Author: Anneke

L’Ambassadeur des Ombres – Star of Evil

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The name L’Ambassadeur des Ombres goes back to the French science fiction comic Valérian et Laureline. The series’ sixth episode in particular had an inspiring effect on Jörg ‘Joggy’ Müller, who founded the band together with René Glofke: L’Ambassadeur des Ombres, Ambassador of the Shadows. This title heralded darkness and morbidity and would serve as the name for a band project branching out from the East Berlin post-punk…
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Neuntage Alt – Waif

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Neuntage Alt were founded in 1986. The core members Taymur Streng, René Glofke and Mike Sauer, who had been friends since 1982, were graduates of the hard school of early GDR punk, through which, unlike many of their comrades-in-arms, they had passed without major damage. Taymur Streng in particular had begun to look beyond punk early on, towards the electric-dystopian industrial of Throbbing Gristle and Cabaret Voltaire…
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New arrival from Moloko+: Oliver Harris – One Shot: a Beat Generation Mystery

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If you only know one photograph of the Beat Generation, you know this one. It’s the single most famous picture of Burroughs, Ginsberg, and Kerouac. But who took it, when, where, and why? What are its secrets, and how can it be a crime scene? Whatever you think you know is almost certainly wrong, so to unravel its mysteries and find out where all the bodies are buried, follow in the footsteps of the world’s most dedicated…

Udo Breger – Extraterritorial (Zeiten mit Carl Laszlo)

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Carl Laszlo, Auschwitz survivor, art collector and art dealer with Hungarian roots, and German author and translator Udo Breger, born during World War II with close ties to key figures of the Beat Generation, meet in Basel in the late 1970s and early 1980s. One hopes to establish personal contact with William Burroughs, Brion Gysin, and Allen Ginsberg, while the other turns out to be a mediator who, against the backdrop of…
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Ed van der Elsken – Bagara

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Ed van der Elsken (1925-1990) was born in Amsterdam, where he was trained as a stonecutter and sculptor until 1944. Inspired by the photojournalistic Picture Post and Weegee’s Naked City he shifted his interest from sculpting to photography in the late 1940s. When he tried his luck Paris in 1950, he took up a job…
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