Author: Anneke

Udo Breger – Identity Express

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Udo Breger (1941) is a German author, translator and publisher with close ties to the Beat Generation. Breger studied English and Romance Language & Literature at the University of Göttingen from 1964 to 1971, during which period he also ran an art gallery in Göttingen. Between 1968 and 1975 his Expanded Media Editions published and organised projects with Joseph Beuys, Ian Hamilton Finlay…
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Georg Heym – Kurze Prosa (with drawings by Ben Schot)

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Georg Heym (1887-1912) was a German writer and poet who is ranked among the most important representatives of early literary Expressionism. His short life was characterised by all sorts of conflicts that sprang from his highly individual and rebellious nature. His father was a state’s attorney and was as such stationed in various places in the east of Germany during Georg’s upbringing. His son consequently…
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Kiev Stingl – Flacker in der Pfote

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Kiev Stingl was born in 1943 in Aussig a.d. Elbe in Sudetenland, from which he and his mother had to flee after the end of World War II. After having first having found refuge in Mannheim he was relocated to Hamburg in 1949, where he attended secondary school and unsuccessfully studied Politicology and Ethnology. Since 1975 he has been active as a composer, lyricist, singer, actor and performer and has authored four acclaimed LPs (Teuflisch, Hart wie Mozart, Ich wünsch den Deutsche alles Gute and Grausam das Gold und jubelnd die Pest), four books (Flacker in der Pfote, Die besoffene Schlägerei, Kainer Maria Cowboy and Sink Skin) and many other unpublished…
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James Grauerholz – The Death of Joan Vollmer Burroughs: What really happened?

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sold outAmerican writer and editor James Grauerholz is best known as the bibliographer and literary executor of the late William S. Burroughs. Grauerholz was born in Coffeyville, Kansas in 1953 and briefly attented the University of Kansas before dropping out in the early 1970s. Already fascinated by the Beat Generation when he left Kansas for New York City, Grauerholz befriended Allen Ginsberg, who recommended him as an assistant to Burroughs. Over the years Grauerholz developed into…

Oliver Harris – Making Naked Lunch: Two Appetisers

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“…Making Naked Lunch: Two Appetisers serves up rewritten versions of two illustrated talks originally given at Columbia University in New York and previously published by Reality Studio, a website that has championed the crossover between academic and popular engagement with Burroughs’ work. Each essay re-examines the standard reception of Burroughs’ writing from the 1950s, revealing the secret centres of truth within the generally misleading myths…
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