Scottish novelist Alexander Trocchi co-founded and edited the English literary magazine Merlin in Paris from 1952 to 1954. After Merlin had come to an end he got addicted to heroin and wrote a string of pornographic books for Maurice Girodias’s Olympia Press to sustain himself and feed his addiction. White Thighs is one of those pornographic novels. The book was published under…
Constant Tonegaru was born into a middle-class family from Galați, Romania in 1919. His father was a ship captain, who took his son on voyages to Greece, Turkey and Egypt and instilled him with a passion for poetry. After having finished primary school in Brăila, Tonegaru moved to Bucharest where he finished his secondary education and was trained as a journalist. His first articles were…
Hungarian artist Susanna Lakner (1960) was born and raised in Budapest, where she studied typography at what is now Moholy-Nagy University and completed an apprenticeship in printing and retouching. After having worked as a designer in the Hungarian printing industry for a number of years, she and her husband moved to Stuttgart, Germany. There she turned to a full-time artist’s practice with a focus on analogue collages…
Herbst In Peking’s CD Faust am Meer explores good and evil as two sides of the same medal. The line ‘Good is an evil Animal’ by HIP member Helmar Kreysig serves as a motto for this beautiful production, which was recorded in Cheetahs Cage, East-Berlin in 2024 and 2025. Other lines and lyrics in this vein are provided by Rex Joswig, Thomas Brasch, Rainer Maria Rilke and William Shakespeare…