Jürgen Teipel

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Jürgen Teipel (born July 29, 1961 in Kulmbach ) is a German writer . After completing his training in the public service, he started organizing concerts (including Malaria ! , Abwärts , The Wirtschaftswunder , Die Toten Hosen ), performances, exhibitions and film evenings from 1980 . He was also the owner of a recording studio, DJ , tour guide, musician and projectionist.

Teipel was the editor of the Regensburg fanzine Marionett , which is how he got into writing. From 1988 to 2001 he was a freelance journalist and wrote a. a. for Spex , Tempo , Neue Zürcher Zeitung , Rolling Stone , Spiegel and Die Zeit .

In 2001 he published Verschwende Deine Jugend , a documentary novel about the punk and new wave movement in Germany. The book became a best seller and a. as the trigger for the punk revival. After the publication of the double CD of the same name compiled by him and Frank Fenstermacher , he curated the exhibition “Back to Concrete” in 2002 together with Ulrike Groos and Peter Gorschlüter at the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf.

In 2010 he published a novel entitled I don't know about a techno DJ quartet that is touring Mexico together. In 2012 an expanded new edition of Verschwende Deine Jugend was published . In 2013 his book More than loud appeared about the zenith of DJ culture.

Inspired, among other things, by an encounter with a painting orangutan, in 2018 he published Our Unknown Family , a volume with 37 documentary stories about the coexistence of animals and humans.

Teipel has lived in Schondorf am Ammersee since 2017.

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  1. a b c Martin Bernstein: Out of the corset. Süddeutsche Zeitung , November 10, 2010, accessed on June 14, 2018 .
  2. Jürgen Teipel. Suhrkamp Verlag , accessed on June 14, 2018 .
  3. a b Carolin Fries: Animally good stories. Süddeutsche Zeitung, May 6, 2018, accessed on June 14, 2018 .
  4. Dietrich Roeschmann: From punk to techno: Jürgen Teipel's novel 'I don't know'. Badische Zeitung , April 30, 2010, accessed on June 14, 2018 .
  5. Press reviews: Pop, Punk, Techno and Electro . Suhrkamp / Insel, accessed on June 14, 2018 .
  6. Sonja Zellmann: Author: We should respect animals like humans. Badische Zeitung, May 28, 2018, accessed on June 14, 2018 .
  7. Jürgen Teipel: Our unknown family - True stories of animals and people. Suhrkamp / Insel, 2018, accessed on June 14, 2018 .
  8. Katja Hachenberg: The 15th calf, a horse as a therapist and the joyful dances of a three-legged cat. literaturkritik.de , February 14, 2018, accessed June 14, 2018 .