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 exploration Roger became intimate friends with the artist, writer and mystic Brion Gysin…
Heinrich Nowak’s tale Die Sonnenseuche (The Sun Scourge) was first published in 1915 in the expressionist magazine Die weißen Blätter from Leipzig. Inspired by reports of an exceptional and life-threatening heatwave in the USA, the apocalyptic tale remained virtually unnoticed until it was re-published as a book in 1920…
Frank Bretschneider (1956) was active in the subcultural scene of the GDR’s Karl-Marx-Stadt (nowadays Chemnitz). The Karl-Marx-Stadt area was a nucleus of non-conformist activities in the GDR. Away from a prescribed socialist realism, a countercultural approach unfolded here as openly as was possible within a closed-off society. Inspired by mathematician and astronomer August Ferdinand Möbius, Bretschneider adopted the alias A.F. Moebius. The Möbius strip quintessentially…