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For the Australian footballer, see Tim Mohr (footballer).

Tim Mohr (left) with Legs McNeil, 2018
Writers Klaus Stimeder (aka JM Stim) (left) and Tim Mohr (right) in Washington D.C. in October 2012 at a reading of JM Stim's book

Tim Mohr is a New York-based translator,[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10] writer,[11][12][13][14][15][16] and editor.[17]

Biography

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Mohr's narrative history of East German punk rock and the role the movement played in bringing down the Berlin Wall and in forming the culture of 21st century Berlin was published in German by Heyne[18] in March 2017 as Stirb nicht im Warteraum der Zukunft: Die ostdeutschen Punks und der Fall der Mauer and in English by Algonquin Books on 11 September 2018 as Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall.[19][20][11][21][22][23][24][25][26] Vogue magazine said the book was "a joy in the way it brings back punk's fury and high stakes",[27] while the Wall Street Journal wrote, "Mr. Mohr has written an important work of Cold War cultural history."[28] Rolling Stone called Burning Down the Haus "a thrilling and essential social history that details the rebellious youth movement that helped change the world,"[29] and named it a book of the year.[30] It was also listed as a book of the year by Rough Trade,[31] NPR music staff,[32] Longreads,[33] Bookpage,[34] Amazon,[35] and the Chicago Public Library;[36] the book was also long-listed for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction.[37]

As a literary translator, he has translated the German novels Guantanamo, by Dorothea Dieckmann (published in the U.S. by Soft Skull and in the U.K. by Duckworth), Wetlands and Wrecked by Charlotte Roche (both published in the U.S. by Grove/Atlantic and in the U.K. by 4th Estate), Broken Glass Park, The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine,[38] Just Call Me Superhero, Baba Dunja's Last Love, and My Grandmother's Braid by Alina Bronsky[39] (all published worldwide by Europa Editions), Tiger Milk by Stefanie de Velasco, The Second Rider, by Alex Beer,[40] and two novels by Wolfgang Herrndorf: Tschick, published in English as Why We Took the Car, and Sand.[41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][11]

Guantanamo was the recipient of the Three Percent award for best translation of 2007. The Hottest Dishes was named to Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2011 list[49] and the Los Angeles Public Library's Best Books of 2011,[50] and nominated for the 2013 IMPAC Dublin literary award.[51] Tiger Milk was also long-listed for the IMPAC Dublin award.[52]

A project Mohr was working on with Hunter S. Thompson at the time Thompson's death was published as the writer's final interview[53][54][55] in Playboy's May 2005 issue and later included in the book Ancient Gonzo Wisdom,[13] published by Da Capo.

Mohr collaborated[56] with original Guns N' Roses and Velvet Revolver bassist Duff McKagan on It's So Easy (and other lies), McKagan's memoir,[57] published in October, 2011. The Los Angeles Public Library included It's So Easy on its list of the best books of the year,[58] and the book was also named one of Amazon.com's "Best Books of 2011: Entertainment Section".[59] Mohr also edited[60][61][62] Gil Scott-Heron's posthumous memoir, The Last Holiday, which was published in January 2012.

In April 2014, KISS frontman Paul Stanley published Face the Music, a memoir he collaborated on with Mohr. The book peaked at number two on the New York Times Best Seller list.[63]

In June, 2021, Nonbinary, the memoir by Genesis P-Orridge, which Mohr collaborated on during P-Orridge's final years of life, was published a year after the death of the industrial music icon and cultural provocateur.[64][65][66]

References

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  1. ^ "Tim Mohr: Knietief im Glitschischleim – Tim Mohr, Feuchtgebiete, Charlotte Roche – Vanity Fair". Vanityfair.de. Archived from the original on 1 October 2011. Retrieved 21 October 2011.
  2. ^ "Guantanamo". Publishers Weekly. 2007. Archived from the original on 17 April 2015.
  3. ^ Michel Faber (21 June 2008). "Review: Guantánamo by Dorothea Dieckmann | Books". The Guardian. Retrieved 21 October 2011.
  4. ^ "Guantanamo". The New Yorker. 1 August 2011. Retrieved 21 October 2011.
  5. ^ Klingman, Jeff (15 August 2007). "Guantanamo: A Novel". The L Magazine. Retrieved 21 October 2011.
  6. ^ Manjoo, Farhad (3 April 2009). "Wetlands is the "2 Girls 1 Cup" of novels. – Slate Magazine". Slate.com. Retrieved 21 October 2011.
  7. ^ Tisdale, Sallie (16 April 2009). "Book Review – 'Wetlands,' by Charlotte Roche – Review". The New York Times. Retrieved 21 October 2011.
  8. ^ "Catalogue – Book – News and Reviews". Europaeditions. Retrieved 21 October 2011.
  9. ^ Fontaine, Nancy (26 April 2011). "Book Review: Broken Glass Park by Alina Bronsky". seattlepi.com. Retrieved 21 October 2011.
  10. ^ "Fiction Review: The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine by Alina Bronsky, trans. from the German by Tim Mohr". Publishers Weekly. 14 February 2011. Retrieved 21 October 2011.
  11. ^ a b c "Tim Mohr über DDR-Punks - "Schaff dir die Welt, in der du leben willst"". 22 March 2017.
  12. ^ "Tim Mohr". The Daily Beast. 8 November 2009. Retrieved 21 October 2011.
  13. ^ a b Loar, Christel (27 August 2009). "Ancient Gonzo Wisdom: Interviews with Hunter S. Thompson by Anita Thompson < PopMatters". Popmatters.com. Retrieved 21 October 2011.
  14. ^ Mohr, Tim (12 November 2010). "Book Review – The Box – By Günter Grass". The New York Times. Retrieved 21 October 2011.
  15. ^ Mohr, Tim (1 October 2010). "Book Review – Fame – A Novel in Nine Episodes – By Daniel Kehlmann". The New York Times. Germany. Retrieved 21 October 2011.
  16. ^ "Gibraltar: A British Outpost With a Sunny Latin Flavor". The New York Times. 18 December 2005.
  17. ^ Stolz, Kim (15 November 2007). "Duran Duran And Playboy Team Up To 'Rock The Rabbit,' Celebrate Band's 13th LP". MTV. Archived from the original on 22 July 2011. Retrieved 21 October 2011.
  18. ^ "Stirb nicht im Warteraum der Zukunft". RandomHouse.
  19. ^ "Stirb nicht im Warteraum der Zukunft -- Interview mit Tim Mohr". Sieben Zoll Musik. 22 November 2017.
  20. ^ "DDR-Punk und seine Rolle beim Fall der Berliner Mauer". 12 May 2017.
  21. ^ "Aktuelle Buch-Rezensionen". Faltershop.
  22. ^ Mohr, Tim (20 March 2017). Stirb nicht im Warteraum der Zukunft: Die ostdeutschen Punks und der Fall der Mauer. Wilhelm Heyne Verlag. ISBN 978-3-453-27127-2.
  23. ^ "Tom Schilling, Lesung mit Tim Mohr und Brezel Göring & 3-Minuten-Lesung". Flux FM. 21 April 2017.
  24. ^ "SZ-Online: Als die DDR-Jugend am Rad drehte". www.sz-online.de. Archived from the original on 20 April 2017.
  25. ^ Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall, amazon.com, accessed 2018-12-22.
  26. ^ Carroll, Tobias (11 September 2018). "How to Create the Underground in Times of Surveillance: On Tim Mohr's East German Punk History, Burning Down the Haus". Pitchfork.
  27. ^ "Looking for Something to Read? Here Are 4 New Books Vogue Editors Are Loving Right Now". 26 October 2018.
  28. ^ Green, Dominic (20 September 2018). "'Burning Down the Haus' Review: East German Punks". The Wall Street Journal.
  29. ^ Portwood, Jerry (17 September 2018). "How East German Punks Helped Destroy the Berlin Wall". Rolling Stone.
  30. ^ Jon Dolan; Kory Grow; Rob Sheffield; Andy Greene; Will Hermes (17 December 2018). "The Best Music Books of 2018". Rolling Stone.
  31. ^ "Books of the Year - 2018". Rough Trade.
  32. ^ "NPR Music Staff Picks: The Best Of 2018". NPR. 27 December 2018.
  33. ^ Snitzky, Dana (5 December 2018). "The Longreads 2018 Holiday Gift Book Guide". Longreads.
  34. ^ "Best Books of 2018: Fiction & Nonfiction". BookPage. December 2018.
  35. ^ "Best humor and entertainment books of 2018". Amazon.
  36. ^ "Best Books of 2018". Chicago Public Library.
  37. ^ "Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence". 18 October 2020.
  38. ^ "Alina Bronsky - Author of Broken Glass Park and The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine". Archived from the original on 10 April 2011.
  39. ^ "Interview with Alina Bronsky, author of "Broken Glass Park"". Words Without Borders. 12 May 2010. Retrieved 21 October 2011.
  40. ^ https://nbmagazine.co.uk/the-second-rider-by-alex-beer/ [bare URL]
  41. ^ Battersby, Eileen (8 April 2017). "Sand review: hold on to your hats – and stomachs". The Irish Times.
  42. ^ "Sand, by Wolfgang Herrndorf". Elle Thinks. 2 March 2017.
  43. ^ "From the Sea to the Night – but mainly in the Desert. A Review of Wolfgang Herrndorf's 'Sand'". Oxford German Network. 3 May 2017.
  44. ^ Quattlebaum, Mary (31 December 2013). "'Why We Took the Car,' by Wolfgang Herrndorf". The Washington Post.
  45. ^ "Children's Book Review: Why We Took The Car by Wolfgang Herrndorf, trans. from the German by Tim Mohr". PublishersWeekly.com. 7 January 2014.
  46. ^ Wolfgang Herrndorf. "WHY WE TOOK THE CAR". Kirkus Reviews.
  47. ^ "Why I Love Why We Took the Car". Kirkus Reviews.
  48. ^ Behrens, Peter (10 January 2014). "'The Scar Boys' and 'Why We Took the Car'". The New York Times.
  49. ^ "Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2011". Retrieved 23 November 2011.
  50. ^ "Los Angeles Public Library | LAPL Reads". Archived from the original on 19 January 2012. Retrieved 22 January 2012.
  51. ^ "154 books nominated for the 2013 Award | International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award". Archived from the original on 16 January 2013. Retrieved 23 November 2012.
  52. ^ "2016 Printable Longlist". International Dublin Literary Award 2016. Archived from the original on 24 November 2015.
  53. ^ "Hunter Thompson's Last Wish". CBS News. 11 February 2009. Retrieved 21 October 2011.
  54. ^ http://www.playboy.com/articles/hunter-s-thompson-postcards-from-the-proud-highway/index.html [dead link]
  55. ^ "Gonzo Fashion Explained". BlackBook. 24 November 2008. Retrieved 21 October 2011.
  56. ^ McKagan, Duff (25 March 2010). "And, Yes, I Got a Book Deal". Blogs.seattleweekly.com. Archived from the original on 30 October 2011. Retrieved 21 October 2011.
  57. ^ "Duff McKagan: Autobiography 'Not The Same Story'". Billboard. 14 September 2009. Retrieved 21 October 2011.
  58. ^ "L.A. Now". Los Angeles Times. 21 December 2011.
  59. ^ "Amazon.com's Best Books of 2011". Amazon. Retrieved 23 November 2011.
  60. ^ "Gil Scott-Heron Collaboration". Music of Our Heart.
  61. ^ "Gil Scott-Heron: The Last Holiday - A Memoir (Canongate)". Herald Scotland. 15 January 2012.
  62. ^ Klaus Stimeder. "Im Schatten von Riesen". Autoren - Wiener Zeitung Online.
  63. ^ "Paul Stanley's 'Face The Music: A Life Exposed' Lands on New York Times Best Sellers List". Blabbermouth.net. 19 April 2014.
  64. ^ Leland, John (14 March 2020). "Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Musician, Artist and Provocateur, Dies at 70". The New York Times.
  65. ^ "NONBINARY | Kirkus Reviews".
  66. ^ p-Orridge, Genesis (15 June 2021). Nonbinary a Memoir. Abrams Press. ISBN 978-1-4197-4386-3.
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