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tapetopia releases Happy Straps – Pleasure 1985-86
Happy Straps was deeply rooted in East Berlin’s alternative scene in the mid 1980s. Café Mosaik was a hotbed of the bohemian scene in Prenzlauer Berg, where dreamers, freaks and artists would meet – ‘negative elements’ who would positively charge each other’s batteries or drive each other insane about their prospects of finally being allowed to leave the GDR. At Café Mosaik Chris Schwartinsky and Jörg (‘Heini’) Heinemann, who had founded the band in Frankfurt-Oder in 1983, met Claudia Böhme and asked her to join the band as a singer…
New Moloko+: FALL (Down with Expressionism! / Nieder mit dem Expressionismus!)
FALL, subtitled Down with Expressionism! / Nieder mit dem Expressionismus!, is a compilation of expressionist poems in English translations and in their original languages. The English translations of the twenty poems and the nine illustrations that accompany them, were done by Ben Schot. Elegantly designed by Robert Schalinski, the book is another…
Rolf Dieter Brinkmann’s only novel now translated into English
Keiner weiß mehr is Brinkmann’s only novel. Moloko Plus has now published the first English translation of this novel (or rather, anti-novel), which counts as one of the most innovative German literary works of the 1960s. According to translator Mark Kanak’s blurb on this beautiful edition No One Knows More ‘offers an insight into the emotionally-fraught marital and personal lives (and thoughts)…
New hand made Sea Urchin chapbook: George Bacovia – On Art
Bacovia’s poem De Artă appeared in his compilation Stanţe burgheze in 1946. Back in Bucharest after having retreated to Bacău for more than twenty years, Bacovia recollects in De Artă the days when he was part of the capital’s inner circle of Romanian Symbolists. In condensed lines, often no longer than a single word, Bacovia vividly and lovingly sketches the atmosphere of those days of decadence. De Artă has…