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Emmy Hennings – Girl’s Song

sold outEmmy Hennings was born Emma Maria Cordsen in Flensburg, Germany in 1885. After having attended school and worked as a maid there, she married an actor and joined his itinerant company at the age of 18. Only one year later she divorced the actor, with whom she had a daughter, and started a wandering existence as a solo performer, leaving her child in the care of her parents in Flensburg…

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Dimitrie Stelaru – Dogs

sold outPoète maudit and vagabond Dimitrie Stelaru was born in 1917 as Dumitru Petrescu in Romania’s border region with Bulgaria. He never knew his biological father, who was killed in action during World War I, and developed such a bad relationship with his stepfather that he was sent to a strict Christian boarding school…

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André Breton & Philippe Soupault – Magnetische velden

sold outLes Champs Magnetiques was written long before any surrealist manifesto had been published, and is regarded as the birth of surrealism. The book is the first experiment with ‘écriture automatique’, a literary technique derived from free association in psychoanalysis. The result is an enchanting and evocative collection of prose and poetry. written as in…

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George Bacovia – Winter Scene

sold outGheorghe Vasiliu was a Romanian poet who named himself George Bacovia after his native town Bacau. Bacovia was born there in 1881 and distinguished himself as a talented draughtsman, violinist and poet while being educated at the Prince Ferdinand Gymnasium, now located at George Bacovia Street in Bacau…

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