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Diedrich Diederichsen

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Born: August 14 1957

Diedrich Diederichse is a German author, music journalist and cultural critic. He is one of Germany′s most renowned intellectual writers at the crossroads of the arts, politics, and pop culture.

Diedrich Diederichsen was born and grew up in Hamburg where he worked as a music journalist and editor of the German Sounds magazine in the heyday of punk and new wave from 1979 to 1983. Until the 1990s he was then the editor-in-chief of the influential subculture magazine Spex in Cologne. Diederichsen worked as visiting professor in Frankfurt am Main, Stuttgart, Pasadena, Offenbach am Main, Gießen, Weimar, Bremen, Vienna, St. Louis, Cologne, Los Angeles and Gainesville. After teaching at the Merz Academy in Stuttgart for several years, he became Professor for Theory, Practice and Communication of Contemporary Art at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in 2006.

Diedrich Diederichsen is a prolific writer whose articles and texts are printed in a variety of periodicals and publications. Newspapers and magazines with contributions by Diedrich Diederichsen include Texte zur Kunst, Die Zeit, die tageszeitung, Der Tagesspiegel, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Theater heute, Artscribe, Artforum, and Frieze.

With his thinking and his attitude Diedrich Diederichsen reflects a multitude of influences. His writing shows traces of Post-structuralism, Marxism, Cultural studies, New Journalism, Beat literature, Psychoanalysis, and Situationism. A main topic of his writing is the tension between subjectivity, identity politics, and culture industry in Post-Fordist society. In his writings he frequently refers to personal experiences and the links between zeitgeist, biography, and history.

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Books from Diedrich Diederichsen

Are You Working Too Much? Post-Fordism, Precarity, and the Labor of Art

Kein falsches Wort jetzt: Gespräche

Eigenblutdoping: Selbstverwertung, Künstlerromantik, Partizipation

Sexbeat

Bruce Conner: It's All True

Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967

The Sopranos (booklet)

Politische Korrekturen

Matthew Barney: River of Fundament

Über Pop-Musik

The Whole Earth - California And The Disappearance Of The Outside

Personas En Loop

Isa Genzken

Musikzimmer: Avantgarde und Alltag

Brilliant Dilletantes: Subculture in Germany in the 1980s

On (Surplus) Value in Art

Annotated Catalogue Raisonné of the Books by Martin Kippenberger 1977-1997

Mike Kelley: Educational Complex Onwards 1995-2008

The Eighth Square: Gender, Life and Desire in Art Since 1960 / Das achte Feld: Geschlechter, Leben und Begehren in der Kunst seit 1960

Marcel Van Eeden. Tekeningen Zeichnungen Drawings Dibujos 1993 2003