Arnon Grunberg

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Serner

Who is Walter Serner? I had never heard of him, but in my hotel in Zurich I stumbled upon a text by him. It hung next to the staircase between the second and first floor.
Serner was a dadaist, an author, born in 1889 in Karlsbad, as Walter Seligmann, killed by the Nazis in 1942, probably in the "Wald von Biķernieki".

"But even wat you really are you have to make them believe."

There is no way out of the game. If this conviction makes me a dadaist, I'm a proud dadaist. The only thing a human being can be proud of is dadaism.

Melancholy is not something to be proud of.

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