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Jeff Koons / Jeff Koons
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»So we’re not coming in / I’m coming in / Really? / Of course, come.«
Jeff Koons is the second volume of Heute Morgen (This Morning), a five-volume contemporary history that appeared between 1998 and 2000 and also includes Rave, Celebration, Abfall für alle (Trash for Everyone), and Dekonspiratione (Unmasking).
Jeff Koons is a play about art. »Art / a weekend of art/ the bar / and the studio / the gallery and the slouchers / The slouchers from the Görlitzer Station / march onward...
Jeff Koons is a play about art. »Art / a weekend of art/ the bar / and the studio / the gallery and the slouchers / The slouchers from the Görlitzer Station / march onward...
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Jeff Koons is the second volume of Heute Morgen (This Morning), a five-volume contemporary history that appeared between 1998 and 2000 and also includes Rave, Celebration, Abfall für alle (Trash for Everyone), and Dekonspiratione (Unmasking).
Jeff Koons is a play about art.
»Art / a weekend of art/ the bar / and the studio / the gallery and the slouchers / The slouchers from the Görlitzer Station / march onward / a play / in seven acts / packaged nice and neat.«
»You have said / it is about love / you have said / it is about art / it is about talk / images, melodies / it is about conflict / about coherence / it is about people / who say something / want something, do something / normal / it is about creation and gestures / about things, facts / and ideas / it is about the everyday / truth and banality / it is not especially about actions / not much will be decided here / not much will be shouted out / it is about heartache and melancholy… it is about a moment / that ALSO exists / in people’s lives, briefly / at least sometimes / it exists / it is about / foolish as it may sound / harmony / that is not true at all / stop, wait, lies, wrong / it’s the opposite / it is about the Never of harmony.«
2002, 159 pages
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Rainald Goetz
Author
Rainald Goetz, born in Munich in 1954, studied history and medicine in Munich and obtained a PhD in both subjects. He briefly worked as a physician but quit the profession for the sake of literature in his early thirties. His first novel Irre, set in a psychiatric hospital, was published in 1983. Goetz subsequently also succeeded as a playwright. In 1998, Goetz wrote the internet diary »Rubbish for Everyone«, probably the first literary blog in Germany, which was published in book form in 1999 and together with Rave, Jeff Koons, Celebration and Dekonspiratione, constitutes Heute Morgen, Goetz’s great history of the present. Rainald Goetz has received numerous prizes, most notably the Büchner Prize in 2015. He...
Rainald Goetz
Author
Rainald Goetz, born in Munich in 1954, studied history and medicine in Munich and obtained a PhD in both subjects. He briefly worked as a...
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Year of Publication: 2024
Rainald GoetzYear of Publication: 2024
Lapidarium
LAPIDARIUM is a book featuring three plays that address the dark matter of humanity in the early 21st century: torture, terror, suicide.
The comedy of manners REALM OF DEATH portrays the political process that led from the 9/11 terror attacks to the systematic torture of prisoners of war in the American detention facilities in Guantánamo Bay and Abu Ghraib. With reference to...
The comedy of manners REALM OF DEATH portrays the political process that led from the 9/11 terror attacks to the systematic torture of prisoners of war in the American detention facilities in Guantánamo Bay and Abu Ghraib. With reference to...
Year of Publication: 2024
Rainald GoetzYear of Publication: 2024
wrong
WRONG: Performance, lecture, lesson, interview, critique: all wrong, time and again. And yet, it is important as an author to participate directly in public discussions through these kinds of textual interventions, lively, chaotic, glimmering, the self presented without protection, not just distilled in the final death-form of the work.
Writing as if you were talking, as if you wanted...
Writing as if you were talking, as if you wanted...
Year of Publication: 2012
Rainald GoetzYear of Publication: 2012
Johann Holtrop
The fall of a CEO. Johann Holtrop tells the story of a German CEO in the first decade of the twenty-first century.
For the charismatic, clever, successful chief executive Dr. Johann Holtrop,...
For the charismatic, clever, successful chief executive Dr. Johann Holtrop,...
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Netherlands (Leesmagazijn), Republic of Moldova / Romanian rights (Cartier)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Italy (Fazi)
Year of Publication: 1998
Rainald GoetzYear of Publication: 1998
Rave
»Rave tells stories from life in the depths of the night. What are they really doing, these people who live at night, when they go somewhere to party every weekend? They listen to...
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English world rights (Fitzcarraldo), Netherlands (Het Balanseer), Denmark (Det poetiske Bureau), Sweden (it-lit)
Year of Publication: 1983
Rainald GoetzYear of Publication: 1983
Insane
In his legendary, audacious first novel, originally published in 1983, Rainald Goetz writes about psychiatry and about a hero of our time. What is the pain of the insanity of the insane? How...
Rights sold to:
English world rights (Fitzcarraldo), Spanish world rights (Sexto Piso), France (Gallimard), Netherlands (Het Balanseer)
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