Werner Pieper

Werner Pieper (right) with Alex Gray on Albert Hofmann's 100th birthday in Basel

Werner Pieper (* 1948 in Meschede , pseudonym: Roland Rippchen , Hugo Hampel , Aki Kwiatkowski ) is a German author , columnist , publisher , psychonaut , drug advisor and ex - dealer .

Life

Meschede, Heidelberg, Odenwald

Pieper grew up in Dörnholthausen in the Sauerland , today part of the city of Sundern . In 1963 he suggested recognition of the GDR during his school days . In 1967 he refused military service . He did alternative service in Heidelberg , saw himself as a drug advisor and dealt psychoactive herbs and substances . During this time he traveled to Formentera , Isle of Wight , Crete and Stromboli . In 1967 he took part in the Easter March in London . He financed his stay in London with blood donations and petty crime . Howard Marks , according to the first was LP of Pink Floyd The Piper at the Gates of Dawn named after Werner Pieper.

From the late 1960 's until today Werner Pieper is an integral part of the scene in Heidelberg . He organized concerts and counted among his friends the members of the rock and folk groups The Petards , Guru Guru , Man , Elster Silberflug and others. a. He organizes the first rock concert in Heidelberg with the English band Quintessence in the Heidelberg Church of the Holy Spirit . Hans "Pardon" Nikel on The Green Power :

“That was the time of the flower children [...] Even today there is a publisher, Werner Pieper, a very crazy chicken. He has a very small publisher in the Odenwald. I like to think of him because he stayed what the idea was back then. That you do not completely go into the consumption swamp [...] "

1971 Werner Pieper founded the dealer MLA Green help , since 1972 he gave the COMPOST - and from 1979, the HUMUS - magazine out that in the subculture , the counterculture and the alternative movement became standard literature. In the early 1980s, Pieper, under the pseudonym Roland Rippchen , was a taz -drugs columnist for 64 weeks with the column KPD Herbs, Pills, Drugs . A break as a shepherd in the Odenwald followed . In 2008, Roger Willemsen marked Piepers Output - 350 print publications, one hundred Hempel stamps, 170 transmitter cassettes and CDs, etc. v. a. - as Pieperiana .

As an author and editor, he wrote more than 60 books and also published 200 books. His authors included u. a: Heathcote Williams , Albert Hofmann , Ernst Bornemann , Daniel Kulla , Micky Remann , Wolfgang Neuss , Luisa Francia , Christian Rätsch and Ulrich Holbein .

He lives in Löhrbach in the Odenwald.

Publishing activity in Löhrbach

Werner Pieper has been running one of Germany's best-known independent media companies in Löhrbach near Weinheim since 1973 , which was founded in Heidelberg in 1971 as Die Grüne Kraft , and in the 1980s - so as not to be confused with the "Greens" - became known as MedienXperimente and today is called Werner Pieper & The Grüne Kraft .

In 1996 Werner Pieper organized the 1st International Conference on the Victims of War-on-Drugs in Heidelberg together with John Beresford . The guests included u. a. Albert Hofmann, Alexander Shulgin , Eva-Maria Gorig and Ralph Metzner . Follow-up conferences were held in London and Toronto . The result of the conference was a. the manifestation of the Heidelberg Declaration calling for an end to the “war on drugs”, which is actually a campaign against people.

The Werner Piepers publishing house published the first publications on topics such as natural food , Indian culture , geomancy , juggling, as well as the German-language first editions by authors of the American psychedelic movement such as Timothy Leary, John C. Lilly and Terence McKenna in the series Der Grüne Zweig . Also moved in the Pieper Edition noise customer more critical than 80 and enlightening books to psychedelia as LSD , MDMA , psilocybin and psychoactive cacti - and treatises on drug policy and history such. B. the two volumes Nazis on Speed ​​- Drugs in the 3rd Reich . Wener Pieper calls for a ban on incense in churches under the pseudonym R. R.

The publisher also focuses on local history books about the Heidelberg region ( Mark Twain: An American in Heidelberg , Heidelberg - Zur Zero Hour 1945 ) as well as non-fiction books on topics that are rarely or only later taken up by large publishers. For example the hacking bibles of the Chaos Computer Club , music and censorship , taboo topics such as masturbation or circumcision as well as internal and external travel reports ( trance ).

Das Scheißbuch , a collection of articles and quotes on the subject of faeces , which was also presented to the public for the first time in a television program by Jürgen von der Lippe , achieved popularity in the 1980s . For the six Flashbacks CDs that he compiled , he received the annual German Record Critics' Award in 2001 as a pop archaeologist . In 2007 everything seemed possible ... - a collection of 60 sixty-year-olds about the 1960s and what became of them ...

In the summer of 2008 he published a brochure in memory of Albert Hofmann : In permanent bond .

On September 19, 2008, hr2-kultur broadcast a one-hour conversation with Pieper in the series Doppel-Kopf.

On May 4, 2014 Pieper was made an honorary member of the Chaos Computer Club .

In the meantime he has finished working on Edition RauschKunde and has given the co-authors of SentoVision .

Some important publications

editor

• The shit book (= The Green Branch. 123). ISBN 978-3-925817-23-6 .
• with Jean Trouillet: WeltBeat (= The Green Branch. 132). ISBN 978-3-925817-32-8 .
• with Heathcote Williams: From the foreskin files (= Green Branch. 128). ISBN 978-3-925817-28-1 .
• as editor: Nazis On Speed. Drugs in the Third Reich (= Edition Rauschkunde 53 and 57, 2 volumes). ISBN 978-3-930442-53-9 and ISBN 978-3-930442-54-6 .
• as publisher: Ostracized - Banished - Prohibited, music and censorship worldwide (= Green Branch. 206). ISBN 978-3-922708-06-3 ).
• as editor: Welcome! The manual for a multicultural society (= Green Branch. 166). ISBN 978-3-925817-66-3 .
• as editor: Resist yourself! The book of actions (= green branch. 137). ISBN 978-3-925817-37-3 .
• The sugar book (= green branch. 248). ISBN 978-3-922708-51-3 .
• The 13 lives of Heinrich LÜBKE (= Green Branch. 240). ISBN 978-3-922708-22-3 .
• with Toubab Pippa: From the wickedness in the heart of the people, about the colonial history of Namibia (= Green Branch. 246). ISBN 978-3-922708-31-5 .
• Everything seemed possible ... (= green branch. 252). ISBN 978-3-925817-52-6 .
• Peace be with me (& you) - die for yourself instead of being died (= green branch. 261). ISBN 978-3-922708-45-2 .
• Understand Haiti better (= Green Branch. 270). ISBN 978-3-930442-42-3 .
• 6 flashback CDs; by topic - e.g. B. "Hitler & Hell" - assorted early US pop music; appeared both on transmitter and on the Trikont label.
• Mensch, Denk Mal - On the history of war memorials (= Green Branch. 275). ISBN 978-3-930442-75-1 .
• Fireflies (= green branch. 277). ISBN 978-3-930442-77-5 .
• Further! - A hike in and through the Dt. Autumn 1977 (= Green Branch. 291). ISBN 978-3-930442-91-1 .

Under the name of Ronald Rippchen

• The Evil Bible Book - Sex, Horror and Drugs in the Bible (= Green Branch. 145). ISBN 978-3-925817-45-8 .
• Cheerful next. - his collected TAZ columns, The Green Branch.
• with Karl Kockroatsch: The German cockroach (= green branch. 175). ISBN 978-3-925817-75-5 .
• Juggling made easy (Der Grüne Zweig 74). ISBN 978-3-922708-74-2 .
• as editor: What? To do! - 1. Help tips for drug problems (= green branch. 251). ISBN 978-3-922708-60-5 .
• Operation Enlightenment - 60 years of LSD experiments (= Green Branch. 273). ISBN 978-3-930442-59-1 ).

publisher

• Ka-Tzetnik 135633 : Shivitti (= green branch. 250). ISBN 978-3-922708-50-6 .
• Sigrid Standow (Hrsg.): A lüderliches Leben: Portrait of an Unadjusted; Festschrift for Ernest Borneman for his eightieth birthday (= Green Branch. 179). ISBN 3-925817-79-4 .
• Sylvia McIntosh : Complete instructions for building a TIPI (= Green Branch. 226). ISBN 978-3-922708-41-4 .
• Helen Keller : My world (= green branch. 116). ISBN 978-3-925817-16-8 .
• Edard Rowan : Shamelessly by hand - masturbation (= green branch. 219). ISBN 978-3-922708-37-7 .
• Frank Fuchs : Phyto-Inhalation (= Green Branch. 218). ISBN 978-3-922708-36-0 .
• Gereon Janzing : Multilingual drug dictionary (Edition Rauschkunde 73). ISBN 978-3-930442-73-7 .
• Wolfgang Neuss, Ronald Steckel : The Wall (audio book CD) - The largest wall newspaper in the world (= Green Branch. 244). ISBN 978-3-922708-61-2 .
• Michael Ventura : From Voodoo to Walkman - The History of Rock Music (= Green Branch. 134). ISBN 978-3-925817-34-2 .
• Paul Williams : That great rock'n'roll feeling (= Green Branch. 191). ISBN 978-3-925817-91-5 .
• Timothy Leary : Neurologic. (The Green Branch 39). ISBN 978-3-922708-39-1 .
• Albert Hofmann : Natural science & mystical world experience (= green branch. 150). ISBN 978-3-925817-50-2 .
• Moritz R : Pop Catalog No. 1 (= Green Branch. 197). ISBN 978-3-925817-97-7 .
• Bert Marco Schuldes : Psychoactive plants (= green branch. 164). ISBN 978-3-925817-64-9 .
• Daniel Kulla : The phrase checker. Scenes from the life of Wau Holland , co-founder of the Chaos Computer Club (= Green Branch. 241). ISBN 978-3-922708-25-4 .
• Bob Black : The Abolition of Labor (= Green Branch. 242). ISBN 978-3-922708-04-9 .
• Micky Remann : Solar Perplexus (= green branch. 112). ISBN 978-3-925817-12-0 .
• Dennis Wier : Trance - From Magic to Technology (= Green Branch. 207). ISBN 978-3-922708-17-9 .
• Jochen Gartz : Chemical warfare agents - Death came from Germany (= Green Branch. 243). ISBN 978-3-922708-28-5 .
• Bert Marco Schuldes, Sam Lanceata: The mushroom cultivation book (= Edition RauschKunde. 38). ISBN 978-3-930442-38-6 .
• Falko Hennig : Springfield on trip - drugs, madness and hallucinations in the Simpsons (= Edition RauschKunde. 72). ISBN 978-3-930442-38-6 .
• Chaos Computer Club : The Hacker Bible - "Cable salad is healthy" (= Green Branch. 98). ISBN 3-922708-98-6 .

• Several books each by Timothy Leary (6), Ulrich Holbein (5), Micky Remann (5), Luisa Francia (5), Ronald Rippchen (7) ...

Web links

• Green Kraft Verlag catalog
• GrünKraftBlog
• Werner Pieper . In: Erowid . (English)
• Literature by and about Werner Pieper in the catalog of the German National Library
• Lecture at the 23rd Chaos Communication Congress (23c3)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Ulrich Holbein: Narratorium. 255 images of life. Ammann Verlag , Zurich 2008, ISBN 978-3-250-10523-7 . P. 749 f
2. ↑ hr2 double head ( memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . www.podster.de. Retrieved May 6, 2015. 
3. ↑ Press release of the CCC . www.ccc.de. Retrieved March 12, 2017