How can one actually distinguish impudence from bliss in inspired speaking and writing? When in doubt, not at all. Emanuel Maeß is a writer driven, even inspired, by heavy cultural-historical pharmaceuticals. He uses all the current contemporary forms of representation to use the strongest means, namely, a small selection: Parmenides and Plato, the Evangelist John and John of the Apocalypse, the Neo-Platonists Plotinus, Proclus and Pseudo-Dionysos Areopagita, Mechthild von Magdeburgs Gottesminne up to Hölderlin, Jean Paul and TS Eliot in almost our years. The still young man from Berlin does not do it underneath. But today he speaks with these foreign dicta and seemingly distant ideas, today with a twist towards the outlandish. In this regard, Emanuel Maeß is cheeky.
“All in all” by Emanuel Maeß – Culture
