'Oh, to be you and yet myself! To live in your blithe unknowing And yet to know it!'
– From: Reaperwoman (1914), Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935)
Fernando Pessoa sought a way out of this dilemma by providing himself with (his own) pseudonyms. This enabled him - at least in his poems - to think of himself as another person. A fine example of this is the futuristic poem 'Maritime Ode' ('Ode Maritima') by the pseudonym Alvaro de Campos, in which the latter's credo of 'feeling everything in every way' is excellently expressed. Marcel Odenbach proves to have a good eye for Brazilian culture. Through 'set up ' everyday incidents he shows the explicit 'physicality' of 'the Brazilian', expressing itself in practically every gesture. Odenbach is aware of himself as an exponent of the German cultural heritage in this. Although clearly maintaining a greater distance than Pessoa, Odenbach pilots this 'alien world' into his own, and his account of this confrontation is such as to command respect.
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Henny Kamphuizen
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Scenario, sound, camera: Marcel Odenbach light, Camera: Klemenz Becker, Editing: Bernard Eul, Stephan Fehl, Music: Händel, Mozart, Astrud Gilberto, Peter Maloney, Sets, costumes: Margaretha Schmalbrock, Production: TVT Frankfurt, ZDF, With: Martina Heine, Rudi Riegler, Karin Lamassonne, Richard Ulacia
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