Notes by Béla Feldberg is a product of growing up in an international hub and Germany’s financial capital, Frankfurt am Main. Designed by JMMP (Hamburg) and written by Dan Kwon (Frankfurt/Seoul), Feldberg’s book is a coming-of-age affair by the emerging artist, and contains minimal text and b/w analogue photography from untold dérives in the compact German city of Europe’s only skyline, aka “Mainhattan”.

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Tresor: True Stories is the first printed excavation of Tresor’s legendary history.

Digging deeply into its rich archives, the venerable institution has unearthed countless treasures from its over three-decade old history. Over 400 never before seen photographs, flyers, faxes and other illustrate a story that intersects with the most important social and musical trend in the modern history of Berlin.

The story is told with the voices of those that were there – over 40 protagonists share their first-hand reminiscences of the ‘big bang’ that launched techno into the world. Through the story of Tresor, the book charts the heady days of 80s West Berlin through to the explosion of new energy that midwifed in the new social reality of reunified Germany. This is a unique and essential printed monument to the institution that changed electronic music forever, and the city that allowed it to exist.

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Bulletins Of The Serving Library #5. Stuart Bailey, Angie Keefer, David Reinfurt (Eds.). Sternberg Press.

Contributions by Michael Bracewell, Diedrich Diederichsen, Isla Leaver-Yap, Philip Ording, Leila Peacock, David Reinfurt, Mike Sperlinger, Jan Verwoert

Conceived while in residency at the library of the Goethe-Institut New York, this issue of Bulletins of The Serving Library used the context of the hosting institution as a thematic starting point.

Contemplating this theme as both foreigners and German citizens, many of the contributors present theses that reach deep into the realm of the personal. Jan Verwoert, for example, discusses the communication within his family as a lexicon “somewhere between speech and speechlessness”; while Leila Peacock, as a native English speaker learning German, explores the liminal space between language and translation. Diedrich Diederichsen, together with a list of editors and translators, co-translates his essay “Hören, Wiederhören, Zitieren,” published in the 1997 January issue of Spex. Diederichsen’s discussion of the pop quotation in music highlights the genre’s proximity to language, as the pop quotation “refers to what is absent in the present, and therefore points towards the semiotic nature of any music.”

Language: English
Pages: 152
ISBN: 978-3-943365-85-6

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frieze d/e #8

Mythos Rheinland
Cologne & Düsseldorf: where are they now?

Michael Krebber
Thomas Schütte
Alexandra Bircken

Februar-März 2013
German / English
136 Pages

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Interview #2

“Ich möchte ein Kleiderbügel sein” – Anna dello Russo.

Die Märzausgabe von INTERVIEW ist da! Die Designerin Miuccia Prada spricht über die neue Leichtigkeit ihrer Mode. Die Schauspielerin Sibel Kekilli über ihren Aufstieg zum HBO-Star und die Gewalt türkischer Männer. Der Regisseur Klaus Lemke blickt zurück auf seine wilden Tage mit Brigitte Bardot und Iris Berben. Der Schauspieler Michael Fassbender erklärt, wie man einen Sexsüchtigen spielt. Der japanische Superstar Takashi Murakami trifft die Streetart-Legende Kaws. Die beiden Depeche-Mode-Gründer Vince Clark und Martin Gore erzählen, wie sie 30 Jahre nach ihrer Trennung gemeinsam ein Techno-Album aufnahmen, ohne sich ein einziges Mal zu treffen. Plus: Anna Dello Russo, Italiens größte Mode-Exzentrikerin, und ihr Leben zwischen Front Row, Internet und privatem Couture-Archiv.

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