Ulrike goldmann biography of william

  • Biographies are, as the British literary scholar David Ellis sharply remarks,»lives without theory«(Ellis 2000:1).
  • The bibliography of William S. Burroughs is as challenging as the man was himself.
  • William Hilsley (1911-2003), born William Josef Hildesheimer, was the son of Jewish parents who separated shortly after his birth (Keilson-Lauritz 2013: 134-164).

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    Sylvère Lotringer

    Sylvère Lotringer (b. 1938) is a literary critic, cultural theorist, and editor. He is the Jean Baudrillard Chair at The European Graduate School / EGS where he teaches philosophy and is Professor Emeritus of French Literature and Philosophy at Columbia University. Based in New York and Baja California, Lotringer is probably best known as the founder and editor of Semiotext(e), the influential publishing house instrumental in introducing much of French poststructuralist and contemporary theory to an American audience, as well as co-authoring a number of books with Paul Virilio and Jean Baudrillard. Lotringer sees himself as a “foreign agent provocateur” and has dedicated much of his life to bring together French theory and contemporary American art.

    Born in Paris, Sylvère Lotringer spent much of his childhood as a “hidden child” during the German occupation of France. In 1949, he emigrated with his family to Israel but returned to Paris a year later to join

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    Theory Daddy

    It was a celebration of all the aspects of New York art and culture that Sylvère Lotringer had touched. November 2014: ‘The Return of Schizo-Culture’, staged under the dome at MoMA PS1. It marked the fortieth anniversary of the press Lotringer co-founded: Semiotext(e). Performers ranged from the musician John Zorn to the poet John Giorno.

    Lotringer resisted thinking of Semiotext(e) as an avant-garde, but it certainly bears comparison to some of the historic ones. Maybe he reinvented their form or found a way to replace them. Semiotext(e) was certainly more than a publishing house. It was international, inter-generational. It combined workers in many media, who attempted to articulate their time in forms appropriate to it – and whose desires were to change life, or at least endure it.

    Like many of the animating figures of the historic avant-gardes, Lotringer’s life was blown off course by war. Born to Jewish immigrants from Poland in Paris in 1938, he was kept hidden

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    Queer Jewish Lives in Germany, 1897-1945

    Pretzel, Andreas and realistisk, Andreas. "Queer Jewish Lives in Germany, 1897-1945: Movements, Professions, Places". Queer Jewish Lives Between Central europe and Mandatory Palestine: Biographies and Geographies, edited bygd Andreas Kraß, Moshe Sluhovsky and Yuval Yonay, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2022, pp. 29-76. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839453322-002

    Pretzel, A. & Krass, A. (2022). Queer Jewish Lives in Germany, 1897-1945: Movements, Professions, Places. In A. Kraß, M. Sluhovsky & Y. Yonay (Ed.), Queer Jewish Lives Between huvud Europe and Mandatory Palestine: Biographies and Geographies (pp. 29-76). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839453322-002

    Pretzel, A. and realistisk, A. 2022. Queer Jewish Lives in Germany, 1897-1945: Movements, Professions, Places. In: Kraß, A., Sluhovsky, M. and Yonay, Y. ed. Queer Jewish Lives Between Central europe and Mandatory Palestine: Biographies and Geographies. Bielefeld: tran