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Ein weißer Stein

The German newspaper story follows children watching a photographer and the assembly of gallows beside a white stone.

Author
Ghazi Rabihavi
Publication
taz
Source date
29 March 1995
Published language
German
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English publication guide

No translator is named in the inspected newspaper text.

English editorial orientation to the named source. The literary text remains with its original publication.

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Reading orientation

The German opening sets the children’s concern for the photographer’s cameras beside the gallows being unloaded. Their question about who will be photographed makes the adult purpose arrive obliquely. Objects are observed before the event can be fully understood. Source 2

The white stone and the search for a chair show how ordinary things enter the mechanics of killing. Comparison with the Persian White Rock is useful at the level of these shared scene elements. Different printed datelines prevent this guide from claiming a settled version history or identical wording across languages. Source 2

Publication and language

taz prints the German story on 29 March 1995, naming Rabihavi and describing it as a story from Iran. The inspected text names no translator. Its Tehran 1994 dateline is not the newspaper date; the two retained taz URL variants are one publication appearance. Source 1

Sources & credits

  1. Ein weißer Stein · publication

    taz. 29 March 1995. German. By Ghazi Rabihavi. No translator is named in the inspected newspaper text.

  2. Ein weißer Stein · reading evidence

    The German newspaper story follows children watching a photographer and the assembly of gallows beside a white stone. The website paragraphs are editorial orientation to this source.