{"id":177,"date":"2014-08-09T09:33:44","date_gmt":"2014-08-09T08:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.waynemedicineandpoetry.co.uk\/?p=177"},"modified":"2018-06-21T19:51:43","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T18:51:43","slug":"the-magician-of-messkirch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.waynemedicineandpoetry.co.uk\/?p=177","title":{"rendered":"The Magician of Messkirch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first 2 acts occur in 1945 and the 3rd around 20 and 25 years later. This is my 2nd attempt at unravelling this intellectual m\u00e9nage\u00a0a trois, the first was with the playwright Ron Hart but at his death I was not party to the copyright, so I have begun again. Beginning again is what one has to do with Heidegger and Celan. I believe they are both saying something very important to modern man but saying can only point to a new direction.<\/p>\n<p>(I am indebted to Rudiger Safranski&#8217;s biography of Heidegger for the references in Act 2).<\/p>\n<p>Characters in order of appearance:<br \/>\nMartin Heidegger<br \/>\nHannah Arendt<br \/>\nTribunal Panel<br \/>\nPaul Celan<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.waynemedicineandpoetry.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/The-Magician-of-Messkirch-Act1-1.pdf\">Act 1<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; Heidegger&#8217;s study at his home in Freiberg<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.waynemedicineandpoetry.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/The-Magician-of-Messkirch-Act21.pdf\">Act 2<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; The Trial conducted in a chamber at the University<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.waynemedicineandpoetry.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/The-Magician-of-Messkirch-Act31.pdf\">Act 3<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; The hut at Todnauberg and then Heidegger&#8217;s study<\/p>\n<p>View Intro and entire play in a single document here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.waynemedicineandpoetry.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/The-Magician-of-Messkirch-All.pdf\">Intro, Act 1, Act 2 , Act 3<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first 2 acts occur in 1945 and the 3rd around 20 and 25 years later. This is my 2nd attempt at unravelling this intellectual m\u00e9nage\u00a0a trois, the first was with the playwright Ron Hart but at his death I was not party to the copyright, so I have begun again. Beginning again is what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.waynemedicineandpoetry.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.waynemedicineandpoetry.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.waynemedicineandpoetry.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.waynemedicineandpoetry.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.waynemedicineandpoetry.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.waynemedicineandpoetry.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1370,"href":"http:\/\/www.waynemedicineandpoetry.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions\/1370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.waynemedicineandpoetry.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.waynemedicineandpoetry.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.waynemedicineandpoetry.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}