Author: Anneke

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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Nontoxic – Intoxication

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In 1986 I played drums in the Johannisthal punk band Morticians. The band practised in a cellar on Fritz Heckert Straße in Berlin’s Mitte district. Across the street, the cobblestone paving was bordered directly by the Wall. Behind it was where the music was at, while at the same time East Berlin’s live music scene was also exploding. Undeterred by odysseys on the S-Bahn and tram, goths and leather….
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A.F. Moebius – Eine Auswahl

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Frank Bretschneider (1956) was active in the subcultural environment 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….
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Ace Farren Ford – Thursdays

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Moloko+ compiles the poems that Ace Farren Ford published in his 4 Thursday chapbooks: ‘A Year of Thursdays’, ‘Escape from beneath the Valley of Thursdays’, ‘Exiled once more to the Island of Thursdays’ and ‘Love Theme from Thursdays’ plus a chapter of previously unpublished poems ‘Beyond that farther Mountain of Thursdays’. These older and newer poems are combined in the book with a fine selection of Ace’s collages done between 2010 and 2022. Beautifully designed by rag from Vienna, this edition presents a wide view of Ace’s long practice as an artist and poet. Thursdays pays tribute to this multi-talented West-Coast legend.
€ 20.00

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