Klaus Bittermann

Klaus Bittermann (born April 8, 1952 in Kulmbach ), also known under the pseudonym Artur Cravan , is a German journalist , writer and publisher . He lives in Berlin .

Life

Klaus Bittermann moved to Nuremberg in the early 1970s to study philosophy , sociology and political science at the University of Erlangen . Even as a student he worked as a book producer. He initially published libertarian "classics", e.g. B. in the series "Collection under the hand" Étienne de La Boétie's writing On the voluntary servitude .

He has been running Edition Tiamat since 1979 , initially in Nuremberg and from 1981 in Berlin. He also writes as a satirist a. a. for the taz , the young world and the critical diary of the WDR . In the festival hall in Kreuzberg , he organized the reading stage Club of the Last Righteous . He is the editor of numerous anthologies, a. a. the satirical who's who of embarrassing people . He wrote a Berlin crime trilogy under the pseudonym “Artur Cravan”. He wrote for Novo magazine . Since 1998 he has been writing the football column “Blutgrätsche” in the left-wing newspaper Junge Welt , where he proclaims “The Truth” every Monday about the day of the Bundesliga match. Bittermann is an avowed fan of Borussia Dortmund .

Fonts

• The work of displacement. In: The old traffic regulations. RAF documents . With contributions by Wolfgang Pohrt , Klaus Hartung , Gabriele Goettle , Joachim Bruhn , Karl Heinz Roth , K. Bittermann Edition Tiamat , Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-923118-06-6 , pp. 199–212.
• The dying of the phantoms. Crime and the Public. Berlin 1988.
• As editor: Together we are unbearable. Reunification and its consequences. Edition Tiamat, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-923118-42-2 (= Critica diabolis , volume 27).
• Wrong driver of the unit. Comments on the reunification crisis. Berlin - Amsterdam 1995.
• History flotsam. Munich 2001, ISBN 3-923646-78-X .
• Still all the pigs in the race? Mainz 2001, ISBN 3-930559-74-9 .
• In Schlucken-Zwei-Spechte ( Harry Rowohlt tells Ralf Sotscheck his life from the cradle to the bend). Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-89320-053-3 .
• The Crazy Never Die. American rebels in popular culture. Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-89320-153-2 .
• als (Ed.): The dictionary of the do-gooders . Affliction jargon and kitsch of opinion. Munich 1998, ISBN 3-492-22695-7 .
• as (Ed.): It's a Zoni. Ten years of reunification. The Ossis as a burden and a nuisance. Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-89320-026-6 .
• als (Hrsg.): Literature as torment and gequalle. About the cultural company intriguer Günter Grass . Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-89320-108-2 .
• The uprising of the cuddly toys. Haffmans Verlag at two thousand and one, 2007, ISBN 978-3-86150-800-7 .
• as editor: Unter Zonis: Twenty years are now slowly enough again. A review. Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-89320-137-2 .
• The Crazy Never Die. American rebels in popular culture. Edition Tiamat / Verlag Klaus Bittermann, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-89320-153-2 .
• Furniture at home but no money for alcohol. Kreuzberg scenes. Edition Tiamat, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-89320-159-4 .
• Everything is chic in Kreuzberg: among tourists, bums, gentrified people , Edition Tiamat, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-89320-182-2 (= Critica diabolis , volume 213 - incorrectly referred to as volume 212 of the series).
• Sid Schlebrowski's short summer of anarchy and his search for happiness , Edition Tiamat, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-89320-211-9 .
• Some of my best friends and enemies , Edition Tiamat, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-89320-249-2 .

Audio book

• Harry Rowohlt and Klaus Bittermann read from “Alles schick in Kreuzberg” and “Furniture at home, but no money for alcohol”, Edition Tiamat / Verlag Klaus Bittermann, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-89320-184-6 , 2 CD, 140 min.

Web links

• Literature by and about Klaus Bittermann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Verlag Klaus Bittermann Edition Tiamat
• Short biography and reviews of works by Klaus Bittermann at perlentaucher.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://www.novo-argumente.com/autor/bittermann_klaus
2. ↑ Why are you here. Junge Welt , June 24, 2006, accessed November 13, 2016 .