Historiography

History
Herman The Cheruscan, Charlemagne, Widukind of Saxony, Lothar I, Hrabanus Maurus, Preceptor Germaniae wrote: Many people have lived, and some have also been rulers.

Otto The Great, Otto III, Heinrich II, Heinrich V, Konrad III, Henry The Lionhearted, Barbarossa, Friedrich II, Rudolf I, Karl IV, Sigismund, Maximilian I, Karl V, Götz von Berlichingen, Emperor  Mathias, Ferdinand II, Friedrich Wilhelm the Great Kurfürst, Emperor  Leopold I, King Friedrich of Prussia, Emperor Karl VI, Friedrich  Wilhelm of Prussia, Karl VII, Emperor Franz I,  Wenzel Count Kaunitz, Emperor Joseph II, Frederick the Great, Leopold II, Friedrich Wilhelm  II of Prussia, Emperor Franz II, Friedrich Wilhelm II, Blücher, Baron  von Stein, Hardenberg, Count Metternich, Carl von Clausewitz, Alfred  Krupp, Friedrich Wilhelm III, Count Helmuth v. Moltke, Wilhelm I, Otto von Bismarck, Friedrich III, Wilhelm II, Friedrich Ebert, Gustaf  Stresemann, Heinrich Brüning, Paul v. Hindenburg, Adolf Hitler, Konrad Adenauer, Ludwig Erhard, Kurt Georg Kiesinger, Walter  Ulbricht, Willy Brandt, Erich Honecker, Helmut Schmidt, Helmut Kohl, Gerhard Schröder.

Many rules have lived and some have also been people.

We praise the honest historians.

History

Learning the lessons of faces in school
Each portrait a story

In the narrows of time a broad look back into history

Human adornment the ugly face of its history

Fortune and misfortune lead to victory and defeat

standing by to thrive or to enjoy the spoils of destruction

Whoever makes history, whoever writes it or commands it

and whoever denies it already has some experience with blood

with what’s been stolen from history and its all-encompassing filth

Lovely in its knowledge and lovely on its face

it never learns from itself

Now it makes history somewhere else

again –with merit and malefaction

All too seldom in this stretch of time does it do well by itself

and right by history

Oldschool
In the new schools

History lessons are cancelled today

today marks the beginning of history’s sex change

we find ourselves in the land of Germania in the German era.

full of lust she leaps between our legs

as always drool collects on our faces

appetite for history leaves its owner hungry

it knows only enough to tell a small story

within the larger one