Author: Anneke

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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FALL (Down with Expressionism! / Nieder mit dem Expressionismus!)

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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 fine publication in Moloko Plus’s expressionist series. A text on one of the flaps of the cover by Alfred Lichtenstein, written at the age of twenty-five shortly before his death on one of the battlefields of World War I…
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