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The article offers poetry criticism of the poems "Am Quell der Donau," "Die Wanderung," and "An die Madonna" by Friedrich Holderlin. It explores the problem of addressing or invoking a mother. The problem achieves in the short occasional poem the intricacy and import which attend the role of Mother Asia and her counterparts Mother Swabia and Madonna in later hymns and drafts. Also, the address to mother in the short autobiographical poem is already far from uncomplicated.

The article reviews the book "Armut und Zeit — Eine sozialwissenschaftliche Analyse zur Sozialhilfe," by Christine Stelzer-Orthofer.