In the late 1950s in Paris, at the famed Beat Hotel - 9 rue Gît-le-Coeur - writer Roger Knoebber was living amongst a community of creative people, including the core of what became known as the Beat Generation - Burroughs, Corso, Ginsberg, and others. In this bohemian center of...

Starting in 1983, Aufruhr zur Liebe consisted of musicians from bands such as Rosa Extra, Feeling B, Antifaschistischer Schutzwall (later Planlos) or Ornament & Verbrechen. The band’s sound and lyrics contextualized the reality of the GDR and left behind idiosyncratic signatures:...

New from Moloko+: Catherine Marshall & Simon Johnson – Ordinary Stupid People "... Joan Vollmer's memory has long been framed within the narrative of the troubled five-year common-law marriage to the writer William S. Burroughs... her accidental death at her husband's hand is...

Ed van der Elsken (1925-1990) was born in Amsterdam, where he was trained as a stonecutter and sculptor until 1944. Inspired by the photojournalistic Picture Post and Weegee’s Naked City he shifted his interest from sculpting to photography in the late 1940s. When he tried his luck...