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Als Kinder der europäischen Avantgarde lieben es beide, profanes Zeug, das aus den sakralen Hallen der Kultur bisher ausgeschlossen war, den "Schmutz" anderer Welten in die heiligen Räume der Dichtung zu tragen. [G]

As children of the European avant garde, both Benn and Brecht loved dragging in profane things which had been excluded from the sacred halls of culture, the "dirt" of other worlds, into the hollowed precincts of poetry.

Den Blick geistesabwesend in die Ferne gerichtet, gleicht er einer mittelalterlichen Sakralfigur, die nicht ins profane Diesseits, sondern ins göttliche Jenseits blickt. [G]

With his abstracted gaze directed into the distance, he resembles a sacral figure of the Middle Ages who looks not into the profane and this-worldly but into the divine other world beyond.

Die Genialität Stephan Balkenhols liegt gerade in der Dialektik und Unbefangenheit seiner Skulpturen: der Spannung zwischen Form und Inhalt, Vergangenheit und Gegenwart, Profanem und Sakralem, Vergänglichem und Ewigkeit. [G]

Balkenhol's genius lies in the dialectical power and impartiality of his work: in the tension between form and content, past and present, profane and sacred, transitory and eternal.

Leider findet sich im neu gebauten Berlin kein einziges architektonisches Wunderwesen wie dieses, und auch Isa Genzken lässt keinen Zweifel an dem Entwurfscharakter der Vision durch die profane Materialverwendung: die geriffelten und gerasterten Industrieglasplatten sind ganz simpel zu Blöcken gestapelt. [G]

Unfortunately, in the newly built Berlin there is not a single such architectural wonder as these, and Genzken also leaves no doubt of the model character of her vision by the use of profane materials: the corrugated and screened slabs of industrial glass are quite simply stacked into blocks.

The example sentences [G] were kindly provided by the Goethe Institute.
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