Alban Nikolai Herbst

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Alban Nikolai Herbst at a reading at Kaffee Burger in May 2010

Alban Nikolai Herbst ( pseudonym for Alexander Michael von Ribbentrop ; born  February 7, 1955 in Bensberg ) is a German writer , librettist , critic and director in the field of radio audio art .

Life

Alexander Michael von Ribbentrop is a descendant of Friedrich von Ribbentrop from the Ribbentrop family . He grew up as the son of an infant sister and a representative in Traunstein , Braunschweig and Bremen . There he completed an apprenticeship as a lawyer and notary's assistant. After his community service he attended evening grammar school in Bremen and after graduating from high school in Frankfurt am Main began studying philosophy , history and social sciences . His first works appeared under his pseudonym in 1981. In 1983 he took part in the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition in Klagenfurt and read immediately after the scandalous appearance by Rainald Goetz , who cut his forehead during his reading. From 1987 to 1992 he served as employee stock broker ( broker ) in the SEC and CFTC with Series 7 and Series 3 licensed and acted from Frankfurt from the US stock exchanges. In addition, he published the literary magazine Dschungelblätter . With the publication of his 1000-page novel Wolpertinger or Das Blau , he stopped trading. Since then he has lived as a freelance writer . He has lived in Berlin since 1994.

Literary work

Autograph
At a reading in the Sprengel Museum Hannover , 2016

prose

Wilhelm Kühlmann describes Alban Nikolai Herbst as “one of the leading figures of literary postmodernism”, while Ralf Schnell describes Herbst's poetics as “the paradox of a digital aesthetics in the form of a novel”, whereas Heinz-Peter Preusser imagines this poetics as “a postmodernism that has come to its own devices” . In the beginning, Herbst wrote texts in the tradition of realism about the everyday life of West German petty bourgeoisie and has since developed into the author of novels , short stories , plays and radio plays that deal with the description of apocalyptic conditions ( “Anderswelt” trilogy, 1998 to 2013 ) and their constant mixing of dream and reality ( Wolpertinger or Das Blau ) are among the most remarkable examples of recent German-language fantastic literature . At the same time, his work has increasingly seized the new media, which he emphatically poetizes and makes directly the medium of fictional events. The invention of a novel, actual everyday occurrences and present political events merge undivided into one another; Reality and fiction become indistinguishable: "The boundaries of such literature are permeable (...) not only among themselves, but outwards: for new techniques, for other arts, for foreign texts, for reality." The development of the early novels and narratives goes hand in hand with Herbst's seizure of the Internet, into which novel characters are now implanted as people acting in real time who, as avatars, can no longer be distinguished from actual people: the novel actually happens at the moment of its invention, readers experience it as an actual event. That is why both Schnell and Ursula Reber apply the term autopoiesis as a category to Herbst's poetics. Reber speaks of a “ palimpsest structure ” that goes hand in hand with the rhizome-like transformation of the books into one another and with the real outside world in an indistinguishable manner. This can be read as media criticism , especially if one considers Herbst's political essays since September 11, 2001 . But, as Schnell thinks, it can also be the expression of a radical, affirmative poetic disposition over the new media: “the most advanced literary aesthetic in the age of digitization”.

Herbst's method of mixing up realities drew both the accusation of distorting history and that of colportage. In general, Herbst's work is rated extremely differently: the ratings range from “charlatan” to “wordy impostor” to “great German magical realist” and “light figure of literary postmodernism”. Herbst himself, who since 2001 at the latest with his essay “Das Flirren im Sprachraum” has also turned to theoretical poetics, calls his work documentary. An “actual” realism is not possible at all, but ultimately ideology. Primary of Herbst's prose works and theoretical treatises that he mainly in literary journals such as exercise book , the hear , Critical Edition , "L. The Literaturbote" . And his weblog The Jungle Anderswelt has published, Herbst proclaims the concept of "cybernetic realism", for whose basic movement he claims a "poetics of possibilities". Again Reber compares Herbst's poetology with Ovid's metamorphoses.

Herbst's mixing of reality and fiction has not remained without legal consequences. In 2003, a former friend of Herbsts obtained an injunction against the publication of his novel " Meere " because she saw the work as a roman with the clef, the content of which represented a violation of her personal rights. The legal case ran with a slight time lag behind the similar one about Maxim Biller's novel “ Esra ” and here too led to a book ban . However, unlike in the Biller case, the process of "seas" was settled in March 2007 by a court settlement, so that the entire novel appeared in April 2007 as a preprint in a revised version in the Viennese literary newspaper Volltext and was thus accessible again - a A literary event of such magnitude that has not been seen since Rowohlt's rotary novels. The unchanged original edition has been available again since September 2017. The apparent return to an autobiographical realism of the novel “Meere” turns out to be another calculated segment of Herbst's mixed aesthetics, which ultimately even turns objective legal proceedings into literary phenomena. Meanwhile, the book is considered a “masterpiece of radical male prose”.

Herbst is very committed to preserving the German language. When he drew attention to the wrong subjunctive in the novel "Die Komische Frau" by Ricarda Junge , the reply was: "The subjunctive is not important." Herbst described his reaction to it in an interview: "'We mustn't let it go to pieces!", I exclaimed, probably already a bit compressed voice, caught myself again and explained the peculiarity of the German subjunctive II, which is formed imperatively, but is by no means one of the past, but expresses something that is not. That is why it is called unrealis. And what did I hear now? -: 'You are a language fascist!' "

Poetry

Since 2007, Herbst has also turned to poetry, first with the sixteen love poems “Dem nahsten Orient / Très Proche Orient”, which appeared in the same volume in a translation by Raymond Prunier in French. In his third volume of poetry, "Das Bleibende Thier" (2011), Herbst devotes himself to ancient poetics, there the hexameter. But already in the long narrative poem "Aeolia.Gesang" (2008 / Vienna version 2019) ancient to classical, but also free modern verses are run through. The individual work phases were also included in the continuous work and revision samples on Herbst's weblog Die Dschungel. Anderswelt published and partly discussed - just like in Herbst's translation work, which began with his own poetry, which was often undertaken in collaboration with the poet Helmut Schulze ( James Joyce : "Giacomo Joyce", 2013, and "Kammermusik / Chamber Music", 2018). Here, too, Herbst's strongly formally oriented, thoroughly neoclassical poetics are conspicuous, which are deliberately set against the free rhythm of the present. However, this characterizes more recent lyrical works in autumn.

Audio art

In addition to his narrative and theoretical work, Herbst is concerned with radio work in the field of audio art . Here, too, his method of making subjective impressions inseparable from objective reporting is striking. He is interested in the phenomena of the big cities as well as other authors, which he repeatedly presents as quasi his Haidnian antiquities , i.e. as literary ancestors, for example Wolf von Niebelschütz , José Lezama Lima and Louis Aragon or otherwise not well-known poet and composer Carl Johannes Verbeen, "forgotten" according to Herbst. Real or allegedly real people are presented in the audio pieces as well as literary figures of Herbst's invention, but at the same time their real or imagined life story is meticulously retraced and, in the case of Verbeens, the author's research is also illustrated by "original sound" recordings. The structure of the audio pieces is more like musical compositions than documentaries. This peculiarity is also noticeable in the novels. Herbst devotes himself directly to music as a librettist, for Caspar Johannes Walter and Robert HP Platz , among others . In his musical thinking, Herbst is influenced by Karlheinz Stockhausen . Accordingly, he appears again and again as an opera and music critic, both in newspapers and on the “world stage for artists and authors” of the author and artist network Faust-Kultur and the music sections of his own website.

Video

Since July 31, 2015, Alban Nikolai Herbst has been running his own channel on YouTube called ANH speaks day for day . In daily video contributions, Herbst reads here mostly his own, occasionally also texts by other authors.

Introduction to the work

A good introduction to the work of Alban Nikolai Herbst is volume no. 231 "Panoramas der Anderswelt" published by Ralf Schnell in 2008 in the literary and art magazine Die Horen , which is particularly critical of Herbst's Anderswelt novels " Thetis. Otherworld "," Buenos Aires. Otherworld "and" Argo. Anderswelt ”, but also provides information on novels like“ Meere ”. A non-literary introduction is the volume of short stories “ Die Niedertracht der Musik ”, published in 2005, and the two-volume edition of all the stories from 1972 to the present, started by Septime Verlag in Vienna in spring 2019. Here an arc is spanned from the first, clearly fantastic, to the partly expressionistic, but soon realistic, partly written in jargon phases of the author to the "cybernetic realism" that determines the later work, which in some cases can no longer be attributed to postmodernism, but developed a "modernism after postmodernism" and relies on the new modernism of the twentieth century and twenties, but is conspicuously linked to literary fantasy. This is evident not only in the books of the Otherworld Complex, but also in the much less experimental novel “Traumschiff” (2015).

Weblog “The jungle. Otherworld "

Since spring 2004, Herbst has been running under the title Die Die Dschungel - until 2013 with the editorial office in the Hessian Literature Forum in the Künstlerhaus Mousonturm in Frankfurt am Main . Otherworld The jungle. Otherworld. a literary weblog . In it, he not only documents his current work, but also experiments with aestheticization and literary reflections on everyday life and the literary work process. In doing so, the weblog itself becomes a continuously written topic of constant observation and reflection. Herbst's mixed aesthetic makes him call the literary weblog a “novel” again and again. Here the confluence of reality and fiction, (pre) published stories and lectures as well as current affairs of the day finds its strongest and most emphatic expression to date, which autumn is also reflected in a "Small Theory of Literary Blogging", which is constantly being continued.

In addition, and at the same time, Herbst is constantly expanding his literary weblog into an increasingly comprehensive podium for literary, art and music criticism, in which work and personal notes, political disputes, comments from real and fictional readers, travel stories and original contributions by other contributors all flow together generate invented characters for their part. How closely the literary weblog is to the novels published in book form is already shown by the addition, the Thetis. Otherworld , Buenos Aires. Otherworld and the literary weblog Die Dschungel. Anderswelt in the title: Anderswelt .

Memberships, prices

Alban Nikolai Herbst was a member of the Association of German Writers from 1976 to 1985 ; he is a member of the PEN Center Germany . In addition to other scholarships , he received the following awards: 1981 the Lower Saxony Young Talent Scholarship for Literature , 1995 the Grimmelshausen Prize and the Rome Prize of the Villa Massimo , which is awarded in the form of an annual stay as a scholarship , and in 1999 the Fantastic Prize of the City of Wetzlar . In 2000 he was Writer in Residence at Keio University Tokyo . In 2006 he was awarded an annual residency at Villa Concordia ( Internationales Künstlerhaus Villa Concordia ), Bamberg , for his work . After Louis Begley (2006) he was appointed to the poetics lectureship at the Ruprechts-Karls-Universität Heidelberg in 2007.

bibliography

The location of Wolpertinger or Das Blau in the Hotel Wolpertinger alias Hotel Andree's Berg (1988 before the demolition).

Editorships

  • Dschungelblätter , magazine for German-speaking cultural intelligence, Göttingen 1985–1989.
  • A literary course on the stock exchange , Frankfurt am Main 2000 (together with Sabine Tost)

Radio plays and poetic audio pieces

  • The Leda project. Radio play , 1996, Sender Free Berlin (Director: Martin Daske )
  • We will not be forgiven for living in vain. Eine D'Annunzio Fantasy , 1996, Deutschlandfunk Köln (Director: Thomas Zenke)
  • The language of the sidewalk. Eine Passage , 1997 (Direction: Manfred Mixner )
  • The Blue Chamberlain. A radio fantasy about Wolf v. Niebelschütz , 1996, DeutschlandRadio Berlin (Director: Barbara Heizmann) (PDF)
  • The language of the sidewalks. Eine Passage , 1996, Sender Freies Berlin (Director: Manfred Mixner)
  • The prince of the novels. A radio conversation about Anthony Burgess , 1997, DeutschlandRadio Berlin (Director: Barbara Heizmann) (PDF)
  • The mussel earth of dreams. A radio fantasy about Louis Aragon , 1997, Deutschlandfunk Köln (director: Thomas Zenke)
  • Notturno: To Palermo! Original audio piece , 1999, Deutschlandfunk Cologne (directors: Sabine Küchler and Thomas Zenke)
  • That's the way it is. Is it like this? A Pirandello Redoute , 2000, Deutschlandfunk Köln (Director: Thomas Zenke) (PDF)
  • The ear to the street or In the splendor and misery of the city of Bombay. Original audio piece , 2000, Deutschlandfunk Cologne (Director: ANH)
  • The Welsh Bocksberg or Lands there are tricky ones. An audio and art piece about John Cowper Powys , 2001, Deutschlandfunk Köln (Director: ANH)
  • Slothrop's disappearance, or that was Thomas Pynchon . A collage , 2002, Deutschlandfunk Köln / Bayerischer Rundfunk / Süddeutscher Rundfunk (director: ANH)
  • Tokyo's smile. Distances to a Distant City , 2002, Deutschlandfunk Köln (Director: ANH) (PDF)
  • Imaginary Eras or The Invisible Chronology. An audio and paradisiacal pain play about José Lezama Lima and the American Baroque , 2002, DeutschlandRadio Berlin (Director: Beatrice Ackers) (PDF)
  • The illusion is the flesh on things. A poetics for Kavita Janice Chohan , 2003, Deutschlandfunk Köln (director: ANH)
  • The yellow light of peace. Walks through old Jerusalem. Ein Klangbild , 2003, Deutschlandfunk Köln (Director: ANH) (PDF)
  • Delta-Plus and Grave Worlds: Science Fiction & Psychosis. A fantasy about Philip K. Dick , 2003, WDR Cologne (director: Petra Feldhoff) (PDF)
  • The disgusting genius. A hate staccato about Louis-Ferdinand Céline , 2003, DeutschlandRadio Berlin (Director: Klaus-Michael Klingsporn) (PDF)
  • Letters from Catania. For Alexandra , 2004, Deutschlandfunk Köln (Director: ANH) (PDF)
  • The miracle of San Michele. Fantasy with sounds around a small palace. For Adrian , 2006, Deutschlandfunk Köln (Director: ANH) (PDF)
  • Passionately angry with light or The Forgotten Poetry Carl Johannes Verbeens , 2006, SWR Baden-Baden (Director: ANH) (PDF)
  • Requiem for Allan Pettersson , 2006, Hessischer Rundfunk (director: Bernd Leukert and ANH) (PDF)
  • And so it happened. Approaches to Marianne Fritz , 2008, WDR Cologne (Director: ANH)
  • Beloved, we are advancing! A poetic montage on Christian Filips , 2009, WDR Cologne (direction and production: ANH)
  • in the country where we are blood red. A poetic radio piece on Daniela Danz , 2010, WDR Cologne (direction and production: ANH)
  • "These terrible longings" or to be united indefinitely . A poetic audio piece in quotations , 2010, WDR Cologne (composition and direction: ANH)
  • The inside of a hotel. A radio piece for Ricarda Junge and 115 voices , 2011, WDR Cologne (texts: Ricarda Junge, composition and direction: ANH)
  • The Untamed Life or The Wild Novelist. A poetic audio piece on the work of Helmut Krausser , 2011, WDR Cologne (Director: ANH)
  • The curtains of reality. Improvisations around the narrative work of Daniel F. Galouye . With interjections from Thomas Pynchon and from the Apocalypse of Johannes as well as an introduction by Plato , 2012, WDR Cologne (sound and direction: ANH)
  • Hell and Paradise. A poetic radio piece about the city of Naples , 2013, Deutschlandfunk Köln (Director: ANH)
  • Fahlmann's worlds. A poetic audio piece on Christopher Ecker and his eerie novel ›Fahlmann‹ , 2014, WDR (Director: ANH) ( MP3 podcast )
  • An acoustic cruise. A writer's diary with sounds , 2015, WDR (Director: ANH) ( WDR podcast )

literature

  • Georges Hausemer : Joachim Zilt's aberrations. In: Wolfgang Jeschke (Ed.): The Science Fiction Year 1987. Volume 2, Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-453-31365-8 , pp. 591-599.
  • Ursula Reber: Sanding shapes. To a theory of metamorphosis. Paderborn 2009, ISBN 978-3-7705-4704-3 .
  • Johann P. Tammen (Ed.): Panoramas of the other world. Expeditions to the factory of Alban Nikolai Herbst. 2008, ISBN 978-3-86509-804-7 .
  • Volker Mergenthaler: Keep reading - to Barbara Bongartz ', Alban Nikolai Herbsts and Norbert Wehrs “Incest or The Origin of the World”. In: Ingo Irsigler, Christoph Jürgensen (Ed.): Nine Eleven. Aesthetic processing of September 11, 2001. Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg 2008, ISBN 978-3-8253-5445-9 .
  • Corinna Rindlinsbacher: Postmodern storytelling. About Calvino's “When a traveler on a winter night”, Süskind's “Perfume” and Herbst's “Wolpertinger or Das Blau”. Grin Verlag, Munich 2008.
  • Judith Leiß: Staging of Controversy: The heterotopia as a postmodernist subgenre of utopia. Aisthesis Verlag, Bielefeld 2010, ISBN 978-3-89528-768-8 .
  • Usha Reber: It will have been a reality. Alban Nikolai Herbst's expanded offices. In: Bernd Kracke, Marc Ries (Eds.): Expanded Narration. The new telling. Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2013, ISBN 978-3-8376-2652-0 .
  • Innokentij Kreknin: Poetics of the Self. Identity, authorship and auto-fiction using the example of Rainald Goetz, Joachim Lottmann and Alban Nikolai Herbst. Edition Niemeyer, de Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-033211-7 .
  • Henning Bobzin: From Bremen to the Otherworld. About identity and reality in the main prose work, poetics and weblog by Alban Nikolai Herbst. Goettingen State and University Library, Goettingen 2015, http://d-nb.info/1071991701/34 .
  • Albert Meier: Napule, Napoli, Naples, Partenope, Paleopeia. Naples as a text / sound collage in Alban Nikolai Herbst's ›poetical audio piece‹ from 2013. In: Cultura Tedesca 57 (December 2019): Germania and Austria on the Gulf of Naples, a cura di Jean-François Candoni e Stéphane Pesnel, p. 289 -302.

Web links

Commons : Alban Nikolai Herbst  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Goetz Bachmann Prize Youtube, Video (03:33 minutes)
  2. ^ Wilhelm Kühlmann: On the mythological writing in the prose work of Alban Nikolai Herbst. In: Euphorion, Zs. For the history of literature, 4/2003.
  3. ^ Ralf Schnell: History of contemporary German-language literature since 1945. 2nd expanded edition. Stuttgart 2003.
  4. ↑ Heinz-Peter Preußer: Last Worlds, German-language contemporary literature on this side and beyond the Apocalypse. Heidelberg 2003.
  5. ↑ Reason for the award of the Wetzlar jury for the awarding of the Fantastik Prize 1999.
  6. ↑ Thomas Malsch : From the re-entry of the author into his story. in: Thomas Kron u. Uwe Schimank: The Society of Literature, Opladen 2004; on the web: pdf (TU Harburg)
  7. ↑ Lothar Glauch: The muse kisses binary / Welcome to The Jungle, A Journey into the Otherworld. In: Telepolis. April 30, 2005.
  8. ^ Eva Leipprand: The world as an idea and self-reference. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung. n.d.; on the net at Literaturkritik.de
  9. ↑ Gregory Patorski: The Ribbentrop rhizome, an experiment with works by Alban Niklai autumn and Gilles Deleuze / Guattari. University of Zurich, 2005.
  10. ↑ Christoph Jürgensen: I am also different. On the pluralization of the self in the narrative prose by Alban Nikolai Herbst. Oslo contributions to German studies, Frankfurt am Main / Basel / Berlin / Brussels / Oxford / New York / Vienna 2007.
  11. ↑ Lothar Glauch: The muse kisses binary / Welcome to The Jungle, A Journey into the Otherworld. In: Telepolis. April 30, 2005.
  12. ↑ a b c Ralf Schnell: History of contemporary German-language literature since 1945 https://www.springer.com/de/book/9783476019004
  13. ↑ a b c Ursula Reber: image looping, on a theory of metamorphosis / 5. Alban Nikolai Herbst: samples, recycling and mechanization, romance meets cyberspace. Vienna 2006.
  14. ↑ Gregory Patorski: The Ribbentrop rhizome, an experiment with works by Alban Nikolai Herbst and Gilles Deleuze / Guattari. University of Zurich 2005.
  15. ↑ For example: Alban Nikolai Herbst: Where do I start and where do I end? Moral megalomania. In: Friday No. 10/1. March 2002
  16. ↑ Werner Irro: Woe to you if you are one of them. In: Frankfurter Rundschau. 5th May 1984.
  17. ↑ Friedemar Apel: Seven dry martinis daily. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. October 6, 1998.
  18. ↑ Volker Weidermann: An author's call for help. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung. January 29, 2006.
  19. ↑ Copybook No. 56
  20. ↑ Alban Nikolai Herbst: Cybernetic Realism. Third Heidelberg Lecture, Heidelberg 2008, https://dschungel-anderswelt.de/?s=Kybernetischer+Realismus.+Dritte+Heidelberger+Lecture
  21. ↑ “Cybernetischer Realismus”, Heidelberg lectures https://www.manutius-verlag.de/index.php/geisteswissenschaftliche-studien/142-herbst-kybernetischer-realismus
  22. ↑ Full text No. 2/2007.
  23. ↑ https://dschungel-anderswelt.de/20170917/meere-presseerklaerung-des-mare-verlages-12-september-2017-1022632316/ .
  24. ↑ Christoph Jürgensen: I am someone else. on: literaturkritik.de , No. 7, July 2004.
  25. ↑ Alban Nikolai Herbst: Understanding life as a novel. A series in The Jungle. Otherworld
  26. ↑ https://www.swr.de/swr2/programm/sendung/lesenswert/lesenswert-magazin-maennergruppe-neue-deutschsprachige-literatur/-/id=659892/did=24583128/nid=659892/1lryls6/index.html
  27. ↑ "You are a language fascist!" In: Volltext. Accessed July 31, 2020 .
  28. ↑ This is also confirmed by Maus : Stefan Maus: Das Oktopus-Opus. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. November 1, 2001.
  29. ↑ Lothar Glauch: From Argonauts to Infonauts. The cyber novel as an interface. In: Marabout.de (September 2003)
  30. ↑ Alban N. Herbst: The shell earth of dreams. DLF 1997, online as typescript (pdf)
  31. ↑ Passionately angry with the light or The forgotten poetry of Carl Johannes Verbeen , SWR2 RadioART: Feature on Sunday, April 30, 2006 ([http://www.swr.de/imperia/md/content/swr2/programm/2006/kw17swr2_neu .rtf program note] (link not available)), text version as PDF at www.die-dschungel.de: (PDF; 322 kB)
  32. ^ Wilhelm Kühlmann: On the mythological writing in the prose work of Alban Nikola Herbst. In: Euphorion, Zs. For the history of literature, 4/2003.
  33. ↑ Caspar Johannes Walter: Suddenly a lot becomes clear. First performance Éclat Stuttgart 1999; City images. World premiere at EXPO Hannover 2000.
  34. ↑ Robert HP Platz: Empty middle: Lilith. First performance Éclat Stuttgart 2005.
  35. ↑ Dear Karlheinz Stockhausen. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung. December 9, 2007.
  36. ↑ Alban Nikolai Herbst: https://dschungel-anderswelt.de/category/poetikzurmusik/
  37. ↑ ANH speaks day after day
  38. ↑ Ralf Schnell (Ed.): Panoramas of the other world, expeditions into the work of Alban Nikolai Herbst. with contributions by Hans Richard Brittnacher, Heinz Peter Preußer, Uwe Schütte. (= the hear 231). 2008.
  39. ↑ Small theory of literary blogging
  40. ^ A b Renate Giacomuzzi: The jungle. Anderswelt and AN Herbst's poetology of literary blogging. Innsbruck 2008.
  41. ↑ Small theory of literary blogging
  42. ↑ Never having bent down. (A gender discount) https://dschungel-anderswelt.de/?s=Sich+nie+gebeugt+zu+haben
  43. ↑ My Sea Adventure (I): From Ingolstadt to Nice. Old Jim Hawkins' travel journal for Saturday 7th May 2011. - See you in Nice! at 10.17 a.m. https://dschungel-anderswelt.de/20110508/meine-seeablebnis-i-von-ingolstadt-nach-nizza-des-aeltren-jim-hawkins-16605494/
  44. ↑ Communication from Heidelberg University: German Department of Heidelberg University ( Memento from April 19, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  45. ↑ The jungle. Otherworld
  46. ↑ Galerie Jesse - Edition Jesse. Galerie-jesse.de, accessed on September 13, 2010 .
  47. ↑ Cover letter: Alban Nikolai Herbst: Selzers singing. Begleitschreiben.net, accessed on September 13, 2010 .
  48. ↑ ARGO-ANDERSWELT in The New Jungle. Otherworld
personal data
SURNAME Herbst, Alban Nikolai
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ribbentrop, Alexander Michael von (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Bensberg