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Rainald Goetz

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in Munich, Germany

May 24, 1954

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Rainald Maria Goetz is a German author, playwright and essayist.

After studying History and Medicine in Munich and earning a degree (PhD and M.D) in each, he soon concentrated on his writing.

With his first works, especially his novel "Irre" ("Insane"), published in 1983, he became a cult author for the intellectual left. To the delight of his fans and the dismay of some critics he mixed neo-expressionist writing with social realism in the vein of Alfred Döblin and the fast pace of British pop writers like Julie Burchill. During a televised literary tournament in 1983, Goetz slit his own forehead with a razor blade and let the blood run down his face until he finished reading.

Goetz made his name as an enthusiastic observer of media and pop c ...more

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	Rave 3.33 avg rating — 750 ratings — published 1998 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Insane by Rainald Goetz, Adrian Nathan West (Translator) 3.71 avg rating — 489 ratings — published 1983 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Abfall für alle 4.26 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 1999 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Prone in the prison of this question, Hell or salvation, fired incessantly from the neuronal network in the pallium cowering in the base of the skull, lying motionless or walking out of the question.”
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“The years. Dreadfully the years flowed off downstream. They came and went, and calmly and unspectacularly, unnoticeably performed their steady work of annihilation in people's lives. It turned to summer, winter came, and all at once the upcoming year was standing at the door.
Hey there! I want in. I want to destroy you.
Each. And every one of you.
So it did. The years spoke, but we heard nothing. We sat at our tables and talked, went on standing around, at the bars, at the doors to the clubs, and we just kept talking. On and on we carried on talking about the business. Nothing had changed, really, yet everything was different.
The interior of our minds had somehow gone bust.”
― Rainald Goetz, Rave

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“You couldn't get the text by just starting with the meaning, it had to be conceived differently, through prayer, through the endless iterative pronunciation of the words with the mouth, becoming as it were part of the words oneself by speaking.
'What?'
That was how the thought happened. That was how everyone always made it happen.”
― Rainald Goetz, Rave

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