The writer Thomas Meinecke and the theoretician Klaus Theweleit appear as a dual scanning system. They play disks and, on the basis of the music, they develop their theses on the modes of writing and individual production. "Instrumental music promises something which represents a Nirvana, a promise of happiness for writers. How great it would be to be able to tell a story without the all the ballast. Learning from Techno or House how to write" (Thomas Meinecke).
Sound media are like letters "part of the revolution of the news industry, of which poetry became a constituent part in the 20^th century: Results of the revolution in recording technologies which manifested itself, for example, in political terms in the blanket bugging and recording of all ‘interesting’ areas of the lives of the subjects concerned" (Klaus Theweleit).

For both authors music was always a means of recognition, Bob Dylan songs for one, Drexciya tracks for the other. Their own texts come from other texts, writing is like putting on records. But how does the foreign material become your own? Do disks work as soundtracks of identity?

Thomas Meinecke
author, musician, dj, BR radio host

Klaus Theweleit
author, free jazzer, teaches sociology at the University of Freiburg

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