Rolf Dieter Brinkmann

The writer and poet Rolf Dieter Brinkmann (1940–1975) wrote in a style «radically obsessed with the present» (Eckhard Schumacher) and opposed the German literary market of the 1960s. In his poems and prose (for example «Westwärts 1 & 2,» published 1975, and «Der Film in Worten,» published 1982) he intensifies and expresses in collages how pop music, movies, cities, and contemporary everyday culture are received. He also edited anthologies with translations of American Beat-Generation literature: «Acid. Neue amerikanische Szene» (1969, in collaboration with Ralf-Rainer Rygulla) and «Silverscreen. Neue amerikanische Lyrik» (1969). Since a few years, his texts for radio broadcasts, poems, prose, and unpublished works have all been reissued in the volumes entitled «Material» (which include «Rom, Blicke,» 1979).