Udo Breger

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Udo Breger (* 1941 in Göttingen ) is a German translator and publisher.

Life

Udo Breger studied English and Romance languages ​​at the University of Göttingen from 1964 to 1971 . Between 1968 and 1975 he published and organized projects with Ian Hamilton Finlay , Joseph Beuys , Timm Ulrichs , Allen Ginsberg , Brion Gysin and William S. Burroughs as part of his publishing house for concept art and authors of the Beat Generation (Expanded Media Editions) . In the mid-1970s he translated the Illuminatus trilogy of novels published by Sphinx Verlag ( Basel ) ! by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson .

Breger has worked as a translator and publicist in Basel since 1977 and has translated books and texts by John Lilly , Alan Watts , Walt Whitman , Rudy Rucker , Thorne Smith for various publishers. During his stay in the USA between 1978 and 1992, he met Albert Hofmann , Andy Warhol and Richard Buckminster Fuller, among others . He worked as a translator for Robert Wilson's The Black Rider , which premiered in 1990 at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg. Udo Breger now lives in Basel, his adopted home.

Publications

  • Michael Badura, Udo Breger, Reinhard Rock, Friedemann Singer (picture documentation): Concepts of a new art , exhibition at the Göttingen Municipal Museum, Jan. – Apr. 1970, Udo Breger, Göttingen, 1970
  • Udo Breger: Making Off With the Goldfish , Udo Breger, Göttingen, 1974. [12] p. Shark editions , No. 1.
  • Udo Breger: Poem for a Rock N 'Roll Girl . [1] Bl. Expanded Media Editions, Göttingen 1973 or 1974. Broadsheet.
  • Udo Breger: MMM - Cutting Off the Roots, prose and photos , Udo Breger, Göttingen, 1975. Shark editions , No. 8.
  • Udo Breger, Pawel Lucki: Tiara to Artist of Polish Descent , Blue Sweat Press, Gothenburg, 1976
  • Udo Breger: Identity Express , Chaos Press, Melano, 1979
  • Udo Breger: February 23, 1988 , Peter Engstler, Oberwaldbehrungen i. Ostheim / Rhön, 1989
  • Udo Breger: The rocket mountain. Kohnstein , Dora and V2 , Peter Engstler, Oberwaldbehrungen i. Ostheim / Rhön, 1992.
  • Udo Breger: With ashes in the luggage to Tangier. In: Florian Vetsch & Boris Kerenski (eds.): Tanger Telegram. Journey through the literatures of a legendary Moroccan city. bilgerverlag , Zurich 2004/2017

Publications by Udo Breger have been published in the Basler Zeitung , Weltwoche, as well as in literary magazines and art catalogs in Switzerland and the Federal Republic of Germany , for example in the periodical Trompete , Theo Köppen , Peer Schröder , Katja Töpfer (eds.).

Translations

Udo Breger has translated texts from various authors into German for his publishing house Expanded Media Editions and for AQ , Sphinx , Fischer Taschenbuch , Eichborn , Eco Zürich, Rogner & Bernhard and Steidl (Göttingen).

  • Gerard Malanga , Light. Licht , Expanded Media Editions, Göttingen, 1973
  • Franco Beltrametti , Another earthquake , night machine, Zurich ( Matthyas Jenny ), 1978
  • William S. Burroughs , The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. The four apocalyptic horsemen , Expanded Media Editions, Bonn, 1984
  • William S. Burroughs, The Cat Inside , Berlin: Druckhaus Galrev, 1994 (with Esther Breger)
  • Brion Gysin , wandering around, making prey, stories and information from Tangier , Janus Press, Berlin a. Munich, 1997 (with Esther Breger)
  • William Burroughs, Blade Runner. A film , Stadtlichter, Werzendorf 2016

As a publisher

Udo Breger publisher
  • Christoph Müller: Concepts workbook: the situation of the artistic claim . Breger, Göttingen 1970. 72 sheets.
  • Jürgen Ploog: The fucking machine: a contribution to cybernetic eroticism Breger, Göttingen 1970. [8] Bl.
  • Jochen Gerz : Spelling, ego & Breger, Göttingen 1970. [13] Bl.
  • Michael Badura (ed.): Concepts of a new art . Breger, Göttingen 1970. [195] p.
  • Timm Ulrichs : Television in close-up: Statistics of the television picture . Breger, Göttingen 1970. [102] p.
  • Unokanma Okonjo: The Impact of Urbanization on the Ibo Family Structure . Breger, Göttingen 1970, X, 307 S. Diss., Göttingen
  • Jörg Fauser : Aqua Lunge . Breger, Göttingen 1971. 36 pp.
  • Ian Hamilton Finlay : The Olsen Excerpts . Photographs by Diane Tammes. Breger, Göttingen 1971.
  • Ayaovi Mensah: Pan-Africanism or Economic Underdevelopment . Breger, Göttingen 1974. XXIV, 584 pp.
  • Christopher Roeber: Lima in view. Breger, Göttingen 1975. Shark editions , No. 6. 24 pp.
  • Jürgen Ploog: Stardate 23 . Breger, Göttingen, Cologne 1975. Shark editions , No. 7. 32 pp.
Expanded Media Editions.
  • Jörg Fauser, Jürgen Ploog, Carl Weissner (Eds.): UFO . Expanded Media Editions, Göttingen 1971, 1972. 3 issues published.
  • Dieter Hagenbach : A House, une maison, una casa, one house. A series by Dieter Hagenbach . Expanded Media Editions-Udo Breger, Göttingen 1971. [52] Bl.
  • William S. Burroughs: The Electronic Revolution . Expanded Media Editions, No. 1, Göttingen 1971.
  • William S. Burroughs: Ali's Smile . Expanded Media Editions, Göttingen 1973
  • Allen Ginsberg; Iron horse . Expanded Media Editions. Göttingen 1973
  • Sinclair Beiles: Deliria , Expanded Media Editions, No. 4, Göttingen 1973
  • Claude Pélieu, Mary Beach: Blue Bangh! . Expanded Media Editions, No. 5, Göttingen 1973. 38 pp.
  • Gerhard Malanga: Light / light . Expanded Media Editions, Göttingen 1973
  • Hammond Guthrie: Belfast Insert . [20] p. Expanded Media Editions, 1973
  • Bruno Demattio: Software Culture Is Coming . Expanded Media Editions, Göttingen 1973
  • Udo Breger, Silke Paull u. Erwin Stegentritt (Ed.), Cut Up. An anthology , AQ 14 , AQ-Verlag, Dudweiler 1973, np [92 pp.]. Format 18.5 × 24.5 cm. With contributions by William Bain, Mary Beach , Udo Breger, William S. Burroughs , Jörg Fauser , [Michael Gibbs?], Hammond Guthrie, Gerhard Hanak, Karl Kollmann, Chris Kolonah, David Mayor, Harold Norse , Jeff Nuttall (graphics), Claudé Pelieu , Jürgen Ploog , Chas Plymell , Kurt Stalter. With a cut-up check-up list from Carl Weissner .
  • Udo Breger, Chris Kolonah (Eds.): Soft Need , No. 8, Expanded Media Editions, Göttingen, September, 1973. 46 p. With contributions by Brion Gysin, Jürgen Ploog, William S. Burroughs, John Giorno, Hammond Guthrie, Biggi Bangert, Be-bop Martin et al. Ekku.
  • Soft Need , No. 9, Expanded Media Editions, Bonn u. Göteborg, Spring, 1976, 111 p. With contributions by Claude Pelieu, Charles Plymell , Brion Gysin, William S. Burroughs, John Giorno, Carl Weissner, Walter Hartmann, Jürgen Ploog, Udo Breger, William Bain, and others. v. a.
  • Soft Need , No. 17, Brion Gysin edition, Basel u. Paris, October 1977
  • Claude Pélieu: Amphetamine Cowboy . Expanded Media Editions, Bonn 1976.
  • Charles Plymell : Panic in Dodge City . Expanded Media Editions, Bonn 1981
  • Carl Laszlo : Holidays at the forest lake . Expanded Media Editions, Bonn 1981

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personal data
SURNAME Breger, Udo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German translator and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Goettingen