Author: Anneke

Richard Byrne – Hotel Mayflower

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True story: Before finding fame as a writer, Beat Generation icon William Burroughs met a German Jewish woman named Ilse Herzfeld Klapper in Dubrovnik. A year later, in 1938, they married. Ilse Burroughs received a U.S. visa from this marriage, which allowed her to escape Nazi Germany. She arrived in New York in 1939, where she worked for exiled anti-fascist German writer Ernst Toller. During his exile, Toller had become a leading figure in the anti-fascist resistance. He gave speeches, wrote articles, raised money for the hungry in Spain and even wrote film scripts…
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Cary Loren – Eye Zone

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Cary Loren (1955) is an artist, musician, publisher and bookstore keeper from Oak Park, Michigan. Together with Niagara, Mike Kelley and Jim Shaw, Loren was a founder member of proto-punk noise band Destroy All Monsters in the early 1970s. He also founded his psych-folk band Monster Island and teamed up with the Miller brothers in the short-lived band Xanadu in the late 1970s and with Barry Roth in Nightcrawlerz in the 1980s. As a visual artist Loren has been active as a photographer, filmmaker and collagist since the early 1970s. Together with his wife Colleen Kammer, he has run Book Beat, a fine independent bookstore in Oak Park…
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William Cody Maher – Confessions of a Makeup Artist

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Poet, author and performer William Cody Maher was born to a working class family in San Francisco in 1950. After having moved to New York in the early 1980s, Maher met film director Alexandre Rockwell and together they produced the films Lenz (1982) and Hero (1983), which were both screened at the Berlin film festival. In the mid-1980s Maher joined forces with photographer Susan Schwartzenberg in their photo installation My Name is Hunter’s Point, which explores Maher’s childhood in San Francisco and was shown in his native town, Heidelberg and Berlin. From 1987 to 1998 Maher made Berlin…
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Bilingual Hotel Mayflower by Richard Byrne

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True story: Before finding fame as a writer, Beat Generation icon William Burroughs met a German Jewish woman named Ilse Herzfeld Klapper in Dubrovnik. A year later, in 1938, they married. Ilse Burroughs received a U.S. visa from this marriage, which allowed her to escape Nazi-occupied Europe. She arrived in New York in 1939, where she worked for exiled anti-fascist German writer Ernst Toller. During his exile, Toller had become a leading figure in the anti-fascist resistance. He gave speeches, wrote articles…

Julien Blaine – Extravagant Circus of the Mouth

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French artist and poet Julien Blaine was born as Christian Poitevin in Rognac in 1942. Already at the age of twenty he published his first poetry magazine Les Carnets de l’Octéor and turned to action poetry with his piece Rep éléphant 306, in which he interviewed a circus elephant, two years earlier than Michael McClure’s famous poetry reading to lions. In 1976 Blaine launched Doc(k)s, an international magazine…
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