Clara Drechsler

Clara Drechsler (* June 1961 ) is a Cologne-based author and translator who played a key role in shaping German pop journalism in the 1980s .

Life

Clara Drechsler, fourth from left, amidst other founders of Spex magazine in August 1980

Drechsler wrote mainly for the music magazine Spex, which she co-founded in 1980, and for Miss Vogue . Her most important literary innovation was the invention of a style characterized by numerous seemingly trivialities and subjectivities, an innovation in the "interview" category, which she transformed into a kind of investigative journalism through radical accuracy. Her interviews with Slayer and the Suicidal Tendencies are considered milestones . In the early 1990s she left Spex and worked for Haffmans Verlag . Among other things, she translated Billy Childish , Bret Easton Ellis , Irvine Welsh and Nick Hornby into German.

Article (selection)

• Andreas Dorau. A man wants to go up (Spex 11/1982, pp. 18–19)
• Au Pairs. Dead but alive (Spex 10/1982, pp. 12–13)
• The Human League (Spex 3 + 4/1982, pp. 10-11)
• Crack. Then the magic cube bursts (Spex 1983, p. 29)
• Don't you have a hairdresser you can tell that? (Spex 1983)
• The wink men (Spex 4/1983, pp. 27-29)
• Paul Weller (Spex 5/1983, pp. 29–31)
• Style Council. Café Blur (Spex 1984, pp. 14-18)
• Sublime futility. Slayer (Spex 6/1987, pp. 16-18)
• Suicidal Tendencies (Spex 8/1987, pp. 22-24)
• Cheerful seriousness, meaningless meaning, world art! (Spex, 9/1991)

Translations (selection)

• Tara Isabella Burton : So beautiful lies (with Harald Hellmann) DuMont Buchverlag 2019, ISBN 978-3832183707 .
• Sam Byers: Beautiful New England (with Harald Hellmann) Tropen 2019, ISBN 978-3608504149 .
• Kurt Cobain : Diaries (with Harald Hellmann) Kiepenheuer & Witsch 2002, ISBN 978-3462031843 .
• Douglas Coupland : Generation A (with Harald Hellmann) Tropen 2010, ISBN 9783608501100 .
• Douglas Coupland: Bit Rot: Reports from the dissolving world (with Harald Hellmann) Blumenbar 2019, ISBN 978-3351050702 .
• Bret Easton Ellis : American Psycho (with Harald Hellmann) Kiepenheuer & Witsch 1991, ISBN 9783462021578 .
• Bret Easton Ellis: Lunar Park (with Harald Hellmann) Kiepenheuer & Witsch 2006, ISBN 9783462036541 .
• AM Homes : This book will save your life (with Harald Hellmann) Kiepenheuer & Witsch 2007, ISBN 9783462037678 .
• Nick Hornby : High Fidelity (with Harald Hellmann) Kiepenheuer & Witsch 1996, ISBN 9783462025248 .
• Nick Hornby: About a Boy (with Harald Hellmann) Kiepenheuer & Witsch 1998, ISBN 9783462027372 .
• Nick Hornby: A Long Way Down (with Harald Hellmann) Kiepenheuer & Witsch 2005, ISBN 9783462034554 .
• Nick Hornby: Slam (with Harald Hellmann) Kiepenheuer & Witsch 2008, ISBN 9783462039658 .
• Nick Hornby: Juliet, Naked (with Harald Hellmann) Kiepenheuer & Witsch 2009, ISBN 9783462041392 .
• Miranda July : Ten Truths (with Harald Hellmann) Kiepenheuer & Witsch 2016, ISBN 978-3462047691 .
• John Lydon : Anger is an Energy: Mein Leben uncensored (with Harald Hellmann and Werner Schmitz ) Heyne Verlag 2015, ISBN 978-3453269774 .
• Patti Smith : Just Kids (with Harald Hellmann) Kiepenheuer & Witsch 2010, ISBN 9783462042283 .
• Irvine Welsh : Drecksau (with Harald Hellmann) Kiepenheuer & Witsch 1999, ISBN 9783462028669 .
• Irvine Welsh: Porno (with Harald Hellmann) Kiepenheuer & Witsch 2004, ISBN 9783462034202 .

Literature about Clara Drechsler

• Clara Drechsler: Live sparingly - and cook according to a recipe . Interview with Diedrich Diederichsen . In: Spex 10/1995, pp. 56-59.
• Ralf Hinz: Clara Drechsler: Pop as idiosyncrasy . In: Ders .: Cultural Studies and Pop. On the critique of the judgment of academic and journalistic speeches about popular culture , Opladen, Wiesbaden 1998, pp. 236–246.

Web links

• Literature by and about Clara Drechsler in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Maren Volkmann, Thomas Hecken: Women and Pop Culture: Feminism, Cultural Studies, Contemporary Literature . In: Writings on Pop Culture . tape 6 . Posth Verlag, Bochum 2011, ISBN 978-3-9812987-7-2 , p. 341 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed January 8, 2017]).
2. ↑ It's all pop. Metrolit.de, accessed on January 8, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Twin Peaks Spex September 1991. March 8, 2015, accessed February 21, 2020 .