Funny van Money

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Funny van Money is a German cultural scientist and author .

life and work

Funny van Money (pseudonym) studied creative writing , cultural journalism and cultural studies with a focus on “cultural studies of the present” at the University of Hildesheim . Due to the lack of student loans -Promoting Money worked while studying as Tabledancerin .

Money processed the experiences with this part-time job in her first and autobiographical novel This is Niedersachsen and not Las Vegas, Honey . She proceeded with the ethnological method of participatory observation in order to understand the rules according to which table dance works in terms of culture. Money writes about table dancing from a feminist or post-feminist and sex-positive perspective. During the table dance work, Money analyzed the audience and their fellow dancers as well as the hierarchies and structures there. She describes the extent to which table dancers are reflected and break stereotypical figures when dancing. When describing table dance, she also plays with the voyeurism of the reading public. The whole thing is complemented by a love story between her character and a man from her village of origin who is skeptical of her work. Money evaluates table dance in her novel - since there would be no real life in the wrong - as the "wrong in the wrong" - "the inauthentic is pleasantly obvious." Again and again she inserts facts from the music industry, for example the information that Jennifer Lopez and Courtney Love once worked as tablet dancers.
Money wrote the book in a language that borrows from gonzo journalism .

The literary criticism valued Money's work for having avoided “two dangers of red-light literature”: She neither describes her character as a victim nor romanticizes her sex work as self-liberation and instinctual expression. With its ironic humor, this pop literature novel enables a critical perspective on society and can be compared with Irvine Welsh and Charles Bukowski .

Money successfully submitted her debut novel as a thesis for her studies. The blurb for the publication was written by the Hildesheim professor for cultural journalism Stephan Porombka .

In 2012, the photographer and film director Bruce LaBruce created a series of photos for which he staged Money as she dances on poles of no-stopping signs in Berlin's suburbs or as she holds plastic palms in dimly lit rooms.

Funny van Money lives in Berlin and in the foothills of the Alps.

Individual publications

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Sabine Schmidt: It's like behind the post office counter. In: Book Journal, September 10, 2012.
  2. ↑ a b Noemi Mihalovici: Naked and clever under plastic palms. In: Friday, October 10, 2012.
  3. ↑ a b Julia Prosinger: I don't judge anyone . In: Potsdam Latest News, August 25, 2012.
  4. ↑ a b Margarete Stokowski: Funny, how she dances and analyzes , in: taz, October 10, 2012.
  5. ^ A b Thomas Neumann: Pole dance as a cultural concept . In: literary criticism, review forum, December 12, 2012.
  6. ↑ Jan Füchtjohann: Cold rod, tender soul . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, August 28, 2012.
  7. ↑ Bruce LaBruce: Wondering ... Inappropriate Dressing and Undressing , In: VICE , August 28, 2012.
  8. ↑ Bruce LaBruce: Wondering ... Back in Berlin , In: Vice, April 12, 2012.
  9. ↑ Andreas Merkel: You Better Read That Fucking Book - author and table dancer Funny van Money about her life with books  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , in: Andy Warhol's Interview, June 2, 2014.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.interview.de  
  10. ↑ This is Lower Saxony and not Las Vegas, Honey, in: Universal Music website
  11. ↑ On a table dance tour through the republic . Publisher's website
personal data
SURNAME Money, funny van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cultural scientist and author
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century