JENSEITS DES SALOME-TANZES. ANHAND EINER BEZIEHUNG ZWISCHEN DEM 2. TEIL DES GEDICHTS DREI BLICKE IN EINEN OPAL VON GEORG TRAKL UND DEM GEDICHT SCHLEIERTANZ VON GÜNTER GRASS

The death of John the Baptist is the result of Salome’s dance in the Bible. In the 2nd part of the poem Three Gazes into an Opal by Georg Trakl and in the poem Veil Dance by Günter Grass the image of Salome is evoked by veils which are identifi cation marks of that fi gure in the drama Salome by Oscar Wilde. The dance of a woman in both poems is not connected with death any more but with life – with the return into mother’s womb in the text by Trakl and with the entrance to the art’s womb in the text by Grass.