Thomas Nöske

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Thomas Nöske (* 1969 in Bottrop ) is a German author and cultural critic . He is a co-founder and one of the protagonists of the social beat .

Life

Thomas Nöske grew up in Göttingen and made his first science fiction films on Super 8 as a child . The first crime stories followed later. After completing his school education, he studied social work , sociology and psychology . In 1991 he founded the literary magazine HOKAHE in Göttingen . In 1992 Nöske went to Berlin . He participated in various left-alternative forms of life such as rural flat shares , squatting and collective projects . Nöske was primarily involved in the literary scene in the 1990s and became an activist and theorist of the literary underground , particularly in his adopted home of Berlin .

In 1993 Nöske, together with Jörg André Dahlmeyer and others, organized the Berlin literary festival “ Kill the Monkey ”, for which Nöske and Dahlmeyer coined the catchphrase of the social beat based on the American Beat Generation , Charles Bukowski and modern French authors . The term became used to denote a rapidly developing alternative literary scene in the 1990s. Readings and festivals took place in many places across Germany, in which well-known authors as well as hobby writers participated and Nöske took part in a variety of ways. Nöske was also co-organizer of the second Berlin Social Beat Festival, which took place in 1994 under the motto “ The monkey strikes back ”. He published regularly in various magazines and fanzines and was also co-editor of the youth culture magazine Orange Agenten and the culture magazine Molli - magazine for contemporary criticism & committed literature . The social beat movement then merged with the slam poetry scene , which was developing in parallel, and subsided again at the end of the 1990s.

Nöske published numerous publications on topics of art, pop culture, alternative literature, critical theory, Niklas Luhmann's system theory and science fiction. In particular, he dealt with the reflection of culture and cultural politics in connection with negative-utopian intentions . Nöske received some attention with his non-fiction book Clockwell Orwell , in which he dealt critically with the “cultural reality of negative utopian science fiction” (also the subtitle of the book). The book was published in 1997 by Unrast Verlag in Münster . In 1996, Nöske's video production Irrlichter der Großstadt was made , which was heavily influenced by his work on Clockwork Orwell .

Since the early 2000s, Nöske has mainly published articles critical of culture and has participated in several anthologies. For example, he contributed to the anthology Film: riss, edited by Willi Bischof in 2005 . Studies on the film " Der Untergang " in an essay and was involved in the documentation on Helmut Salzinger's former cult literary magazine FALK (1984-87), which was published in 2007 by Caroline Hartge and Ralf Zühlke under the title querFALK .

Thomas Nöske lives in Berlin.

Works

Fiction / poetry

  • My life with Kittekat. Narrative. With photographs by Jörn Morisse. Bunte Raben Verlag , Lintig-Meckelstedt 1996, ISBN 3-9804214-0-6 .
  • together with HEL : Pop-Shamanism (=  Minotaur Book, No. 001 ). Edition Minotaurus of the Vevais Gallery published by Klaus Bielefeld Verlag , Friedland 1999, ISBN 3-932325-99-0 .
  • Comix 2000 . With drawings by Theo Köppen . Edited by Alexander Scholz . Edition Minotaurus, Cottbus 2000, DNB 965207218 (=  series of lyrical philosophy ).
  • together with Thomas Stemmer: Fundstücke. Collected and commented. Self-published by Thomas Nöske, Berlin 2007; also: self-published by Thomas Stemmer, Seville (Spain) 2007.

Non-fiction book on cultural criticism

  • Clockwork Orwell. About the cultural reality of negative utopian science fiction. 1st edition. Unrast Verlag , Münster 1997, ISBN 3-928300-70-9 ( review (PDF, 448 kB) by Hanna Behrend in the magazine Utopie Kreativ , issue No. 90, April 1998, pp. 82-83).

Video film

  • Wisps of the big city. 1996.

Online texts

  • How the computer scientists programmed the platonic ideas ... Prose article from July 19, 2001 in the Swiss online fanzine Untergrund Blättle ( online at www.untergrund-blättle.ch).

literature

  • Hadayatullah Hübsch (Ed.): Social beat D. Edition Druckhaus Galrev , Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-910161-60-X ( online : Wie, what social beat is and why and why not. Introduction by Hadayatullah Hübsch; on: www. planetlyrik.de).
  • Michael Schönauer, Joachim Schönauer (Eds.): Social Beat. Slam! Poetry / Band 1. The extra-literary opposition speaks out. Killroy Media , Asperg 1997, ISBN 3-931140-11-3 (German / English; also contains a text by Thomas Nöske).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c See information on (co-) author Thomas Nöske in: Willi Bischof (Ed.): Film: riss. Studies on the film "The Downfall" . Unrast Verlag , Münster 2005, ISBN 3-89771-435-3 , p. 27.
  2. ↑ a b c See information on Thomas Nöske at Unrast Verlag , Münster; accessed on February 17, 2014.
  3. ↑ Heinz Ludwig Arnold , Jörgen Schäfer (Ed.): Pop-Literatur (=  text + criticism / special volume ). edition text + kritik , Munich 2003, ISBN 3-88377-735-8 , p. 263 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Nöske, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author and cultural critic
DATE OF BIRTH 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Bottrop