Kai J. Sasse

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Kai J. Sasse (* 1959 in Kassel ; † March 10, 2012 in Hamburg ) was a German singer, songwriter, narrator and translator.

Life

After graduating from high school, Sasse became known as the singer of the punk band Wankers in his native Kassel . With Stephan Balkenhol and Peer Schröder , he published poems inspired by Dadaism and the American Beat Generation in 1976 in the magazine Schorli Morli . The issues, printed on a Spirit Carbon transfer printer , were secretly thrown into mailboxes in Kassel at night. In his early twenties he moved to Hamburg-Eimsbüttel and settled there permanently. At the end of the 1980s he co-founded and singer of the avand-garde hardcore punk band Hannibal Lecter Society in Hamburg .

The agnostic and anarchist studied American studies and worked as a translator. He translated Sara Craven's novel Rendezvous with a stranger .

The last years of his life were shaped by his commitment to the World Wide Fund For Nature in the marine protection project.

Works

Kai J. Sasse wrote song texts , prose and poems and published in the magazines Schorli Morli , Loose Blätter Sammlung , magazine for applied alphabet and art as well as in the opponent .

As the singer of the Hannibal Lecter Society , he wrote all the lyrics for the band. Texts that arose in spontaneous ecstatic improvisations and are characterized by fervent honesty.

stories

  • Kai J. Sasse: Reality trap . In memoriam Brigid O'Shaughnessy. Novella. (Ed. With Michael Schmidt, Tromsø, Norway). Wehrhahn Verlag , Hanover 2014.

Quote

“There is a kind of adult childhood dream. An area that is characterized by nothing other than that it is simply good. Not good as the antithesis of evil , that used to be. "

- From: Kai J.Sasse: Reality trap : Hanover, 2014

literature

  • Small Kassel Literature Lexicon , p. 742 f.

music

Singer and lyricist for the Hannibal Lecter Society

  • Album "Decade of porn" around 1989

https://soundcloud.com/buiard/sets/hannibal-lecter-society-decade-of-porn-01

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see actor and composer: Kai Sasse on "Kino ohne Talent", contains the exact date of death, accessed September 3, 2017
  2. ↑ Michael Kellner : North Hesse Beat. In: Karl-Heinz Nickel (Hrsg.): Literature of the region. Kassel 2007. p. 47.
  3. ↑ Stephan Balkenhol in an interview with Peter Elfert. Salon. Art Issue. Magazine for the Salzburg Festival 2014 , p. 154.
  4. ^ "Kai J. Sasse is a literary discovery", Spex , No. 355 (September 2014), p. 17.
personal data
SURNAME Sasse, Kai J.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet, singer, lyricist, translator
DATE OF BIRTH 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel
DATE OF DEATH March 10, 2012
Place of death Hamburg