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Self / Selbst
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A shared apartment in Frankfurt/Main: Eva (fashion editor, art historian, »princess«), Genoveva (self-taught sexologist, research focus: autogynephilia and selfie culture) and Venus (androgynous model, cultural scientist, research focus: colonies of German Vormärz-emigrants in Texas, and particularly the history of the libertarian commune at the Llano river named after Bettina von Arnim). They shoot fashion spreads in the construction site of the European Central Bank, become...

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A shared apartment in Frankfurt/Main: Eva (fashion editor, art historian, »princess«), Genoveva (self-taught sexologist, research focus: autogynephilia and selfie culture) and Venus (androgynous model, cultural scientist, research focus: colonies of German Vormärz-emigrants in Texas, and particularly the history of the libertarian commune at the Llano river named after Bettina von Arnim). They shoot fashion spreads in the construction site of the European Central Bank, become witness to the police charging the Institute for Comparative Irrelevance, go dancing in the »Robert Johnson« and look for tenderness beyond a sexuality described as a prison by Freud, Foucault or Butler.


These are the main characters in a sometimes platonic, sometimes erotic, post-gender circle of love, orchestrated by Thomas Meinecke, feminist author, follower of female writing and author-protagonist in his own novel.

2016, 472 pages
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Born in Hamburg in 1955, Meinecke has lived in a village in Upper Bavaria since 1994. Apart from being an author, he plays in the band FSK and is a radio DJ.

Born in Hamburg in 1955, Meinecke has lived in a village in Upper Bavaria since 1994. Apart from being an author, he plays in the band FSK and is...


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Odenwald
Year of Publication: 2024
Thomas MeineckeYear of Publication: 2024
Amorbach in the hills of the Odenwald, across from the Hotel zur Post, where Theodor W. Adorno used to spend his summer holidays: this is where the novelist Thomas Meinecke meets with his characters to carry out his research. It quickly becomes clear that Amorbach is also Adornobach, the oneiric realm of the exiled philosopher (and the place he often dreamed of from his temporary home on the...
Lookalikes
Year of Publication: 2011
Thomas MeineckeYear of Publication: 2011
Veteran literary DJ and po-mo quote-bandit, Thomas Meinecke, gets his come-uppance in his latest book: the text swallows up the author whole and spits him out again as a character in his own...
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Netherlands (Het balanseer)

Virgin
Year of Publication: 2008
Thomas MeineckeYear of Publication: 2008
Can erotic convergence be accomplished along asymptotic lines? Lothar is researching the collaborative studies conducted by the theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar and his legendary Amica, the physician and mystic Adrienne von Speyr.


Convinced that he is on the track of an incredible drama of love, Lothar, a student who swapped drama for Catholic theology together with sexual...

Pale Blue
Year of Publication: 2001
Thomas MeineckeYear of Publication: 2001
What is a European, African, American, a Jew? What consequences does the transatlantic slave trade have for today’s techno music? What – if anything – can techno music mean? And...
Rights sold to:

English world rights (Amazon Crossing), Netherlands (Het balanseer)

Tomboy
Year of Publication: 1998
Thomas MeineckeYear of Publication: 1998
»This innovative novel from German author Thomas Meinecke takes a thought-provoking look at the role of gender in the social, artistic, and intellectual pursuits of a group of inquisitive university...
Rights sold to:

English world rights (Amazon Crossing)