Author: Anneke

Jürgen Ploog – Lorre in Metropolis

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German writer Jürgen Ploog (1935-2020) used to work as an airline pilot for 33 years. Consequently transience and crossing borders were integral to his existence and writings. Ploog’s early literary output gravitated naturally to the cut-up method that William Burroughs and Brion Gysin popularised in the 1960s . His early experiments at cut-ups were published in the satirical magazine Der Metzger and in the German Beat magazine…
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Kiev Stingl – Mandalina – Der Verdammte der Insel

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Kiev Stingl’s Madalina – Der Verdammte der Insel is a story about loss, about a love that consumed itself in a passionate fire. Divided into four chapters named after the four seasons, Stingl’s main character and alter ego Gandolfo describes how his love affair with the young artist Mandalina sprouts, blooms, withers and dies as in an inevitable and natural cycle. The story, set in Berlin and on a Greek island…
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Georg Trakl – Traumland

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Georg Trakl (1887-1914) grew up as the sixth of seven children in a well-to-do protestant family in Salzburg, where his father made a living as a hardware dealer. His mother was addicted to opium and had a disturbed relationship with her children. The upbringing of Georg and his younger sister Grete, with whom…
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Georg Heym – Der Dieb

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Georg Heym’s ‘Der Dieb’ is the second time that Moloko Plus combines Heym’s prose and drawings by Ben Schot. And just like in Georg Heym’s ‘Kurze Prosa’ – published by Moloko Plus in 2016 and also designed by Robert Schalinski – the combination is a powerful brew. Inspired by Baudelaire and his translations of Edgar Allan Poe on the one hand and Friedrich Nietzsche and early expressionism on the other, Heym’s tales in ‘Der Dieb’ are supremely grotesque…
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William Levy – RAPE (with drawings by Scott Neary)

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William Levy’s controversial short story RAPE was refused by many a publisher in the past, but has now finally been published by Moloko+ from Germany. And how. Combined with drawings by Levy’s friend Scott Neary and designed by Robert Schalinski, RAPE has turned into an elegantly transgressive piece of work…
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