Friedrich Hölderlin

Friedrich Hölderlin is probably André Butzer's favourite poet and ranks alongside Walt Disney and Henri Matisse among his "favourite people ever." His identification with the poet goes even further, as Hölderlin's day of death is Butzer's own birthday. As Butzer moved to Los Angeles, the land of his youthful dreams, for the first time in 2001, he got homesick. The...