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Thomas Meinecke

1955, Hamburg, DE Lives in Munich, DE

Aquatic Invasion, 2008 Text

FORTEZZA/FRANZENSFESTE

Thomas Meinecke is a writer whose numerous novels and stories published since 1986 by Suhrkamp Verlag have helped to make him a leading figure in contemporary German literature. As a musician, his new work includes a recently released album with his band F.S.K. on Daniel Richter’s Buback Label, collaborations with Move D., and solo projects as the one on the Clicks and Cuts compilation (Mille Plateaux label). Moreover, he is a dj who regularly performs in urban nightclubs, with his own show broadcast by Bayerischer Rundfunk. For Scenarios , Thomas Meinecke contributes the text AQUATIC INVASION . He lives in a Bavarian village with his wife Michaela Melián and their daughter Juno. Focusing on the threatening undertones of the afro-futuristic Diaspora related to scenarios that occurred in relation to Detroit Techno in the 1990s, he describes the archetype of the imagined threat of the other, in the same way as it has been crucial for the foundation of the fortress system of Fortezza / Franzensfeste.


Location

FORTEZZA/FRANZENSFESTE

ADAM BUDAK, ANSELM FRANKE/HILA PELEG, RAQS MEDIA COLLECTIVE: "SCENARIOS"

FORTE ASBURGICO, EISACKTAL/VALLE ISARCO,
FRANZENSFESTE/FORTEZZA, ITALY

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