Auden in Austria Digital<p>A question to <a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mastodon</span></a>:</p><p>In 1964, <a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/WHAuden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WHAuden</span></a> invited friends from <a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/Vienna" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Vienna</span></a> 🛫 to come visit him in <a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/Berlin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Berlin</span></a> 🛬 by plane. </p><p>How difficult, exhausting, and/or unpleasant would it have been to go there by train, crossing the borders of the <a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/GDR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GDR</span></a> / <a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/DDR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DDR</span></a>? Or was the poet just being generous?</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fedihum.org/@ACDHCH_OeAW" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ACDHCH_OeAW</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bird.makeup/users/oeaw" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>oeaw</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.science/@fwf" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>fwf</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/AustrianAuden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AustrianAuden</span></a></p>