Versenkung (erōtika pathēmata) — short fiction (German)

• Versenkung is a short literary piece inspired by classical myth. It’s written from the perspective of an aging mythological sea creature who encounters a human voice and feels a desire he can no longer act on. The story is really about aging, loss, and the painful gap between memory and the body—how longing can persist even when physical ability fades.

The text tells of a youthful desire that an aging body can no longer fulfil—a reversal of the siren myth. Rhythm, linguistic density, and a deliberate pushing of syntax to its limits are intended to trace the physical rhythm of erotic experience on a linguistic level. The eroticism lies less in the content than in the language itself—in the classical Greek sense of eros.