücher (Hans Mayer)
88. Anna Seghers, Das siebte Kreuz (Susanne Schäfer)
89. Albert Camus, Der Fremde (Reinhard Baumgart)
90. Heinrich Böll, Erzählungen (Wolfgang Weyrauch)
91. Jean Genet, Querelle (Fritz J. Raddatz)
92. Ernest Hemingway, Der alte Mann und das Meer (Dieter E. Zimmer)
93. Max Frisch, Stiller (Joachim Kaiser)
94. Claude Lévi-Strauss, Traurige Tropen (Peter Wapnewski)
95. Samuel Beckett, Das letzte Band (Benjamin Henrichs)
96. Günter Grass, Die Blechtrommel (Fritz J. Raddatz)
97. Jean-Paul Sartre, Die Wörter (Fritz J. Raddatz)
98. Bertolt Brecht, Geschichten vom Herrn Keuner (Benjamin Henrichs)
99. Uwe Johnson, Jahrestage (Rolf Michaelis)
100. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quijote (Golo Mann