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The term Beatnik was invented by Herb Caen of the San Francisco Chronicle for the members of the Beat Generation (direction of American literature after World War II , mainly during the 1950s to mid-1960s). The name is based on Sputnik, which was launched into space from the Soviet Union .

Symbols of this subculture are bebop and modern jazz and the constant preoccupation with literature ; a closely related term is that of the hipster .

Well-known Beatniks (selection)

Chet Baker (1929-1988) William S. Burroughs (1914-1997) Lucien Carr (1925-2005) Neal Cassady (1926-1968) Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919–) Robert Frank (1924-2019)

Werner Gilliam (1946–) Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997) Wizz Jones (1939-) Bob Kaufman (1925-1986) Jack Kerouac (1922-1969)

Tuli Kupferberg (1923-2010) Zekial Marko (1931-2008) Harold Norse (1916-2009) Charles Plymell (1935-) Gary Snyder (1930-)

literature

• Alan Bisbort: Beatniks. A guide to an American subculture . Greenwood Press, Santa Barbara, Calif. 2010. ISBN 978-0-313-36575-1 .
• David Meltzer: San Francisco Beat. Talking with the poets . City Lights Books, San Francisco 2001. ISBN 0-87286-379-4 .

Web links

Wiktionary: Beatnik  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

• The Beat Museum (English)