{"id":7666,"date":"2012-01-25T05:30:03","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T09:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=7666"},"modified":"2012-01-26T09:13:16","modified_gmt":"2012-01-26T13:13:16","slug":"carl-weissner-1940-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/carl-weissner-1940-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Carl Weissner (1940-2012)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We hadn&#8217;t met in a number of years, though we would talk on the phone once or twice \u00a0yearly, me calling from wherever I was, Carl always from Mannheim. I had hopes that this coming summer I may stop in Mannheim for a visit, as I will be driving through Germany, but too late now \u2014 the news just came that Carl called it splitsville. An excellent writer (with unhappily too few books to his name) &amp; a superb translator, Carl started out as part of the cut-up internationale, translating William Burroughs, putting together his own cut-up novel, <em>The Braille Film<\/em> (for my money, the best cut-up work besides WSB), &amp; collaborating with several others, primarily the German\u00a0writers J\u00fcrgen Ploog &amp; J\u00f6rg Fauser, but also Claude P\u00e9lieu, Jan Herman &amp; myself, on cut-up texts &amp; radio dramas. Carl was also the translator of the complete Bob Dylan\u00a0oeuvre, of Zappa&#8217;s texts, of Nelson Algren, Allen\u00a0Ginsberg\u00a0&amp; others. In the early seventies Carl came across Charles Bukowski&#8217;s work,\u00a0became\u00a0his German agent, translator, &amp; confidant \u2014 in Germany it is often claimed that Buk&#8217;s world-wide fame was due to Weissner&#8217;s work, &amp; that the Euro-fame he gained was re-imported into the US. In the tv interview below (unhappily only understandable to German-speakers) he tells the wild story of Buk&#8217;s funeral \u2014 worth hearing, as is the rest of the interview. In 2010 he published his first german-language novel, called <em>Manhattan Muffdiver<\/em> (Milena Verlag) though in recent times he had been at work on a story recounting the last delirious weeks of Arthur Rimbaud dying in Marseille. Hopefully he managed to finish this &amp; we&#8217;ll get to read it. Travel well Carl.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/artmetropol.tv\/js\/embed.js.php?key=e40b2d2fee6fdf74a005&#038;width=480&#038;height=360\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We hadn&#8217;t met in a number of years, though we would talk on the phone once or twice \u00a0yearly, me calling from wherever I was, Carl always from Mannheim. I had hopes that this&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,76,1006],"tags":[1146],"class_list":["post-7666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature","category-obituaries","category-translator","tag-carl-weissner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7666"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7679,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7666\/revisions\/7679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}