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Hermann Kesten

Hermann Kesten Figure after a plaster model from 1984 (33.5 cm high).

Hermann Kesten

ca. 1984

Figure after a plaster model from 1984 (33.5 cm high).


From the age of 10, he attended the Königliches Alte Gymnasium

(today Melanchthon Grammar School), 1910-1919.


(The 1919 Abitur essay topic:

How can the poet benefit his people in times of tribulation and humiliation?

"German elaboration" for the school-leaving examination at the Altes Gymnasium Nuremberg 1919)


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Inscription:


I am a walker

I walked through a hundred towns

Always the same street,

My street,

I walk as if I know where to go,

Impatient though I arrive

Where I don't want to go (...)


(Opening lines from the poem: Roma aeterna. In: Akzente issue 5, 1975, pp. 394-395)

Location: Nuremberg, Melanchthon Grammar School (staircase), Sulzbacher Str. 32 (today Melanchthon Grammar School), 1910-1919.

Design: Uhlig, Wilhelm Franz

Realization: Uhlig, Wilhelm Franz

Depicted: Kesten, Hermann

photo 2021, Theo Noll

Wilhelm Franz
Uhlig

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